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583: I’ve Spent a Lot of Time in the Address Bar
ATP Store
Special: Computing Origin Stories
582: Can’t Render, Fog It
ATP Store: Windows
ATP Store: Graffiti
ATP Store: Blasts from the past
Apple Store pizza oven
579: Use Your Words
Street widths
575: Walk a Little Faster
AVP display warping
100MP in Vision Pro
574: Weird Forking Scenario
A surprise for John
565: Trickle-Up Concern
Many K’s of mediocrity
Marco’s new desk toy
564: Always Get the Biggest Pizza
Casey goes to New York
Casey goes to Long Island
Casey goes to Fire Island
562: Do You Have a Dragon?
ATP Store
Keyboard wear
561: Market Your Bug
ATP Store
The modern knob
Just four buttons
SSD vs. HDD prices
Base RAM over time
560: They’re All Rectangles
ATP Store
558: Multilevel Pizza Oven
Scary Fast event next week
N3B (A17 Pro), N3E (M3?)
Marco’s Sonos journey
557: The Phone-Box Lottery
Neutral: Car noises
553: Cut the Bridges to the Mainland
“Blue” iPhones over time
Neutral: Rivian experiences
552: Not a Saturated Year
What color is Marco’s car?
551: Tickle Rock You
Neutral
Vs. school bus
Reference objects
First impressions
549: Unauthorized Trash Can
Casey’s gift
John’s gift
548: Starting to Count Chickens
What if Apple + Disney?
Our ad market
545: My Butler Can’t Use It
Who’s who?
544: Valid in a Marco Way
Coming to America
543: 100 Million Tire-Kickers
#askneutral: NACS vs. CCS
542: Penguin Camel Monkey Shark
Who’s the Mac Pro for?
Vision Pro’s Top Four Challenges
540: The Points Don’t Matter
Overcast for visionOS?
Vergence vs. accommodation
539: The Strap Situation
Defeating “Siri” detection
537: Worse Than All of Our Toilets
Destroying a car & computer
536: I Reboot With Reason
Final Cut & Logic for iPad
“Report bugs effectively”
533: The Beach Is the Beach
Very very quick follow-up
ATP Store
Post-show: Dave & Buster’s
532: The Meat Part of Multitasking
ATP Store
531: Rock It in the Right Direction
ATP Store
529: The Cycles of Marco
Superzooms
527: The True Siri Experience
Apple Watch Ultra bands
(Not-very-)Big cameras
524: The Anti-Fireplace Lobby
John’s living room
Hot Rod Rivian
Yellow is cool
522: I’ll Just Keep You for Ten Years
Sponsor: Mercury Weather
521: Dance Compatible
HomePod (2nd-gen) review
520: Bananas Ingestion System
“New” music
515: The Elder Programmer Look
Mastodon Flock
513: Scribble on the Shared Placemat
Follow-up: Sharrow
510: It’s Occupied by Bears
Test Completed
508: Later Is Getting Later and Later
ATP Store
“New” phone and mouse
A pizza pilgrimage
507: It Sucks, Doesn’t It?
ATP Store
506: Our Only SEO Is You
ATP Store
Apple mouse-shape history
504: Too Much Apple in My Apple
AI image follow-up
502: Going Retina Again
Pre-show: Glasses
501: Torsional Rigidity Check
Car-watch
497: The Hotness Has to Go Somewhere
Neutral: CarPlay & touch UI
#askatp: MBP cooling stands
Neutral Reprise
496: One of My Lesser TiVos
TV audio sync
Neutral: John rents a car
494: Ultra-Wideband Park Bench
John’s new television
492: Umbrella Hammer Toadstool
Dual Pro Stand patent
491: Salmon and SwiftUI
} else {
macOS support lifetime
Sony’s new gaming monitor
490: Tiny Pictures of Knobs
System Settings: Beta 3
485: This Is Casey Actual
Price is Right on Pluto.tv
484: Hot-Spare Price is Right
Pro-fiber propaganda
483: The Faceless Knob
Recording?
