saarek

The only time I ever felt burned by buying an Apple product was with the iPad 3. Less than 6 months after its release out came the vastly superior iPad 4 with a CPU that would drive the retina display for a good few iOS cycles, unlike the lemon I bought that became practically unusable with iOS 7.

BittySon said:

That would be Jeff Bezos.  Laughing at the idiots willingly - nay paying for the privilege of -  allowing him to listen to everything in their households.  

Perhaps, but HomeKit seems stalled in the market place at the moment. Pretty much every smart home device works with Alexa and most do not seem compatible with HomeKit.

I've finally taken the plunge, after waiting two years to see what Apple would do, and purchased two Echo Dots. Unlike HomeKit they work with Hive and they work with Logitech's Harmony Hub so my lights, heating, smart plugs and all the devices in my home entertainment centre all just work with voice.

Apple could still catchup, but every month it gets harder. It's already Alexa first and then maybe Google Home which is sometimes followed up by HomeKit.

I got fed up of waiting for Apple to properly get into the space they bloody started. I began feeling like the Microsoft Phone users must have felt like when it was iOS first, then Android and then only sometimes Windows Phone.

I have to admit that I am mightily impressed with the Echo Dots so far. Setup was painless, almost Apple like actually. The microphones pick me up easily, even with ambient noise/the TV on. And best of all I nabbed them for just £30 each, one of the best investments I ever made, should have done it two years ago rather than wait.

For anyone else who is a primarily Apple based household and has held off waiting for Apple and HomeKit adoption, don't bother, not when what Amazon is offering is so cheap and works so well.

Oh, and before anyone decides that I probably don't have an Apple centric household, the MacBook Pro, 27" iMac, 2 X iPhones, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV would disagree with you.

I wonder how quickly they’ll drop the U.K. pricing now that the pound is back to pre-brexit levels.

Probably not quickly, if at all.

Apple just doesn’t seem able to ship a product or software update in full now adays. There is always something “coming soon”. No product is unaffected, it’s turning into a real cluster fuck.

iMessage Cloud, APFS for Fusion Drives, AirPlay 2 etc, what the hell is going wrong in Cupertino?

Doesn't show up for me on my iPhone 6s Plus, strange.

** Edit **

That'll be because I am in the UK, I suppose I shouldn't have expected Apple to release a feature that is already months late to countries that already have Apple Pay working just fine.......