Reading List
The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.
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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Ears Are Weird
- Marco 0️⃣ → 1️⃣
- 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
- Podcastathon 2025: Friday, noon → midnight EDT
- Stephen Hackett said the foldable will be the “iPhone Ultra”
- μm is a “micron”
- The iPhone Air battery pack does have a USB-C port after all
- iPhone 17 Pro requires a new adapter to charge at full speed
- A19 vs. A19 Pro
- A19 Pro benchmarks
- The N1 is in every new iPhone
- The whole of the iPhone Air is in the camera plateau
- Casey’s memory problems corner
- ATP #655 (Overcast timestamp link)
- The mmWave antenna window is back
- Logo placement on Apple’s cases
- Some funny renders from iPhone case makers
- Theories about the iPhone 17 Pro colors
- iPhone Air
- Will it bend?
- 17 was a last-second decision? (via Sam Henri Gold)
- Max Tech’s discoveries
- The Air does not have stereo speakers
- The Dynamic Island is lower than on other phones
- The USB-C port is not vertically centered
- No Cinematic Mode video, including the selfie camera
- The new selfie camera is actually a 24MP sensor
- No LiDAR scanner
- Air & 17 non-Pro are limited to USB 2
- Every new iPhone screen has the same specifications, save size/resolution
- iPhones 17 can now toggle screen flickering off
- Apple Watch
- Satellite data requires a cellular plan
- Jason & Greg Pierce agree
- Is “24-hour” battery claim because of a change in measurement?
- Underscore’s observations about the Ultra
- AirPods
- Ear shapes (via Tirial)
- About that “2×” noise reduction
- The new AirPods Pro case is not smaller
- “New generation of Ultra Wideband technology” is the U2 chip
- Live translation is on-device (not in ☁️)
- Live translation is blocked for EU users with EU Apple Accounts
- Safari on iOS 26’s compact toolbar
- Tahoe Toolbars (via Zhenyi Tan) * Frosting download link * Frosting test page
- Post-show: John’s red dot
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Alterego and “thought to text” translation
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