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Used it twice in Beijing, China in the last few months (each a time the 5GB/30 days plan).
1300 (no typo) less expensive than roaming with my French operator.
Worked great.
Furthermore, no chinese firewall, plus, I was identified as connected from the US (it probably assigned me a US IP).

This has been going on for a few weeks now, first with episodes 6, now with the whole series (all but Dickinson)

The episodes are actually in Dolby Vision (which you can check with the Playback HUD, which you can activate via Xcode), but make my Dolby Vision TV switch to HDR.
If I disable "Match Dynamic Range" they play beautifully in Dolby Vision, just as they should.

I read somewhere that some older Dolby Vision TVs had big issues when playing these Apple TV+ shows - that might be why Apple forced the shows ro display in HDR10 instead of Dolby Vision via Apple TV 4K.

The shows still appear as Dolby Vision on my iPad mini.

I have had serious overheating issues with iOS 17 betas on an iPhone XS Max.
They do not seem to have totally gone away with the release version of iOS 17.

So IMHO it might be more of on iOS 17 problem than an iPhone 17 Pro/ A17 Pro problem.

Thx.
It would be nice to change the title from "Intel has a faster processor than M2 Max, but at what cost?" to "Intel has a faster laptop processor than M2 Max, but at what cost?"
Intel also makes processor for desktops ...and servers. I have no doubt that many of them are faster than M2 Max.

I do question the relevance of the benchmarks, in particular regarding the optimization (or lack thereof) of apps for Apple Silicon, and in particular the use or not of dedicated silicon on Apple Silicon.
Apple Silicon has many dedicated units (such as the neural engine, ProRes or HEVC encoders/decoders) and optimization for those is not just a question of compling for Apple Silicon.

For example, I am pretty sure that Final Cut Pro is way faster than Premiere Pro on Apple Silicon, because it uses the dedicated ProRes/HEVC encoders/decoders on Apple's chips.
Similarly, I only use Apple Compressor for HEVC exports - it uses VideoToolbox and all the available silicon and that makes a big difference.

So, adding a comparison with similar tasks made on Apple software (or software used with all Apple Silicon optimizations) would add a lot of context to these benchmarks.
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I have to disagree about Ted Lasso - it is a phenomenal show!
You have to go through the first 3 episodes which rely mainly on the differences between American football and soccer. 

Unrelated question: when will Appleinsider's commenting system work properly with Safari on iPad or iPhone ?

Thanks for that article.
I fully agree: Matter (and therefore HomeKit) compatibility is such a mess.
I'm glad I chose to purchase the latest Apple TV with Ethernet (the one with only WiFi does not support Threads) - that makes things a bit easier.

2 HomePod minis bricked after trying to install software 18.1 beta 5.
Cannot restore them - the light goes white, then red, then vanishes instead of continuing with 3 audio beeps - they don't even show up as USB devices in System Info on my Mac.
Had 18.1 beta on my HomePod minis because I updated to 18.0 a few days early (because travel) and mistakenly validated updating to the previous 18.1 beta.


Update - I could restore them to software 18.0 using Apple Configurator.

I agree with the author.

The big enabler of later Apple innovations was the introduction of the easiness of development into its platforms.
That started with Mac OS X (and its public beta).

It was clear to me at that stage (not difficult for it to be, since Jobs and Apple tirelessly emphasized it and delivered the tools that made it material) that Apple's strength was the easiness and speed with which quality apps could be developed.
This speed of development, coupled with solidity, has given Apple an exponential advantage over the years. It has enabled the speed and width of development of Apple platforms.

I am glad that Daniel gets it and wrote this article.