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Accidental Tech Podcast

688: A Company Man

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 126 minutes

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0:00.0

Oh my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

0:03.6

Marco is so happy right now.

0:05.3

This, oh, my God. I'm so happy. Oh, my God. I can't wait. I can't wait to talk about it. Oh, I'm not talking about it yet. Should we just dive in? I mean, we got, we got some stuff we got to get through first. And that is, this is your last chance. let me say it again. This is your last chance to go to atp.fm

0:23.4

slash store and get yourself some sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet merch. John, would you please give us

0:28.2

one last nickel tour of the merch offerings for summer 2026? I'll just remind people that the sale

0:35.1

ends Sunday, April 26th, at 11.59 p.m. U.S. Eastern time.

0:41.5

So that is your deadline.

0:44.5

Our products we have this year, we have our ATP Neo shirts in the Neo colors.

0:49.9

We apologize for not having all the styles that you can imagine available.

1:15.5

These are the only shirts, literally the only shirts that these colors came in and we tried to match the styles as best we have. The colors as best we could. John, can you give us an update on the color sales? So when we do these sales, there's a minimum number of shirts that have to be ordered for them to bother printing them because it's like they do them in batches and they you know whatever and that number is 12 12 people need to order a shirt otherwise it will not get printed and those people will just get their money back and we have the ATP neo

1:20.4

shirt collars matching the macbook neo we have indigo blush citrus and silver and i said last

1:25.5

episode that silver was proving to be extremely unpopular. Only one person had ordered silver. And I was like, well, that person's not getting their silver shirt. And unless 11 more people order silver since then, since last week's episode, but I know it hasn't been a full week because we're recording this on Monday. Um, since then, uh, here's what has happened with the silver shirt. The total number of orders for silver are now stand at.

1:47.0

Two.

1:48.5

Two people have ordered the silver shirt.

1:50.6

One additional person ordered it since last week.

1:53.2

So it's not looking good for ATP Neo Silver.

1:56.0

Sorry for those two people.

1:57.7

I don't think you're going to get your shirts.

1:59.8

But the other shirts are there. I mean, if this was a Bezos chart, though, this would, like, this would look really impressive. A hundred percent sales growth in less than a week. Sure. Yeah. I'll put that on my goodbye letter, just like Tim Cook. We have our MacPromo memorial shirt, which, as I noted, last episode, was in, we will indeed be sending that to John Turnus.

2:17.8

I might need to change the address and so it no longer says senior vice president of hardware

2:21.8

or whatever.

2:23.0

But I'm pretty sure it'll get to him.

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