Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
Just Break the Law
- Pre-show: More people have been infected by Goose
- 🗣️ New ATP Members’ Special: ATP Insider: The Restaurant, Season One 🗣️
- An aside about outerwear
- 🗣️ The ATP Holiday Store is back! Order before 9 November! 🗣️
- Follow-up:
- Recognition corner
- Casey begs for help
- Callsheet
Listbug (FB17661404) is fixed in 26.1 🎉 - However,
Menu(::primaryAction:)is broken (FB20755661)
- Callsheet
- Some M5 Vision Pro clarifications
- The M5 does have Memory Integrity Enforcement
- The M5 MacBook pro without a charger is actually cheaper in most regions
- EU is €100 cheaper without / €35 with (via Nick Heer)
- UK is the same though
- The non-determinism of LLMs (via Heiko Hotz)
- The M5 Vision Pro
- Dual Knit Band
- HDCP
- Television
- Theater
- New Developer Strap (behind Apple Developer paywall)
- Post-show: John’s weird Finder animation bug
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple 🤝🏻 F1 in 🇺🇸
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Intimate and Regimented
- Follow-up:
- Languages in Scotland
- ATP merch has more benefits (via Christian Heiler)
- Slide Over fade animation (via Daniel Luz)
- Marco’s iPhone case survey: Ryan London bare bottom (via Oliver Thomas)
/u/LaughingMan11is Benson Leung (via Deta & Daniel Luz)- ZFS and the Drobo dream (via Joe)
- An aside for an argument
- Apple M5
- M5 Pro, M5 Max, TSMC’s SoIC
- M5 MacBook Pro
- M5 iPad Pro
- M5 Vision Pro
- Apple TV+ is now Apple TV
- Post-show: iPhone setup, take two
- Skip all the Siri/FaceID/etc things until setup is complete
- Don’t try to memorize the flashing 6-digit code; choose another way
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Alexa Plus in the real world
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It’s All Chicken Salad
- Pre-show: Marco’s “Vacation” results
- Goose
- Allianz Ampitheater
- Chicken Salad Chick
- Nugs.net
- ZZQ
- Suggestions from Casey, in no particular order:
- Follow-up:
- ATP in the wild
- Original report form Richard Earney
- Follow-up by Matt Smith
- Follow-up on Mark Christian’s report by Santiago Hervella
- Original report form Richard Earney
- AirPods 3
- Ear Lottery
- Michael corroborates Marco’s experience
- …but Franklin Delano Stallone offers hope
- …and sometimes AirPods 3 are a marked improvement, reports Matthew Schaffer
- Tony Dehnke does an ANC comparison
- Live translation results
- Ear Lottery
- David Schaub’s horror story about filling up your phone
- Mike Taffet does science on iPhone ↔ iPhone transfers
- Marco’s USB odyssey
- Synology alternatives
- Colin McKellar suggests QNAP
- See also:
- 🎉 …may not be necessary anymore! 🎉
- ATP in the wild
- More more first impressions
- Quick AirPods Pro 3 update
- iPhone case updates
- Omar Shahine performs surgery on the Nomad back
- Torras clear case
- Bullstrap open-bottom leather case
- Peak Design Everyday Case (Charcoal color has the good fabric)
- Still to test: Süti PhoneBack in black leather, if it ever ships
- iOS 16
- iPadOS 26: Now with slide-over!
- Apple pulls ICEBlock from the App Store
- Post-show: Pour one a Sprite out for a real one TiVo
- Members-only ATP Overtime: The Meta Ray-Ban Display, and Apple’s response
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Lose the Ear Lottery
- Pre-show: Eh, that’ll keep…
- 🗣️ St. Jude time is almost done! 🗣️
- 🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Dev: Computer Science Curriculum
- Follow-up:
- ATP in the wild (via Mark Christian & Richard Earney)
- iOS 26.0.1 allegedly fixes N1 Wi-Fi/BT issues
- What does iCloud back up? (via Dayton Lovell)
- iCloud for Messages
- A ringing endorsement from Nick
- A potential fix for ∞ GIFs (via Nathan)
- iPhone Transfers
- Why not pre-populate them, Kindle-style? (via Winnie Lewis)
- TestFlight is… better now? (via Daniel Nelson)
- Some thoughts from Nick
- Apple’s onboarding enshittification (via Imthaz)
- Thought to text & AlterEgo
- Firefox (1982)
- Prior MIT project (via Hannes)
- CJ’s thoughts
- More first impressions
- Ask ATP:
- How do we really know if something is encrypted? (via Joshua Wold)
- What is the point of neural engine cores, anyway? (via Tom Cole)
- SIMD
- Evaluating the Apple Silicon M-Series SoCs for HPC Performance & Efficiency
- AMX Units
- Neural Engine
- Does filling a phone SSD slaughter performance? (via Sean Harding)
- Post-show: Marco’s USB odyssey
- Members-only ATP Overtime: NAS Noodling
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Your First Mistake Phone
- Marco’s AppleCare “Express” Replacement
- 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
- Follow-up:
- Auburn’s colors are UVA’s colors (via Tony Scida)
- You don’t need the trick new Apple charger to charge an iPhone 17 at full speed
- iPhone Air
- Why people are buying the iPhone Air / 15” MacBook Air
- Bending the iPhone Air
- Apple (via Tom’s Guide)
- JerryRigEverything (timestamp link to 6m35s)
- Same video, different timestamp (7m37s)
- Battery life
- Speaker (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
- Thermals
- iFixIt Teardown
- Thickness
- Visual comparison of thickness (via Ludwig Schubert)
- Thin iPhone future? (via Ian)
- iPhone 17 Pro
- iPhone sales
- iPhone setup advice
- Casey’s tale of woe (see also Upgrade #582: First Chance to Make One Impression)
- First impressions: iPhone 17 Pro
- Scratchability
- Telephoto camera
- Post-show:
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Anthropic’s $1.5B book piracy settlement
- The Verge: Settlement announced, 5 September
- Previously, on ATP #656: Anthropic asked for $1.5B/yr from Apple
- The Verge: Settlement paused, 9 September
- Ars Technica, 9 September
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