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  • AppleInsider podcast talks HomePod, AirPlay 2, HomeKit, and new AirPods

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    cgWerks said:
    racerhomie3 said:
    But ,I will never trust any company’s smarthome products,that will will sell my voice data.
    So ,when I buy one it will be HomePod or nothing.
    Totally agree. When it comes to 'smart' devices, it's Apple or nothing (so long as I trust Apple in this regard).
    We're going to be buying a new TV soon, and I'm trying to figure out if there are any 'dumb' ones that are good... or if I can disable the 'smart' somehow.
    Don't connect the smart TV to wifi. That's about as much as you can do to disable the 'smart' features. If it can't get network, it can't communicate against your interests.
    cgWerks

  • HomePod review: Your mileage may vary, but crank it up for the ride

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    foregoneconclusion said:
    Just an FYI: "potty-o" is actually more correct for pronunciation of "patio" than "patty-o".
    dictionary.com suggests that's not so. The 'a' sound is similar to the a sound in "dad." The pronunciation guidance in the Dictionary app that ships in macOS agrees with dictionary.com's pronunciation. ˈpadēˌō.

    paddy-oh / patty-o is the correct pronunciation.

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  • Director Steven Soderbergh calls shooting on Apple's iPhone a 'gamechanger,' wants to use ...

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    DavidAlGregory said:
    So where is a good online write up that goes over what tools are available (and necessary) to shoot with an iPhone? Primarily concerned with audio and lenses.
    BeastGrip
    moondog labs anamorphic lens
    audio is typically a Zoom F4 field recorder

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  • Apple apologizes for iPhone slowdown controversy, will reduce out-of-warranty battery repl...

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    eriamjh said:
    This won’t stop the lawsuits.  
    The lawsuits are going to die on the vine anyway. Apple has never promised a level of performance, and the battery has always been labeled a user consumable. Additionally, the throttling routines were announced with the iOS 10.2.1 update to keep the phones from crashing altogether, but perhaps with not quite enough granularity.
    “Most iPhone users will realize, as most iPod customers realized, that they never needed to replace their batteries,” Joswiak said.

    Greg Joswiak, Apple Marketing VP, July 2007, ladies and gentlemen. This was from a David Pogue story about the original iPhone lasting for 400 cycles. 

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  • AppleInsider podcast talks AirPods, 2018 iPhones, iOS 11.2, and STEM education with MakeCr...

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    nhughes said:
    rrrize said:
    Can't say I don't like the podcast. It's not bad at all.  But it is highly, HIGHLY annoying when one of you is talking and the other cuts in with a thought but no one wants to back down so you both keep talking at the same time, in essence telling the other that you're not going to stop till your thought is complete.  How about just not cutting one another off. Courtesy plays better over audo (podcast).  Quit the annoyingness <-- I know it's not a word. :smile: 
    Fair point, but I'll note that we are not recording in the same room (let alone the same state). So the whole "talking over each other" thing is sometimes a lag issue, sometimes a miscommunication issue.
    And sometimes, (not always, but sometimes) it's a clock sync issue. Clock sync drifts the longer we record, so our responses can be perfectly interleaved at the beginning of the show and be off, talking over each other (even though we weren't) by the end. I make several cuts to adjust it back into line, and I appreciate your patience with it as we record these.
    Stargate2077nhughesrrrizecgWerks