Casey’s fiber trunk
481: Accidentally Made It Too Good
Marco vs. the world
iPhone 14 front-glass leaks
480: Three Wise Admins
ATP Store
Studio Display camera update
Fence around Apple Park
Game-streaming setup
479: Never Mind, I’m Out
ATP Store
Sausage follow-up
#askatp: Game-streaming setup
478: No Bum Cores
ATP Store
476: Plausibly Viable
Overcast redesign
470: Computers Can Do Things
Island life
469: Tiny Toastie
New member of the family
Neutral
467: The Strain Provider
Xbox Series S + Game Pass
462: Xcode X
A new iPhone-case winner
461: Re-tend That Garden
Casey’s Corner
Life’s Good
460: Desktop Laptop
Holiday prep
4K Casey Liss
Neutral
459: The Bluetooth Adds Warmth
Sweatpants & sneakers
Public records
DACs don’t output stair-steps
Mac Mini rumors
John’s beeps
458: This Is Not Your First Plane Crash
Marco’s Pants: Finale
John’s Beeps
457: The World’s Greatest Conference Call
Weather Line to Carrot Weather
456: The Monitor Situation
ATP Store
MBP Xcode benchmarks
Memory pressure
iPhone-case mega-review
455: Your Yanking Force
ATP Store
Even more MacBook Pro
454: The Notch is Young
Picking up a MacBook Pro
ATP Store is back!
Kühl pants
452: It’s Totally Leashed
John can’t find a good winter hat
451: A Series of Terrible Magic Tricks
M1 shirts available on-demand
450: Distending My Wardrobe
Cameras
#askatp: Infinite-timescale features
449: An Unclean Mouse
Thick iPhone is thicc
Apple Leather Case
448: Next Year, Which Is Now
Donate to St. Jude!
Apple Watch Series 7
447: Lunchbox on Your Face
Donate away your guilt!
Wikipedia: Map of Long Island
446: Dead From Fraud
Donate to St. Jude!
The web is a wasteland
Home security cameras
445: Best Blender Is a Wasteland
Donate to St. Jude
“Mac-assed Mac app” etymology
Marco went to a Phish concert
443: A Storm of Asterisks
We ❤️ Apple Music
#askatp: Camera rental for Disney
442: Bob’s Barbecue
Phish is back! 🎉🎶🎸
After-show •
441: Meals at Home
Is U2 a jam band?
Photo Memories
MagSafe Battery review
440: The Reality of Magnets
MagSafe Battery Pack
439: Eventually Converge on Correctness
Mac Safari UI tweak
iPhone Safari UI proposal
John’s Safari UI proposal
436: Eddy Cue Shows Up at Your Door
Avara
433: Before We Leave the Dump
HOMI update
Apple Podcasts issues
432: I Shouldn’t Need to Wiggle
Theories on Jade C-Die
New Apple TV
New Apple TV remote
Casey’s HOMI Journey
430: Apple Did Not Eat That Food
ATP Store
429: Digital Speedo
ATP Store
428: A Series of Rectangles
ATP Store
426: Loaded Baked Potato
Spring Loaded
424: Ethernet Squid
More Tesla Wheels of Shame
WWDC announced
423: Fort of HomePods
Worldwide Wheels o’ Shame
Carlinkit wireless CarPlay adapter
422: Sell a Third Box
The Wheel(s) of Shame
iMac color rumors
418: Dangerously Close to Being on a Phone Call
iPhone rumor: Always-on screen
iPhone rumor: Stronger MagSafe
417: Sand and Water Interface
Timers on Apple Watch
#askatp: Most-prized media files
#askatp: App names in your keywords
Pupdate
415: Sent Without Pants
T-568A vs. T-568B
Sent with SIri. Learn more…
Neutral: Model S redesign
414: Promoted Onto the Roof
AirPods Max detachable headband
Brighter whites
Marco’s Ethernet update
2021 MacBook Pro rumors
413: Suddenly I’m the Marco
Waffle House
Marco’s Pro Display XDR review
#askatp: Computer speakers
412: Love Batteries
Thunderbolt dock update
The other Christmas gift
🐶
411: Are My Instructions Not Clear?
