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macxpress said:

simply258 said:

AppleInsider said:

In a bid to beat Google

Let's be honest, that will never happen in the Maps arena.

What exactly makes Google Maps so special these days? 

It just works?

sirozha said:

They should release a version without the speaker and the microphone. I would buy a few then. The combo of smoke detector, CO detector, and night light with HomeKit integration would be sufficient. If they could also integrate a motion sensor, that would be great. There’s no need to place a speaker and a mic in every device. 

You are describing the Nest albeit without HomeKit but at least the night light has a sensor on it! It is the added features that put me off...who on earth wants a speaker and voice assistant in a smoke alarm?

flydog said:

22july2013 said:

And for AppleInsider articles that apply only to the USA, as many do (due to product availability only in the USA, including some Apple products) the article should start with "This product review applies only to people who live in the USA." I am unhappy when I get halfway through an article on AI only to find that nothing in the article applies to us non-US customers.

Did you notice the .com at the end of the URL?  When I surf a .uk or .tw website I don’t expect it to be very relevant to the US. 

No he’s right. I live in the UK and eagerly devour any article regarding HomeKit in my futile search to get a decent price of kit I can use here only to find its usually US-centric.

In any case you have to read a good piece of the article only to see the tiny reference to .com at the end of the URL which is very easily missed.

Unfortunately by then the appetite has been well & truly whetted and ones thoughts have already turned to their credit card number...:)

I would love to use Apple Music but I continue to give it a wide berth ever since iTunes Match completely screwed up my iTunes library back in the day.

iTunes Match for some reason decided to modify the cover art for many of the 10.5k tracks ripped from my CD collection to something not even resembling the Artist/Album in question!

Not sure why it would do that but it was enough to put me off anything to do with Apple & my music collection.

I did have a backup but it took a lot of work to correct the issue afterwards and since then I have carefully curated my collection to correct typos and other errors such as year of release etc.

Really don’t want to risk allowing another music service from Apple to wreak havoc with my music collection bcause ‘Apple knows best’ as my music collection has grown since those days.

Dr Dre? Double standards IMHO...