Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
I feel like we should do some snowpocalypse follow-up. I was talking last week about how Richmond was due for like 30 inches of snow.
Yeah, what happened?
We did not get 30 inches of snow.
Yeah, I saw your picture of your driveway. You've got barely enough to cover the ground.
It was a little more than that, perhaps not by Boston standards, I will allow. But by local standards, it was somewhat significant.
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Chapter 2: What was the outcome of the snowpocalypse in Richmond?
It was like three or four inches. I'm not going to do that computation for centimeters. It was a handful of centimeters. You've got to stop doing unit conversions.
We need a moratorium on unit conversions, especially since you can't do them in your head and then you're always just guessing. If people are interested in doing the unit conversion, lots of ways that is possible after the fact. But I feel like what we should instead be doing is slowly acclimating people to our weird units.
No, because our units, with the exception of Fahrenheit, stink. They're terrible.
They do, but they're our units, and we talk about them, and that's, you know, by listening to the show, people will become familiar with them.
I'm pretty sure that people outside of the U.S. who consume U.S. media have plenty of other cases of other shows and things, you know, just using our units and making them figure it out. I don't think they need us to add to the pile. That being said, I also don't think it's our responsibility to keep converting everything.
All right. Well, let the record show I tried. Anyways, we got a small amount of snow, but on top of the snow, we got a pile of ice and that ice during the day will, when it's sunny, which it has been the last couple of days, it will melt a little bit at the top and then refreeze and refreeze and refreeze and refreeze. And so it ends up that we have like a couple of inches of ice everywhere.
That's not good.
Which is not good. And the county, because remember in Virginia, everything is by counties. The county has done an actually extraordinary job of keeping interstates clear, of keeping major, the bigger side roads, not side roads, the bigger like non-interstate roads clear. You know, for example, my neighborhood dumps into one of the larger roads where we are. And that's bone dry.
It's been dry basically this whole time. But when it comes to the neighborhoods, They justifiably didn't get to them in time to like really clear them when it was workable. And now we've got like two to three to four inches of ice on all of these neighborhood roads. And the county has basically said, It'll melt one day, I guess. And so the kids, it's currently Wednesdays we record this.
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Chapter 3: How does the county handle snow and ice management?
If you do a good enough job shoveling, you won't have to worry about ice because the sun will be able to reach the darker pavement and it will either evaporate or sublimate off the ice and you'll get... Fresh, clean asphalt or pavers or whatever is underneath there that will slowly be exposed to the sun.
And even if it's five degrees as it has been here, it will clear off the remnants of the snow. Anyway, I shoveled my entire driveway and sidewalk three times. Here's your cookie, John.
Anyway, so it stinks around here. It's very icy. It's not fun. It's interesting in Erin's car because her car is rear-wheel drive when under electricity, and then it will turn on the gas motor to be all-wheel drive when necessary, so that's kind of fun. And I took my car out briefly to make a food run, and... I didn't have the time or good spot to do any hooliganism, which was disappointing.
But at this rate, I'll have plenty of times and perhaps can find a spot to do donuts and other, you know, ridiculous childish things. But nevertheless, think happy thoughts for Virginia this coming weekend because it could get worse. Yeah. Good luck. All right. Let's talk about the ATP, ATP FM, our website's pass keys. John, what have you been up to?
I think it was last episode, I said that I had added Passkey, not I had added Passkey support, Claude Code had added Passkey support to our website. And it was working when I talked about it on the show, even for the live listeners. But since the show was released, I got some feedback from users about how they expected it to work. One user, I forgot, I didn't save this person's name.
uh, sent me a links. I asked for links, like show me some websites where you like how it works. And I figured what they sent, but they sent a bunch of websites where I, some of which I already had an account on. And like basically, uh, the, the sort of best practice way to do this is to not even wait for the person to enter anything. Um,
But if they have a passkey to essentially offer to log them in with their passkey, of course, they could just say cancel and just, you know, manually log in. Because our website, ATP.fm, has three ways to log in. You can log in with the magic email link. You can log in with a password. And you can log in with a passkey. And you can choose which one you want.
But if you have a passkey and you land on the login page now, you won't even have to do anything. It will just pop up a thing that says, hey, do you want to log in with your passkey? And you can say yes or no. And if you say no, you can just do it manually. So, yeah. That's working and lots of people are trying out the system.
I see them all logging in with their passkeys and it is exciting and I haven't got any bug reports yet. So fingers crossed.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the upcoming weather forecast?
Yeah, I think I had this in the notes ages ago, but this is essentially Google's answer to private cloud compute. Now, the tricky bits are always like... How Apple did a bunch of stuff where they bent over backwards to say, and we'll give you this binary image of the thing.
And this is the way that you can prove to yourself mathematically that when you connect to our servers, what you're actually connecting to is the binary thing that we gave you. So we know we're not just giving you one thing and using a different thing on our servers. And lots of people looked at that and they said, it's great and this is very helpful.
But in the end, you do kind of sort of have to trust Apple to some degree. Same thing with the Google private compute. I'm sure they're doing all the same things. But in the end, you have to trust Google. You trust that Google has correctly and honestly implemented the thing that they said they implemented, which I'm sure they have because, again. you know, they want to do this for Apple.
They want to do it for themselves. Being able to privately process stuff that is too expensive to do on devices. A useful service to offer, and this is their offering that they announced in November. So, again, no announcement from Apple about, I mean, there's some rumors. I don't think we're going to cover them in the show.
