423: Fort of HomePods

Accidental Tech Podcast

• Episode: 423: Fort of HomePods
• Website: Accidental Tech Podcast
• Feed URL: http://atp.fm/episodes?format=rss
• Duration: 01:56:41
• Published: 2021-03-25 16:46

• What would it take to get Marco into a concert?
  • LivePhish
  • Do By Friday #232: Panatee
  • Reconcilable Differences #152: Warnings of Gales in Trafalgar
• Follow-up:
  • Tesla Wheel of Shame
    • Hong Kong (via Cilver Aullet)
    • DC (via TG Cid)
    • Houston (via Aaron Farnham)
  • App Store Pricing Policing (via Tim)
  • Games and Notarization
    • On Apple’s Piss-Poor Documentation
  • HomePod follow-up
    • Google Home Max was also discontinued
    • Echo Studio
    • Nexus Q
• Some Membership Housekeeping
  • Refunds for a very small group of you! 💰
  • ATP Membership can be paid in 💶 or 💷! 💸
  • ATP’s mid-year 👕 (& more!) are coming soon! 🤑
• Mac OS X 10.0 is 20 years old today!
  • John’s reviews & retrospectives
  • robots.txt
• Google Play Drops Commissions 30% → 15% for first $1M in revenue
  • Marginal tax rate
• #askatp
  • When did photos become more than just files? (via Matt Fenselau)
  • What’s up with Apple’s awful user experience with OS updates? (via Dan Young)
    • Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System
    • Comparing Update Sizes from Mojave to Big Sur
  • How would we wire our houses if we could do it all over again? (via Matt Youens)
    • Cat6
    • Ubiquiti
      • Dream Machine
• Post-show Neutral:
  • Casey’s new dongle

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