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Oh, good. This story makes me feel even more happy about the purchased I already made. The Aqara U50 Smart Lock shouldn't need a hub and it should work with Thread. I just recently bought the Schlage Encode Plus which has Home Key and Thread support. Unlike Level Lock+ Connect, it works EVERY time. All I have to do is touch my watch or phone to the lock, and it automatically unlocks with zero re-tries. It does have WiFi but I would strongly recommend Apple users to not use WiFi because battery performance will be severely impacted. My understanding is that you will need to replace the batteries every 3 or 4 months using WiFi vs about once a year using Thread. How you avoid using WiFi is by not downloading and setting the lock up with the Schlage App. Just use the Apple Home App instead.

9secondkox2 said:

DOA until it becomes a pair of sunglasses. 

No one wants to wear a helmet  just to compute. 

The experience is not much different than meta quest as-is. 

Apple basically saw the quest, then spec’s higher, but also went backward with the brick battery that you have to carry around separately. Big whoop. 

As sunglasses, it’s much more the Apple ethos of getting out of the way of your life. 

Most folks carry a phone out of habit. Most weat shades as a habit. Most wear a watch, etc. 

no body suctions a face-hogging, head-strapping thing on their face/head outside of scuba divers. It’s annoying, cumbersome, takes you out of your every day life and can really only be enjoyed in bursts. Not as a continuum of your daily life. That’s why it fails. 

Black pencil or no, it’s not a success. 

Let’s see how that fares once it’s distilled into shades. I’m betting that’s a whole new paradigm. 

What you are describing is not VR. It’s not possible to have VR with a pair of sunglasses. It’s not possible to have VR without the complete sealing out of external light.

I have never considered buying an iPad mini. I have always thought of the standard iPad as a mini. In my opinion the iPhone Max is way too big and even the 6.1" is on the verge of being too big. I want my iPhone to reside in my front jeans pocket. I mostly use my iPad for internet stuff and I feel that even the standard iPad is too small for that. I jumped at the opportunity for a 12.9" iPad and I will never want anything smaller than that. Maybe if I were a woman I would want an iPad mini because I could stick it in my purse. I notice a lot of people putting their iPhones in their back pocket, but that never made sense to me, and I would never do that. Basically, my device buying decisions are completely governed by screen size. screen size is extremely important to me. I need a small phone and a large iPad.

I'm expecting that at some point in the future, Apple Vision Pro will replace my iPad. That day has not yet arrived, but I'm expecting that it will within the next couple of years. Maybe when we finally get solid-state batteries. The battery issue is my main hesitancy to Apple Vision Pro.
Edited: For Spelling

I’m typing on the original right now. I covered the screen in a dark room and light is definitely emitting from the keys. Sounds like backlit to me, and certainly functionally backlit. Maybe your definition of backlit is different from my definition, but when it’s nighttime, and no lights are on, the keys are perfectly illuminated. That’s all I care about. I don’t care about some obscure definition.