587: No Dots Are Going to Help Me

Accidental Tech Podcast

• New member special: ATP Neutral: Car Shopping
• Pre-show: Marco is back in the ScanSnap world
  • Raven scanner (defunct)
  • Fujitsu Ricoh ScanSnap iX1600
• Follow-up:
  • Apple apologizes for iPad “Crush” ad
    • Charlie Chapman’s 📱💨
  • AppleCare+ for educational-discounted products (via Carter Sanderson)
    • Extend your AppleCare+ coverage
  • iPad nano-texture glass
  • Arun Maini interviews Ternus & Joswiak 1 2 3 4
    • Editors’ note: Thanks to Elon’s Big Business Brain™, we now have to link to all the tweets X’s in this whole 🤬 thread, because Twitter X won’t show threads unless you’re logged in. Well done, Elon. Great work. 👏🏻 … 👏🏻 … 👏🏻 Now we’re junking up our show notes because we 💙 our listeners more than we hate him. And we really hate him.
  • iPad Pro Smart Folio angles
    • MKBHD’s reel
  • Smart Folio Keyboard reliability
  • Apple stickers (via Scott)
  • The M4’s “next-generation ML accelerators” (via Wade Tregaskis)
    • NEON
  • M4 Neural Engine: 38 trillion ops/sec vs. M3’s 13 trillion ops/sec
    • Tom’s Hardware
  • M4 with 1 disabled P-core vs. M3 with no disabled P-cores
• Apple announces new accessibility features
  • Vehicle Motion Cues demo video
  • Shelly Brisbin’s take
• John’s brief iPad Pro review
• iPad Pro dissatisfaction
  • Federico Viticci: Why iPadOS Still Doesn’t Get the Basics Right
  • Steve Troughton-Smith: The iPad Pro Manifesto (2024 Edition)
  • John Gruber: The M4 iPad Pros
• Ask ATP:
  • Will the M4’s new display driver set us up for a 2-external-display computer with M4? (via Rumee Ahmed)
  • Why is there so much discussion about CPU power in iPads but not iPhones? (via Mike Runcieman)
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Meta wants to be the Microsoft of headsets
  • Meta announcement
  • Meta Quest 🤝 Xbox
• Post-show: John’s latest remote IT software adventure

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