jbdragon

mobird said:

..."turn on the TV to a user's preferred input, and adjust the volume"...

What TV brand(s) currently provide this capability?

Not sure, but you should be able to do something like this using something like the Harmony Hub, maybe?

I like iOS over Android for a number of reasons, #1, Not a fan of Google spying on everything I do. A OS controlled by a Advertising company!!! No thanks. That keeps me on the iPhone. But I have to say, this iPhone XS has been driving me nuts at times. It will show 2,3, sometimes 4 bars and yet there will be NO INTERNET CONNECTION. DEAD!!! In doesn't work as good as my iPhone 6 did. I have a connection, why can't I do anything? I reboot, still nothing!!! Then out of the blue, maybe 30 minutes later, BAM, it's working. I just don't get it but it's really starting to piss me off. I have a single, and yet I can't download anything. Nothing. SpeedTest doesn't work. Can't view any news, nothing. Wifi, Great, but Cell??? Flaky!!! I have a connection, and yet completely dead!!! I'm not running any BETA software on it. I hold onto my iPhone for 4 years. This is my 3rd one, the way it's going I don't see me holding onto this thing for 4 years. That is going to piss me off.

If Apple wasn't screwing users with $1000+ repair jobs when you can bring it someplace and they'll fix it for $100 or even FREE in some cases as it's a simple fix and yet Apple says you need to replace all this stuff for whatever reason, Ya, Right to Repair should be the rule. There is no need for Apple to do this with battery's. This is Apple just trying to scare people and forced to go to Apple. You can tell this when you use even Apple's own batteries and it still does this message.





Stop with the excuses. This is why Apple has been getting away with locking their stuff down just so only THEY can fix things. Or really up sell you to new hardware. How about you buy a new car, it's time to replace the tires, you go to a 3rd party tire shop, get new tires put on, start to drive away and a Warning Service light pops up on the dash? Oh no!!! Find out you have to go back to the Ford Dealer Ship, and get Official Ford Tires that are keyed for your car. If you took those FORD tires and put them on Another Ford, the same warning message would pop up. This is what Apple is doing!!!! Wake up.

Watch some of the other videos from Louis Rossmann, including one about Apple's T2 chip.

I don't think so! No Beta anything on my Apple Watch. Something goes wrong, it's now bricked. There's no easy way to fix/recover from that.

You who what I think killed them?  It was saying Windows Phone 7 would all get Updated with the new OS, 8, and that ended up not being true. It was limited to only a few phones.  Can you imagine if Apple did that?  Imagine MS doing that with Windows on the Desktop.  Forcing you to buy a new computer.   It's Microsoft and Windows and people expect to get updates and instead were screwed over.  That was a big reason why I didn't get a Windows Phone.  I did, in fact, have a HP iPaq Windows Mobile 5 PDA back in the day.  I didn't move to a Smartphone until the iPhone 4.   As a very long time Windows user since Windows 95,  I was leaning in the direction of a Windows Phone.  But between that and really just SLOW to get anything out and limited app market that wasn't getting better, I couldn't go that direction for a phone.  Android?  No thanks.  A phone OS controlled by an Advertising company?  Why would I want to be spied on and have targeted ad's shoved at me?   Even though my younger brother had been trying for years to get me to switch to a Mac, which I still have never done, I did end up going with iOS.  I currently have an iPhone XS, a 12.9" iPad Pro, 2 Apple TV 4's, Apple Watch 4, and 2 Homepods, and yet still no Mac.  I have my custom built Windows 10 PC I built a few years ago.