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  • Lutron ships Smart Fan Speed Control with Apple HomeKit

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    flydog said:
    Lutron HomeKit accessories are by far the buggiest and most unreliable out of any HomeKit accessory.  I wouldn’t install this even if it was free. 
    Sorry that you’ve had trouble with them; Lutron has been rock solid in my house.
    watto_cobra

  • Lutron ships Smart Fan Speed Control with Apple HomeKit

    rainmakerrainmaker
    What’s this? A HomeKit product released soon after being announced? Bravo Lutron! Take note MIA Ring.
    watto_cobra

  • Cook promises shareholders Apple is 'planting seeds' and 'rolling the dice' on future prod...

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    StrangeDays said:

    entropys said:
    Great Tim, where is my next iMac?
    Wait, I thought the chief whine was "Yeah but where's the new Mac mini!" lol...folks will just keep rotating it based on what's not out yet
    True, and yet the iMac was one of the first products released when Steve Jobs returned to Apple. The product that put them on the path to profitability after Apples dark days. To go as long as it has without an update is uncharacteristic of the iconic product.
    muthuk_vanalingamdecoderringcaladanianbigpicsn2itivguy

  • Apple's 2020 iPhones expected to use 5nm 'A14' TSMC chips

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    MacPro said:
    5 nanometers ...  Sheesh!  I am getting flashbacks to computer RAM stated in kilobytes.  How long before we see picometers used?  
    That makes two of us!
    watto_cobra

  • Apple's earnings warning indicates trouble in China, but everyone should calm down

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    tjwolf said:
    SpamSandwich said:
    The overreliance on China for manufacturing and growth put company earnings at risk. What bugs me is Tim Cook was on an advisory council to the White House, so he should’ve seen the tariffs and trade issues coming from far away and spent more time trying to insulate Apple from the inevitable.
    What could he have done?  Magically create a new market for iPhone?  Like every other multi-national CEO and mainstream economist, they advised against a trade war.  But our current US President prefers to listen to his "gut" rather than intelligent advice.  He thinks "trade wars are easy to win".  His gut tells him so.

    The trade war with China intensified fairly quickly.  Strong words on both sides.  Just as the US has gung-ho "patriots" joining the President in his MAGA nonsense, so do the Chinese.  From what I've read, anti-American sentiment has grown rapidly - individual citizens have begun buying more Chinese goods - some companies have begun actively forbidding the use of Apple smartphones at work.  Some folks describe the sales slide as a side effect of a cooling Chinese economy - I don't think so.  It's an anti-American sentiment that has developed solely because of the Trump tariffs.
    Yeah, so much for free markets. The President already threatened tariffs on Apple products. I don’t believe Presidents can singlehandedly alter the economy on the upside, but this one sure can damage one.

    Apple is still, even after the announcement, one of the most profitable companies in the world. Investors should consider that. 
    jony0