Accidental Tech PodcastMar 5

681: The Price of Your Nightmares
https://atp.fm/681

The MacBook Neo, M5 MacBook Air, M4 iPad Air, MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max, the new Studio Display XDR, and the “new” Studio Display.

Accidental Tech Podcast: 681: The Price of Your Nightmares

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.

Show threadTrent ShellMar 6
@atpfm @siracusa, I would bet anything that the context collapse was people thinking that you meant MacBook Pro when referring to the Mac Pro. I’ve seen multiple occurrences of normal people referring to their laptop model as a “Mac Pro”, in the same vein as iTouch and iWatch.
Show threadInfobhan
@trentshell @atpfm @siracusa just listened to ATP and totally agree. Even if they totally know what an MBP is, it’s easy to misread when speeding through posts. Much more likely than thinking Neo was the name of the high end laptop.
Mar 7 at 10:11pmWeb
Show threadMutesplashMar 10
@infobhan @trentshell @atpfm @siracusa Tressie McMillan Cottom on Bluesky encounters this frequently and likes to point out that beyond not being able to read, or speed mis-reading, people simply invent words that the author did not say in order to argue with them.