AirPods Max tidbits
Marco’s workstation
410: The Comfort Is Killing Me
Follow-up: Ultra… fine
The M1 lifestyle (reprise)
408: Feature Headphones
AirPods Max
407: It Isn’t a Big Grapefruit
More on M1 scaling
HomePod Mini review
406: A Bomb on Your Home Screen
Rearranging app icons
405: The Benevolence of the Powerful
McGurk effect
404: With Four Hands Tied Behind Its Back
ATP Store
M1
403: A VCR for the Internet
ATP Store
National Radio Quiet Zone
AirPods Pro repair program
Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit
402: Flat-Side Promoter
John’s Migration Headaches
400: Reach Is the Next Frontier
Xbox Series X SOC
A14 SOC
399: Off the Pouch Lifestyle
It’s been a week
Hi, Speed
398: The State of Your Baby
Apple disallows “irrelevant” info
Apple Watch Family Setup
397: We Can’t Wait To See What You Do To It
Sport band XL size
Ode to Hotdog Stand
396: The World of Moving
Headphone earpads
St. Jude: Thanks * Doug!
PS5 announcements
395: Receive Their Honking
Donate to St. Jude
Deer dietary corrections
Casey’s flashlight works
Surtainly Not
Apple-event expectations
394: The Price of an ATP Sticker
Casey * Erin Liss
392: Corporate Relationship Counselor
Hi. This is Marco Arment.
388: Riding the Autocomplete
Defeated by seltzer
Apple News Today
387: It Might Not Be as Cool as You Think
Casey likes Big Sur
#askneutral: BMW’s new grille
Neutral: New Ford Bronco
386: No More Holes in My House
Phisherman Relieph Phund
385: Temporal Smear
hey_z_ree
Low-level audio holes
GOTO: Apple Platform Unification
381: Uncomfortable Truths
Black Lives Matter
Last call for merch
#askatp: Finder view
380: Wires Are Great
ATP Store until June 7
Apple TV Channels
379: The Everything’s OK Alarm
New merch available now!
New atp.fm CMS
App promo-code scams
TV news
#askatp: Clipboard managers
378: Whale Quench
Early camcorders
TV carts, melted film
Neutral
377: $10 Worth of Headaches
More WWDC info released
Neutral: CarPlay for old Porsches
376: Monogamous Gaming Lifestyle
Half-wheeled scheme: no go
Fan 3
373: This Jerk, Right Here
PS5 controller
Retro gaming
372: Things Are Degraded
Casey’s Tale of Woe
371: Four-Letter Technologies
Quarantined unproductivity
369: Brown Big Bear
Rumor: Watch faces
Marco discovers Minecraft
368: A Jacket and Some Pins
Neutral: New BMW logo
366: There’s Nothing You Can Fix in a Day
Kontra’s Apple product
iOS 13.4 beta
SwitchGlass War Stories
364: A Casey Settings Screen
Peek-a-View
#askatp: Homebrew
#askatp: Wi-Fi network names
Post-show
363: The Floor is Lava
It happened to be white
iPad UI complexity
362: Xcode in Anger
Windows vs. Microsoft logos
Xcode layout hell
Neutral: Road-trip cars
360: Big Hole in the Middle
Rapid-fire follow-up
Front and Center
Salt Apple TV remote
BTW, it’s “Front and Center”
Marco’s vacation
356: With a Heavy Heart
Choose your Mac Pro.
Customize your Mac Pro.
Expand your Mac Pro workstation.
All the essentials. And then some.
355: The Way Corn Grows
Marco’s Light Globe
Appliance shopping
354: Casey’s Computer Corner
Festival of Light
Tesla Cybertruck
353: Modern-Day Dialup
Neutral: Unsolicited gifts
Paperlike 2
351: The Floor Is High
ATP Holiday Store
Neutral: The Wheel of Shame
350: Wax Buddies
ATP Holiday Store
Another 16” image
Neutral: Tiff’s new i3s
349: Formative Tech Dystopia
No overview available.
16” MBP imminent?
