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How to use NFC to control your home with iOS 13
Because geofencing sucks. It is ridiculously unreliable, does a poor job of handling multiple people, and is not user friendly enough for real world use.thewb said:Why tap an NFC tag as you leave or arrive when the Home app already has geofence automation rules? I don't have to do a hip check or anything to turn my lights on when I arrive because the rule already triggered as I turned into my driveway. I have another rule that turns lights off when the last person leaves.
But I am looking forward to conditionals adding more capability to the automation rules.
My wife is not going to walk out the front door with "hopefully the location thing works and everything gets locked/armed". Nope. But she will bump her Apple Watch to the NFC tag and see/hear it all happen instantly.
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How to use NFC to control your home with iOS 13
This is the real question. Tapping it with your phone is very dated and more like a tech demo. Using your Apple Watch would make it much more of a lifestyle upgrade.jcbigears said:I’m wondering if it will work with the Apple Watch.
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Rosenblatt downgrades Apple to 'sell' on middling iPhone sales
1. ...StrangeDays said:
1. Correct.Metriacanthosaurus said:1. No one cares about 5G. Cellular data is still cellular data and has not meaningfully changed in people's minds since 3G.
2. Last year's iPhones were a snooze, and this year will be even worse.
3. Services has room to grow but will not see a giant boost as a result of any of Apple's efforts. No one cares about Apple's original content, and the fact that they think anyone would is shockingly bizarre. News+ appeals to a tiny niche. Apple Arcade is a great idea (subsidized development to achieve decent apps) that is several years too late. The market for this has already been put off by mobile gaming.
2. If you mean that besides speed and optics improvements, phones are boring...well, you may be right. It's a mature technology. What are you expecting? Cheeseburgers coming out of the screen from holographic projectors?
3. How could normals care about Apple entertainment programming, it's not even out yet! Normals don't even know it's a thing.
2. We can't keep using that defense, "what do you expect". Well, we expect iPhones worth upgrading for. If they don't exist, we have to expect Apple to perform worse.
3. Normals won't and don't pay for subscriptions to unknown content. Period. The modicum of success seen by Netflix, Amazon, and HBO with their "original" programming is 100% subsidized and enabled by their library of content that people actually know, and want. No one has dare to try to offer a service that has zero draw for anyone. Here, come pay for these shows you've never heard of! Yeah, not happening.
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Jony Ive's departure follows years of dissatisfaction and absenteeism
"Ive was dissatisfied with how Apple has concentrated more on operations than on design since Tim Cook took over from the late Steve Jobs"
I mean...this could not have been more clear or more obvious to everyone on the outside looking in. No one wants to admit or acknowledge it...but the exact worst thing that could have happened (Apple losing its "DNA", the spirit that Steve Jobs infused) is exactly what happened in short order from Tim taking over. Operations above all else. It really is that simple. Apple continues to pretend outwardly that this has not happened, because their legacy depends on it...but it is of course exactly, and quite simply, what happened.
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New iPadOS button bar offers a shortcut for three-finger gestures
The new gestures are terrible. Shockingly unintuitive and awkward.