
334: Mechanical Disadvantage
07/11/19 • 119 min
- Pre-show: Must vs. Shall
- Follow-up:
- John's cheese grater broke
- Deviation from the Ive design philosophy
- Marco's "new" iPhone and Apple Watch
- Apple's new (and "new") laptops
- #askatp:
- Naming computers (via Ron Olson)
- Catalina's move from bash to zsh? (via Pedro Estarque)
- Caring for our 📷 at the 🏖️ (via Tyler Menard)
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- Pre-show: Must vs. Shall
- Follow-up:
- John's cheese grater broke
- Deviation from the Ive design philosophy
- Marco's "new" iPhone and Apple Watch
- Apple's new (and "new") laptops
- #askatp:
- Naming computers (via Ron Olson)
- Catalina's move from bash to zsh? (via Pedro Estarque)
- Caring for our 📷 at the 🏖️ (via Tyler Menard)
Sponsored by:
- Fracture: Photos printed in vivid color directly on glass. Get a special discount on your first order.
- Boosted: Vehicle-grade electric skateboards and scooters to solve your transportation woes. Use code ATP at checkout for $75 off your vehicle.
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Previous Episode

333: Pesky Human Issues
- Follow-up:
- Jony Ive leaves Apple
- Clockwise #301: My Vulcan Mind
- Ben Thompson's piece
- ATP #120: One Magical Wire
- Wall Street Journal on Ive's Departure
- Jony Ive's Christmas Tree
- The Talk Show #256: 'A Bit Too Thin', with Special Guest Ben Thompson
- Dieter Rams
- Gruber last week and this week
- Evans Hankey & Alan Dye
- May-Li Khoe's tweet
- Love, Death, & Robots ("Zima Blue" is the episode mentioned)
- #askatp:
- How does the Overcast recommendation engine work? (via Markus Ernst)
- What's the best way to enter "the zone" while programming? (via Paul Wood III)
- What happens to Overcast/Vignette/ATP/etc when we pass? (via Leon Zandman)
- Post-show: John's Rubbermaid #1971 spatula
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Next Episode

335: Withhold the Fun
- Relay FM 5th Anniversary Show
- iOS 13 charging optimization
- Follow-up:
- APFS volumes for photos instead of sparse disk images
- Dave Nanian tweets: 1 2
- SuperDuper
- Fun Fact on the root group being named wheel
- shall/should/may/can
- iPhone SE & headphones
- APFS volumes for photos instead of sparse disk images
- Apple Bankrolling Original Podcasts?
- Dropbox pulls some forking bullshirt
- #askatp:
- Do our cars or our iPads have more stickers? (via Josh Lewis)
- Do we fill up our 256 GB phones? (via Erik Neu)
- What is the most valuable language to learn for modern students? (via Sarah Anne)
- Post-show: 🌊🏊♂️🏖
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