Accidental Tech Podcast

Follow-up on why an iPad "Pro" needs to be larger and why iOS is "better for people". Can iOS add more power-user functionality without harming its simplicity or usability? Whether Macs should ship with ARM CPUs, how such a transition would be challenging today, and whether Casey should just buy another power adapter. The 30th anniversary of the Macintosh and the experience of using its power swit...

Follow-up: Genius Bar employee reports of how most people deal with iCloud backups, photo backups , and storage limits, iExplorer for exporting iMessages. iOS' storage model is a leaky abstraction . Google may have wanted Nest for its smart-home project as well as the more obvious reasons. TiVo may be exiting the hardware business , or maybe not . Nintendo continues to hurt . Why was the first Wii...

Follow-up: whether iMessage problems are widespread, reasons behind flattening the Mac Mini, and HDR TVs. The storage costs of Casey's emoji. Google buying Nest for $3.2 billion . Ben Thompson on Google's business model . Nest has over 200 employees , including many ex-Apple employees. The Target-pregnant story . Marco's critical reading of Nest's statements . Maintaining a skeptical but pragmatic...

Follow-up: IBM AS/400 (aka System i) and single-level store . Marco's Retina theory . PS4 and Xbone sales . Trying to care about CES. Who "needs" the Mac Pro? Justifying toys and improving quality of life with smart purchases. Panasonic’s new LCD TVs compared to great TVs of the past . 4K on Fox Sports , 4K's color space , and the chances of 4K catching on quickly. A Steam Box ( its controller ) a...

Mac Pro follow-up: socketed CPUs and potential upgrades , and the benefits of only using stock Apple parts. Scoring Apple's performance on John's 2013 to-do list . Concerns about Apple's recent Mac apps, including iWork '13 and Messages/iMessage. AnandTech's Mac Pro review . The Mac Pro's 4K/Retina monitor situation. The iMac vs. the Mac Pro, and the hardware needs of developers. Why do John and M...

Explaining our podcast artwork. Facebook Likes in the App Store and ad-banner blindness . Dual-input displays and how they enable the 5120x2880 display that John and Marco want. Turbo Boost and the Mac Pro's CPU options . Using a laptop on a stand with an external keyboard, mouse, and monitor. The benefits of desktops and ECC. Mac Pro configurations for best value and future-proofing. Building sep...

What if the new USB connector is too similar to Lightning ? ( John Gruber on Lightning ) Potential for 5120-wide Retina displays to overcome Thunderbolt bandwidth limits by using "dual-input displays" ? John's "quick" tips for TV calibration. ( THX TV-calibration app ) "Rate This App" dialogs: The Talk Show's excellent discussion . Marco's post . Underscore David Smith on App Store quality standar...

Accidental Fountain Screenplay: The Case of Liss by Joe Steel. (And Bionic .) Desktop 4K/Retina resolutions hitting bandwidth limitations of Thunderbolt 2 and DisplayPort 1.2, and the Sharp/Apple non-news . John's Squarespace-reseller idea already exists . Why aren't iOS App Store purchases available for purchasing and management in the App Store app on the Mac? John's new TV: Technological progre...

FU on PrimeSense. Apple's acquisition of Topsy and speculation on why . Apple's possible difficulty in getting and keeping enough engineering talent, and how they might make bigger strides in web services. Which group wears the pants in a company? Marco's embarrassing FiOS support calls. How Apple's release and marketing schedule affects their web services. Methodologies and vocabularies. USB spec...

David Chartier's clarification on Photo Stream limits . Space Monkey , Transporter , Box , and Xdrive . Results of John's Disk Utility repair survey. ( John on Debug ) Xbox One launch sales . Apple buys PrimeSense . Apple's potential expansion into the TV business. Penny Arcade's job posting , Marco's reaction , and the outgoing employee's description . Extended after-show: how we deal with critic...

Follow-up on Cisco VPNs on Mavericks and [photo backups] to SkyDrive on Windows Mobile Phone Series Metro Not-Metro Phone Windows . Why enterprise software is so hard, and the barriers to entry for small companies targeting the enterprise market. Game-console sales by generation , Nintendo In Crisis , and AnandTech's Xbox One and PS4 mini-review . Casey's new Retina iPad Mini, Marco's accidentally...

John's new Museum of Mediocre Reading Devices. The confusing Photo Stream limits , and all of these links in the show notes . Stephen Elop's If-I-Were-CEO Plan . A story about enterprise software. The four big assumptions about using enterprise software, why it's usually so terrible, and why big companies buy it. Sponsored by: Transporter : A private cloud storage drive that you own and control. U...

Thanks to Jim Pierce for extending John's dog. (Also mentioned: AntiCrop , Glide ) Everpix's failure and impending shutdown : The Verge's profile of the failure Shutdown FAQ Staff tweet about compression and average usage Staff tweet about "3x userbase" needed Somewhat similar services: Loom , Picturelife , Adobe Revel Everpix's critical strategic error, and how tech business and funding strategie...

