658: Your First Mistake Phone

• Marco’s AppleCare “Express” Replacement
• ?️ It’s St. Jude time again! ?️
  • The Marco Offset
  • Podcastathon 2025
• Follow-up:
  • Auburn’s colors are UVA’s colors (via Tony Scida)
  • You don’t need the trick new Apple charger to charge an iPhone 17 at full speed
  • iPhone Air
    • Why people are buying the iPhone Air / 15” MacBook Air
    • Bending the iPhone Air
      • Apple (via Tom’s Guide)
        • Direct video link
      • JerryRigEverything (timestamp link to 6m35s)
        • Same video, different timestamp (7m37s)
    • Battery life
      • Mr. Whose the Boss
      • The Tech Chap
      • Tom’s Guide
    • Speaker (via Steve Troughton-Smith)
    • Thermals
      • MaxTech
    • iFixIt Teardown
    • Thickness
      • Visual comparison of thickness (via Ludwig Schubert)
      • Thin iPhone future? (via Ian)
  • iPhone 17 Pro
    • Teardowns
      • REWA Technology
        • All the screws
        • 17 vs. 16
        • 17 Pro internals
        • Vapor chamber
        • Logic boards
      • Vapor chambers explained
      • Max Tech
    • Scratches on the back?
      • More images from MacRumors
      • And from Watson
      • JerryRigEverything
  • iPhone sales
    • The Information (MacRumors summary)
• iPhone setup advice
  • Casey’s tale of woe (see also Upgrade #582: First Chance to Make One Impression)
• First impressions: iPhone 17 Pro
  • Scratchability
  • Telephoto camera
    • iPhone 16 Pro 5× vs. iPhone 17 Pro 8×
• Post-show:
  • HP M553
  • HP M554
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Anthropic’s $1.5B book piracy settlement
  • The Verge: Settlement announced, 5 September
  • Previously, on ATP #656: Anthropic asked for $1.5B/yr from Apple
  • The Verge: Settlement paused, 9 September
  • Ars Technica, 9 September

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