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I don't like that Apple crammed so many functions in the group in the upper left. If they'd left it unmolested I'd be a happy man. I had to add a cellular button on the bottom because the button in the group is tiny and I don't have "it takes two hands to hold a soft drink" fingers.

I can't stand the affectation she employs as a singing style. That she was chosen to mumble the title song for No Time to Die was beyond disappointing. It's fortunate that it's easy to avoid her music.

If Apple made a TV that had Retina screen quality like all their other products with displays, and could easily be tasked from computer monitor to TV, I'd give one a close look. IF Apple were to make a TV I see it as being something of a larger computer monitor and not a 100" OLED monster.

I too hate the menus on the overwhelming majority of "flat screen" TVs. They remind me of the horror of cellphone menus prior to the iPhone. I'll believe it when I see it but I'd seriously check it out if it happened. Lots of unknowns to be known before I dismiss the decision to buy one if it were ever to exist.

dominikhoffmann said:

Xed said:

I knew they had to be getting data from the inside if they're stealing packages like this.z

That shows that a Ring doorbell is not a sufficient deterrent. I don’t even know, whether it really will aid law enforcement in identifying the thief. The resolution and frame rate are too slow, and the car is too far away to identify the license plate.

No one deterrent is a "sufficient" deterrent in every case. It's just not practical. So it depends on a bunch of circumstances. There is still value in having a doorbell camera.

There are numerous reports of police using "doorbell footage" to ID a crook. Assuming the police have resources to match a photo to known crooks, it can and does sometimes happen. If the crook doesn't have a record cops have to get creative. Sometimes it works.

If someone reports a theft canvassing the neighborhood may turn up other incidents and a description of a crook. Better resolution would help. Higher frame rate too. More importantly is having a camera at a location to capture a license plate. Not every petty crook is going to steal a car or plates to steal packages off of residential porches.

Xed said:

I knew they had to be getting data from the inside if they're stealing packages like this.z

Maybe maybe not. Around my area it's common for thieves to follow a USP or FedEx truck and run up right behind them and steal a package. It's especially common on the day deliveries of new Apple products starts.

Not saying that there isn't inside info being sold or given out, or that this thief didn't know in advance that package was an HVT but plugging that data leak is just whack-a-mole.

I'd like to know where this info about using tracking data comes from and how many losses are attributed to it.