mbenz1962

Dave Kap said:

Why would anybody stream Netflix from their device to their Apple TV?  Why not just use the Apple TV app or the Netflix app on their TV?

I can point you two examples that I personally have used. I live in Germany, so these examples may not apply in other markets.
1) here StarTrek Discovery is available on Netflix. When the four StarTrek-Short Treks were first made available here (right before season 2 debuted) they were only available from the iOS interface. The did eventually make it to the native AppleTV interface, but there is still some delay from the time new episodes of Discovery (and maybe other shows) show up in the app for iOS and the one for Apple TV.
2) because Netflix uses Geofencing even within the EU (on going court case right now if I remember right) different programming is available in different countries here. Since I frequently travel to other countries here, I’ll often open up Netflix in the evenings and see what is available in other places. Sometimes I’ll download a whole season of a show or a movie and bring it back to Germany to finish via AirPlay on my big screen if I don’t finish it on the road. I can remember going to Chech Republic and seeing Black Sails for the first time (which still isn’t available in Germany) and downloading all of seasons 1&2 and finishing them at home.

These two examples are ones that affect me with this change and I’ll be sorry that the feature is gone (and probably not coming back).

mpw_amherst said:

wood1208 said:

Apple,you are business and while holding privacy Ethics torch, at the end of day you are a business to make money for shareholders and employees.  Stop this die-hard privacy triumph. Most people outside USA(may be some Europeans) don't even care privacy long as you sell your products and services cheap. Sorry, Money talks,walks, and everything else for most people in world...

How many people on Apple products related websites like Apple-insider,9to5Mac,MacRumers,etc come and say give me privacy at any cost ? Most say, Apple products are expensive even thought they like to own.

No idea where you get that idea about Europeans. After all, the EU gave us GDPR

Yeah, I'm not sure that @wood1208 ; has ever been to Europe or possibly even outside of the US. 

billythedragonboy said:

I live outside USA and I do care about privacy! Who told you people live outside USA we don’t care about our privacy?

Good ethics is important for good companies, and for people too!

Exactly.

ablambert said:

wood1208 said:

Apple,you are business and while holding privacy Ethics torch, at the end of day you are a business to make money for shareholders and employees.  Stop this die-hard privacy triumph. Most people outside USA(may be some Europeans) don't even care privacy long as you sell your products and services cheap. Sorry, Money talks,walks, and everything else for most people in world...

How many people on Apple products related websites like Apple-insider,9to5Mac,MacRumers,etc come and say give me privacy at any cost ? Most say, Apple products are expensive even thought they like to own.

We care about privacy very much. 

I find the European stance on privacy to be at times taken to the extreme.  I'll give an example, My daughter who is in the first grade here in Germany brought home a paper for a school field trip to go ice skating.  In the permission slip "packet" was a separate piece of paper from the local TV station who was going to film a five minute segment about the kids ice skating.  You had to give your written consent that your kid could be filmed and that was irrespective of if they would even appear in the final video or not.  If you wanted to have your kid participate, you had to agree or your kid had to stay behind in the classroom. 
GDPR is a huge topic here.  Most companies of a moderate size even before this regulation had a company "officer" in charge of data privacy.  Even rules about the data an employer can collect about it's employees are strict here.  Kids aren't allowed to have smart watches in schools if they have the ability to allow a  "drop in" out of concern for the child's privacy! Most school functions prohibit the taking of pictures even by the parents out of privacy concerns. Imagine being told as a parent you can't take pictures of your own kid at track and filed day out of privacy concerns.
I could literally go on about this issue for pages.  The only thing that is true to some extent is the quote about money talks in respects to product (handset) prices.  Curiously, as much as the Europeans are concerned about privacy, they buy Andriod devices because of the price and don't seem to be sufficiently convinced to spend more to get devices that are designed with privacy in mind from the beginning.  I attribute this to the fact that the general population is just not so tech-savvy as to realize that there are devices available that better align with their ideals on privacy.  

AppleInsider said:

Using OWC's SoftRaid to give back RAID support that was stripped from macOS

I’m not sure exactly what is meant by this rather vague statement, but if the allusion is to MacOS’s ability to create a software RAID, this is not only out dated info, but was only ever half true to begin with. Due to some “makeover” work for Disk Utility in El Capitan, the GUI version of Disk Utility did indeed have the features for RAID management (including creation of Software RAIDs) altered and reduced. The ability to make a software RAID from the command line was never removed (or “stripped from macOS in the author’s parlance).

Most RAID management features were readded with Sierra over 2 years ago.

Apple has a knowledge base article with the steps For creating disk sets with Disk Utility in High Sierra and Mojave here https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/create-a-disk-set-dskua23150fd/mac

dysamoria said:

mbenz1962 said:

boxcatcher said:

Lol, there were quite a few commenters poo-pooing the chance of this ever happening when discussed previously.  Good work, Apple!

Yep, I decided to round them up and give them a shout out.  This way we know to give their predictions (especially in such absolutest terms) the respect they deserve.  And the Hall of Fame-rs are:

@Hagar --Just let it go already. This is never going to happen. 
@Metriacanthosaurus --Flat out: Not happening.

Honorable mentions:

@Fallenjt --AirPort Express hardware is too old. It doesn't even support 802.11 AC. 
@Pbrutto --Not only has their been no indication of a router update but their have been multiple stories saying Apple is completely out of the router business now going back months. So, why do you think they may be updated?
@Bradford_kirby --The airport express is over.

There were a few more that could have been put in the honorable mention category, but their comments seemed more like reasonable opinions than snarky critiques of Apple and the fans that held out hope that Apple could squeeze a little more life out of a great product that is riding into the sunset.

You track and document the passing commentary of other posters here regarding minutia like this? Seems a bit much.

I’ll admit that it seems petty AF, but I’m also really tired of the dismissive attitude some people have regarding other’s opinions. You can disagree with a post or an article, but do it should be done with the same tone you would have face to face.

Just keep in mind that it is not necessary to set up an AirPort Express in client mode to use it as an AirPlay target (and by extension, any separately powered sound system that is connected via audio in) or to share a printer wirelessly.  Client mode is mainly used for adding an internet connection to devices like Home Theater systems, game consoles, etc. (like you mentioned) that can make use of internet access but have no wireless adapter and are in locations where hard-wiring with an Ethernet cable is impractical.