Episode 614

614: Don’t Puke for the Show

A new spatial video, iPhone security, why Apple doesn't compete with NVIDIA's highest-end GPUs, and anything else to avoid having to do more in-app-purchase testing.

Accidental Tech Podcast · ATP

November 23, 20241h 57m

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Show Notes

🗣️ New ATP Members’ Special: ATP Movie Club: Kiki’s Delivery Service
- Kiki’s Delivery Service
Follow-up:
- The Weeknd: Open Hearts
- M4 vs. M4 Pro Mac mini SSD speed ∆s (via Thor Johansen)
- Quinn’s video on PC equivalents to the Mac mini
- Apple storage pricing
  - Mac mini vs. PlayStation 5 Pro
  - Apple vs. market SSD prices
  - Retailers are also hamstrung
- M4 MacBook Pro uses quantum dot technology
  - Graphs
- Alternative drag cancellation options
iOS Inactivity Reboot
- Wes Davis at The Verge
- 404 Media (Paywalled)
- Demo video
- Reverse engineering
#askatp:
- How is an M4 Ultra expected to outperform PC GPUs? (via Ammar)
- Should macOS-as-a-file-server people worry about bitrot? (via Yannic Boysen)
  - APFS in Detail: Data Integrity
Post-show: Casey’s adventures in remote television
Members-only ATP Overtime: Is complaining about Apple’s prices useful? Do we have any effect?
- Progressive vs. regressive taxation
  (Apple is the former)