The police can also force you to put your fingerprint on the phone or has happen in the U.K., Judy tackle you while you're using your phone (https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/05/uk-police-have-a-new-tactic-for-circumventing-strong-iphone-encryption-steal-the-unlocked-phone-out-of-the-criminals-hand/).

There is nothing that Apple can do to prevent rubber-hose decryption.

It is the Individual phone makers who don't care about security. The same problem with Windows PC's

I don't have to wait on the vendor for security updates -- I get them straight from Microsoft.

People who are serious about security would NEVER buy a propritary device that is single-sourced from a company that is VERY aggressive about remaining the single source, and also very closed source themselves.

You mean like all of the closed source drivers in every Android phone or do you mean all Google Services that make what most people consider "Android" Android?

The iPhone 5 introduced in 2012 will have had 5 years of updates and security patches. when iOS 11 comes out in September. Can you say the same about any Android phone?

It's not like Apple did the transitions to APFS seamlessly on hundreds of million of devices already without a hiccup,,,,oh wait...they did.

So it's a small Java based app that runs when you browse to a web page. What next are they going to reintroduce the blink tag?

Roku not having a competitive content business is by design. Roku was originally created within Netflix and then spun out because Netflix wanted to be able to make deals with other hardware providers without it seeming like they were competing against them.

Well two things: Is your setup wife friendly? But more importantly, this is a 49" TV for the bedroom. We weren't trying to deck out or bedroom with an entertainment system.

As far as price, the "smarts" doesn't actually add any perceivable cost to the TV. The TCL 49 inch TV was only $350 from Amazon.

But, you can't pause and rewind live TV with just a Roku box. You can't even receive live TV with a stand-alone Roku.

I hardly ever watch "live" tv. I watch almost everything on demand. We can get live TV via Sling, the FX app, and CBS Now. But the inability for a standalone Roku to get live over the air TV is even more of a reason to get a Roku TV. You can connect an antenna to it and see a preview of what's on OTA (as well as the other HDMI inputs via the Roku app selection screen.

As far as discontinuing updating it, worse case is that you have to buy a Roku stick and connect it to an HDMI port. But even when they discontinue support, the old apps still work. My old 2011 Roku boxes still work with all of the streaming apps I use except for Sling.

It's the integration. One remote to control everything whether it is the physical remote or the mobile app. The mobile app can turn the tv off and control the volume.

In theory I agree and I told myself I would never buy a smart TV. But, I found the TCL Roku TV to enticing to pass up. I trust Roku to make good software much more than I trust most TV manufacturers.

Follow a formula like Babylon 5 used. A story with a beginning, middle and end. Having a definite ending where everyone lives happily ever after is important. In the last few episodes you can see the pieces being moved off the chessboard as everyone gets promoted or retires or whatever. It doesn't have to be a five year story arc. But it does have to be something that you can definitely pull off without cancelling it.

Is that really a great example? If you consider Seasons 1 - 4 and the last episode of season 5, to be the beginning, middle, and end yes. But the fifth season was completely pointless.

What "feature" of the FB app can't be used from their mobile website?

Even if chess.com had found and patched this bug ahead of time (which they may have since the CEO has admitted he's clueless about this tech stuff), as I understand it owners of 32-bit iOS devices would've had to update their software by downloading the patch directly from chess.com. No auto-update via the App Store anymore for 32-bit apps.

That statement is untrue for so many reasons:

1. As of right now the current OS still supports 32 bit apps and 32 bit phones and iPads. The current OS supports the iPhone 5 and 5C.

2. Apple does require app developers to submit 64 bit versions of new code but they are perfectly capable of submitting a fat binary that can support iOS versions back to iOS 7 - released back in 2013.

3. The App Store also allows you to download older versions of current apps when the newest version doesn't support your hardware. This supports goes back to iOS 5-released in 2011. I can confirm this. I did it earlier this year with a circa 2010 1st gen iPad.

I'm a non cable subscriber- not a "cord cutter" since my tv viewing still comes via a cord at home...

1.Hulu
2.Netflix
3.CBS All Access
4.Sling TV
5.Amazon Prime
6. AT&T Gigapower.

For software/computer related stuff
1. BackBlaze
2. Resharper
3. Pluralsight

And because I don't do manual labor....

1. A lawn service.

Also it means I have to throw away my Core Duo based macs.

Apple not supporting 32 bit apps in 2018 doesn't affect your Core Duo Macs. Apple stopped supporting 32 bit computers back in July 2011 with the release of 10.7.

On the other hand, your computer is still usable and can run modern apps -- just install Windows 7 on it. I have a Core Duo Mac Mini 1.66Ghz (circa 2006) running Windows 7.