Episode 666

666: We Have Nothing That Hot

The rumored end of the Mac Pro, the rumored end of Tim Cook's CEO tenure, and the resurrection of matte screens.

November 20, 20251h 41m

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Show Notes

🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II
- ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It — 16 October 2023
Follow-up:
- The origin of “diamond dogs” (via Jared Counts)
  - Wikipedia
- Matte, glossy, glass, and nanotexture (via Johnny “Decimal” Noble)
  - Paperlike
  - Rock Paper Pencil
- Steam Machine
  - EuroGamer article about APU/GPU (via DavidSchaub)
- PlayStation 5 OS is FreeBSD-based (via Jesús Santaigo Narváez)
  - Wikipedia
  - PS Dev Wiki
- Steam Frame
  - Lenses (via Michael)
  - Spec chart (via James O’Loughlin)
  - Top strap image
  - Steam → Apple Vision Pro using ALVR (via Iain Wallace)
    - Guide on Reddit
- SteamOS
  - Is not universally supported (via DavidSchaub)
  - Alternatives (via solmnmagus)
    - Bazzite
    - CachyOS
  - Anti-cheat considerations (via Julian Torres)
  - Screw it, I’m installing Linux
- Steam strategy
  - Is Steam-on-ARM popular?
    - Hardware survey (via Lars Boris)
      - Additional thoughts from Ava
  - Steam has only one person to answer to (via charlesesmith)
- Single thread performance ranking (via Steven Op de beeck)
- “High-Res Antiglare” (via Adam Wunn)
John mourns the recent news
- GPU issues (via Colin Cornaby)
- GeekBench Metal scores
  - Mac Pro (2019) + AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
  - Mac Studio (2025) + M3 Ultra
- The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor
Tim Cook to step down as early as next year
- Tim Cook & Kara Swisher in 2021 (starts at 35:51)
  - As discussed in ATP #425: Hey Billionaire
- Financial Times, 14 November 2025
- Gruber’s take
- Joe Rossignol @ Mac Rumors
  - Apple Corporate Governance Guidelines
Post-show: Declan discovers “HyperCard”
- Rage-baiting
Members-only ATP Overtime: The App Store on the web
- Dan Moren @ Six Colors
- MJ Tsai
- Apple shipped its source maps
  - Svelte
- See also: Apple Maps on the web
  - Announcement
- See also: Apple Podcasts on the web
  - Juli Clover @ MacRumors