crudman

clarker99 said:

Soli said:

crudman said:

whittonm said:

Oooh, a credit card, this is an insanely great Apple innovation!  Canadians must be going crazy waiting for it!  /sarcasmoff

Sarcasm appreciated, but if the features for the Canadian variant are the same as the US card it -is- going to be innovative. There are currently no Canadian issued cards that waive the foreign exchange fee (2.5%) for example. 

If no Canadian CCs do that—not even travel-focused cards with an annual fee—then I think it's highly unlikely that Apple will be able to swing that.

This is my biggest pet peeve with my CC’s. The FX fee is such a rip off. If they can even reduce the fee to something more reasonable It is a win. 

I have one that -used- to be great - the Rogers MasterCard. It didn’t charge the foreign FX fee -and- gave 4% cash back on all foreign currency transactions. So it was a net 6.5% gain (I travel a bunch for work and use this card exclusively). Then they added the FX fee in so it went from 6.5% to 1.5%. 

whittonm said:

Oooh, a credit card, this is an insanely great Apple innovation!  Canadians must be going crazy waiting for it!  /sarcasmoff

Sarcasm appreciated, but if the features for the Canadian variant are the same as the US card it -is- going to be innovative. There are currently no Canadian issued cards that waive the foreign exchange fee (2.5%) for example. 

fastasleep said:

crudman said:

I don’t have a HomePod but have seriously considered one (I’m loaded up with Sonos and love them but choice is a good thing). One question I’ve got related to phone calls is Skype and other VOIP apps. We use Skype and Jabber at work and I’d love to use HomePod for those - how well do they work? Unfortunately my work machine is Windows based but Skype I can (and do) route through my iPhone. 
Personally I also use FaceTime audio all the time as most of my family and personal contacts have iPhones. While this article doesn’t mention FT-A or FT-V calls I assume that’s the same as regular voice calls, correct?

I think you're barking up the wrong tree. There's no third party app integration with HomePod. I also haven't seen any indication there's FaceTime integration, though receiving FT Audio calls seems like it'd be possible if not now then in the future.

That’s unfortunate - with the hardware and audio tech it seems like HomePod would be the ideal speaker phone for business. Certainly in my situation (primarily working from my home office and on calls 3-5 hrs per day) it would be fantastic, especially with the HD audio quality in most VOIP platforms. Ah well...

I don’t have a HomePod but have seriously considered one (I’m loaded up with Sonos and love them but choice is a good thing). One question I’ve got related to phone calls is Skype and other VOIP apps. We use Skype and Jabber at work and I’d love to use HomePod for those - how well do they work? Unfortunately my work machine is Windows based but Skype I can (and do) route through my iPhone. 
Personally I also use FaceTime audio all the time as most of my family and personal contacts have iPhones. While this article doesn’t mention FT-A or FT-V calls I assume that’s the same as regular voice calls, correct?

Phew! I was able to fix my problem myself. For anyone with a Subaru and Clarion branded non-CarPlay head unit:
- if you remove the connection and recreate it using the steering controls / voice control then it works
- if you do it from the head unit itself it doesn’t work

I don’t have an explanation as to why...and it doesn’t make any logical sense (to me), but that fixed mine and a friend’s.