210: ‘Australian Battery Scam’ With Jason Snell

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

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🗓️ 30 December 2017

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	So the rewards of procrastination never, never cease to end.
0:04.4	We were, we were all set to record yesterday when I got wind that Apple was going to issue
0:10.5	a statement on, or more than a statement really, which we'll get into in a moment on the
0:15.0	battery thing.
0:16.5	So we, we narrowly avoided having an entirely moot, moot point discussion on the iPhone
0:24.7	battery thing in the can.
0:26.8	Instead, here we are recording on Friday, the 29th of January.
0:31.9	And we've got it all all laid out in front of us.
0:34.7	It's the future.
0:35.7	It's still December, still 17.
0:38.6	Let's get right into it.
0:39.6	The, the, the story has got to be the iPhone.
0:45.4	It's funny because it's, it's, it's even just summarizing it.
0:48.0	It's complicated enough like I've had trouble writing headlines because I keep wanting to
0:52.4	just use the word iPhone battery throttling, but they're not throttling the battery.
0:56.7	They're throttling the CPU, but they're not actually just throttling the CPU.
1:01.2	They're throttling all sorts of things.
1:03.4	They're throttling, even the speakers.
1:06.2	Yeah, they're, they're, they're quieting the speakers.
1:09.2	They're dimming the, the screen.
1:12.2	They're doing, do you see a polythirteen?
1:14.4	Do you see that?
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