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Proposed US Senate bill would hand $700M to rural telecoms to avoid Huawei & ZTE
Nothing unites a country like a common enemy...
Side request Apple Insiders, can you please block web traffic from China? I can’t speak for everyone, but their posts are obnoxious and fanatical. We didn’t go to their forum, they came here, creating unproductive geopolitical discourse.
The USA is far from perfect, but we all get a voice in the process. We can speak our minds, share opinions, and join a movement, all without fear.
They don’t get to lecture us after passing on the greatest IP ever, freedom and Liberty.
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Ikea's Tradfri line is a good and inexpensive gateway to Apple's HomeKit system
I haven’t had those problems with my Hue lights since the very beginning of HomeKit. In fact, these problems predated HomeKit with my SmartThings setup, not very reliable back then. Also had an Ivee alarm clock that you spoke commands to before Apple, Google and Amazon. It integrated with Hue and SmartThings, even understood my commands on occasion. Was an amazing experience at the time, I had motion sensors, proximity key chain FOBs, door/window sensors. My home was overly automated, as my friends learned the hard way. My early 20s felt like living in Star Trek, but now everything’s dialed down, tasteful.tokyojimu said:
That’s me. I tried using Siri/HomeKit a few times to control my lights, but it’s slow and unreliable (“Device is not responding.”). Meanwhile, Alexa and Ms. Google are fast and do it right every time. So I haven’t even tried HomeKit in over a year.If people's first experience of HomeKit is poor, they won't come back.
My Hue lights are still going strong and worked flawlessly for years now, approaching the 50 device limit, so another bridge is needed.
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Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 update is faster with better camera & USB-C
Thank you for the ideas, it helps. The argument can be made these could also be automated with sensors and speed that can’t be matched by Googles solution.Eric_WVGG said:I know a guy who's working on a vertical/indoor farming startup. He's built a platform where the plants all have QR codes under them; workers can walk around the aisles and see at a glance which plants require water, have a fungus, are ready for harvest, etc.
Warehouse workers being given directions or orders amidst hundreds of thousands of crates. I once had a job working at UPS, loading boxes into trucks for cross-country transit. I had to check the zip codes of 60-100 boxes per minute to make sure I wasn't sending a California box to Texas. I could never keep the lists of zips correct, eventually washed out. Google Glasses would have been a godsend.
There was good story about their use in surgery and medical settings.
Google Glass is a great product. It's just not a great consumer product.
I get the point, but when Apple releases their AR, I see exponentially more capability and human productivity.
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Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 update is faster with better camera & USB-C
I’m having trouble understanding the benefits to Googles system. It’s not full AR, only 1 screen, no mention of the Google assistant, and an onboard trackpad that negates a handsfree experience.
What’s a use case for these that isn’t better served by a powerful mobile device, computer, or automation? -
US Justice Department likely to block Sprint & T-Mobile merger
If Sprint or T-mobile cannot cannot afford a full 5G rollout in their contract markets, then a merger would make sense. Otherwise the national 5G rollout will take longer and be limited to 2 carriers, neither of which benefit consumers.
I don’t see any other benefits...