Everyone makes everything
347: Not Enough Carrot to Take the Stick
The Bells of Arment County
345: Unapologetically Digital
Caseless Casey Liss
Our Apple Watches
342: The Opposite of Con
Card weight competition
Apple Card cases
338: Double Chunking
Cheese-grater updates
337: Sea Conditions Are Calm
Siri privacy
336: Your Face Is Not Your Face
Breakfast cereal
Follow-up: iOS 13 charging
Audio sunglasses
334: Mechanical Disadvantage
John’s cheese grater broke
333: Pesky Human Issues
John’s favorite spatula
331: The Technical Burden of Users
Post-show
330: A Rotation You Can’t Complete
root:wheel
John’s Safari-reload “app”
Monodraw & asciiflow
328: The Pixel Stump
Leaked screenshots
327: Better Late Than Wrong
Vignette
Playdate
Post-show
324: Automatic Kicking Machine
Jury-duty tech
323: A Slightly Smaller Thumb
New T-shirts!
Thanks, Iconfactory!
322: Morale-Sucking Maple Syrup Fires
Reactions to Katie Bouman’s work
321: Dumbed Down, Locked Down, and Locked Out
Netflix removes AirPlay
Breaking up iTunes
319: We Should Probably Get to the Apple Event
Bread-sliced Boston accents
315: 1.0 Was Just Speed
Bus-powered TB3 hubs
312: Fashion Phase
ATP_progrm_chptr()
Follow-up: FaceTime bug
USB-C “MagSafe”
USB-C LED charging cable
Screen-protector update
310: Apple Playstore
Shirt
308: Left-Handed Streaming Service
Jam bands and Monty Python
306: My Watch Has Ended
iPad screen protectors
Bent iPad Pros
304: Island of Shortcuts
Neutral: e-tron
302: Paint This Square
iPad CPU vs. MacBook Pro
Thanksgiving dessert
301: I Cut Them Up in the Air
Audiophile headphone bump
Surface Go
#askatp: Bagel guillotines
ATP Thanksgiving
300: First of All, It’s Easy
Marco’s a YouTuber now
297: It Also Deserves to Die
Casey the Wafflemaster
296: Giant Buffers of Floats
Bagel-emoji update
295: Outlets That Suck
Follow-up: Watch size
294: The Intersection of Liberal Arts and Whatever
Bagel emoji
293: You Know My Pouches
Watch Series 4 review
Creative Selection
292: Start a Rotate Chicken Nuggets Timer
A Simpsons reference
Casey on Cars
290: A Weird Sandwich
iPhone XS?
Apple Watch Series 4
288: Rich Person’s Raspberry Pi
Mac Mini rumor
287: Open-Faced Compliment Sandwich
Follow-up: Model 3 controls
286: I Respect a Good Crust
Pre-show: John’s vacation
Part of a complete breakfast
Neutral: Tesla dash redesign?
285: Do Not Drill Holes in This House
A homeowner adventure
284: Hotel California Keyboard
Easier-to-replace keycaps
iFixit keyboard test
A second helping
283: Just Lower Your Standards
Neutral: S.M.A.R.T.
282: Not Unreliable Enough
Review: Europe
280: Extinction-Level Event
Beach computer update
#askatp: 4K > 24”?
279: You’ll Hate What I’m Actually Doing
Accidental Test Kitchen
ATP in WWDC session
278: Best Worst Influence
iOS 12 beta
277: You’re Not a Mac App Yet
Closing remarks
276: Observing a Black Hole
Cookies
App Camp For Girls event
Beach computer problem
275: It’s Difficult When You’re a Billionaire
Neutral: Marco’s giant box
274: Not the Teddy Bear’s Fault
Laurel or Yanny?
Surface Hub 2
273: Playing You Like a Video Game
Follow-up: Raise to Listen
Layers Conference
Jony Ive on Hodinkee
272: 60% Satisfied
ATP Merchandise!
271: Voting With Your Virtual Feet
ATP Store
NOT A TOUCH SCREEN
269: Cooled by Jellyfish
Battery-throttling notification
macOS 32-bit dialog
268: A Tarnished Brass Age
Follow-up: GDPR iOS screens
266: Text Adventure Mode
Follow-up: “You shut down”
More keyboard patents!
#askatp: Console “bits”
265: Simon Says Volume Five
#askatp: Wordy button text
264: Every Building Has Bugs
Follow-up: MacBook arrow keys
Follow-up: PC arrow keys
iOS onboarding screens
263: Old Potato
MacBook DS patent
Post-show: Playing for Fun
257: Smell the Wind
#askatp: Cheese-grater plans?
