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I'd just be happy if Apple Music could play 5 songs in a row without stopping in the middle, or pausing for 15 minutes between songs. The new thing it's started this week is playing 20 seconds from the middle of a song, and then stopping for a second and then starting over at the beginning and then playing the whole song, minus the last 4 seconds.

so annoying and so not worth a subscription fee.

Don't even get me started on asking the homepod in the bedroom something and having the homepod in the kitchen downstairs reply. Does anyone think Apple will ever make these beasts behave as advertised?

"But most interestingly, the cursor will actually change shape and adapt to various UI elements to make it clear what you're pointing at, whether it's a button or a piece of text." ...just like the mouse curser on the Mac. I mean, it's exciting and all to see it coming to the iPad, but this phrase just made me laugh.

we have 6 HomePods and it feel like Siri is still in beta. When I want to bypass Siri and get actual concrete results, I can set alarms in the Home app and I can see which music to play in the Music app (as long as I go through a two minute dig and tap routine every time I launch Music). To really use Siri on HomePod to listen to music, you have to have Apple Music. Having an extensive iTunes collection and Music Match isn't good enough and becomes very difficult to manage. When the HomePods haven't been rebooted for 30 days or so, they begin to require us to say everything twice, and they begin to get less accurate. "Hey Siri, Next Track. [wait a couple of seconds] Hey Siri, Next Track" will make it go to the next song most of the time, but about 20% of the time it responds with something from left field like "Who do you want to send it to" or the like. Since there is no reboot command anywhere that I can find, we have resorted to plugging all of the HomePods into HomeKit enabled smart plugs so we can turn them off and on to reboot them. Once they are rebooted they work like magic again for 20 to 30 days until they start getting confused again. Apple really needs to give us a dedicated HomePod app that can play music on the HomePods, monkey with settings like alarms and timers, offer to update the software when needed, and give us a manual way to reset them. Here's hoping that we'll get that with updates this year...

we custom ordered our shades thru the local big box store. when they arrived with an incorrect size (1 out of 3 of them), we could not get any support from Lutron or from the store. they blamed it on us, even though our measurement notes were correct and it was the high school kid at the store that messed up the fractional conversion. Since then we have ordered several sets (16 shades in all) directly from Lutron. Their support and help getting them installed has been good. I recommend the shades highly, just don't go thru a third party to place your order.