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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.

davidlewis54 said:

Isn’t it time to grow up?  Do we really need childish names for things (Google, as an example) and kids cartoon characters as screen savers?

I am grown up and I like the Peanuts Snoopy stuff, so worry about yourowndamself. Why would a supposed grownup worry about others' choice of screensavers. You want to "influence" people, worry about those who didn't vote for democracy.

That said, the flyover (LOL) screensavers are really great and I'd like to see more of those. I was watching one recently and it looked more like a render than the others. Maybe I need to rethink the selected resolution. Or flights through cities, forests and canyons. They'd be harder to do. The high-end third-party aquarium screensavers are really nice.

Maybe AI could do an article on well done third-party screensavers. They're not needed but they're nice to run while kick back listening to music. An iOS type Memories saver for macOS would be appreciated but simpler. As option to run non-stop with all the segues/fads but without text.

I've never worn a ring but might consider one operating in the Apple Garden of Walls. I've had Apple Watches for some time, but they are more 'lab instruments' than watch. No matter how much you polish them they're still 'lab gear' more than an objet d'art. There's nothing wrong with that but I own some nice mechanical watches are objets d'art, at least to a much greater degree than an Apple Watch.

So I don't wear a Watch every day but swap it/them out with one of my nice looking mechanicals. I'd wear my Watches more often if Apple made some nice analog watch faces worthy of a good dress watch. But it would still be a Watch. I'm talking form over function at this point.

A ring would allow me to wear a nice watch and still collect the health data I'd want. Does Apple have now have hardware that might not be in violation of the IP fight? If it could do SpO2 that would be great! If Apple makes a ring I'll check out before spending any money or making any judgements.