Accidental Tech Podcast

Follow-up: Tim Cook does play both sides of the campaign-donation game Big Sur Beta 4 tweaks “Wallpaper Tinting in Windows” Energy Saver Slider Single-shot Disabling Live Photos (via James Cocker) Preparing Your App to be the Default Browser or Email Client Phil Schiller advances to Apple Fellow ATP Appearance Ode to the App Review team Apple Fellows New iMacs Jason Snell’s take Epic declares war on Apple Apple boots Fortnite off the App Store Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite Google boots Fortnite off the Google Play Store Epic’s Lawsuit Dithering The Art of the Possible Apple nails the coffin shut on xCloud and Stadia Previously on ATP Post-show: Neutral: What car would John buy next? Casey’s doomed to get a dog Sponsored by: Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $20 credit with code atp2020. ExpressVPN: The fastest and most reliable VPN. Get an extra three months free with a 1-year package. Mack Weldon: Reinventing men’s basics with smart design, premium fabrics, and simple shopping. Get 20% off your first order with code atppodcast.

Pre-show: Zip ties vs. Velcro cable ties Monoprice 106463 cable ties Follow-up: Apple’s Public Policy Advocacy (via Kyles the Gray) macOS Catalina 10.15.6 can read Big Sur APFS volumes (via Ole Begemann) Would we distribute our iOS apps outside the App Store? (via Wade Tregaskis) HEY #askatp How do we move data between computers? (Yes, again.) (via Jon Aumann) Casey on Homebrew bundle Will iPhone-only apps be rotated appropriately for usage on macOS/iPad OS? (via John Demco) How does John “back up” the junk valuable artifacts in his attic? (via John Larson) Post-show: John’s incorrect photo-taking preferences Sponsored by: Eero: We’re asking a lot of our Wi-Fi. eero can help yours do more. Enter code ATP at checkout to get free next-day shipping. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order. Bombas: The most comfortable socks in the history of feet. Give a pair when you buy a pair, and get 20% off your first purchase.

Pre-show: Working on Stuff that Doesn’t Matter CMMI Waterfall Dithering Follow-up: Mac waking up for Reminders Intel is… not in a good place. Tech CEO Testimony to Congress Peter Steinberger on app entitlements Amazon Prime Video deal email Rumored Apple product-launch dates Big Sur’s New Look Active Window Dark Mode Active Window Active Window With Toolbar Active Window Active Window Separated System 6 Active Window System 7 Active Window Mac OS 9 Active Window Sliders Slider System Preferences With Slider Battery Battery before beta 3 Battery starting on beta 3 Icons App Icons 1 App Icons 2 Utility App Icons Upgrade #308: The Adventures of Dr. Icon Toolbars SF Symbols Toolbar 1 Toolbar 2 Toolbar 3 Toolbar Hover Customize Toolbar Control Center Alert Menu Bar Menu Bar Giant Menu Bar Animated GIF Post-show: Marco accidentally reincarnated Neutral for fifteen minutes Sponsored by: Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $20 credit with code atp2020. Hey: Email shouldn’t be overwhelming. Start your free 14-day trial. Crypto Pro: All-in-one cryptocurrency portfolio app. Get a free month of Premium with code ATP.

ATP Membership Update!! Please consider joining, but we’re still cool if you don’t. 💙 Pre-show: Seltzer: 1, Tiff: 0, Marco: 0 PV=nRT Channellock Follow-up: T2 and TouchBar from Gui Rambo Apple’s priorities for 🔋/🏋️‍♀️ for Apple Silicon TDP Apple News “Podcast” Marc Jacobs The Daily Techmeme Ride Home SoftBank is selling ARM to Nvidia? x86-64 Itanium RISC-V Dark Sky Apple To Be 100% Carbon Neutral for Supply Chain & Products by 2030 Lisa Jackson’s Blog Post Lisa Jackson Vogue Interview Apple says Apple’s 30% is Great [for Apple] #askatp If we can go iOS → macOS, can we go macOS → iOS? (via Eduard Rozenberg) Will Apple offer CPU options on Apple Silicon powered Macs? (via James) Do we really know a lot about Obj-C/PHP/Perl/Javascript/Swift/etc? (via Colby Todisco) Post-show: Overcast’s iOS 14 “roadmap” Sponsored by: Hello Fresh: America’s #1 meal kit. Use code 80atp to get a total of $80 off, including free shipping on your first box. Mint Mobile: Get your new wireless plan for just $15/month with free shipping. Raycon: The next wave in wireless audio. Get 15% off with code ACCIDENT15.

