Metriacanthosaurus

The majority of this is junk. The best news is that Apple waved their wand to grant TV's to support AirPlay 2 and HomeKit directly. But that required nothing but Apple's say-so.

These new products just fall completely flat, and appeal to bizarre niche uses.

Where, after all this time, are the simple and powerful utilitarian HomeKit compatible devices????

I just don't get it. No one wants a giant wart sticking out of their power outlet, no matter what it does. Just give me outlets to install that work. Just give me light switches to install that work. There are some of these on the market, but not nearly enough. Instead the market is flooded with these things that look like first year attempts at smart devices.All these new smart locks, but not one of them matches the simplicity of the August product which they've had years to copy.

A million different security cameras - not one that attempts to just work. They all compromise endlessly and barely work.

Doorbells that don't even look like doorbells. What are these people thinking?

rogifan_new said:

aross99 said:

iPod touch makes a great "gateway" into the Apple ecosystem for children who are too young to have an iPhone. A $200 apple device with monthly payment is the ideal Christmas/Birthday gift for kids.  It allows them get hooked on the app store, and start building their music library.  iTunes cards are a given at every gift opportunity.  When they are ready, they can transition into  a "hand me down" iPhone from Mom and Dad, and away they go...

Give someone a hand me down iPhone and don’t enable the cell service.

What a stupid strategy.

Good grief. Apple is NOT mulling USB-C for iPhone.

1. The port on iPhone has no purpose anymore, beyond emergency charging, diagnostics, and recovery. The average user can and will charge wirelessly overnight and never need to plug the device in, ever.

2. iPhone is in a completely different league from MacBook and iPad...both in purpose and volume. Apple switch to USB-C on iPad Pro because they got something specific out of it that was desired for the device (4k video out). They didn't switch just because. And Apple is not about to switch to anything when the iPhone Lightning install base is in the billions of units.

3. iPhone is an actual portable device that gets used everywhere...not just on the desk, the couch, and the coffee shop like MacBook and iPad. USB-A and Lightning infrastructure is everywhere. There is no incentive to switch away. Too many accessories that people rely on with Lightning built in. Too many USB-A ports in the wild that people rely on.

In short, Nope. Not happening.

Now the onus is on the trolls to demonstrate that what Riccio says is untrue. 

Otherwise this is just yet another media-manufactured farce, enabled by the echo chamber of morons. 

The reason Apple pretends this is acceptable is because it is an inherent design flaw and is inevitable because of simple physics.

It is completely unacceptable.