671: Even Apple Can’t Beat the Sun
23 December 2025

671: Even Apple Can’t Beat the Sun

Accidental Tech Podcast

About

    Pre-show: Christmas-slideshow time
    Follow-up:


      Paris Buttfield-Addison’s locked Apple ID


        🇦🇺 ACCC: Consumer Rights & Guarnatees
        🇺🇸: Remember when we had a CFPB?

      Chat math
      Metadata thread splitting & merging
      Colin spells it out for us


        TV Everywhere
        XMLTV
        m3u8
        IPTV Github Repo
        🚨 Proceed with caution 🚨 StreamEast
        506 Sports

      Custom pronunciations in iOS


        Accessibility → VoiceOver → Speech → Pronunciations


          See Apple support

        Accessibility → Read & Speak → Pronunciations


          See Apple support

        Apple video guide

      Tahoe Studio Display flickering
      Malicious content delivery in Apple Podcasts


        Previously 1
        Previously 2


    iPhone roadmap


      Article on The Information

    iPhone XX rumor roundup


      Under-screen FaceID?
      Haptic buttons?

    Apple exploring touch-sensitive iPhone cases


      Patent

    Ask ATP:


      How do we manage our contacts? (via Tyler Kindy)
      How do we use version control? (via Dmitry Myronenko)

    🗣️ Remember, ATP gift memberships are a thing!
    Post-show: John’s bug


      FB21375029
      Sample project

    Members-only ATP Overtime: RAM shortage, or the flip-side of the Apple Intelligence RAM dividend


      Sam Altman’s dirty DRAM deal
      RAM is ruining everything
      It-hurts-because-it’s-true wisecrack by ziplyne
      The RAM shortage is here to stay
      Chipwrecked



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