Merry Christmas ya’ll!

Can a skin fix the iPhone X’s Space Grey color by turning it to Black, or fix a phone scratch OCD? Well, we don’t know.

What we do know is that battery life on iPhones become a huge scandal, as Apple addressed the iPhone - battery - performance thing. Did Apple do the right thing? What’s wrong with Apple’s communication these days, and how did Apple address such issues in the past (Hint: Antenna-Gate).

Also, we discuss the rumors about Apple unifying iOS and macOS development, and which platform would benefit the most, and the AirPods being out of stock for the holidays

 Hosts

• Greg Morris - @GR36
• Nati Shochat - @natisho

 

Topics

• Battery life on iPhones
  • iPhone X battery life is awesome 
    • Consumer report are drunk
  • iPhone Performance and Battery Age
    • It began on Reddit
    • GeekBench confirms the issue
    • Theory connects it to the iPhone 6/ 6s battery issues fixed with iOS 10.2.1
    • Apple "admits"
  • • All the click baits 1, 2

• Platform development unification
  • Apple plans to combine development of iOS and macOS apps (UIKit and AppKit)
    • A win for both platforms
    • Carbon 2.0?

• AirPods
• • Out of stock for 2017 Holiday season
  • Upgraded/ 2nd gen AirPods
  • Double the sale of 2017