587: No Dots Are Going to Help Me

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Summary

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

Transcript

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0:00.0	I am so happy to be back in the scan snap world.
0:04.4	I wasn't aware that you left it.
0:06.4	Yeah, where were you when you weren't in the scan snap world?
0:09.2	So this is the line of Fujitsu. Well now, what I learned is that I,
0:14.0	as I headed by a new one today,
0:15.4	what I learned is that they've now rebranded as RICO.
0:17.7	I guess RICO probably bought Fujitsu
0:19.2	or somehow bought their assets of that business or whatever.
0:21.8	And there's a little note in the box that they've rebranded
0:24.0	due to ownership changing or whatever.
0:27.0	But so now what was Fujit2 scan snap is now RICO scan snap.
0:31.0	And anyway, so I briefly mentioned the show probably something like
0:36.2	three or four years ago when I had first moved out to the beach during early COVID.
0:42.8	I needed some kind of document scanner
0:45.1	like I have always used.
0:46.2	Vigstu had gone kind of a while without any major updates.
0:50.0	And there was this new one that I had gotten ads for
0:52.4	all over the place called Raven.
0:55.2	What I liked about it was that it was standalone.
0:57.0	Like the Fujitsu had always, I'd always kind of been annoyed that I had to run their software
1:01.4	on my Mac to make anything work and the Raven scanner was one of
1:05.8	those many products like we were just talking about with the R1. It's one of those many products
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