Accidental Tech PodcastMarco Arment, Casey Liss, John SiracusaAll episodes

431: City of Chips

Hosted byCasey LissJohn SiracusaMarco Arment

• ALL of ATP is “maxinated”! The vaccination train keeps a’chuggin’! Toot toot! 🚂💉
• Thank you, ATP Store purchasers!
• Follow-up:
• Third-party menu bar items (via Daniel Jalkut)
• NSStatusItemBehaviorRemovalAllowed in NSStatusItem.h
• Spatial Audio from Gui Rambo
• CMHeadphoneMotionManager
• 24” iMac Reviews, including Jason Snell’s
• Matching cords, accessories, desktop backgrounds, stickers, highlight colors, “hello” intro movie
• Highlight colors via Sebastiaan de With
• Gasoline stabilizers
• Apple Music adds Spatial Audio & Lossless at No Cost
• Listening to Spatial Audio with AirPods Pro and AirPods Max
• Super Audio CD
• LaserDisc
• Laserdisc: An Introduction
• Laserdisc’s Failure: What Went Wrong
• DVD: The Death Knell of Laserdisc
• MUSE Hi-Vision Laserdisc: The Blu-ray of 1994
• Laserdisc: Features, Follies & Evolution
• XM Radio
• Xiph.org: wave/”stair-step” sample-rate explainer
• DAC
• Loudness war
• Tidal)
• Pono)
• A2DP)
• aptX
• AAC
• AirPods Max and lossless over the cable (via Micah Singleton)
• Mastered for iTunes
• LivePhish
• FLAC
• MacBook Pro Ransomware Leak
• Casey’s battery/hub
• MacBook Air Rumors
• John Prosser’s Video
• Dr. Drang on Battery Life
• Gurman’s Report
• GeForce RTX 3090
• macOS 11.4 beta supports new AMD graphics cards
• AMD 6900 XT
• The Connection Machine
• Post-show: Casey & John’s Adventures with Eero
• Eero lights explanation
• Eero’s comparison page
• Hint: use code ATP — it still works!

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