Maybe we mentioned last time, but like the bifurcation of the Apple's rollout of their LLM tech where like 26.4 will have some stuff, but then like the The chatbot thing will come later. And the rumors about Apple using Google's TPUs and their data centers was about the later chatbots and not the 26.4 thing. So we'll see.
Maybe there'll be another weird joint statement sometime around the next WWDC to say, oh, and Apple's going to be using Google's private cloud computer. Maybe they just won't say anything and they'll rebrand it. I think Marco was alluding to that last episode, like maybe they'll just keep saying private cloud computer.
And when you, the little asterisk will say either in Apple's data centers using our thing or in Google's data centers using their thing, which is basically the same thing.
Oh, no, I was saying that it was very likely to just kind of be memory hold, like air power, just kind of never be talked about again, maybe a quick little mention somewhere.
I think they will talk about it because they've been advertising it like crazy. They're definitely going to be using it, and Google's got the same thing. So why would they ever memory hold it?
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of John Ternus becoming CEO of Apple?
First, just in general, I think reinforcing the idea that John Ternus is the is the most likely CEO successor and that that process is starting that I think overall is very promising for Apple's future. Again, even though we don't know what kind of CEO Ternus would be, he seemed to do an extremely good job at his current role as being hardware chief.
And he seems very well-liked, and he seems like he has pretty good personality traits as far as we know. We don't know that much about him, but what we do know, it seems like he'd be a pretty good person for this role. And it seems like he is a little bit more product-focused than Cook. Um, who see him, you know, cook is much more kind of high level operations focused.
Cook doesn't really have a good product sense at all. And he's shown that many times over the years. Um, so he kind of outsources that to people below him, but he's not very good at choosing those people sometimes. So I think Turner's will be better at a lot of those things.
Chapter 6: How does Ternus' leadership style differ from Tim Cook's?
Um, so that overall, that's a promising part of this, but also I think this is not unrelated to Alan Dye's departure.
Um,
I suspect this has kind of been in progress for a while. This kind of thing does not just happen and surprise everyone around it. All the top executives and top people, including Alan Dye, probably have known about this transition for longer than we have. And my guess is that part of why Di left is that some part of Ternus and Di wasn't going to work together, and one or both of them knew it.
I'm guessing these are actually related to each other, and that once Di saw the tide shifting towards Ternus, Somehow they realized this isn't going to work, and he started looking around. That's my best guess. Because again, the people up at that level, they know what's going on. They're not idiots. We only hear a drop in the bucket usually after everything has happened.
So odds are this was all related. But also... having turnus be the executive sponsor and we have to kind of figure out what that means we'll talk about in a second but like that i think is promising because i'm guessing turnus was involved in the selection of um steven i forgot his last name again
LeMay.
Oh my god. Sorry, Steve.
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Chapter 7: What changes are happening in Apple's design leadership?
I've forgotten your last name like four times in four consecutive episodes. I'm guessing Stephen LeMay being elevated to this position was also not unrelated to Ternus' taking over. I'm guessing this all kind of happened in concert with each other. These were all related and... If Ternus was involved in the selection of Stephen LeMay, and by the way, which I guess we'll jump the gun slightly.
Sorry, Casey. Sebastian DeWitt has just announced that he joined the team at Apple. He was the lead designer for Halide. And he's been around the scene forever. He's a very, very good UI designer. So it looks like the tide has shifted substantially with the design leadership at Apple on the software side. And it looks like Ternus was probably involved in some level with that.
So that's all very promising to me. I think this is really good signs of things to come.
Yeah. Even if he's not coming up to CEO, this kind of dynamic happens frequently in big organizations and is one of the skills that is actually important to have when you're a higher up and are like a CEO, which is.
Chapter 8: How does AI influence programming and development processes?
recognizing, maybe too late, but whatever, better late than never, recognizing what parts of your company are having problems or potentially having problems. Where are we weak? What are we not doing well? What dangers lurk out there? What are the risks, right?
And obviously, if you're slow in the draw, it takes you a while to realize this, and sometimes you know there are problems, but there's like, you know... I think, for example, with the keyboards and laptops with no ports or whatever, I think the company more or less knew there was a problem there, but... solving it.
You're not going to tell Johnny if you can't have a thin keyboard and then you're not going to tell the engineer organization that they need to stop trying to make the thin keyboard because they're not doing.
It's like you kind of stuck where you're like, I don't want to make these people angry because I actually want Johnny to stay because I need him to build Apple Park or whatever the hell like it's it's it's a difficult situation. But like knowing that you have some weak area, what you do as a CEO or vice president or whatever is you look down the org chart and you find the person that you think is
This person knows what they're doing. This is a competent person. I need someone to come in here to this other part of the org and fix this crap. And so they find somebody who's like, you, you are in charge of X and X is doing great. And you did a great job with X. Can you also look at Y? Because Y sucks.
And they'll tell that person, in addition to your current responsibilities, take some time and go over there and fix that part of the org. And, you know, sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes you pick the wrong person or whatever.
But again, even if Ternus wasn't going to become CEO, just simply having him say, like, you were in charge of this part of our company that's done great. Over here, I'm hearing, years too late, that we're not doing great on design.
broadly speaking i'm not going to put you in charge of design because you're not a designer but can you go over there and like just fix stuff and figure like just figure it out and just like make it better and we again we don't have privy to you know we don't know what's going inside the company we don't know if he's just started doing this this year or whatever but like as marco said from the outside it sure looks like
we're having a lot of issues in design. All of a sudden, there's a bunch of turnover. All of a sudden, new things start happening in design.
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