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Thanks, Mike. Speculation is fun among people who are honest with one another, especially when it comes to Apple, with its long history of making magical things appear in the real world. This stuff you’re calling out, though, is just what you’ve cal…
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avon b7 said: WTimberman said: mike1 said: sflagel said: kiowawa said: foregoneconclusion said: sflagel said: Did the old one have this: Yes, the original HomePod had Bluetooth 5.0. I had…
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mike1 said: sflagel said: kiowawa said: foregoneconclusion said: sflagel said: Did the old one have this: Yes, the original HomePod had Bluetooth 5.0. I had the impression the Mini version did not have…
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Just ordered a pair, which’ll mean some shuffling around, but I don’t mind a bit. (I’ve so been hoping for these.) They’ll replace the OG pair, which will be moved to the office. The mini pair now in the office will go to the guest bedroom. Weird pa…
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This stuff is insanely complicated, and there are now so many products from so many different manufacturers on the market that testing anything like all possible scenarios is simply unthinkable. And that’s not even to mention the nightmare of troubl…
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I prefer the aesthetics of Apple’s podcast player, but functionally speaking, Overcast is an order of magnitude better in almost all respects. Marco Arment, the developer of Overcast, seems acutely conscious of what it takes to design and test a tru…
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Modularity. (Hat tip to Federico Viticci). That's the key to any reasonable view of 21st Century Apple's strategic decision-making. Or maybe we should call it Apple Everywhere. The concept of convergence never made much sense to me with respect to c…
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rcfa said: k2kw said: Hopefully this will come with iPadOS and not MacOS. That’s absolutely the LAST thing we need: a further move to a closed platform where you have no idea what processes run in the background, and which won’t …
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The small phone enthusiast base seems to consist largely of people who spend significant amounts of time commenting on tech sites. Out amongst ordinary civilians, semi-big and big phones appear to outsell Apple's 4-inch phones by enormous margins. F…
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I think the key to Apple's strategy is pretty well summed up in Federico Viticci's recent article on cursor support for the iPad Pro., i.e., that modularity rather than convergence is the key to Apple's future strategy. Apple makes varied devices (a…
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tedz98 said: Apple’s market share is minuscule. Their overall pricing is higher than PC’s. Overall Apple’s products are of a higher quality, but you pay a premium for that. In a recession price sensitivity increases and I would predict demand…
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It looks as though the supposedly upcoming mini LED screen technology will offer real, if minor advantages. The U1 chip, on the other hand, seems more likely to be useful in the iPhone than the iPad, although I've generally found a symmetry of featu…
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Mike Wuerthele said: WTimberman said: Has SomaFM gone out of business? Both iOS and Mac players stopped working this morning. Web site bookmark returns "502 Bad Gateway." Their Twitter presence says that they're working on it. Th…
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Thanks, Daniel. Jobs's vision -- addressing the consumer market with superbly-designed tools for individual creators, rather than slave stations for the white-collar equivalent of assembly-line workers -- may have been the most essential ingredient …
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When my daughter was 4, her mother and I gave her a little portable record player shaped like a ladybug. Even with the fragile sapphire needle and eminently breakable tone arm, she played it every day, and never damaged it. She's 45 now, and she sti…
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DED doesn't suffer fools gladly, which is fine by me. Most of what he writes about the history of personal computing technology rings true to me, as I was around for most of it. (I bought my first Mac in 1984, my first iPod in 2002, my first iPhone …
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rogifan_new said: chaicka said: rogifan_new said: SHK said: Has anyone actually gotten the "multivoice support" to work? So far the instructions (from Apple) are not great and it's still not working. The whole setup seems…
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chaicka said: Before I jump in and update to 13.2.1 from 12.4, may I ask if those who have successfully updated has any 3rd party HomeKit devices (e.g. Philips Hue, Eve) as part of the Home ecosystem? Thanks alot. Just want to assess the risk…
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maccaguy said: I’ve updated my HomePod to 13.2.1, but it refuses to recognize my wife’s voice. It keeps saying to turn on “Recognize my voice” in the Home app, but it’s on on both of our iPhones. I’ve power cycled all three devices. Was …
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Okay, I'll be the boring person. I was on of those idiots who was actually able to install 3.2 on my, stereo pair of HomePods, but it took forever, and AirPlay 2 was totally borked after the update. Today, 3.2.1 installed without incident in a reaso…