reflows

What I want from this product is a lot simpler than you folks. I just want a device that sends digital music to my (wired) home stereo and plays well with my other Apple devices. All it would need to meet my needs is to have a way to output digital music via an aux port or an adapter that fits USB C. That's it! I'd love a replacement for Airport and an ethernet port, but really it just needs to be able to run apps and put out an audio signal somehow and I'd buy it. There are very few devices out there that I've found that will do this and integrate well with Apple. I've used an old iPhone for this, and have a device called a Grace Link that meets what I'm looking for clumsily, but Apple could pull it off a lot more nicely and reliably. I'd rather have an iDevice that does this than to spend a whole lot more on a network receiver that still doesn't integrate well with the apple ecosystem.

I really hope to see some follow-up on this. I'm not used to feeling my security is vulnerable on Apple products.

This was creepy and did feel like an attack. The pop-ups were relentless, no matter how often I tried to get back to my crossword puzzle. I tried to call Apple but couldn't log in to the support page because my AppleID was locked. The worst part of it was having to give up a well crafted secure and unforgettable password!

Steve Jobs observed that when people have a vertical screen in front of them, they didn't want to be poking it with their finger all the time. But when users put themselves in laptop mode (who cares what mode the device is in), Apple maintains its' dogma about the identity of an iPad as a touch device. I guess it's a way to do something sensible to respond to the user's needs instead of the company's identity, but without acknowledging that the creed has been broken.

I say it's about time, and when I'm in a spot where I need to use a physical keyboard for actual writing, I'll do my best to think it's a mouse. I'm the one who has an identity and a use case, not the machine I'm using.

Notice I said "when *I* am in laptop mode. I would like to see the machine adapt to my use, rather than to force me to fit its dogmatic paradigm.