566: Using It Is Wearing It Out
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 β’ 2.5K Ratings
ποΈ 19 December 2023
β±οΈ 126 minutes
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Summary
- Gift memberships make for great last-minute gifts!
- Follow-up:
- Apple devices and OLED burn-in
- iPhone XS burn-in (via David Gian-Cursio)
- iPhone 11 Pro burn-in (via Jamieson Weiss)
- Apple Watch Series 5 & iPhone 13 Pro Max (via Keith)
- Apple Store diagnostics
- Stolen Device Protection in iOS 17.3 beta
- Maybe “trusted locations” is unwise? (via Russell Quinn)
- How does this work with two-factor? (via Richard Harris)
- Exceptions to πͺπΊ battery legislation (via Matthaus Woolard)
- Vexed has been ported to iOS (App Store link)
- Apple updates “required reasons” for certain APIs
- Resetting your only Apple device
- Apple devices and OLED burn-in
- Apple Halting Sales of Apple Watch Series 9 & Ultra 2 in πΊπΈ
- Adobe π Figma
- Old TestFlight data leaked
#askatp:- What’s the best way to run old versions of OS X in 2023? (via Thom Bullock)
- Rangachari Anand wants us to find them an EV
- Requirements
- Does not have a full glass roof
- Has a sunroof that opens
- Has physical HVAC, gear, seat controls
- Adaptive cruise control
- CarPlay
- Gauge cluster (or HUD)
- Center screen not safety critical
- Chevy Bolt
- Kia EV6
- IONIQ 5 N
- BMW i3
- Requirements
- How’s Callsheet doing? (via Josiah Katz)
- Post-show: The evolution of the App Store awards
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| 0:00.0 | Your Oled screen will last longer if you do not turn it on. |
| 0:03.0 | Unlike batteries, which will not. |
| 0:05.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:06.0 | Okay, I gotta come up with a better, speaking of batteries, |
| 0:08.0 | you gotta come up with a better system. |
| 0:10.0 | For like, when the power goes out, I have to wander all around my house dealing with each UPS. |
| 0:13.7 | It's just, I wish, I don't know like the USB connecting thing to your Mac that it'll shut itself down, |
| 0:19.4 | but I never trust that. I do it myself, you know what I mean? |
| 0:21.6 | Because I'm always just afraid it will be like like review these terminal windows and then it won't shut it down or whatever. |
| 0:26.0 | Oh yeah yeah, yeah. Shut everything down the old-fashioned way. |
| 0:30.0 | If too many UPS and then and then when the power comes back on I have to remember that like even if I don't want to turn these things back on I have to activate that UPS because there's a router attached to it right and if you don't have that router on nothing works in the house and |
| 0:45.6 | sounds like a lot of work. Why don't you just get laptops everywhere? |
| 0:48.1 | Yeah, right? Yeah, my laptops are plugged into UPS too. |
| 0:57.7 | Do we want to talk about some gift memberships, John? Do you want me to do the pitch? |
| 0:58.7 | Do you want to do the pitch? |
| 0:59.7 | How do you want to handle this? |
| 1:00.7 | I have a moment of pause because I could do it, but I kind of want to hear what you would do. |
| 1:05.1 | This is a form of entertainment. All right. Here we go kids. It buckle up. It's time to talk gift membership so our friend my friend and yours John |
| 1:15.2 | Syracuse said my best worst friend worst best friend I always get it wrong I'm |
| 1:18.2 | sorry Merlin you got it wrong twice so there you go what's the right one then |
| 1:22.2 | worst friend it's like best friend So there you go. What's the right one then? |
| 1:23.0 | Worst friend. |
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