AlanWynn

radarthekat said:

So will the academy add a huge asterisk next to future winners?

Best Picture: [movie name]*

* this may not actually be the best movie

What makes you think that any winner was ever the best movie? To be considered, one always had to follow rules, this is less onerous than the “diversity” rules that they put in place primarily to benefit the major studios (much easier for them to follow than for smaller independent productions) while claiming to foster “diversity”.

Let us be clear, Matter (the standard about to be adopted by most vendors), is at its core HomeKit. It requires that devices be locally controllable (unlike many current Google Home and Alexa gear), specifically to prevent the problems we have seen with multiple vendors leaving the market and leaving their devices non-functional as a result.  The new standard adopts HomeKit’s crypto system, ensuring security. Those who have HomeKit only gear will be able to continue using it with their HomeKit controls, while many of the old devices that were not hub based will cease to function when the vendors device they no longer want to support the cloud infrastructure needed to keep them working.

robin huber said:

The first rule of Apple Negotiation Club is don’t talk about Apple Negotiation Club. 

Sun Microsystems’ Jonathan Schwartz found this out the hard way when he pre-announced an agreement between Sun and Apple to use ZFS as the new filesystem for Mac OS X before Steve Jobs did at WWDC. Jobs killed the announcement and the project as a result.

lkrupp said:

Wondering if these cables could also be USB 4 compatible. Tech reports seem to indicate USB 4 is basically Thunderbolt 3 with USB 2, 3, and 3.1 backward compatibility. 

When I spoke to the Corning representative at NAB, I was told these would not support USB. USB 4 had not been ratified, so this may change in the future.