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This is true, but largely irrelevant to the Epic case.

I think the posters here don’t know many teens. It’s not that there aren’t equivalent or better chat clients, it’s that all your friends are on iMessage. Definite source of lock-in.

One reason to charge a nominal fee for the beta is to weed out anyone who doesn’t care enough to use it, but just wants to see what it looks like.

“Apple and financial partner Goldman Sachs are expected to launch the new Apple Card in the US within the first half of August. If correct, that means the launch would be in the next two to three weeks. While this puts the release at the end of Apple's stated 'summer' timeframe, sources say the timing is on schedule.”

Allow me to be the pedant who points out that, because summer is June 21 until September 23, this release would be right in the middle of summer.

mobird said:

If i recall, when Tim Cook introduced ARkit did he not talk about the millions of the "installed base" of iOS devices that would take advantage of AR.
Anyone who has followed this more closely please jump in and correct me if I have this wrong.

You’re correct, but keep in mind that the vast majority of AR features work on the older phones, including many of the other features they added this year.

Another thing to keep in mind... when ARKit3 actually gets released this Fall, there will be two generations of hardware that support People Occlusion and Motion Capture: last year’s phone/pad and this year’s. By the time apps with those features are widespread, it will likely be three generations.

The more annoying angle is for developers: simulators won’t cut it, so we absolutely have to have the most recent models to even evaluate this tech.

It works for me without a visual indicator.
If I raise my wrist, it does not switch to the Siri screen until I start talking.

But it hears what I was saying even before it gives me any display on the screen.