709: Steel-Cable Insurance

• 🗣️ New ATP Member’s (atp.fm/join) Special: ATP Insider: Show Q&A (atp.fm/atp-insider-show-q-a)

• 🗣️ It’s St. Jude (stjude.org/atp) time! 🗣️

• The Marco Offset™ (themarcooffset.com)

• Todd Vaziri on James Bond homages in the event video (fxrant.blogspot.com/2026/09/apple-event-film-2…)

• Comparison video (youtube.com/watch?v=8qm8NANO_ow)

• Previously, in 2018 (fxrant.blogspot.com/2018/09/apple-event-film-2…)

• Making of (instagram.com/p/DdMvcGNGVZI) (via Techzha (mastodon.social/@techzha/117261922485112302))

• Preliminary Geekbench (geekbench.com) scores

• A20 Pro (iPhones 18 Pro)

• CPU (browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/19143028)

• GPU (browser.geekbench.com/v6/compute/6873610)

• M6

• CPU (browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/354109)

• GPU (browser.geekbench.com/v6/compute/6886687)

• M5 Ultra

• CPU (browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/354092)

• iPhone 18 Pro Max & Apple C2 (macrumors.com/2026/09/12/iphone-18-pro-max-us-…)

• Solar phone charging? 🤔 (via iosdev.space/@flanker/117252108702198590)

• Pragmatic #38: Watch This Time and Space (engineered.network/pragmatic/episode-38-watch-…)

• Aperture blades on iPhone 18 Pro / Pro Max camera

• MKBHD’s review (youtube.com/watch?v=ohqxP8EEumo)

• PetaPixel’s Review (youtube.com/watch?v=XYH9RPdRfGs)

• Explaining starbursts (slrlounge.com/diffraction-aperture-and-starbur…)

• Straight vs. rounded examples (reddit.com/r/photography/comments/647rup/starb…)

• Debate on DPReview forums (dpreview.com/forums/threads/do-round-aperture-…)

• iPhones 18 Pro Face ID (youtube.com/watch?v=ohqxP8EEumo&t=13m34s) (YouTube timestamp link to 13m34s)

• iPhone Duo

• How will iPhone Mirroring (support.apple.com/en-us/120421) work?

• No Action Button 💔

• The Duo does have a split keyboard (cdn.atp.fm/images/20260916-iphone-duo-split-ke…)

• An aside about our enthusiasm for the Duo

• Ternus & Joz interview part 1 (youtube.com/watch?v=uJKt432tWM4) & part 2 (youtube.com/watch?v=HWg75OAmJLc)

• Thomas Ricker at The Verge (theverge.com/tech/993795/apple-addresses-iphon…)

• Stephen Robles (beard.fm) insights

• iPhone side-dock example (mastodon.social/@stephenrobles/1172475212947)

• MagSafe accessories will be… tough (mastodon.social/@stephenrobles/117247235325519…)

• A Face ID complication (via Pedro Fernandes (mastodon.social/@pfernandes/117275360339782718))

• Apple Pencil support

• USB-C Apple Pencil not Pencil Pro (macrumors.com/2026/09/09/apple-pencil-usb-c-ip…)

• Gruber (daringfireball.net/linked/2026/09/11/iphone-du…)

• Steve Troughton-Smith (mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/1172534032995…)

• Fake bezel

• Benjamin Mayo at 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com/2026/09/12/iphone-duo-fake-bezel-c…)

• Demo video (x.com/LelloucheNico/status/2098764066965569582) (Twitter link)

• iOS 27 doesn’t include automated password changing (youtube.com/watch?v=BH0rU11vZjM&t=8m33s)

• Photos libraries on external drives (via Mike Brogan & Jason Snell)

• Optimize Storage (via Jason Snell & Fabrice Neuman)

• John’s cheap S3 setup

• Configuration (cdn.atp.fm/files/s3-lifecycle.json)

• CLI invocation:

aws s3api put-bucket-lifecycle-configuration \
--bucket my-cool-bucket-name \
--lifecycle-configuration file:///Users/yourusername/Desktop/s3-lifecycle.json \
--transition-default-minimum-object-size varies_by_storage_class

• _DavidSmith on iPhone Air & 17e sales (mastodon.social/@_Davidsmith/117253170115740653)

• Gruber’s breakdown (daringfireball.net/linked/2026/09/11/last-year…)

• iPhone 17: 36.5%

• iPhone 17 Pro Max: 29.9%

• iPhone 17 Pro: 29.4%

• iPhone 17e: 2.5%

• iPhone Air: 1.5%

• Post-show: John needed Marco’s 3D printer

• Oyen Digital MiniPro RAID V4 Dual-Bay (oyendigital.com/products/minipro-raid-v4-usb-c…)

• Modesty panel (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modesty_panel)

• Command Strips (command.com/3M/en_US/command)

• Members-only (atp.fm/join) ATP Overtime: The triumphant return of the Genius Bar? (bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-09-13/appl…)

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