techrider

I can't speak for all of the alternatives listed here, but speaking of Outlook for Mac, it is missing the ability to leverage the 'share sheet' until you have setup some kind of email service on Mail.app, and then telling Mail.app to use Outlook as the default mail client instead (so you still have to setup Mail.app, even if just to tell it that you don't want to use it!).  The other challenge with Outlook for Mac is that it doesn't support accessing iCloud contacts and calendars (which Outlook for Windows does, only because Apple makes the iCloud for Windows app).  As much as I find editing and rule processing limitations with Mail.app to be frustrating, the share sheet and contact/calendar integrations to Mail.app are so tight that I find myself feeling both compelled by and 'stuck' with using it.

Thanks for the summary.  A table by Apple Insider would be so very appreciated (since Apple doesn't publish one) that lets you see details such as touchscreen (or not), wireless CarPlay (or wired), and screen size

Any HomePod owners out there that also have a HomeKit door lock or garage door opener?  If so have you tried a ‘Hey Siri’ command to open the garage door or unlock the door, either from outside your home (e.g. though a closed or cracked open window, or even a closed door), or by calling your home landline and waiting for the beep on the answering machine to give the command?  The mics are so good, I’m guessing an unwanted individual might be able to pull this off to gain unauthorized access, assuming there are no voice recognition-based or other controls to prevent it.  If it works, does HomePod allow let you to manage Siri commands related to accessing your home?  I suppose an iPhone charging on the counter could also be triggered if the conditions were right. I’m also assuming that a Google Home or Alexa might also accomplish this kind of access.

Do Not Disturb (DND), while generally awesome, is starting to feel a bit inflexible. 

For example, if you own a Bluetooth-capable Panasonic cordless phone at home (you likely do along with Tommy Bahama loungers if you're a Costco  member), that phone's Bluetooth pairing feature (which allows the cordless handset to answer/make calls on behalf of your iPhone) stopped working 'as expected' once DND While Driving got introduced.  I don't necessarily blame Apple for mistaking the Panasonic Bluetooth-paired phone as a 'Car Bluetooth' (that could be Panasonic's fault), which turns on DND by just being at home.  However I wish you could optionally configure DND to exclude selected paired devices, or otherwise optionally configure iOS to categorize Bluetooth devices as car, speaker, etc... to influence how DND works.

Another example is with Notifications and DND.  As HomeKit becomes more widely deployed in the house, there are certain notifications that I'd like to override DND to play a sound in the middle of the night (when DND is scheduled to be enabled), such as motion detected in my garage (burglar?) or a water leak sensor detecting moisture under my water tank.

Hmmm... Will moving to WPA3 on an access point render a hubless, Homekit-compatible device obsolete, unless either a) the less-secure WPA2 is somehow supported in parallel or b) the HomeKit device supports a WPA3 firmware update?  While I say HomeKit, I'm implying any Wi-Fi device in a home or office.  Modern APs don't support WEP anymore.  That makes very old Wi-Fi laptops and smartphones, which can't do WPA, obsolete.  While a laptop is 'expected' to go obsolete within 4-7 years, would a Wi-Fi garage door opener, light switch, outlet, fan, heater, sensor, camera, etc., bought just before WPA3 gets adopted (in the name of security) experience a dramatic obsolescence event?