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I've mourned the loss of the brilliant MagSafe charger on my MacBooks since Apple ditched it.

Examples of where Siri fails and Alexa excels for me:

"Hey, Siri. Add chicken enchiladas to the shopping list." Siri adds "chicken inch a lot of".

"Hey, Siri. Add chicken parmesan to the shopping list." Siri replies, "Okay - I've added those two items" and adds "chicken" and "parmesan" as separate items.

"Hey, Siri. Play Groove Salad on SomaFM." Siri says she can't do that.

"Hey, Siri. Play [my local public radio station]." After a long pause, Siri often responds that there was a problem playing the content. Alexa has no problem playing it.

"Hey, Siri. Add chicken piccata to the shopping list." Siri adds "Chupacabra".

"Hey, Siri. Add Albert's hot sauce to the shopping list." Siri adds "Albert f**k off". Really, Siri?

"Hey, Siri. Add toothpaste to the shopping list." Siri adds "toupees". Thanks for the reminder, Siri.

Half the time, when my brother tells Siri to "turn on the lights" using his HomePod, she plays some profane hip hop song that has no apparent connection to the request.

I use my voice professionally, so I'd like to think that I'm pronouncing these items correctly.

Alexa understands each of these requests correctly. I prefer using Siri for my shopping list because it's easier to use on all my Apples devices, but Siri's relative lack of intelligence makes the decision more difficult.

I never paid any attention to VR until I bought an Oculus Quest 2 on impulse last month. I've enjoyed it almost daily since then. It was my first experience with VR, but I immediately noticed room for improvement and thought to myself, "I can't wait until Apple makes a better version of this thing". I'd definitely pay $1,000 for it and I might pay $2,000. For $3,000, though, I'll tolerate the OQ2's limitations.

All of my Apple TV's are hidden from view, so this remote won't work for me since it's IR only - not Bluetooth.

After years of being a Prime subscriber, I found myself ordering less and less from Amazon due to increasing prices and shipping times. I never liked Prime Video. I canceled earlier this year and haven't missed it at all.

I was wanting a replacement for my Series 5 with a battery that was starting to get a bit tired decide to pick up a Series 9 last month during a significant price drop. I knew about the loss of the blood oxygen feature, but figured I wouldn't miss it since I never had it. I was pleasantly surprised that the Series 9 I bought from Best Buy still had the feature and now that I've had it for several weeks, I'm glad I have it. Hopefully, Apple will be able to offer the feature again in a few years when I get ready for another Apple Watch.

Things like this are going to lead me to becoming a Luddite.

mtbnut said:

Well, looks like I'll be keeping my iPhone 6 yet another year...

Likewise. I have no current plans to get rid of my two year-old iP6 given that it still works perfectly. The improvements in the 6S and 7 were tempting at first, but it's funny how I can't even recall most of the improvements off hand without looking at this point. I'm waiting for wireless charging.

cwoloszynski said:

Perhaps I am working with old information, but I thought that Apple only supported wireless Time Machine to drives attached to Apple routers?  Is this now supported to 3rd party network-attached drives?  

For the last several years, I've been using Time Machine to back up my iMac and MacBook Pro over Wi-Fi to both an external Western Digital USB drive connected to my AirPort Extreme and to another Western Digital external drive connected to my network via Ethernet.

I have semi-Siri on my Apple TV, Siri on my iPhone/iPad, and now Siri on my Macs in my [mostly] all-Apple household. However, my go-to voice device has become my Amazon Echo.