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587: No Dots Are Going to Help Me

123 min • 16 maj 2024

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
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