147: Here I Am, I’m a Battery
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2015
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up:
- The iPhone Lightning Dock exists
- Benefits of Lightning headphones
- USB Type C supports analog audio
- Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader
- Remote.app for iOS now works with the new Apple TV
- Swift/Foundation bridging
- Apple iPhone 6S battery case
- Apple updated all of their OSes
- State of our Watch usage
- What the future may bring for Watch apps
- Post-show:
- Three nerds talk about fashion... again. We're sorry.
- Timex Weekender
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, the only question is, are we going to make Brent Simmons angry with the comma splice? |
| 0:04.4 | And here I am on my battery. |
| 0:06.0 | You can make it a semicolon. |
| 0:07.2 | You can make it a period. |
| 0:08.3 | If you leave it as a comma, it's a comma splice. |
| 0:10.0 | But I feel like it's an informal. |
| 0:11.8 | And since it is someone speaking, you could consider it someone speaking. |
| 0:15.8 | Sometimes people speak in things that are not sentences. |
| 0:18.3 | I definitely would not do a semicolon because that's just is wrong. |
| 0:21.7 | I mean, I know it's grammatically right, but I just hate them. |
| 0:24.3 | You just hate it. |
| 0:24.9 | Like, on principle, like, ever? |
| 0:27.1 | Not never, but it takes a lot for me to use a semicolon. |
| 0:30.4 | Like, I need to be really, really worth it. |
| 0:32.7 | What does it take? |
| 0:33.7 | It has to really be the right thing to use there and like, there have to be no good alternatives. Like that's when I, |
| 0:39.3 | but I really rarely |
| 0:41.4 | use semi-colons because I don't like them. So then |
| 0:43.4 | it would be period. Here I am, period. But anyway, |
| 0:45.4 | I just leave it as a comma. Well, but it has |
| 0:47.4 | to be two periods. It has to be here I am period. |
| 0:49.4 | On a battery period. Yeah, but we don't put periods in the title. So yeah, so we'll just leave the comment in there. We'll just dare, Brent, to yell at us about it. Go ahead. Come and get us. |
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