255: The Thermal Paste Lottery
High Sierra font-smoothing bug
252: Any Day Could Be Mac Pro Day
Pre-show: Neutral
iMac Pro!
251: Uninstall Your Water Reminder App!
Post-show: Forecast
249: Beehives Full of Bees
The best laptop ever made
Neutral: Tesla Roadster
248: Chili Cookoff
#askatp: The rejected question
246: I Just Want My Stories
#askatp: Fired Apple engineer
Post-show: Casey’s video
245: Senior-Citizen Advantage
#askatp: Starter Phish
Tim’s Mac Mini email
Post-show: Neutral
244: The Mac Renaissance
Pre-show: K-I-S-S-I-N-G
#askatp: User-less Plex
#askatp: ARM Mac Pro
#askatp: iMac Pro quantity
Why is Marco on his MacBook Pro?
Pro industrial design
MacBook Redux
Special theme by Jonathan Mann
Post-show: VBR experiment
243: Knew About the Dollar Signs
Follow-up: Cellular fees
Tiled Windows of Casey County
Menu$$$bar$ of Casey County
Follow-up: Cellular fees
#askatp: Safari vs. Chrome
#askatp: New Accord
#askatp: Terminals and shells
241: Jazzercise Boot Camp
Post-show: Neutral
240: Undefined Wait Period
Neutral: Acura DS
Neutral: Acura NSX
Neutral: DeLorean
238: Begging for the Hub
Post-show
232: You’ve Exceeded Some Limit
Post-show
1984 Mongoose Californian
231: I Am Not a Salad Power User
Post-show: Neutral
218: MagSafe Cups of Water
Follow-up™: iOS partitions
Clips bypasses permissions
T-shirts!
USB-C MagSafe patent
Post-show: WWDC lunches
217: Apology Mac Pro
T-shirts
Post-show
216: Thermal Corner
T-shirts!
215: Pots Are Made to Be Broken
Naked Laptop Core
MacBook Escape
214: Christmas Phone
Marco’s Waffling
213: Siri in a Can
An Apple rant, sorry
212: Meatspace Windows
Post-show
208: Your Face Is Your Face
macOS thought experiment
Post-show: Casey’s car waffling
203: Screaming At Us From The Future
Naked robotic MacBook Pro
201: Volume Micromanager
Tim Cook on desktops
Post-show
200: I Had a Dream About the Mac Pro
Marco goes to Microsoft
197: Life by a Thousand Hugs
Post-show: The Grand Tour
196: Roasting Your Own Beans
John’s 4K displays
192: Hello Again Again
Apple event next week
187: Putting Plastic on Your Couches
Pre-show: 1000 days
Anti-homers
Post-show: Reduce Lasers
185: The Delaware of Europe
John’s artwork
184: Procedural Marriage Mistakes
Post-show: Google Duo :(
181: Eat Your Vegetables
Teslas and convertibles
179: Free-to-Play Dogs
Follow-up: Casey’s iMac
The ancient Mac lineup
178: Mama Needs That Pokémon
Follow-up: Trackbars
177: Paying for Someone to Blame
Ice cream or not?
Post-show Neutral: Accord SE
171: WWDC Is Not Santa Claus
T-shirts
T-shirts: Origin of “///ATP”
T-shirts: Origin of “Watches”
Follow-up: Same-day app review
Follow-up: Quitting Android apps
Sponsor: Fracture (code ATP10)
Rumored MacBook Pros
Sponsor: FreshBooks
Apple and AI services
Sponsor: Hover (code EATFRESH)
Best of Apple and Google
Ending theme
Post-show: Google Photos
167: They’ve Opened the Door to Streakers
Always on vacation
WWDC ticket status
Sponsor: Fracture (code ATP10)
Tesla vs. Level 2 EV chargers
MacBook Two?
Windows XP sounds
Sponsor: Betterment
WWDC changes this year
Sponsor: Ring Video Doorbell
John’s new hardware
Ending theme
Post-show: Canonical bagels
Post-show: Tesla perception
