Pastime | Episode
Pastime

698: And Do What?

Accidental Tech Podcast | Jun 30 2026 | 02:13:35

Pre-show: Who’s bored?
🗣️ New Member’s Special: ATP Dev: Mac-assed Mac Apps
Follow-up:

Nugs and Sonos
As the prophecy foretold… ☹️
Mythos is back, but Fable isn’t
Rumors about Siri AI indexing
Corrections about 8TB SSDs (via Aaron Raimist)
Price increases abound! ☹️

On the Apple TV price hike (via Chris Carley)
Steam Machine (More)
Xbox
Micron points fingers at Apple (News+ Link)

Steve Troughton-Smith’s take

Previously, in Palm Pilots

Apple asks Trump to save their 🥓

Financial Times

No M6 Pro/Max/Ultra‽

Touchscreen MacBook Pro

Intel to fabricate the M7‽

GFHK?
More reporting

New Siri

Iconography

Attraction Theory: The SiriAI Proposition
Pepsi logo redesign brand manual from 2008 (via budsNhops on Reddit)

Joanna Stern’s review
Gui Rambo’s experiment
Dan Moren
John tries to get it to understand Perl (because of course he did —Ed.)

Question 1
Question 2

Ask ATP:

Why isn’t Apple on a reliable cadence for processor releases? (via Ammar)
If we really embrace agentic coding, what would be the right choice of language for that? (via Matthew Southworth)

3Blue1Brown
Avoiding Copland 2010

Do we collect vintage computers? (via Phil Kim)

Casey:

ThinkPad 701C
ThinkPad T30

John:

eMate
Newton 2000
Trashcan

Post-show: Casey asks for technical support
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