Accidental Tech Podcast - 709: Steel-Cable Insurance

* 🗣️ 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 💔

* 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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