Episode 421

421: The First Miniboss

A farewell to the iMac Pro (and a tire), the state of iCloud family awareness, scam pricing in the App Store, and the Halloween costume that may never be.

Accidental Tech Podcast · ATP

March 11, 20212h 4m

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Show Notes

Pre-show: Marco is happy, though he shouldn’t be. ☯️
The iMac Pro is retired
- Gruber’s post
Follow-up:
- One reason to choose Audi
- Kiss Guy is real!
  - Interview
- Swift “header” views (via Ben Packard)
  - ⌃⌘↑ and ⌃⌘↓ or Navigate → Jump to Next/Previous Counterpart
- Logging into vaccinate.virginia.gov
Families: how do they work?
- No iLife is an Island
Apple Launches Service for Transferring iCloud Photos and Videos to Google Photos
- Google Takeout
- Twitter Archive
- ATP #155: Edit, Crop, Aspect, Original for discussion of John’s workflow
Apple cracks down on apps with “irrationally high prices”
#askatp
- Whose fault is it that Apple Silicon is 🔥? (via Nick)
  - M1 architecture research
  - Wintel
- What would Apple need to do to make macOS gaming competitive? (via Matt Chapman Jones)
  - DirectX
  - Cell
- Do we use battery backups for our desktops? What about other ancillary equipment? (via Ramanujan Srinath)
  - What John and Marco use