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saarek said:

I'm eagerly waiting the next Apple Watch. My current S1 is starting to show it's age, it's so slow, and I really want cellular.

As the Series 5 was such a basic update over the Series 4 I'm hoping the Series 6 really moves the needle.

The Series 5 was a game changer for me and became my first Apple Watch. I never related to wearing a blank, black display on my wrist.

Now I have one, I value the 'always on' display even more because I know the raise to read gesture can be so cranky.
...yea, yea, I know, I'm wearing it wrong 

crowley said:

iBeacons have been around a while now.

Agreed. I was wondering if their protocol could substitute for UWB in other places too (eg tags), meaning that recent hardware without U1 could still locate those new devices (presumably with reduced resolution).

If devices like tags are imminent then their addressable market of iPhone users would be greatly increased if they can interwork with these modern 'legacy' devices that don't have U1.

On Apple's UK site, both the new iPhone SE and the current iPad Pro list "iBeacon micro-location" under 'Location' in their specs. I wonder if there is an alternative technique to the U1 chip.

I think the SE is a great phone, BTW. Apart from the price, and who doesn't like spending less, it bundles a good selection of Apple's latest-generation technology into a package that's usefully smaller and lighter (40g, almost a quarter) than an 11 Pro. Not quite as groundbreaking as the first SE perhaps but still a usefully different proposition.

SpamSandwich said:

Good riddance?

Feels that way doesn't it.

Siri should be able to reliably and flexibly do some easily defined and useful subset of functions on, say, iPhone by now. All this "and now read what's on the display" is not only useless, it also discourages use of Siri because you expect to have to pull out the phone and look at it anyway... so you might as well use the touchscreen that you know is going to work.

The actual speech recognition is really good (I use dictation all the time for messages and E-Mails) but the capabilities behind are rudimentary.

These guys seem to be living in the past, for many years now you've had to put security foremost in networking products even if it does cause the user some extra steps. Misleading the user on installation isn't good either, let alone hidden reinstallation.

"enabling our users to have seamless, one-click-to-join meetings" cannot come at the expense of exposing the user to unintended/unknown camera or microphone activation.

I am pleased never to have used the software, they will need a pretty convincing update to satisfy those that have.