Accidental Tech Podcast

• Pre-show: Marco’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week.
• Follow-up:
  • Facebook vs. Apple
    • Apple is not taking the 30% cut after all
  • Merchants have been allowed to add surcharges for credit card transactions since January 2013 (via Jordan Ryan Moore)
  • Adam’s watch battery update
  • Cell tower “trees” (via Nathaniel)
    • Examples
    • “Monopalms”
  • eFUSE
  • Baby Monitors
    • Eufy SpaceView
      • Wirecutter
    • Previous recommnedation: Infant Optics DXR-8
• iPhone 11 Exit Interview
• Apple Event
  • Potential iPhone 12 Sizes
    • iPhone 11: 6.1”
    • iPhone 11 Pro: 5.8” or 6.5”
    • iPhone 12: 5.4” or 6.1”
    • iPhone 12 Pro: 6.1” or 6.7”
  • MacRumors 5.4-inch iPhone 12 Size Estimator
  • Thursday’s child has far to go…
  • John’s “code”
  • Apple stops selling rival earphones/speakers
• House Judiciary Committee antitrust report
• #askatp
  • What’s the deal with disk images, anyway? (via Andy)
    • WAD file
    • XIP file
  • What’s the reasonable lifespan of a phone? (via Ian Uymatiao)
  • What’s the point in a “real” camera? (via Luke Shulman)
    • Casey’s Olympus O-MD E-M10
      • Casey’s Zoom Lens
      • Casey’s Prime Lens
    • Sony α7C
    • Sony α6600
    • Lensrentals
• Post-show: More on the Sony α7C
  • Sony RX1
  • Leica Q

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