Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa
709: Steel-Cable Insurance
SEP 17, 2026127 MIN
Description
🗣️ New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: Show Q&A
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time! 🗣️
The Marco Offset™
Todd Vaziri on James Bond homages in the event video
Comparison video
Previously, in 2018
Making of (via Techzha)
Preliminary Geekbench scores
A20 Pro (iPhones 18 Pro)
CPU
GPU
M6
CPU
GPU
M5 Ultra
CPU
iPhone 18 Pro Max & Apple C2
Solar phone charging? 🤔 (via flanker)
Pragmatic #38: Watch This Time and Space
Aperture blades on iPhone 18 Pro / Pro Max camera
MKBHD’s review
PetaPixel’s Review
Explaining starbursts
Straight vs. rounded examples
Debate on DPReview forums
iPhones 18 Pro Face ID (YouTube timestamp link to 13m34s)
iPhone Duo
How will iPhone Mirroring work?
No Action Button đź’”
The Duo does have a split keyboard
An aside about our enthusiasm for the Duo
Ternus & Joz interview part 1 & part 2
Thomas Ricker at The Verge
Stephen Robles insights
iPhone side-dock example
MagSafe accessories will be… tough
A Face ID complication (via Pedro Fernandes)
Apple Pencil support
USB-C Apple Pencil not Pencil Pro
Gruber
Steve Troughton-Smith
Fake bezel
Benjamin Mayo at 9to5Mac
Demo video (Twitter link)
iOS 27 doesn’t include automated password changing
Photos libraries on external drives (via Mike Brogan & Jason Snell)
Optimize Storage (via Jason Snell & Fabrice Neuman)
John’s cheap S3 setup
Configuration
CLI invocation:
aws s3api put-bucket-lifecycle-configuration \
--bucket my-cool-bucket-name \
--lifecycle-configuration file:///Users/yourusername/Desktop/s3-lifecycle.json \
--transition-default-minimum-object-size varies_by_storage_class
_DavidSmith on iPhone Air & 17e sales
Gruber’s breakdown
iPhone 17: 36.5%
iPhone 17 Pro Max: 29.9%
iPhone 17 Pro: 29.4%
iPhone 17e: 2.5%
iPhone Air: 1.5%
Post-show: John needed Marco’s 3D printer
Oyen Digital MiniPro RAID V4 Dual-Bay
Modesty panel
Command Strips
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