687: You Can Bend This Line

Pre-show: Casey requests an app from Marco Roon Nugs 🗣️ ATP STORE IS LIVE! 🗣️ 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Dev: Nuggets of Wisdom Follow-up: Suunto is… not young (via Henri Sivonen) Garmin did beat Suunto to GPS watch though The other neat explainer John was thinking of (via Ben Landsberg ) Previously: Eric Portis on Color Spaces Bartosz Ciechanowski on… anything Is Apple running out of A18 Pros ‽ 😱 Apple IDs & passkeys (via Vitor ) Others with this issue Apple said it’d be fixed… two years ago Stealing TV… may not be so wise. Shocker! (via Nye Hughes) See also: Krebs on Security Darknet Diaries (via David Brownman ) Ads are coming to Apple Maps Newsroom AI-generated code & copyright AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted Can coding agents “relicense” through clean-room re-implementation? No right to relicense this project Monkey selfie Claude, rewrite yourself Ask ATP: When Marco goes on a saunter with two watches, are the measurements similar? (via Jason ) Why did Marco bother with colocation? (via Stephen Gozza) Post-show: Casey’s silly new toy Alex’s overview Screenshot of a Linux machine Screenshot of a Mac Members-only ATP Overtime: John tries to reach acceptance Apple approves AMD & Nvidia eGPU drivers What if Apple adopted “MPX”-style modules? (via Jan Wedekind) MK1 High Density Rack Mount Bandwidth comparisons Thunderbolt 5 80 Gbit/s symmetric 120 Gbit/s unidirectional for displays SSD (M5 Max MacBook pro, 4 TB) 109 Gbit/s (13.6 GB/s) read 142 Gbit/s (17.8 GB/s) write PCIe speeds on PCIe 5.0 1 lane: 32 Gbit/s (4 GB/s) 16 lanes: 512 Gbit/s (64 GB/s) …as compared to the Mac Pro’s 64 lanes across 4 slots (2,048 GBit/s) 17× Thunderbolt 5’s maximum single-direction speed Internal vs. external SSD 2025 Mac Studio: ~5.5 GB/s OWC Envoy Ultra : ~5.1 GB/s ; 8 TB for $2,250 OWC Thunderblade : ~5.75 GB/s ; 8 TB for $2,700 PolySoft third-party internal SSDs Kickstarter (ended November 2024) Sponsored by: Leesa : A mattress for every body and budget. Zapier : Put AI to work across your company—for real. Quince : Elevated essentials and staples that last Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!

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687: You Can Bend This Line is an episode from Accidental Tech Podcast by Marco Arment.

This episode is 01:55:34 long.

This episode was published on Apr 16, 2026.

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