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TechFan 506 - AI Gadgets and iPads

TechFan

My Mac Productions MyMac.com Tim Robertson

Gadgets, Technology

3.830 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

iPad rumors are in full swing, which is good as David broke his! Plus Tim wants to know if the AI devices all crap? That, plus Tesla, Apple’s Vision Pro sales, ads in Windows Start menu, and a whole lot more!

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0:00.0

You're listening to another great podcast in the My Mac Podcasting Network.

0:05.0

TechFand podcast number 506. I'm Tim Robertson, joined by David Cohen. He or the cracked iPad.

0:14.5

What happened? You broke your iPad.

0:16.9

I broke my iPad. Sometimes the universe seems to be telling you, oh, there's an iPad event coming up.

0:21.9

Let's help you out here. And this is what it felt like. So I was on, we didn't record last week

0:26.5

because I was on vacation. And I went to Center Parks, which is one of these kind of outdoor cabin

0:33.0

lodge type places. It's like a big resort, but it's outdoorsy.

0:40.7

Took my iPad with me and pulled it out my bag when we got there.

0:45.0

We'd only driven a couple of hours and we had a lot of stuff that my iPad wasn't, the bag with my iPad wasn't thrown anywhere bad or anything like that.

0:49.7

And it was in a paddy case, but I pulled it out and there's a big crack right across the

0:53.5

screen.

0:57.8

That's my 11-inch M-1 iPad Pro.

1:01.8

So, fortunately, it wasn't bad enough that I couldn't use the iPad.

1:05.8

It was one of those cracks where you can barely see it when the iPad's on.

1:07.7

Yeah, but it's there.

1:12.6

But it's there, and not only that, if you ran your finger over that part of the screen, you got the defamation on the LCD because obviously the glass wasn't intact.

1:15.3

Yeah.

1:15.8

So it needs to sort it out.

1:16.9

Now, that being an iPad Pro that I bought 18 months ago for over £800, I had AppleCare

1:23.9

on it because why wouldn't you?

1:27.4

So I had it changed out. They can't repair these

1:32.1

and so they changed it for a refurbish model and I promptly sold that to a trade in site

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