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eriamjh said:

Could someone Explain like I’m five what the SDKs (Supplier Developer Kits) are doing or used for in the Shazam app?  

Software development kits (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit) ?; and I cannot.

AppleExposed said:

Pictured above are AirPods connecting to an iPad.

Looks like it, right?!

wonkothesane said:

Does this mean that Apple didn’t find that the apps conduct some side loading?
in this case I’m wondering how walled the garden actually still is. 

Garden is still very walled. “Side-loading” does not go through the “walled garden”...

The apps don’t “conduct some side loading”. The user has to “side-load” (in this case be provided the app, in this case an .ipa, .apk (for Android)) the app. iOS devices will run apps not downloaded via the App Store if signed with a valid enterprise cert. this is meant for internal organization use only. iOS devices will launch those apps unless/until the enterprise cert is revoked; which is what apple has done.

ivanh said:

I believe fall detection algorithms is a firmware feature of watchOS 5. Apple should not restrict it from Apple Watch Series 3, since watchOS 5 is free.

Watch Series 4 also has an updated accelerometer, used in part to help aid in fall detection.

lkrupp said:

And before anyone blathers that this product should have been easy-peasy to build please post your electrical engineering credentials before doing so. Meanwhile this gives me the go-ahead to buy wireless chargers for our iPhone 8's. I was waiting for AirPower.

Marketing team writing a check that engineering team couldn’t cash?

I’ll be happy enough with a Series 4 watch but was hoping for a revised smaller iPhone; maybe March!