Pastime | Episode
Pastime

671: Even Apple Can’t Beat the Sun

Accidental Tech Podcast | Dec 23 2025 | 02:02:15

Pre-show: Christmas-slideshow time
Follow-up:

Paris Buttfield-Addison’s locked Apple ID

🇦🇺 ACCC: Consumer Rights & Guarnatees
🇺🇸: Remember when we had a CFPB?

Chat math
Metadata thread splitting & merging
Colin spells it out for us

TV Everywhere
XMLTV
m3u8
IPTV Github Repo
🚨 Proceed with caution 🚨 StreamEast
506 Sports

Custom pronunciations in iOS

Accessibility → VoiceOver → Speech → Pronunciations

See Apple support

Accessibility → Read & Speak → Pronunciations

See Apple support

Apple video guide

Tahoe Studio Display flickering
Malicious content delivery in Apple Podcasts

Previously 1
Previously 2

iPhone roadmap

Article on The Information

iPhone XX rumor roundup

Under-screen FaceID?
Haptic buttons?

Apple exploring touch-sensitive iPhone cases

Patent

Ask ATP:

How do we manage our contacts? (via Tyler Kindy)
How do we use version control? (via Dmitry Myronenko)

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Post-show: John’s bug

FB21375029
Sample project

Members-only ATP Overtime: RAM shortage, or the flip-side of the Apple Intelligence RAM dividend

Sam Altman’s dirty DRAM deal
RAM is ruining everything
It-hurts-because-it’s-true wisecrack by ziplyne
The RAM shortage is here to stay
Chipwrecked

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