felix01

@"automatically and secretly copy all messages from every user to law enforcement"

My bolding.

I trust they've got some serious data storage capability!

bulk001 said:

Let me fix that first sentence for you ...

I didn't have any trouble understanding what AppleInsider meant. 

Then again, the AppleInsider story was edited at 6:23 am and again at 7:27 am with no end-of-story mention of what was changed. I guess nobody at AI has ever heard of The Associated Press Stylebook which covers, among many other things, ethical journalistic practices.  

I'm thinking it's not so much that they couldn't solve the engineering required to mass produce the device; rather, they couldn't produce it at price point that anyone but the Apple Fanboys would buy it. 

Once the marketing folks decided they couldn't even make enough profit to offset the already substantial sunk costs, let alone the manufacturing start-up costs, it was adiós AirPower. Besides, "AirPower" has been a US Air Force term since 1947. Obviously, Apple's use of the word would 'confuse' the nation's airmen and we couldn't have that.  😜

As others have already posted, William, "good article." You covered all bases, no serious "How do you ..." questions in the comment thread which you haven't already addressed. 

Chris999 said:

Am I the only person who’d like to able to make and receive phone calls on the HomePod without having to have my iPhone turned on?

You are certainly in a very small minority if you have an iPhone and routinely turn it off for some reason. There are easier ways to silence the phone w/o turning the device off.