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First look: Apple's HomePod speaker
Home automation for the masses is something that has to work 100% of the time (like electrical outlets themselves) and be secure from hackers (not just for the benefit of their owner's privacy, but also to prevent the owner's devices from being weaponized against others, in other words, the common good), so I do totally understand the real value that Apple is bringing with its mandated quality assurances and chip-level encryption in their ecosystem vs. say the junk that the local big box peddles for half the price. But most people don't understand that value proposition and so it was brilliant to kick it up a notch with the inclusion of a high fidelity digital speaker that cosmetically appeals to their sense of luxury and ego. Apple is truly way ahead of the game and hopefully will be an example for the government to hold up to others when it eventually reigns in all of the get-rich-quick-and-worry-about-consumer-safety-later players peddling very dangerous home automation peripherals programmed in Asia by electrical engineers concerned mainly with pinching pennies and passing UL/FCC certification.
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Sylvania announces Bluetooth-connected Apple HomeKit lightbulbs that don't require a hub
Although this is a good Start, this isn't The Way.
What we need are lamps/fixtures/bulbs that conform to a low voltage DC bulb-standard and DC powerline-standard (like USB-C) that will eliminate RFI, heat/HVAC and current loss from the AC/DC conversion/inversion and BLE emissions.
The problem, of course, is that one has to "go custom" to do this now (https://hackaday.io/lists is a good start) until some multi-billion dollar dominant player under pressure to enter new markets and keep making its numbers (while hitching its fortunes to a controversial new DC-power standard and home automation platform) decides to extend their specifications all the way to a (potentially outdoor) battery that sits on the side of a home/business (and ties into a grid transformer or renewable energy source).
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Developer customer support teams can now respond to App Store reviews
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Parallels Desktop 13 for Mac gains APFS, HEVC, VR support in update
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Apple's iPad Pro to gain Face ID with TrueDepth camera in 2018 - report
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Apple to report Q3 2017 earnings on Aug. 1
@lkrupp no, they're doing UltraFine and then there's https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/b/1df875df-fb0c-4020-bec7-e1f36cf299e3
Seriously though, they could go full-Microsoft for the next decade and it would still be two more decades before they stop paying the gardeners. A lot of us have been using their technology since the last time that almost happened, though there were some defections... -
Google Home Mini preview hardware defect causes near-constant listening, uploads to server...
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How to set separate controls for left and right AirPods in Apple's iOS 11
Touching your antennas? ..no A/R based controls? @0:32 (somewhere Ive is rolling on the floor laughing soooo loud) -
Apple updates iPhone X preorders with improved delivery estimates
Are these the ones with the new camera testing specs that Bloomberg reported or did TMo get the rest of its launch allocation confirmed?