248: Chili Cookoff
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 β’ 2.5K Ratings
ποΈ 16 November 2017
β±οΈ 114 minutes
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Summary
- Follow up:
- Tradespeople and Face ID
- Multitasking gesture wonkiness on the home screen
- "I got this phone for $50 and it's fine"
- Pro-rated AppleCare+
- MacBook key repairs
- OLED and burn-in
- Kbase article (ππ», Stephen)
- iOS' commentary
- iPhone X camera
- Joe Rosensteel has thoughts about portrait mode
- Casey notices some failures too
- Focos
#askatp- GeForce Now (via Kim Ahlberg)
- VPNs (via MarcMV)
- AirPower for Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard
- What does "close to the metal" mean? (via Jonathan Bowling, who clarifies his position)
- Qi chargers
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Charlie Kittoff is like one of those confusing titles where people will listen to the whole |
| 0:04.2 | episode and then glance back at the title before I like it. |
| 0:07.0 | It sounds like what was that about anyway? |
| 0:09.0 | Right. |
| 0:10.0 | How else is episode of Charlie Kittoff? |
| 0:11.0 | It's a great title. |
| 0:12.0 | I didn't love this title when you first said it, but the two of you are convincing me that |
| 0:16.6 | this thing has got legs, just like my icon. |
| 0:19.9 | There's depth to that title, depth of flavor and spice. |
| 0:23.0 | It's just a good title. |
| 0:25.0 | It's not, but not a lot of levels of depth mapping on it. |
| 0:28.3 | Very few. |
| 0:29.3 | John, you're proceeding to yourself. |
| 0:35.4 | So as always, we start with follow up and listen to Richard Bucksden wrote in to say that |
| 0:40.0 | traits people generally like face ID. |
| 0:43.3 | And this was something I hadn't considered and I really liked the email. |
| 0:46.5 | Richard wrote, I wanted to provide some feedback on the face ID concept and perhaps shed light |
| 0:50.5 | on an entirely different group of phone users. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm a traits person or more specifically an electrician and touch ID sucks. |
| 0:57.4 | As a consequence of manual work with rough materials all day long, my fingertips constantly |
| 1:01.7 | get scratched and worn. |
| 1:03.5 | The result is that touch ID on either a six or seven plus constantly fails. |
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