587: No Dots Are Going to Help Me
Apple's accessibility announcements, returning to an old scanner friend, and leaping into the iPad discourse.
Episode 587 of the Accidental Tech Podcast podcast, hosted by ATP, titled "587: No Dots Are Going to Help Me" was published on May 16, 2024 and runs 123 minutes.
May 16, 2024 ·123m · Accidental Tech Podcast
Episode Description
- 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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