jhollington

It is worth noting that the prior eero and eero 6 models haven't had HKSR support removed, despite multiple firmware updates and the addition of other new features such as PPPoE support (finally) since the release of the later 6E models.

It's still working well enough on my eero 6 Pro mesh setup, and it's ideal for those devices I want to lock down entirely, such as forcing Eufy cameras to use only HKSV rather than Eufy's own cloud. However, the "automatic" mode has always been nearly useless as few manufacturers ever provided Apple with the necessary firewall rules. Of the dozen or so different HomeKit devices I have, only Logitech, ecobee, and Hue ever offered specific rules, and a few months ago, my Hue bridge stopped accepting the automatic mode — the Home app just keeps saying it won't apply the settings anymore. 

charlesn said:

Nope. 41mm and 44mm are the new case sizes. You are correct that these are only marginally larger than the previous case sizes of 40mm and 42mm, while the percentage increase in screen size is considerably more than that due to shrinking the bezels. My guess would be a smaller third size which would appeal to a vast quantity of buyers that includes adults with smaller wrists and children. The smallest Watch case size is now 8% larger than the initial 38mm--it's only 1mm shy of what was the large Watch when it debuted. So there's a need for a small Watch again that's not an outdated Series 3. 

Exactly this. In fact, if you do the math you can figure out that the screen actually grew twice as much with the Series 4 — about 4mm in each direction — due to the smaller bezels. Apple still hasn't released official specs on the Series 7, but I suspect the same is true this time around as well. 

jdw said:

That's precisely why I've said in other threads that Apple is now obligated to at the very least DELAY the release until they can do PR damage control and at least try to win more public support.  They cannot do that between now and the release of iOS 15, so the feature must be pulled from iOS 15 and delay the release until at least iOS 16.

What's funny is that everybody seems to think this is coming in iOS 15.0, when clearly Apple can't even get SharePlay ready in time for next month.

In reality, Apple already said in the original announcement that it wasn't coming until "later this year," which likely means iOS 15.1, 15.2, or 15.3, depending on how many point releases it gets out this year...

These features are coming later this year in updates to iOS 15, iPadOS 15, watchOS 8, and macOS Monterey.

So Apple has a bit more time to make up its mind, and I can see them at least pushing it into early next year, much like they did with ATT last year. I doubt that they'll hold off until iOS 16 on this one, though...