Some light Mac Pro waffling and the red one . iOS 7.0.3's new crossfade animations in "Reduce Motion" mode. Little tidbits and windows into the life of John Siracusa buried in his OS X Mavericks review . Noodling John with random questions. Dragon Drop and Cocoapods don't suck. The big potential section of the Mavericks review that John omitted. Choosing high-level and low-level details to include...

The John Siracusa Mavericks review is up ! Apple's event, the presenters' pacing and enthusiasm, Casey's bag of hearts, and yet another showing of the dots video . The Retina MacBook Pro update. The Mac Pro base price, CPU options , and speculation on SSD pricing. The iPad Air, Retina iPad Mini, iPad 2 (LOL), and iPod Classic. Apple's prod of free software. John's high-level summary of Mavericks a...

Ebook-publishing woes and trying to coordinate a specific release date. Apple hiring the CEO of Burberry to head their retail division, and the Louis Vuitton logo . The challenges of retail leadership. Touch ID impressions after a weekend of heavy use, and whether you should keep your phone secure for other people's benefit. How Touch ID could be used in Macs, and whether ARM MacBooks would be wor...

Siri expectations and unreliability in popular culture. Can Apple ever dramatically improve their web services, and how much pressure do they feel to do so? The sorry state of online payment processing before Stripe , and improving the current sorry state of money transfers (especially in the U.S.) with services such as Dwolla and Square Cash . The Mavericks GM. Drawbacks of a Readability-like mod...

When we expected the Mavericks GM (recorded two hours before this ). Apparent new E5-1680 Mac Pro in Geekbench and what CPU tradeoffs to expect in the new Mac Pro. Speculating on the new Mac Pro's fan noise, rotating cable management, and intended desk location. FU on John's podcast-scrubber idea. (Spoiler: he knows about the vertical speed-scaling that's been in Apple's scrubber for years, and it...

Casey's exclusive new iPhone 5S. Low stock levels of the gold 5S and Apple's potential motivations. How good the iPhone 5 (and therefore the 5C) still is today. John's review of iOS 7 . Locking your kitchen. Marco's upcoming podcast app, Overcast , as announced at XOXO 2013 , and why he preannounced it. The parallels between Portland and the Hofbräuhaus . John's logarithmic-scrubber idea. (and Mar...

Casey goes to an Apple Store. FU on SnappyCam , Synology and ZFS, and the likelihood of a new Mac filesystem . The 16/32/64 GB iPhone capacities may be overstaying their welcome. Each host's planned iPhone upgrades. How to get an iPhone on launch day. Long Island Lexus trim . Who's fabbing the A7? Intel ? Probably not . iOS 7 adoption stats so far from Mixpanel and _DavidSmith . Sponsored by: Mail...

iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s . The possible Sherlocking of SnappyCam and the 5s' two-tone flash in practice. AnandTech's Touch ID hands-on video . Economics of iPhone cases. 64-bit in practice. Speculation on what the M7 does and its potential. White iOS devices. Apple secrecy. After-show: " non " vs. " hon " and the Micro-USB 3.0 connector . Sponsored by: Squarespace : Everything you need to create an...

John's Mavericks review progress. iPhone event predictions. Design and security tradeoffs of a theoretical iPhone fingerprint lock. iPhone 5S colors . Will the 5C be the mainstream, best-selling model? Cell towers near rich people. The Apple TV shipment rumor . Tim Cook's "new product categories" statement earlier this year: What might that be that could plausibly come this fall "and into 2014"? O...

Follow-up: Time Capsule vs. Siracusa . Casey was right! The state of Microsoft: How much was Ballmer's fault? Ben Thompson on Steve Ballmer . Microsoft's enterprise business. Should Microsoft pull an IBM and/or spin off its consumer business? What could Microsoft do to regain momentum and marketshare in phones and tablets? John on the Nintendo 2DS announcement . ( Side-by-side with 3DS, 3DS XL , t...

Querying Florida. Photo storage follow-up: whether people even want long-term photo storage anymore, using web services as backups, and Ogg-encoded tinfoil hattery. The Time Capsule's tough sell. Casey's helpful fans . IFTTT and Twitter . The gold/"champagne" iPhone, not getting a larger iPhone this year, and the future of the Lightning connector. The new TiVo . After-show: John's ebook-testing se...

Instapaper's web redesign beta . Rewriting a codebase from scratch . Understandable code and writing for maintainability . The balance between easy-to-write but unimpressive apps and implementing cutting-edge features that require messy hacks. The horrible mess of smartphone photo management and backup . How much should Apple protect people from hardware failures or carelessness? (See also: John's...