A Series of Rectangles

Accidental Tech Podcast

THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until Friday, May 14.

Pre-show: ⅔ of ATP has completed their journey on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
“Fully vaccinated”
Joanna Stern’s C-Fed Interview
- CEO question timestamp link
Spring 2021 Apple Event
- Apple TV
  - Calibration
  - Remote Design & Pricing
  - No Acceleromter nor Gyroscope
  - Apple TV pricing
    - Apple TV / iTV
  - High-frame-rate HDR compatibility?
  - AppleCare+ for Apple TV
- Extended AppleCare+ for Macs
- iMac
  - Power brick/cable
    - Upgrade #350: The Time for Color is Now
    - 143 watts
  - VESA mount
  - Why not put Ethernet on all Mac adapters?
  - Why have high-efficiency cores in a batteryLiss system?
- iPad
  - 12MP front-facing wide camera with Center Stage
    - Center Stage will have an API
  - iPad RAM amount is listed 😱
  - 12.9” iPad Pro and older Magic Keyboards
- AirTags: for tracking your luggage
- Apple Premium Podcasts
- John’s Eero & Smart Outlet update
- EV charging from Sam Abuelsamid of Wheel Bearings and Dave Nanian
  - DoE Map Search
  - Mobil Speedpass
#askatp
- What would it take to get you into this [phantom] Mac Pro, today, John? (via Brian Ashe)
- Do we use FileVault on our personal Macs? How come? (via Lingxiu Zhang)
  - System Preferences → Security & Privacy → FileVault
  - Mat Honan’s tale of woe
- What’s the longevity of the M1 look like? (via Johann Neubert)
Post-show: Marco’s arms are on fire

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Accidental Tech Podcast

THE ATP STORE IS BACK!! Make your purchases until Friday, May 14.

Pre-show: ⅔ of ATP has completed their journey on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
“Fully vaccinated”
Joanna Stern’s C-Fed Interview
- CEO question timestamp link
Spring 2021 Apple Event
- Apple TV
  - Calibration
  - Remote Design & Pricing
  - No Acceleromter nor Gyroscope
  - Apple TV pricing
    - Apple TV / iTV
  - High-frame-rate HDR compatibility?
  - AppleCare+ for Apple TV
- Extended AppleCare+ for Macs
- iMac
  - Power brick/cable
    - Upgrade #350: The Time for Color is Now
    - 143 watts
  - VESA mount
  - Why not put Ethernet on all Mac adapters?
  - Why have high-efficiency cores in a batteryLiss system?
- iPad
  - 12MP front-facing wide camera with Center Stage
    - Center Stage will have an API
  - iPad RAM amount is listed 😱
  - 12.9” iPad Pro and older Magic Keyboards
- AirTags: for tracking your luggage
- Apple Premium Podcasts
- John’s Eero & Smart Outlet update
- EV charging from Sam Abuelsamid of Wheel Bearings and Dave Nanian
  - DoE Map Search
  - Mobil Speedpass
#askatp
- What would it take to get you into this [phantom] Mac Pro, today, John? (via Brian Ashe)
- Do we use FileVault on our personal Macs? How come? (via Lingxiu Zhang)
  - System Preferences → Security & Privacy → FileVault
  - Mat Honan’s tale of woe
- What’s the longevity of the M1 look like? (via Johann Neubert)
Post-show: Marco’s arms are on fire

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Accidental Tech Podcast

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Accidental Tech Podcast

Pre-show:
- [Hopefully not] Burning Down the House
- All of ATP is on the vaccination train! Toot toot! 🚂💉
  - Thanks, Paul
Follow-up:
- Smart outlet update
  - Reconcilable Differences
  - For eero:
    Settings → Troubleshooting → My device won't connect → My device won't connect to my network → Temporarily pause 5 GHz
- Electrical resistive heating
  - Technology Connections: Heat Pumps
  - Technology Connections: The Future of Heat Pumps is Underground
- Casey has a CarPlay apostrophe epiphany
- Charging the i3
  - Go buy SuperDuper!
  - Types of EVs
Follow-out: Upgrade’s Discussion of TouchBar and HomePod
Apple event on 20 April
#askatp
- Single HomePod or dual HomePod Mini? What if there’s already a HomePod? (via Josh Errickson)
- What’s the point of BCC in email? (via Chuma Nnaji)
- How long until we see Apple using Armv9?
Post-show Neutral

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