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cpsro said:

Too bad!  AirPort Extremes are rock solid and are still about the cheapest way to roam seamlessly between base stations on the same network using identical SSIDs.  Newer mesh network hardware can do this but they're also proprietary and have their own limitations and problems.

That comment about the original AirPort having been bought is a lame diversion from the fact that Apple was the first major OEM to champion wifi. Like that excuses the company from exiting the business, when it had a huge lead over the competition.  Simply, leads are lost if efforts aren't adequately funded going forward.

Q: what wifi hardware does Apple now endorse for use with its products?

I highly recommend the Netgear Orbi. It is an absolutely fantastic wireless "mesh" router system and worth every penny. I upgraded my cable connection to 350 / 30 last year and the Apple basestations were only giving me about 30 / 12. I researched it very thoroughly and settled on the Orbis. They give me 330 / 20 virtually everywhere in the house. The download speed is literally 10 times better than the Airports were. They are trivially easy to set up, look nice, and are highly configurable. I get the distinct feeling that Apple gave up trying to compete in this space -they aren't even remotely close anymore.

I really hope Apple goes all in on MicroLED. This technology is the next wave. Ultra low energy, ultra high contrast, no back lighting, extremely bright, very pure color reproduction, extremely high resolution. It puts everything that came before it to utter shame. I know it won't be available on a laptop for many years to come, but it will be worth the wait, and if Apple can shorten the wait time, even better.

> Apple Park flyover specialist

That seems a bit made up.

gatorguy said:
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...And Samsung revealing an actual microLED TV "wall" at CES? Had no idea it was even possible yet. Samsung is obviously a lot further along with the tech than I realized.
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Sony has been rolling theirs out of the warehouse since 2012. microLED is the future, but likely one in which I will have been long dead at this pace.

https://www.ledinside.com/outlook/2016/7/sony_and_apple_micro_led_display_market_strategy

I work for a video conferencing company. I assure you that the reason we ask for permission to use the camera is so that we CAN take your picture and send it to the server. That's what it is supposed to do.

That being said -we do have a button that turns the camera on and off. I think what Mr Sad Face is really saying is that our app could turn the camera on without the user's explicit knowledge. The framing of his argument should have been more along the lines of, even if the user trusts the app, there is no way for the user to know if the app has turned the camera on. The way it was presented is apps that have been explicitly trusted should not be trusted and that this is some kind of exploit. He should rightly be mocked for that.