narwhal said:

Too bad for Tile. About the only way they can compete with Apple's AirTag is to drop their price dramatically and launch a massive ad campaign. Apple devices that can track AirTags are ubiquitous; phones running the Tiles app are not.

Well except that airtags do not work with Android and other non apple devices. There are 3 billion active android devices so there is a big market left for tile/life360. It also works with Amazon Sidewalk. There is also Tile embedded , which works with Bluetooth chip manufactures and allows lots of other devices (HP laptops, Fitbits, Headphone, battery packs etc) to track tiles and of course tile works with iOS devices too so, there is really is no down side in having a tile device. Maybe they will decide to join apples Find my network, but I bet the terms make it not worth it. Hopefully life360 can do a good job marketing Tile because apple needs competition. 

Interesting that the A chip looses on GPU speed, which was has always been touted as one of apples A chip strength.
3DMark's Slingshot Extreme graphics benchmark :

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Reference Device

Snapdragon 855

5,603

iPhone XS

A12 Bionic

3,660

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/snapdragon-855-benchmarks,news-29129.html

 This is important for AR where rending 3D stereo (2 separate images) at 60+ FPS is important. 

Really? They went through all this crap and now the found another way? FBI is a joke. They probably already had another way to get into the phone and we're just trying to set a precedent with terrorism as a way to get easy access to to everyone's phone. Now that apple didn't roll over and it looks like fbi will loose they drop it. Total asses

randominternetperson said:

What's the legal justification for searching their phones at all?  

If I'm there peacefully protesting and some morons decide to burn a car and the sweep me up because I was around the area do they get to read my phone too? Search my house? check my bank accounts? Harass people at my work.

This is where it starts. We wont tell you not to protest. But we are going to make you and any one else think twice. Just stay at home and post on some random apple blog how everything sucks so we can do what we want with little disruption. 

If only i could get my apple watch to even transcribe my question and not say hold on a minute, i'll tap you when I'm ready. then do nothing. This happens over 50% of the time now with my series 4 and its making siri useless.

"At launch, HomePod doesn't support multi-room audio"

Wow, forget replacing Sonos at least for a while.

Also where is a the marketing for this? why am I supposed to want this?

bageljoey said:

Interesting. I’m sure there are huge numbers of people who would like to be able to request this privacy option…

They can

https://mashable.com/article/how-to-blur-your-house-on-google-street-view

Mac4mac said:

You do know Apple themselves use the devices, not to hack, but to “device to device” copy. 

Obviously the software may not be exactly the same. There’s an irony in there somewhere! 

Yes apple (well one of it's shell companies) 100% does have at least one of these. They use it to learn of the exploits Cellebrite is using so they can fix them.

wood1208 said:

Welcome news. Almost all router companies support WiFi 6E in their routers,

Actually 6E is just coming to routers and they are very $$$$. 6E gives access to the 6GHZ spectrum and does not up the speed of wifi 6, though you will see speed increase in areas were there is a lot of 2.4/5ghz congestion. This is not the new version of Wigig (802.11ay) which runs in the 60ghz spectrum and is crazy fast 20–40Gbit/s per stream, 4 streams can be bonded for a max of 176Gbit/s but needs line of sight. That's used for video casting and VR transmission from computer to HMD but does not have much adoption yet.

john673 said:

i find it insensitive for the victims of the families involved in the tragedy that apple are such jerks to capitalize on the situation to advocate for free speech..
Just take the freakin' iPhone from FBI unlock it and give it back to them 

So right!!!! There is no reason the government should not have access any info they want. Its their right. They need to protect us at all costs. I mean I'm in stalling cameras EVERYWHERE in my house and giving the FBI access to them. I have nothing to hide, and who knows they just might catch some postal worker and other person picking their nose. 

John673, I have some extra cameras. give me your address and I'll come over and we can install them in your place. You have nothing to hide right?