jhollington

It is worth noting that the prior eero and eero 6 models haven't had HKSR support removed, despite multiple firmware updates and the addition of other new features such as PPPoE support (finally) since the release of the later 6E models.

It's still working well enough on my eero 6 Pro mesh setup, and it's ideal for those devices I want to lock down entirely, such as forcing Eufy cameras to use only HKSV rather than Eufy's own cloud. However, the "automatic" mode has always been nearly useless as few manufacturers ever provided Apple with the necessary firewall rules. Of the dozen or so different HomeKit devices I have, only Logitech, ecobee, and Hue ever offered specific rules, and a few months ago, my Hue bridge stopped accepting the automatic mode — the Home app just keeps saying it won't apply the settings anymore. 

Spotify doesn't pay 30% for all customers it holds, and not even close to a majority of them. That 30% applies to the first year of a maintained subscription, and it pays 15% on subscribers that it has held for over a year.

Actually, Spotify hasn't paid 30% for any customers it holds in at least seven years. It stopped accepting in-app subscriptions in 2016, which means that by the end of 2017, it was only paying 15% for those customers who were still signed up through Apple.

However, last summer, Spotify began telling the few customers who were still paying through Apple that they'd have to resubscribe to Premium directly or be switched to a free account. That was in July, which means by the end of last year, Spotify should have been paying Apple nothing at all.

The 30% mantra is the most disingenuous thing that Spotify has ever said. 

charlesn said:

Nope. 41mm and 44mm are the new case sizes. You are correct that these are only marginally larger than the previous case sizes of 40mm and 42mm, while the percentage increase in screen size is considerably more than that due to shrinking the bezels. My guess would be a smaller third size which would appeal to a vast quantity of buyers that includes adults with smaller wrists and children. The smallest Watch case size is now 8% larger than the initial 38mm--it's only 1mm shy of what was the large Watch when it debuted. So there's a need for a small Watch again that's not an outdated Series 3. 

Exactly this. In fact, if you do the math you can figure out that the screen actually grew twice as much with the Series 4 — about 4mm in each direction — due to the smaller bezels. Apple still hasn't released official specs on the Series 7, but I suspect the same is true this time around as well. 

insync88 said:

Level (using level bolt) uses geofencing and Bluetooth through its own app.I had it set up through HomeKit (using a scene) but it would always ask to authenticate,with the level app my door unlocks automatically once I’m in Bluetooth range.

Thanks. That's pretty much what I figured it had to do, as August does the same. The article suggested it was using HomeKit for this, which had me a bit skeptical. 

Personally, I'm kind of waiting to see how the whole Home Key thing ends up working in iOS 15 et al, and then perhaps we'll also see some HomeKit-specific locks that don't rely on separate apps, similar to how Logitech's HomeKit cameras and doorbell now works.