Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.
553: Cut the Bridges to the Mainland
      
        September 22, 2023
      
      
        02:06:29
      
      
        
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      - Pre-show: John’s enhancement requests
 - 🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now.
 - ATP Top Four: Laptops. Join to listen!
 - Follow-up:
- Apple-products-save-your-life video
 - Apple Watch Ultra 2 naming
 - Titanium watches
- Cost ∆s (via Dan Provost)
 - Warranty (via Doug Miller)
 
 - Hermès leather straps (via Gruber)
 - Casey’s live adventure
 - Apple Watch Assistive Touch is from 2021
 - Apple “blue” over time
 - iPhone 15 Pro & Pro Max repairability helps consumers too
- iPhone 14 Pro back glass: $499
 - iPhone 15 Pro back glass: $169
 
 - iPhone 15 & 15 Pro cameras
- 14 Pro 🤝 15 Pro (via Andreas Netzmann)
 - PetaPixel was confused too
 - The arrangement changed
 - iPhone 15 != iPhone 14 Pro
 - 5× Pro Max is 25% larger than the 3×
 - 3× camera has not changed in three years 😱
 - iPhone 14 Pro can also take 48 MP HEIF images
 - PetaPixel camera review
 - DPReview
 
 - USB-C begets external display support
 - USB-A ↔ C adapters are fire hazards‽ (via Praveen Kankanala)
 - iPhone 15 Pro & diffusion bonding (via Robert Newman)
 - iPhone 15/Pro/Max battery life & 3nm
 - iPhone 15 Pro & Thread radio
 - Close-up photos of a FineWoven case
- Similar to Peak Design case?
 
 - Apple 2030
- Apple’s press release on “carbon neutral” (via Josh Angelsberg)
 - Environment FAQ
 
 - Tim Cook at Apple in 2030
 
 - Gruber’s post
- Geekbench 6
- Single-core
- M2 Max: 
2,803 - Intel Core i9-13900K 3 GHz: 
4,220 
 - M2 Max: 
 - Multi-core
- M2 Ultra: 
21,299 - Intel Core i9-13900KS 3.2GHz: 
29,015 
 - M2 Ultra: 
 
 - Single-core
 - Does Apple make the fastest laptops?
 
 - Geekbench 6
 #askatp:- How does mp3 chapter images work? (via Joel Labes)
- The “animated” chapter art was the ending theme song in ATP 244
 
 - How does binning work with silicon chips? (via Ammar)
 - Is USB-C’s successor on the horizon? (via Jason Falleiro)
 
- How does mp3 chapter images work? (via Joel Labes)
 - Post-show: Rivian follow-up and some interesting hacks
 
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