Episode 650
650: Whatever It Takes to Get the Laundry Folded
AppleCare One, the OS 26 public betas, and tensions between art and usability in interface design.
Accidental Tech Podcast ยท ATP
July 28, 20251h 27m
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Show Notes
- Pre-Show: Casey’s french-fry problem
- Follow-up:
- D. Griffin Jones takes one for the team
- Casey’s struggles with
iperf3- Tutorial
iperf3 -t 60 -c {ip} -P 4 -i 10 -R
- John’s new toaster and
E01(via J-P Teti & John F.) - Chemical vs. physical sunscreen (via Prodan Statev)
- Apple security for unreleased devices
- Low-cost Apple laptop (via Jason Anthony Guy)
- Ed: Please don’t give Apple ideas like this. ๐ซฃ
- Getting customer support from Apple (via Patch)
- Apple support app โ Chat
- Any retail store on Apple Maps โ
...โMessage
- CloudFlare & AI crawlers
- Thoughts from Thomas Schoffelen
- Thoughts from Aaron Zinck
- Thoughts from Anonymous
- The ๐26 public betas are out
- Tahoe beta 4
- Contrast will decrease until morale improves
- News summaries are back, baby! ๐ฌ
- Apple and interfaces
- Tog in Interface (1992)
- Tog on Software Design (1995)
- Apple’s Aqua introduction, Macworld San Francisco, 2000
- AppleCare One
- Dan Moren’s take
- The Verge
- Fees & deductibles
- FAQ (scroll way down)
- Post-show: John has an addendum to his earlier topic
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Frame of preference, an incredible exploration of the Mac’s settings by Marcin Wichary in concert with Mihai Parparita of the Infinite Mac Project
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