@daringfireball Apple wants all their platforms to be full bleed publications/interfaces, consequences be damned.

@siracusa I’ll be passing through shortly.

@siracusa i remember well in the early days of WiFi when Cisco etc had mesh wifi products for enterprise. The idea of the mesh is each node connects to all other nodes in range or wired and the system chooses the lowest cost path to relieve congestion. I know at least some of the retail solutions require a percentage of the nodes to be hardwired to maintain performance.

@caseyliss i occasionally charge my AirPods case alone while wearing the AirPods (2, lightning, wireless). Have you tried this?

@siracusa your robot theory is basically the Star Wars robot model.

@siracusa i could care less about the unified video player, but Netflix not putting their catalog in the appletv base search is bad for us and for them. I know I watch dramatically less Netflix because of this. I know my family watches less Netflix because the shows they watch don’t show up in the unified que. keeping track of all the series on all the services is not something many people are prepared to do.

@siracusa i have a great (I think) name and tag for the second version. Hyperspace two: bigger on the inside.

@siracusa the FoV is immutable from the focal length of the lens, for all practical purposes. Because the VR interface requires 180deg FoV, you cannot say use a telephoto lens which might have a 60deg FoV. So how would you get closer in to the subject? Easy way is bring the camera closer. The hard way is what the gigapixel project does and combines tens or hundreds of images to build out the full field of view with a telephoto lens. There’s a third, poor quality option, which is effectively digital zoom. That’s what QuickTimeVR used to do.

@caseyliss Louisiana here, leaving your car in the sun all day where we are will destroy your interior. 10 years is optimistic.

@marcoarment FWIW I’m excited for the new titanium Milanese ultra 2 band. Milanese is easily the best band for someone who spends long periods outside in the heat; the new clasp means the previous weakness of the magnet clasp sliding when damp should be fixed.