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Fixing the keyboard to the display is ergonomically terrible and makes no sense in a desktop computer. My keyboard is on an adjustable tray, 14 inches below the bottom edge of my iMac display and 11 inches in front of it, tilted backwards 10 degrees. I will purchase no computer that doesn't allow me to replicate this geometry, which eliminated my nearly debilitating RSI pain over 20 years ago.

I just skimmed the entire patent.

As someone who designed electrocardiographs, patient monitors, wearable cardiac recorders, etc, it looks like Apple's patent contains some nonsense. I've seen such wishful thinking from university engineering projects over the years (MIT seems to rediscover ECG tee-shirts every five years or so), but to see it from Apple is surprising. The idea that they can use an air-gap antenna to sense ECG potentials at what appears to be a distance of inches is truly astonishing BS.

I might read it more carefully in bed tonight. At the moment, this patent raises the hair on the back of my neck.

We have five AppleTVs driving five different brands of TVs/projectors. Using the shared Home Screen, we need understand only one interface and the experience is identical everywhere. All remotes are the same, all apps are in the same place, our favorites and histories are on all units, if we pause viewing in one place, we can pick it up in another. Does anyone else offer that?

cg27 said:

Can’t wait for Plug and Play - it just works simplicity with no bridges.

In my experience so far, Plug and Play requires bridges. Whether Lutron, Hue or Sonoff 433MHz, getting hardware off of Wi-Fi and on to another frequency band and protocol makes a world of difference. My home currently has over 100 HomeKit devices. I haven't had a hiccup with bridge connected devices in the more than three years I've been using them. Meanwhile, malfunctions in Wi-Fi connected devices (Wemo, iDevices, HomePod, Airport Express) happen almost daily. This has been true over three generations of underlying Wi-Fi routers. I started with three Airport Extremes, graduated to EERO and I'm now using Velop.

Apple's HomePods have been the worst of the bunch. We have 14 of them and I don't think they've ever all been working. Factory resets are a monthly affair, Siri ignores volume control requests and Siri requests are often fielded from HomePods so far away in our home that we can't hear her responses. It's a mess and I have no interest in Apple introduced some kind of merged incompetence in a new form factor.

They would make what they've already done work first.

lkrupp said:

Seems reasonable that porn filters should be automatic by default. Those who wish to view such material can opt-in if they choose I hope. Leave it to the Mormons to come with this.

Can we have religion filters by default, too? I'm offended by most of them in one way or another.