210: ‘Australian Battery Scam’ With Jason Snell

Hosted byJohn Gruber

Special guest Jason Snell returns for the penultimate episode of 2017. Topics include the iPhone battery performance-throttling saga, Google Maps vs. Apple Maps, new versions of iOS running slow on older iPhones, the new iMac Pro, iOS file management, and more.

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Links:

• Apple: “A Message to Our Customers About iPhone Batteries and Performance”.
• Apple KnowledgeBase: “iPhone Battery and Performance”.
• Jason’s interview with Greg Joswiak back in 2007 on the original iPhone’s battery.
• Jason on transferring files from an SD card to iOS devices.
• Twitter thread on iOS devices and USB storage.
• Reddit thread on Android phones, including reports from people with older devices with failing batteries.
• Jason and Myke Hurley’s Upgrade Holiday Special.
• Apollo 13.
• Justin O’Beirne: “Google’s Maps Moat”.
• iZotope RX 6: de-noising, de-echoing software.
• Jason’s new iMac Pro.
• The Apple IIc from 1984.
• Font/DA Mover — this is how we installed fonts back in the day.
• SteerMouse — third-party mouse driver for MacOS that lets you set incredibly fast mouse speeds. Good for RSI sufferers.
• Samsung’s T5 SSD external USB 3.1 storage drives.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.