aross99

As someone who has an Apple Watch for sleep tracking and an Oura ring, I would love to see Apple make their own ring.  Oura’s rings range from $349 to $499 so it’s hard to see how an Apple ring would undercut the Apple Watch.  The ring would appeal to Apple users who wear a traditional watch and still want the health tracking.

mccargos said:

I don't understand why you would stagger a iphone with the same number over a 2 year release like that 

By delaying the regular models for six months, the pro-users still get the phones on schedule and it may push some regulars phone users to go for the pro to have the latest phone.  It would also allow Apple to spread the phone production over a longer time period - possibly allowing most (if not all) of the production for US phones to be in India.

yyzguy said:

There’s a zillion different display options from other brands.   I’m not sure why anyone would pay premium for Apple display.   

Unfortunately, if you want a 5K 27" Thunderbolt display with Apple's build quality and support for the OS X keyboard monitor controls, you really don't have any other choices.  I looked at all of the available options, and decided to buy a used Apple Thunderbolt display that had been discontinued for at least 5 years because it was as close as I could get for half the price (minus the retina resolution).   Samsung has a good option, but it's almost as much as the Studio display, so why not just go with the Apple display?  When I got my monitor, I couldn't afford a Studio display.  Now that I can, the Studio display will probably be my next monitor

rob53 said:

I'd love to see Apple resurrect their networking products. A big problem I see, however, is that Comcast/xfinity charges extra to use your own modem and router by charging for the higher data package while not charging if you use their garbage modem/router. I want to go back to my former city that had its own high-speed fiber network without any ISP to deal with. 

Even if you have to use your ISPs router, you don't have to use their WIFI.  The Airport could always be used as a wireless access point as well.  You can put the Airport into "bridge" mode, which allows you to take advantage of the Airport's wireless network.

...iPhone devices with iOS 18.0 brought into the lab, if conditions were available, communicated with the other iPhone devices that were powered on in the vault in AFU. That communication sent a signal to devices to reboot after so much time had transpired since device activity or being off network.

How exactly would the phones brought into the lab communicate with the phone in Airplane mode, or especially the one in the faraday cage?

Far more likely that that version of iOS 18 has a bug that causes a reboot - especially in unusual conditions like a long time without network connectivity.