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racerhomie3 said:

I have used the iPhone X & it does feel like the future.
But I just like the home button so much. I feel like buying a 256GB iPhone 8 rather than a 10.
Any opinions ?

My wife has the X while I’m still on my 6s (no Plus). Every now and then I’m using her phone so here is my experience about the X:
- superb feel in hand, and also less slippery than my 6s. (Still, purely ergonomically the 3GS was best in hand for me)
- FaceID obviously doesn’t work for me as currently you can set it only to one person. For her it works most of the time (specific sunglasses excluded)
- best part of th X IMO is the camera. No discussion for me here. It’s light years away from my 6 and though I cannot compete to the 8 picture quality I just feel it’s a great camera. 
- I have not so big hands and I said goodbye to one handed use except for when I’m back on my SE. the size difference to the X is not that of a difference regarding use most of the time. What I feel slightly disturbing is having to each far up to the right hand side corner to pull down the sheet which on my 6 I get by easily swiping up. But the overall screen estate increase is noticeable and very welcome compared to the 6s’ screen
- notch is not disturbing at all
- reading in the dark is much more eye friendly due to the pitch black black if the OLED
- it’s slightly easier to see the screen in sunny outside compared to the 6, a welcome plus 
- water resistance is soothing 
- being all glass she put it in the Apple leather enclosure and while I don’t like it due to the increase of size and overall impact on the look it probably already saved her few times from a drop crack (small kids in the house)
- verdict: if I wouldn’t have access to my wife’s phone for the camera I’d consider buying it. However, I prefer waiting for 2nd gen FaceID (having the speed difference between 1st and 2nd gen touchID in mind and hoping for things such as multiple people being recognized) plus further lessons learned by Apple on this new form factor. 

„Pistachio Ice Cream„, uhum. Sounds exactly like a profound sense of design and attention to detail is being put into this - like all versions before. I can’t wait how it will attract me away from iOS...

In the meantime some cues for the relentlessly trybig ones: https://medium.com/tall-west/no-cutting-corners-on-the-iphone-x-97a9413b94e

Here’s a source for this, btw. https://www.google.de/amp/appleinsider.com/articles/14/09/19/siri-partners-with-shazam-to-recognize-songs-in-ios-8/amp/

AirPods: A 150.000.000$ business. 

I wish one day I can retire my 2009 MBP with its 1.5 TB storage - its only purpose being an iTunes server - and have all movies locally available right from my TV/aTV. Using my TV's storage while accessible through my network is not an integrated solution. Waiting for the aTV to support this is probably like waiting for Godot....
why local? Because 99.95% (or whatever the official number is) availability doesn't cut it if just in that moment you want to see a movie there's an issue with the streaming service. Doesn't happen often, but happens as opposed to zero times through local storage.