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506: iOS Accessories

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2019

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Our iOS devices go with us just about everywhere, and pairing them with some select accessories can make them more useful in more situations. This week, Stephen and David talk about some of the products that they rely on when using their iPhones and iPads, from cases and batteries to tripods and keyboard.

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0:00.0

MacPower users episode 5006 I.

0:03.4

OS accessories.

0:05.0

Hello and welcome back to Mac Power Users. My name is Stephen Hackett and I'm

0:15.8

joined as always by my friend and yours, Mr David Sparks.

0:19.3

Hello Mr Stephen Hackett. How are you? I am I'm excited about this episode because I have a thing

0:27.2

about iOS accessories. I think you have a little bit of an accessory problem David. I do. I've known you a long time and I think every time I see you you have something, you go into your bag and you pull it out and look at this thing and then you attach it to your phone or to your iPad. Yeah. And now everyone's going to know that you suffer from this.

0:45.0

I think it was probably pretty evident already, but I'll share some of the details today.

0:51.0

Okay.

0:52.0

It's interesting because you know I.

0:53.0

I was supposed to be simple right you get these devices.

0:56.0

In fact one of the jokes on back power users has always been my whole I.

1:00.0

I was troubleshooting matrix you know which is only three steps. First you quit the

1:04.9

app and then restart the app and if that doesn't work then you turn the device off and

1:10.2

then you turn it back on. That's a second step and the third step is you bring it to

1:13.6

Apple you know it's not it's not like on the Mac where you're like you know

1:17.2

debugging font files or something it's pretty simple in terms of if it works or not, but there's something to be said for taking

1:27.3

the self-contained thing and make it better.

1:30.0

What's it that John Circusus says it was the naked robot or something?

1:33.0

Yeah, the naked robotic core.

1:35.0

Yeah, well, I look at the iPhone and the iPad

1:36.9

as a naked robotic core, and I do like to improve upon it.

1:41.9

I think it's, I think it is interesting because the iPhone in particular has gotten so much better over time.

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