plovell

I have a three point AirPlay music system at home, driven from my Mac. Adding HomePod in the kitchen makes four. It sounds great but is hopeless at integration. If I try to control the volume on the HomePod "buttons", the system-wide volume is reduced to almost nothing. Doesn't matter whether I use "+" or "-". If I tell Siri to stop (i.e. pause) that works OK. But trying to resume starts playing at the first track in my library (I have iCloud Library but not Apple Music). So - nice engineering but the usage cases are woefully deficient.

Anyone who creates an AppleID as something other than "@icloud.com" is just asking for trouble. 

Seriously - create the id AND the iCloud account that's married to it. It's free. It'll always be there to rescue you. You don't have to use it every day or even much at all but some day, some time it may just save your bacon.

As an example, a friend years ago set up her iPhone with a "verizon.net" email as AppleID. I had politely suggested that she not do that but she forcefully defended her decision saying that she didn't need any of that Apple email **** so there. Mmmmkay. Besides, Verizon's a big company and that email isn't going to change.

Fast forward a few years and - lordy lordy - the Verizon email IS changing and going to AOL domains. Although Verizon had some scheme for retaining existing addresses, this was unacceptable so she bailed on that and now has a new and different gmail address for her AppleID (as well as her everything else). 

Now she's upset because her friends are confused that "Messages" to her go to [email protected] but email is to [email protected] and they're all confused. And this is Apple's fault. 

So just remember - any time you create a new AppleID for someone, always ALWAYS create along with it the matching icloud.com address. You can't do it later, so do it right the first time. Do NOT take "no" for an answer. 

p.s. one convenient exception is if you're sending to another device signed in with the same AppleID. Then they do just appear on the target. So I can drop stuff from my iPhone to MBP simply and easily.

In my experience, even if it's set to "Everyone", you're prompted "Accept" or "Decline" when someone tries to send. Photos and files don't just appear - you have to accept them.

maciekskontakt said:

volcan said:

Soli said:

What a worthless expense.

Just pocket change compared to Trump's weekend visits to Mar Lago - $3.6 million each.

I am not sure if you understand difference: FBI expense is from out pockets. Mr. Trump can afford it from his own pocket. He does not charge our pockets nearly as previous president. And also do not forget that Mrs. Feinstein is not President of the Uniteted States so your comparison is quite misplaced. Have some reason and respect.

Maybe he CAN afford to pay it, but he does not. Instead, we the taxpayers pay him (i.e. the companies that he continues to own). 

As for your claim that he "does not charge our pockets nearly as previous president" - that's demonstrably false. 

And your plea for "some reason and respect" !! Trying to fit either of those in the same sentence with "Trump" is ridiculous. The man has little reason and no respect.