Mac OS Ken: 01.11.2017

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

- Consumer Reports Retests MBP Like People - Foxconn Feels Ripples from iPhone 6s - AT&T Upping Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plan to $40 - Verizon Killing Service for Heaviest Data Users on Grandfathered Unlimited Plans - Wait Time Shrinks for LG UltraFine 5K Display - Adobe Issues Critical Fixes for Flash Player, Reader, and Acrobat - FitBit Buys Luxury Smartwatch-Maker Vector - Blue Apron: A better way to cook. Get your first three meals free by going to - Power Mac OS Ken through Patreon at ! - Send me an email: or call (716)780-4080!

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKenn.
0:12.1	The MacBook Pro gets a second chance, Grandfathers Under Fire, and Fitbit is coming for Apple Watch.
0:19.7	It's Wednesday the 11th of January, 2017.
0:22.8	I'm Ken Ray, and this is news from MacoS Ken.
0:27.7	Brought to you by yours truly and sponsored by Blue Apron.
0:31.5	A Better Way to Cook. Check out this week's menu and get your first three meals free with free
0:36.8	shipping by going to Blue Apron.com slash MacoSO-Scan.
0:43.2	This show is also supported by people like you, patrons through Patreon.
0:48.0	Find out more in that your support at Patreon.com slash MacOS can.
0:55.0	It looks like Consumer Reports will be giving Apple's latest
0:57.4	Macbook pros one more go.
1:00.2	Last month the product review magazine
1:01.9	said it could not recommend the latest in the laptop line
1:04.9	thanks to battery life that was all over the map.
1:08.4	Apple responded to the lack of recommendation saying it would work with the magazine
1:12.1	to figure out why its test results were so different from the results found by Consumer Reports.
1:18.0	That brings us to yesterday, when Consumer Reports said it would rerun its tests, after receiving an apparent fix for the issues it saw from Apple.
1:27.0	Quoting a piece from the Mac Observer,
1:30.0	according to statements from both Consumer Reports and Apple, there was a bug in Safari that caused
1:34.7	battery life issues on Apple's new Macbook Pro with Touch Bar. That bug played a role in
1:40.3	inconsistent battery performance in Consumer Reports testing, results that had previously
1:45.2	caused Consumer Reports not to recommend the new Macbook Pros.
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