arthurba

Let me share an 'outside the US' perspective.

All this discussion about RCS is moot.

If I send an SMS/RCS to any Android contact, I never get a reply and they never see it.

Why?

Because Android users use WhatsApp.  In other countries it's WeChat.  

They see it as a combination iMessage/Facetime app and use it just like us Apple users use iMessage/Facetime - ie: we don't use anything else.

I asked a friend about my text message and they showed me their phone: no sign of my message, and no sign of any app that would show an SMS either.  They either hadn't installed it or deleted that app.

I'm guessing in the US it's different, but I wouldn't think that it will be different for long.

Comparing this with the TP-Link C120 is wrong - the C120 doesn't have any HomeKit support, and I've not seen even a hint that it may come ever.

Also weird timing for this review.  I've used Eufy 2C's for a few years already.  

They obviously wear out being in the weather and mine have all started to die.  Eufy's newer cameras just do not support HomeKit at all, so it doesn't seem sensible to me to be investing in these again.  

I'd prefer higher resolution than 1080p though I'm not sure HSV supports more than this.

Where are the newer HomeKit Secure Video cameras - particularly for outdoor?  Crickets.

chasm said:

If they continue on the Huffman path, the unpaid labour pool and users will likely abandon it. Its bizarre that, having seen that this is what’s going to happen, Huffman would risk his entire business on his arrogant presumptions and false sense of urgency.

Thanks for this reply. The tone of the Appleinsider commentary on this is OTT.

However can I offer a slight alternative take to yours?  I use reddit and so do most people I know and none of us use this app. Huffman will have the actual stats on who uses the Web site and official app vs who uses the API. Maybe he knows this 3rd party app is actually a storm in a teacup.

The future of Reddit is via a paid subscription or through advertising.  Twitter apps that bypassed the advertising and refused to pay a subscription were never going to last and the user's who would only access it that way were never going to stay it could be the same for Reddit. These end users that use the 3rd party app may never stay, so why bother cater to them?

Of course failure to engage and manage the whole thing is a spectacular failure that should indeed cause the board to reconsider his role.  But the end result?  Same. 

Moderators closing the forums over this is just locking actual consumers of the content out.  I (and everyone else I know) are not contributing to these polls. 

My (limited) understanding of this is that they were using the old 'version 1' Twitter API which Twitter had told people not to use for quite some time. Now I believe these app developers did complain that the 'version 2' api was a step backwards in their view, but twitters policy of using api2 did jot change. On top of that, these apps didn't display ads (the thing that pays for Twitter).  All of this was pre-Elon. 

foregoneconclusion said:

FYI: Apple's web site clearly says that the maximum trade-in value for the "computer" category is $1250. Should be obvious that a $50K system isn't the intended target for this kind of program. 

As @mikethemartian suggested, the true value of the Mac Pro can be found not in what Apple will pay you as a trade in, but what Apple sell 'refurbished' units as:
https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished/mac/mac-pro

That page lists "Refurbished Mac Pro 2.5GHz 28-core Intel Xeon W, Two Radeon Pro Vega II Duo, Apple Afterburner" for $39,239.00 and includes: