Post #1645330
2026-04-21 16:42 UTC
Replies (31)
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@vmachiel@mastodon.nl 2026-04-21 16:52
@atpfm@mastodon.social photo caption was unexpected but correct
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@TheEjj@mastodon.social 2026-04-21 16:59
@atpfm@mastodon.social What Nobel committee do you submit a podcast to in order to nominate it for best chapter titles?
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@lukeratta@mastodon.social 2026-04-21 17:28
@atpfm@mastodon.social Marco defending subscriptions to use hardware that you’ve already purchased definitely wasn’t on my bingo card.
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@dschaub@mstdn.social 2026-04-21 17:36
@atpfm@mastodon.social I'm confused. It wasn't OK for Tim to kiss Trump's rear for Apple's sake, but it is OK for Tim to kiss Trump's rear for Ternus' sake? That is still Ternus & the Board's responsibility. Nothing has changed. Every time Cook kisses Trump's rear, that is Ternus doing it.
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@arm61@mastodon.online 2026-04-21 17:57
@atpfm@mastodon.social I am not sure about @siracusa@mastodon.social’s advice to young people that John Ternus is proof you don’t need an advanced degree to be successful (e.g., Apple CEO), considering that Ternus graduated nearly 10 years before many recent graduates were born. The credentialism/degree inflation is a modern problem.
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@sayrer@mastodon.social 2026-04-21 18:04
@atpfm@mastodon.social haha, I get the audiophile thing. I'm always in favor of decent pro equipment, or maybe like a Rotel. But that stuff isn't crazy expensive. You can hear it on Apple Music. Everything is lossless now, use your fancy audio interfaces (Sound Devices?), you'll hear it. It also works with AirPods Max with USB-C wired. But I spend most of the programming day walking around with old AirPods Max wireless. I do notice when I switch to the audio interface. But that's a lot of listening to notice.
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@SwampYankee@mastodon.social 2026-04-21 18:18
@atpfm@mastodon.social Here is some completely unfounded blind gossip: "The fruit company is going to buy a satellite company. It wouldn't have been allowed by the government before but they gave the government a secret key into their phones which they had never previously allowed. It is why the head of the company left." https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2026/04/blind-item-10_0686796532.html
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@dschaub@mstdn.social 2026-04-21 18:21
@atpfm@mastodon.social @marcoarment@mastodon.social Will Apple ever be a leader in AI models… probably not. Does that matter… absolutely not. AI is a commodity and a feature, not a platform. Apple will get enough AI, and companies that are nothing but AI will fail. So I feel, Apple failed at something that doesn’t matter much, so nothing bad for Cook there.
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@fds@mastodon.social 2026-04-21 18:34
@atpfm@mastodon.social I largely agree with everyone on Tim Apple but imo tech people over rank AI. MS is apologizing for Windows & claiming to reduce copilot stuff (it's not really iirc). The darling of AI is already becoming passé. Ex: https://mastodon.social/@carnage4life@mas.to/116443578602305566 I know it makes for something exciting to talk about but short of an another innovation, I don't see LLMs on their own being anything special. Apple has the users and their data. An LLM that competently works with the data. Without the data it's a toy.
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@blazesanders@techhub.social 2026-04-21 18:35
@atpfm@mastodon.social I’m ok with locking hardware features behind software, since it’s often cheaper (and faster which makes company more money) to have fewer product SKU since assembly line doesn’t have to be swapped / reconfigured. These savings can sometimes be passed down to users.
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@kitkat_blue@mastodon.social 2026-04-21 19:07
@atpfm@mastodon.social My bet is he "transitions" to still being a massive ass-kisser...
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@mpfef98@mastodon.social 2026-04-21 19:20
@atpfm@mastodon.social UPenn might not meet @siracusa@mastodon.social ‘s high standards but it is an Ivy League school, FWIW
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@takeitev@mastodon.social 2026-04-21 19:22
@atpfm@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social but what if he turns out a bigger arsehole ?
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@pfernandes@mastodon.social 2026-04-21 21:35
@atpfm@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social reading my mind :)
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@cbowns@xoxo.zone 2026-04-21 22:05
@atpfm@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social I have a Mac Pro armchair theory over coffee after listening to the live stream: they killed it before Ternus’s ascension to make it unambiguous that there wasn’t anything coming in the future. (We all certainly would have run rampant with it in limbo knowing he had an ATP Believe shirt in a closet somewhere)
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@ejauch@mastodon.social 2026-04-21 22:34
@atpfm@mastodon.social I wear a dress shirt every day for work and this is how I roll my sleeves. I move my arms around teaching and have no issues! https://youtube.com/shorts/acOSFaURpMM?si=NTM_SayM2P_rslwv
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@Avendor@hachyderm.io 2026-04-21 23:22
@atpfm@mastodon.social with software locking, you could argue Sirus radio was a service like cable. Also the problem with paying for heated seats was that it was seen as a money grab on already expensive luxury cars. I think it was BMW. This wasn't some cheap KIA or Hyundai.
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@marinaepelman@mastodon.social 2026-04-22 01:13
@atpfm@mastodon.social My god… https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/style/tim-cook-apple-ceo-fashion.html?unlocked_article_code=1.c1A.edmw.MWhUxZM4-wtS&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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@sayitintexan@mastodon.social 2026-04-22 02:35
@atpfm@mastodon.social I was crushed that there was no black iPhone Pro this year. I was thrilled that there was a silver MacBook Neo. I don't dare let John Ternus see that the MacBook Neo Silver t-shirt didn't make the threshold. I immediately purchased one.
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@edmn@mastodon.social 2026-04-22 07:46
@atpfm@mastodon.social I lost it when Marco started describing the material that Ternus and Cook were wearing in the press release.
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@curdriceaurora@mastodon.social 2026-04-22 12:06
@atpfm@mastodon.social Looks like none of you have been watching Shrinking on Apple TV. Those shirts are the suburban dad Derek’s standard wardrobe on the series.
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@Janne_O@mastodon.social 2026-04-22 12:22
@atpfm@mastodon.social te the quick comment on Touchbar: am I the only one who loves the idea? I think the problem is that they replaced function keys with it. I would love if Apple brought the touch bar back, but kept the function keys as well.
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@sharding@mastodon.social 2026-04-22 13:15
@atpfm@mastodon.social You're right that the masses care about convenience and price over quality. But we should be thanking, not dismissing, the minority who do care about quality. Caring about quality is not a character flaw. Those are the people who push for improvements that trickle down to everyone else. Is the person who spends more and inconveniences themself for a 1% improvement in video source quality all that different than someone who buys a Mac Pro to do... whatever John does on his Mac Pro?
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@sayrer@mastodon.social 2026-04-22 18:08
@atpfm@mastodon.social @siracusa@mastodon.social @marcoarment@mastodon.social the clothes do indeed appear on podcasts. I know it from Search Engine, but there is also a store of theirs not too far from my house. That stuff is expensive, but not like high-fashion expensive. The Nike shoes make sense, because Tim Cook is the lead independent director at Nike! He kinda has to wear them. https://investors.nike.com/investors/corporate-governance/?toggle=directors
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@Spyder@mastodon.social 2026-04-23 00:02
@atpfm@mastodon.social polestar 2 is one of the EV models with a paid software unlock for full motor performance. It also adjusts the pedal response curves, adds launch control, and they’ll send replacement stickers to put on the car. https://www.reddit.com/r/Polestar/comments/uj74gh/polestar_2_software_performance_upgrade_faq/ (Or the official, less useful, FAQ: https://www.polestar.com/au/support/faq/performance-software-upgrade/ )
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@Janne_O@mastodon.social 2026-04-23 16:41
@atpfm@mastodon.social re: audiophiles: there was a guy in Japan who installed his own utility pole so he could get “better” electricity: https://www.openculture.com/2018/05/an-82-year-old-japanese-audiophile-searches-for-the-best-sound-by-installing-his-own-electric-utility-pole-in-his-yard.html
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@devdaniel@hachyderm.io 2026-04-24 07:14
@atpfm@mastodon.social @caseyliss@mastodon.social I have a repeating daily event in my Apple Calendar with a notification 5 minutes before the event and it just doesn't arrive. It works after adding the event for a couple of weeks but then stops working. Recently the event fixed itself for a few days and stopped working again 🤷🏼♂️
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@havn@mas.to 2026-04-24 14:37
@atpfm@mastodon.social Regarding the most important subject covered in this podcast episode: For some unknowable reason, I wrote a thorough blog post about cuffing clothes a couple of years ago: 👇🏻 https://havn.blog/2024/02/18/what-makes-a.html Finally, it's relevant for something! I don't mind the technique @ejauch@mastodon.social posted elsewhere (https://mastodon.social/@ejauch/116445075325007446) — but it's not my favourite. If I were @marcoarment@mastodon.social, I'd try just folding the cuff x amount of times (and try with or without buttons).
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@InterfaceEngineer@mastodon.world 2026-04-24 14:54
@atpfm@mastodon.social re: overtime I’ve seen uhd over plex go beyond 190mb/s. Stephen who isnt an AV critique noticed a diff in video & audio so there is technical limitation that streamers have & it’s worse outside of US Another consideration is ownership - lose iTunes your “bought” collection is lost too Blu ray players are back in fashion: https://www.whathifi.com/tv-home-cinema/blu-ray-players/4k-blu-ray-sales-are-on-the-rise-but-one-key-ingredient-is-missing-for-a-vinyl-level-revival Convenience will always win e.g. I recall @siracusa@mastodon.social having lip sync issues that your fam didn’t care for 😅
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@menevets@mastodon.social 2026-04-24 16:31
@atpfm@mastodon.social If you’re gonna complain about play blu rays, that darned FBI screen you have to sit through that you cannot fast forward through. And the terrible subtitle fonts I guess that depends on the disc and the player? Streaming subtitles are better I’ll grant you that. Scrubbing on the BR player is more accurate and consistent. How the hell long does it take to play a BR disc? A minute? Come on, man!
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@sommer@mastodon.world 2026-04-24 18:51
@atpfm@mastodon.social @marcoarment@mastodon.social Regarding #gemini I asked three questions today: Every answer was horribly wrong and absolute garbage. 0/3.