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Sounds like people were probably wow’ed by the stereo pair demo and the one glowing review was probably placebo effect. For whatever reason (upsell opportunity?), Apple gimps the volume output of a single HomePod. Mine is nothing to write home about and I use these in areas where a stereo pair is not feasible. I’m convinced that people who think this is the “best sounding speaker on the market,” etc, have just never had a high quality audio setup. If Apple remove the artificial volume limitation from a single HomePod, it would be enough to make me upgrade to the new model.

Is that a thing now – the government “participating” or intervening in civil cases between two private parties? Merrick Garland has crossed the line. Such an abuse of power. If you hate Apple, sue them yourselves.

Here in Orange County, CA, I get regular AT&T 5G, not their 5G+ faster stuff. After reading the recent articles about how great T-Mobile has gotten, and knowing their 5G UC is supposed to be amazing, I tried the new 90 day test drive last week. My plain old AT&T 5G is 150mbps, T-Mobiles 5G UC was 41mbps. The upstream was abysmal, coming in at 2Mbps on T-Mobile vs 24mbps on AT&T. I have tested this in many areas around here and the results are similar. You really do get what you pay for. Very excited about this even faster midband and love that it will be restricted to only the latest devices.

No source quoted in the article. The author is presenting his opinion as if it were factual. This technology from Apple will never see the light of day, specifically after the widely publicized epic fail incident he mentioned, occurring last week with Google and the innocent parent.

They’re using Apple’s intellectual property (thousands of APIs) to build their app. These are not open source to my knowledge and are likely licensed to them under Apple’s terms. Apple spends a boatload of money developing all of these “building blocks.” If they decide they don’t want someone using their licensed software, especially someone who is not paying for it, then so be it. Just my opinion.