698: And Do What?

• Pre-show: Who’s bored?

• 🗣️ New Member (atp.fm/join)’s Special: ATP Dev: Mac-assed Mac Apps (atp.fm/atp-dev-mac-assed-mac-apps)

• Follow-up:

• Nugs (nugs.net) and Sonos (sonos.com)

• As the prophecy foretold… ☹️

• Mythos is back, but Fable isn’t (theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/958458…)

• 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 (theverge.com/news/837022/valve-steam-machine-p…) (More (theverge.com/games/952004/valve-steam-machine-…))

• Xbox (theverge.com/games/957042/xbox-price-increase-…)

• Micron points fingers at Apple (wsj.com/tech/apple-raises-prices-on-macs-ipads…) (News+ Link (apple.news/AT4sknlKFR8CX_0eGiGa9Xw))

• Steve Troughton-Smith’s take (mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/1168167893228…)

• Previously, in Palm Pilots (archive.ph/20130204111620/http://www.theverge.…)

• Apple asks Trump to save their 🥓 (9to5mac.com/2026/06/26/apple-asks-trump-admin-…)

• Financial Times (ft.com/content/d72a25e2-7bde-4aa9-bd8d-0c4f3d6…)

• No M6 Pro/Max/Ultra‽ (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/apple-t…)

• Touchscreen MacBook Pro (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-26/apple-s…)

• Intel to fabricate the M7‽ (xcancel.com/jukan05/status/2054564780732498342)

• GFHK (spglobal.com/ratings/pt/regulatory/article/-/v…)?

• More reporting (bontechlabs.com/news/apple-is-reportedly-using…)

• New Siri

• Iconography (cdn.atp.fm/images/20260612-siri-golden-gate-be…)

• Attraction Theory: The SiriAI Proposition (hachyderm.io/@bradellis/116716287252573406)

• Pepsi logo redesign brand manual from 2008 (goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arne…) (via budsNhops on Reddit (reddit.com/r/Design/comments/hspqgd/pepsi_logo…))

• Joanna Stern’s review (youtube.com/watch?v=uQ3lL68hNK4)

• Gui Rambo’s experiment (mastodon.social/@_inside/116753604083322191)

• Dan Moren (zeppelin.flights/@dmoren/116731841663356544)

• John tries to get it to understand Perl (because of course he did —Ed.)

• Question 1 (cdn.atp.fm/images/20260612-perl-script-questio…)

• Question 2 (cdn.atp.fm/images/20260612-perl-script-questio…)

• 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 (youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M)

• Avoiding Copland 2010 (hypercritical.co/fatbits/2005/09/27/avoiding-c…)

• Do we collect vintage computers? (via Phil Kim (mastodon.social/@philkim/116641847224496028))

• Casey:

• ThinkPad 701C (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad_701)

• ThinkPad T30 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad_T30)

• John:

• eMate (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMate_300)

• Newton 2000 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton)

• Trashcan (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Pro#Cylindrical_Mac_…))

• Post-show: Casey asks for technical support

• Members-only (atp.fm/join) ATP Overtime: Ubiquiti Enterprise NAS (blog.ui.com/article/introducing-enterprise-nas)

• Announcement video (youtube.com/watch?v=0kRxSB3e07o)

• On the store (store.ui.com/us/en/category/network-storage/pr…)

• All Ubiquiti NAS offerings (store.ui.com/us/en/category/network-storage)

• Xserve RAID (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve_RAID)

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