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cgWerks said:

I have run into this recently.... moved from a house where I had a main Ethernet trunk-line between floors, with stuff like PS4, TV, and 'server' on it.... to an apartment where we can't easily run cables and are currently 100% WiFi. I thought being 'ac' with mostly 'ac' devices we'd maybe be OK, but I've already hit problems and am looking at the power-line stuff.

And, this is my issue with the wireless future... there is the specs, and then there is reality.

plan on being disappointed with Powerline. Specs v reality reminds me of the mechanical engineers who made a banner reading, "it fits in CAD!"

entropys said:

Did it have side by side navigation and Apple Music? That would be awesome.

No. It would not be awesome. You run whatever Music application first, get your music playing, and then switch to navigation. Or do it in the reverse order. One thing on the screen at a time, less distraction.

entropys said:

I would like Apple to make a USB dongle for CarPlay enabled infotainment systems that is a wireless interface with the phone. That way even older CarPlay units could be wireless!

It doesn't make sense from an installed userbase- they know how few they'd sell based on how much CarPlay is out there in use, and how small a percentage of those users would buy such a thing.

eightzero said:

I'd really like an AppleTV with a coax cable on the back, and a tuner inside. And that's not ever going to happen.

That'd be pretty terrible. 

Coax CATV carries encrypted signals, which cable companies are afraid to let anyone have decrypted. This is why cablecard was such a debacle, and why tuners that can understand CATV coax only are allowed to display ClearQAM channels that aren't encrypted. Content providers and cable cos are too afraid of everyone being able to rip and post their shows online if they turned off encryption. This is what basically killed TiVo - they made boxes with cablecard slots, cable providers insisted only they could install cable cards, so you had to make an appointment to have a guy come out to activate TiVo and insert a card, and cable cos conveniently blamed TiVo or simply refused to admit they had cablecards after telling the FCC they did.

So you'd get an Apple TV with a cable connection that would never work properly, never show the channels available to you, and be generally awful. Instead of being tied to that past, the separate app plan is the future. This is the path to it. If you really want OTA on Apple TV, get a TabloTV for AppleTV.

claire1 said:

Not even a mention of HomePod.....

tvOS updates disappoint every time.

HomePod was mentioned. 

HomePod gets Siri Shortcuts, so the custom commands you create on iPhone will work on HomePod as well. 

WilliamM said:

As far as I can tell, Apple Health Records only works for a few hospitals in the United States of America. That means it's useful for at most 4.5% of the world population or perhaps 15% of iPhone users. The population figure is from the US Census Bureau. The iPhone figure is a guess based on 1 billion iPhones sold, 100 million used in the US (not all the ones sold will be in use).

Don't confuse things. Apple Health Records has been available for a few months and works with that early set of hospitals. What -this- article is about is not that; it's about a new API that allows third-party apps to integrate with Apple Health Records, to increase that number of medical providers to about 500. It also allows third party apps to have access to health records, something formerly not possible. Your numbers only make sense for the feature released a few months ago. This is about expanding those numbers and increasing their utility.