Episode 587
587: No Dots Are Going to Help Me
Apple's accessibility announcements, returning to an old scanner friend, and leaping into the iPad discourse.
Accidental Tech Podcast Β· ATP
May 16, 20242h 3m
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Show Notes
- New member special: ATP Neutral: Car Shopping
- Pre-show: Marco is back in the ScanSnap world
- Raven scanner (defunct)
FujitsuRicoh ScanSnap iX1600
- Follow-up:
- Apple apologizes for iPad “Crush” ad
- AppleCare+ for educational-discounted products (via Carter Sanderson)
- iPad nano-texture glass
- Arun Maini interviews Ternus & Joswiak 1 2 3 4
- Editors’ note: Thanks to Elon’s Big Business Brainβ’, we now have to link to all the
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- Editors’ note: Thanks to Elon’s Big Business Brainβ’, we now have to link to all the
- iPad Pro Smart Folio angles
- Smart Folio Keyboard reliability
- Apple stickers (via Scott)
- The M4’s “next-generation ML accelerators” (via Wade Tregaskis)
- M4 Neural Engine: 38 trillion ops/sec vs. M3’s 13 trillion ops/sec
- M4 with 1 disabled P-core vs. M3 with no disabled P-cores
- Apple announces new accessibility features
- John’s brief iPad Pro review
- iPad Pro dissatisfaction
- 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
- Post-show: John’s latest remote IT software adventure
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