553: Cut the Bridges to the Mainland

• Pre-show: John’s enhancement requests

• 🤬 cancer. Help sick kids. Donate to St. Jude now. •

The Marco Offset

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

Related The Verge article Marco’s option

• 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 •

Apple support document • Panic on The Lightning Digital AV Adapter Surprise

• USB-A ↔ C adapters are fire hazards‽ (via Praveen)

Example

• iPhone 15 Pro & diffusion bonding (via Robert Newman)

• iPhone 15/Pro/Max battery life & 3nm

Revegnus’ tweet Kal’s tweet Nuvia •

Lawsuit dropped

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

New York Times interview from 2020

Gruber’s post •

• Geekbench 6

• Single-core

M2 Max • : 2,803 Intel Core i9-13900K 3 GHz • : 4,220

• Multi-core

M2 Ultra • : 21,299 Intel Core i9-13900KS 3.2GHz • : 29,015

• Does Apple make the fastest laptops • ?

Luke Miani Intel’s Meteor Lake CPUs

#askatp • :

• How does mp3 chapter images work? (via Joel Labes)

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• 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)

• Post-show: Rivian follow-up and some interesting hacks

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