dachar

rogifan_new said:

Hey Apple here's a novel idea: include the 29w USB-C charger in the box. The fact that they don't do this with the 12.9" iPad is ridiculous.

patchythepirate said:

nhughes said:

patchythepirate said:

I was excited when this came out, and it's pretty useful sometimes, but the one thing I really wanted it to do, and I *know* I'm not alone, is search for memes. Apple can find a stack of avocados but it can't find giant letters sprawled on a pic? This is a huge peve of mine. And that would be something genuinely useful, especially for anyone under 30. 

I realize it's not the solution you're looking for, but a workaround would be to take memes and manually put them into their own album. If you do this on a Mac, it will sync with your iOS device, potentially making it a little easier/quicker.

An app I used to use, Meme Generator, at one time automatically put user-generated memes into their own album. However, that functionality appears to have been broken since early 2016, based on what I can see in my own album.

Thanks for the reply. That's a good thought, I'll definitely consider doing that next time I fire up my MBA.

hmurchison said:

dachar said:

Anything that needs its own hub seems to defeat the idea of a simple connected home and is no of interest to me. For a start where do you put all the different hubs that each manufacturer wants us to have? Why will too many hubs start conflicting with each other and the main home wifi? Why can't they work using the existing home wifi network ?

Power.   Wifi uses up MUCH more power than stuff like Zigbee or ZWave.   Most of the low power protocols operate around 800-900mhz frequency so that they have long range and to further aid this they often employ a mesh network.  The Bridge is there to move from these higher power protocols to lower power protocols and to store information.     We need to hope that Apple supports Thread (protocol) which is lower power but still runs Internet Protocol.  This would be the easiest way to meld high power IP like Wifi with low power IP addressable devices.