671: Even Apple Can’t Beat the Sun

• Pre-show: Christmas-slideshow time

• Follow-up:

• Paris Buttfield-Addison’s locked Apple ID (hey.paris/posts/appleid)

• 🇦🇺 ACCC: Consumer Rights & Guarnatees (accc.gov.au/consumers/buying-products-and-serv…)

• 🇺🇸: Remember when we had a CFPB? (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Financial_Prote…)

• Chat math

• Metadata thread splitting & merging

• Colin spells it out for us

• TV Everywhere (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Everywhere)

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLTV

• m3u8 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U#M3U8)

• IPTV Github Repo (github.com/iptv-org/iptv?tab=readme-ov-file)

• 🚨 Proceed with caution 🚨 StreamEast (streameast100.is)

• 506 Sports (506sports.com)

• Custom pronunciations in iOS

• Accessibility → VoiceOver → Speech → Pronunciations

• See Apple support (support.apple.com/en-us/111800)

• Accessibility → Read & Speak → Pronunciations

• See Apple support (support.apple.com/en-us/guide/iphone/iph96b214…)

• Apple video guide (youtube.com/watch?v=CPLbZ2F_V6U)

• Tahoe Studio Display flickering (macrumors.com/2025/12/18/macos-tahoe-studio-di…)

• Malicious content delivery in Apple Podcasts

• Previously 1 (macrumors.com/2025/11/28/psa-apple-podcasts-ap…)

• Previously 2 (404media.co/someone-is-trying-to-hack-people-t…)

• iPhone roadmap (bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-11-16/appl…)

• Article on The Information (theinformation.com/articles/apple-delays-relea…)

• iPhone XX rumor roundup (macrumors.com/2025/10/27/20th-anniversary-ipho…)

• Under-screen FaceID? (macrumors.com/2025/12/08/iphone-18-pro-under-d…)

• Haptic buttons? (macrumors.com/2025/10/28/20th-anniversary-ipho…)

• Apple exploring touch-sensitive iPhone cases (macrumors.com/2025/11/17/apple-touch-sensitive…)

• Patent (patents.google.com/patent/US20240393888A1/en)

• Ask ATP:

• How do we manage our contacts? (via Tyler Kindy (mastodon.social/@TylerKindy/115667325675701475))

• How do we use version control? (via Dmitry Myronenko)

• 🗣️ Remember, ATP gift memberships (atp.fm/gift) are a thing!

• Post-show: John’s bug (mastodon.social/@siracusa/115743335322058612)

• FB21375029

• Sample project (github.com/siracusa/GlassEffectTest)

• Members-only (atp.fm/join) ATP Overtime: RAM shortage, or the flip-side of the Apple Intelligence RAM dividend

• Sam Altman’s dirty DRAM deal (mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dr…)

• RAM is ruining everything (theverge.com/report/839506/ram-shortage-price-…)

• It-hurts-because-it’s-true wisecrack by ziplyne (mastodon.social/@potatoDOTzip/115731381279660737)

• The RAM shortage is here to stay (theverge.com/news/848199/ram-shortage-pc-phone…)

• Chipwrecked (theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/848988…)

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