ATP Membership Update! Please consider joining, but we’re still cool if you don’t. 💙 Bootleg feed is live!! Some details: We may @$*&%ng swear No ads, chapters, or audio quality Show notes appear for each bootleg once the episode is published Pre-show: Is FaceID working better with 😷? Beta stability Follow-up: 🚨 ATP Mugs are not dishwasher safe! 🚨 Pencil holder USB4 vs. Thunderbolt 4 Summary on Wikipedia ARM Mac rumors An iPad Pro is an ARM Mac, right? Casey’s nameLiss computers (ugh. –ed.) Casey’s defense of Big Sur’s look-and-feel Screenshot of TextEdit #askatp What is up with Intel, anyway? (via Steve Lederer) Process shrink TSMC x86 ARM P.A. Semi Could one replace an actual computer with an iPad/iPhone, particularly for relatives? What on earth is up with the grille on the new 4 series?! (via Gavan Shanley) BMW 850i Post-show: 2021 Ford Bronco Lineup (PDF) Tonka Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order. Fully: Workplace furniture designed for health, flow, and balance. Notion: Stay on task, find what you need, and collaborate efficiently, all in one place. Get 10% off a team plan.

ATP MEMBERSHIP IS LIVE!! Please consider joining, but we’re still cool if you don’t. 💙 Pre-show: Phisherman Relieph Phund Fishman Donut Marco’s masks Hamilton is good. Turns out™. Follow-up: No Target Disk Mode on ARM Macs But Mac Sharing Mode will replace it WidgetKit and Third-Party Watch Faces _clockHandRotationEffect Unified Memory Architecture & the Mac Pro Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators Heterogeneous System Architecture We’re getting Thunderbolt on ARM Macs Apple Platform Unification Part II: ARM Mac Hardware Upgrade #304: Somebody’s Gotta Do It and It’s Gonna Be Us What changes might be coming to new Mac hardware Touch Bar: Mend It Or End It? App Store changes Phil Schiller digs his heels in Apple, HEY, and the Path Forward #askatp How do we handle migration between Macs? (via Jacob Rosin) Casey on Homebrew bundle Casey’s checklist What do our in-home wired networks look like? (via Franck Hertz) MoCA Bridge What’s the best unsung feature from WWDC? (via Shihab) Design for the iPadOS pointer Post-show: The future of Vignette Sponsored by: Hover: Find a domain name for your passion. Get 10% off your first purchase. Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $20 credit with code atp2020. Bombas: Bombas makes the most comfortable socks in the history of feet.

Pre-show: hey_z_ree Bootleg-feed update ATP MEMBERSHIP IS LIVE!! Please consider joining, but we’re still cool if you don’t. 💙 Audio Hijack Fraunhofer MP3 Licensing NetNewsWire Overcast, Swift, and SwiftUI Follow-up: DTK update Benchmarks Steve Troughton-Smith’s Take Pentium 4 DTK John ports to ARM Windows on ARM Macs Rosetta WWDC 2020 Big Sur and APFS Daniel Jalkut’s tweet Big Sur release notes Messages in Big Sur Starting screen sharing via ⌘K /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Screen Sharing.app “Play sound on startup” (Sound pane in System Preferences) Big Sur version number Gui Rambo’s finding Homebrew team’s discoveries Fraser Hess’s take APFS, Time Machine, and booting changes Catalina error message Signed system volume Explore the New System Architecture of Apple Silicon Macs Time Machine and APFS APFS FIle System Reference Apple platform unification ATP #280: Extinction-Level Event Apple Development Technologies chart Design for the iPadOS pointer The Talk Show Remote from WWDC 2020 Post-show: Fitness and calorie counting FoodNoms Club Crackers Sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order. Mack Weldon: Reinventing men’s basics with smart design, premium fabrics, and simple shopping. Get 20% off your first order with code atppodcast. Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $20 credit with code atp2020.

