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  • The best Apple Vision Pro productivity apps at launch

    mike1mike1
    "If you were surprised by Apple's release date for the Vision Pro, you had reason to. Traditionally, the company will promise a release for, say, winter, and it'll come out on December 22."

    Well, December 22 would be pretty darn early in the winter as it is the second day.

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  • TP-Link reveals its new video door lock with HomeKey support

    mike1mike1
    Doesn't HomeKit prevent unlocking through Siri on purpose, as a safety concern? Someone could easily yell into an open window and instruct the voice assistant to unlock the door. If I ask Siri, through my HomePod, to unlock the door, it makes me accept on the phone.
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  • Clicks brings a physical keyboard to your iPhone

    mike1mike1
    Maybe if it was introduced in 2010 when some people were still lamenting the loss of the physical keyboard from their Blackberry. I think everyone has moved on by now.
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  • Apple Pay now available in Lowe's home improvement stores

    mike1mike1
    Lowe's has accepted Apple Pay on their web site for some time. Home Depot actually accepted contactless payments in stores for a hot minute several years ago and then abruptly stopped. I hate when they don't accept contactless payments in store, but the issue is not with Apple Pay in particular, but contactless in general, for whatever stupid reasons they have. You'll never see a merchant accept other forms of contactless payments, but not Apple Pay. It's all or none.
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  • DOJ antitrust lawyers question Beeper over Apple's iMessage hack

    mike1mike1
    avon b7 said:
    rob53 said:
    The FTC and DOJ need to open their eyes and understand that Beeper is trying to hack Apple software. This has nothing to do with competition and anyone at the DOJ or FTC with any brain should see it for what it is and understand what it isn't. Messages is Apple's product and just like Microsoft and Google software, along with the million other apps, there's no justifiable requirement that they have to work with each other. 
    I agree with your first observation. I don't think reverse engineering the Messages protocol is the best way to go. 

    However, I definitely think industry should work towards interoperability which has been a decades old problem and source of problems. 

    Messaging already is interoperable (word?). I can easily send messages to anyone. Does not mean they must have identical features and functionality. Back in the day, I could make a landline phone call to anyone who had a phone and a number. Some of those phones were cordless, some had built-in answering machines. Didn't matter as the call could still go through. Same here, messages can still go through regardless of device, OS or app being used.
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