210: ‘Australian Battery Scam’, With Jason Snell

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.

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.