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I did notice that some of the Siri interactions shown in the last season of Ted Lasso omitted the "Hey" part. I know it's TV land, but it caught my attention. Perhaps they did it to avoid triggering the Siri function on viewer's devices.  

Competition is good, especially when it’s not simply based on price. Having strong competitors in the smart watch market further legitimizes the market as as a whole, in addition to validating Apple’s investment in their product that currently serves as the archetype for these products. 

Pema said:

Microsoft (of DOS & Windows infamy) that has more bugs and malware than there are pebbles on the beach. They are so busy swatting their sheit, when do they have the time to debug others? 

I’m not picking on you or any of the other homers questioning why Microsoft would seemingly be “debugging” Apple software, but there is a fundamental difference between security researchers and scientists who are deeply embedded in cybersecurity as a discipline and practice versus security focused product development and quality engineers who are tasked with identifying and eradicating security issues in their company’s products.

Security researchers are often the ones who have researched and identified the root causes in logic, design, and implementation that led to the security flaws that manifest themselves as vulnerabilities in any product. Their work and feedback goes a long way towards helping product designers across the board and regardless of product or company affiliation avoid security vulnerabilities in the first place. 

If Microsoft’s security researchers only focused on security issues within Microsoft’s products they would have a very narrow understanding and limited knowledge of security in general. It would be like your doctor only having knowledge and incentive to inquire about the human diseases and maladies that she has dealt with over her career. But human health and the diseases involved, just like security “diseases,” are global concerns and those who seek to identify cures and limit the occurrence of such diseases should not limit the scope of their research and knowledge acquisition to only include concerns that affect the financial results of their employer. Security issues have no boundaries and security researchers need to root them out wherever they may be hiding, which includes other people’s products, other people’s designs, and other people’s code.

I may be in the minority, but I believe the Mac Studio is arguably a better long term solution than the higher end iMac 27” and iMac Pro. Of course this doesn’t apply across the board because the 27” iMac was a relative bargain and the iMac Pro and higher end iMacs had discrete graphics. But nothing pained me more than seeing the iMac’s wonderful monitor go to waste because the computer guts were no longer up to snuff. 

The only thing that I noticed that was slightly unusual with this update is the fact that it doesn't retain the WiFi and Trust device (if your device is connected via USB to your Mac) settings from the previous version. You'll have to re-enter your WiFi password and acknowledge the Trust device prompt. Thinking about it a little makes me believe that this behavior is probably the cleaner way to go from a security standpoint. But be prepared to deal with the WiFi password situation for WiFi-only devices because they will reboot to the new version in a disconnected state.

I only experienced this on iPhone and iPad. The Mac version update retained the WiFi password.