macgui

Couldn't find it in on my iPad's App Store until Filter > iPhone Only

No Battery Management for the 5s.

It's fairly smooth most of the time, but scrolling through a long list of icons causes it to scroll/stop/scroll/stop with the stops like throwing on brakes instead of slowing to a stop. For my 5s, this started with 11.0.

Most apps are slow to load but perform fine once loaded (as long as a lot of scrolling isn't involved).

My battery is in poor shape and I have to get to installing a new one. I don't know if that will improve anything beyond overall run time, as the 5s wasn't subject to iOS throttling.

Fucking idiots on parade.

Of course people are going to complain when a characteristic is significantly changed, as they should. Frequency response is not subjective. Alter it and the resulting audio is altered. Whether it's argued to be good or bad is subjective. Whether it's there or not isn't. Some of you a) don't own a HomePod so don't care or b) are tone deaf and audio fidelity is lost on you.

Those of you complaining about users being upset would whine like little bitches if Apple put out a firmware update that gave a purple tint to your display. Or if it changed your monitor's resolution from 2560x1440 to 1920x1080. But not to worry as 'it's subjective'. 

I haven't heard either version of the HP yet. But while most people lauded the audio quality, a few people who took the time to critique the sound said that it lacked presence and the mid-bass crept up into the mid-range. This is common problem for a lot of modern small speakers— tailoring the sound to be bass-heavy at the expense of balanced frequency response.

Regardless of which version is preferred, anybody should be ticked if a change to their purchase, after the fact, negatively affected them. 

canukstorm said:

macgui said:
My wish is that Siri and HomePod would eliminate [my] need for Alexa and Dot. But that probably won't happen for years. So I use them both.

At this point, given the trajectory of Alexa & Google Assistant usage, that won't happen at all.  Chances are that would've happened if Apple's Siri leadership & team had their ducks in a row right around the time Siri was acquired.

You're speaking to over all usage for the general population. I suppose I should have used 'my' instead of 'the' but didn't think it necessary given my overall context of 'it's all about me'. See my correction above.

Outside of that, even if Siri's team had indeed been a team, there would still be an Alexa and Google Assistant, and that's a good thing. Everybody needs competition, and generally we, as users, reap benefits.

You may be right, but that will depend more on Apple's trajectory, for me. If Siri does what I want, it won't matter if Alexa does more. I'm not at all comfortable with a Google device in the house, so there isn't one. I'm not all that cozy with Alexa either, but I wear a tinfoil nightcap and hope for the best.

Something about always-on AI DAs bothers me. Occasionally Siri will respond to something from the TV that sounded like 'Siri!' but not 'Hey, Siri...' Siri wakes up, makes a non-sequitier response, and goes back to... sleep? Alexa will wake up and listen for no reason that I can hear. Nothing remotely sounds like 'Alex...!' yet it's awake for several seconds, then goes back too... sleep. It's like your can quietly sleeping then suddenly popping it's head up, looking around furtively, then thinking 'Serial killer!' and going back to sleep. Or it's just Bezos or the NSA making a routine sweep.

That may explain why, after watching porn, Amazon gives me recommendations for condoms, lube, rope, and salves. 

I might add that unless your iPhone is already in your hand and unlocked, asking Alexa about the weather is almost always faster than looking it up on a visual device or asking Siri.

However using a favorite, more detailed weather app would outweigh Alexa's speed and simple response.