WWDC 2020 iOS 14 Widgets James Thomson Vidgets (App Store link) App Library Compact Siri/Call UIs/Picture-in-Picture Translation Google Translate Messages Maps Home Pushover CarPlay & CarKey U1 Safari 1Password Have I Been Pwned? Ghostery App Clips Emoji 🔍 Scribble Color Picker Pastel StoreKit Testing! 🥳 Stripe Brent Simmons’ take on IAP Speed Round iPadOS watchOS Watchsmith CARROT Weather Under the Radar AirPods macOS Big Sur New Look Dialog box Squircle SwitchGlass Puzzle pieces ARM Macs Developer Transition Kit “Compliment of Mac I/O Ports” 2x USB-C, 2x USB-A, HDMI, Ethernet Universal 2 App thinning Rosetta 2 Contributions promised Virtualization Hypervisor Parallels Unified memory iOS & iPadOS apps Post-show: Overcast on Catalyst 11.0 Challenging App Store rules Sponsored by: ExpressVPN: The fastest and most reliable VPN. Get an extra three months free with a 1-year package. Mack Weldon: Reinventing men’s basics with smart design, premium fabrics, and simple shopping. Get 20% off your first order with code atppodcast. Basecamp: The all-in-one toolkit for working remotely. Get 10% off your first six months.

Pre-show: Guilt, self-care, and Boom Boom Sauce Follow-up: ATP MEMBERSHIP IS LIVE!! Please consider joining, but we’re still cool if you don’t. 💙 ARM Mac dev kits Xbox 360 “Dev Kit” Apple T2 Pitching an ARM MacBook Air versus an Intel MacBook Pro Tim Cook announces Racial Equity and Justice Initiative …oh, P.S., Apple’s Head of Diversity and Inclusion left Casey’s new MacBook Pro Casey on Homebrew bundle BetterTouchTool A New Breed of Macs Rosetta Hey.com’s App Store Rejection DHH on Twitter Other, not-banned email apps Apple Puff Piece Post-show: Brief WWDC predictions Connected #299: The Rickies (Summer 2020) Sponsored by: Linode: Instantly deploy and manage an SSD server in the Linode Cloud. New accounts get a $20 credit with code atp2020. Fully: Workplace furniture designed for health, flow, and balance. Get $30 off your order of $300 or more. Squarespace: Make your next move. Use code ATP for 10% off your first order.

Reactions to last week’s show Follow-up: Race/racism book list Original listicle So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates On writing into web forms SMART Board Nero Burning ROM Jaz Drive XJACK WASTE Justin Frankel Personal site Icecast SHOUTcast Audio Hijack Cockos LICEcap Gnutella On Casey’s SMB issues Home.app scenes rather than automations, via Hugo Jobling Daniel Jalkut corrects us about powerbox Android Live Captions 1 2 (via David D’Arcy) Voice Control on iOS Donate to Black causes Equal Justice Initiative Black Lives Matter Black Girls Code ATP MEMBERSHIP IS LIVE!! Please consider joining, but we’re still cool if you don’t. 💙 Forecast ARM Macs are coming! For real this time! OpenGL Apple @ Brooklyn Academy of Music iMacs Getting Redesigned as Well? Developer Transition Kit John Gruber on ARM Transition Post-show: Membership Pricing Tiers that Never Were Sponsored by: Notion: Stay on task, find what you need, and collaborate efficiently, all in one place. Get 10% off a team plan.