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seanismorris said:

mike1 said:

seanismorris said:

adm1 said:

Excellent use of apple watch and Siri. Surprised she hit the steering wheel though - surely an airbag would have went off in such a new car (Nissan Rogue/Qashqai) and the seatbelt would have tightened instantly (was she wearing one?). Airbags are not only for frontal impacts, I remember my old 2003 Renault Laguna deploying various airbags including the steering wheel when I was hit from the side.

We’re missing something...  she probably wasn’t wearing her seatbelt.

Why would you say that?

If she was wearing her seatbelt, the airbags should have been more effective in preventing serious injuries.

It sounds like the steering wheel airbag didn’t deploy or failed to deploy effectively.  Since the vehicle is relatively new, that suggests the later...

Airbags are designed to work in conjunction with the seatbelt.  They’re not nearly as effective without it...

The article should have mentioned seatbelt use, the fact that it didn’t suggests it was written with a motivation.  I.e.  hey look at this smart lady who owns an Apple Watch.  Rather than, hey look at this idiot who didn’t wear her seatbelt, suffered a bunch of unnecessary injuries, but at least the watch came in handy.

A lot of assumptions by someone who wasn't there.  FWIW, I was hit from behind at a traffic light once.  My air bags didn't deploy either.  Police officer said he didn't expect it to be in a rear collision.  But this was some time ago (15 years).  Are you saying that, by law, they're now supposed to?

Lutron's "Caseta" HomeKit/Alexa switches include a remote that can, with a $3 bracket be installed as a second switch, for $60 on amazon.  So $35, while cheap, doesn't seem like that great a value proposition.

The Caseta wired switches are pretty easy to install.  The only downside I discovered is that if you have LED lights, you better make sure they're 'compatible'.  It turns out the recessed LEDs my builder put in aren't.  They work, but give off an annoying buzzing sound :-(  Since they were put in just about everywhere, the only places I can use the 2 Caseta switches I bought (their startup bundle) is in a couple places.  Anyone wanna buy some LEDs from me? :-)  I'm too cheap to buy a bunch of new LEDs (not cheap!) when the old ones otherwise work just fine.

rotateleftbyte said:

noted crystal ball gazer and soothsayer Ming-Chi Kuo

There fixed it for you.

On this topic... well Duh! Hasn't this been on the cards for a while now? It does not need a noted analyst [cough-cough] to forecast this. Pretty well anyone with half a mind on the Mobile Tech space could have said this very thing months ago. some even did say it yet he's still given credit for 'stuff'.
Bah Humbug!

Wherher something is “in the cards” is a whole lot easier than forecasting a time.  Others have forecast it would happen in 2017 - and were obviously wrong.  Kuo is forecasting it for 2018.  We have to see if he’s right.  I think he’s wrong.  When has Apple ever decreased diversification intentionally?  As the author himself notes, Apple likes it the opposite way - so they can play 2 vendors off each other.  I think AAPL will keep QCOM as a vendor - just reduce their share substantially.  

Soli said:

robin huber said:

Frankly, these gimmicky features could disappear tomorrow and I wouldn’t miss them. As long as my phone vibrates instead of ringing when I mute it, that’s enough. 

I don't see how making pressing a virtual button feel like a physical button is gimmicky. This also goes to Accessibility since haptics can be used for those who are visually impaired, not to mentioned that it makes for a better HW to not have the MBP trackpad be a hinged panel that wears out or gets crumbs under it.

The lawsuit isn't about making a virtual button feel like a physical one by using haptics.  The article says that the patent likely has to do with 3D-Touch because the suit covers 6s and beyond.  3D Touch, as currently implemented by Apple, stinks.  Not the feature itself - that is really cool/useful - but the problem is that hardly anyone ever uses it because (a) Apple hasn't seen it fit to identify the UI elements that have 3D Touch capability and (b) 3D Touch still isn't available across all its iOS devices.

A couple points: in my (limited) experience "home hub" is not very reliable - at least on iPad: I've set up a "When Anyone Arrives" automation and it worked nicely.  But 2 weeks ago, it no longer worked.  Nothing on the iPad changed, other than an iOS update.  Yesterday, I also noticed that when I tried to turn on the lights from my front yard (using cellular), Siri responded that it couldn't (in typical Apple "style", it didn't give any clue why!)  So I went inside and finally looked a little closer at the iPad's Home app and noticed that, for whatever reason, it had a little cloud on the app's icon - which denotes that it had been offloaded by iOS (perhaps as part of the iOS update?).  I re-downloaded and opened it and everything seemed kosher.  Today, I was able to remotely turn on the lights - I assume that the automation will now work again also.

But it's this little sort of thing - why the he11 is Apple offloading the Home app when it's designated a "hub" and is needed???  With usual lack of help from Siri, one is left to ones own devices to debug these things.  With an iPad, at least there's a user interface, but what do you do if you designate HomePod as your hub and something goes wrong???

As an aside: are you sure the third generation Apple TV can be a home hub?  This is the last version before the "Siri" enabled Apple TV, right?  I have two of those - and I looked for a "hub" menu item when I started my automation journey and didn't see it.  I believe I read somewhere that Apple disabled it for 3rd-gen on some upgrade to tvOS?  I might be wrong - will check again once I get home.

Second aside: there's no clear tutorial on what you need to do to get geo-fenced based automation working for multiple devices.  Currently, only my iPhone turns on the lights when I get home.  If my wife comes home, nothing happens.  Related: there's a "When Anyone Leaves Home" - why isn't there a "When Everyone has left Home" - a much more useful condition?  Where is all the home automation documentation???