In the last year I've bought several new devices with USB connectors. In all cases the computer-end of the included cable was USB-A, and in all but one case (the GoPro) the device end was micro USB-B. These are not only currently shipping products, but one of them is brand-new to the market two months ago. I *might* have considered one of these MacBook Pros to replace my 2012 11" MacBook (an excellent form factor for travel but a lousy screen resolution for FCPX or Lightroom) if they'd gone back to a decent keyboard, but I'm not going to use something where I can't even tell if the keystroke registered or not. And no, I don't want haptic feedback, I want key travel.

Will it be like the Timex Sinclair 1000 keyboard, the Atari 400 keyboard, the PC Jr keyboard, or the original TI99-4 keyboard? They all kept out liquids and crumbs. Oh, and they sucked.

You're just plain wrong. The closest turbines would have been only four miles off the shore of the Cape. Colby did a visibility study https://digitalcommons.colby.e... and found that “41.25% of residential areas will be able to see 90% of at least one tower.”

The problematic sequence that gets generated is the capital I followed by the hex sequence ef b8 8f, which is known as Variation Selector 16. That's “An invisible codepoint which specifies that the preceding character should be displayed with emoji presentation. Only required if the preceding character defaults to text presentation.” So in a sense it's technically correct, it's trying to say to display an eye or eyes when you've typed an "I". The problem is twofold: a) people aren't trying to type emoji, and 2) it doesn't actually work.

It means I can no longer simply tap off BT in the Control Center to stop draining the battery of my Apple Pencil since the motion of carrying it around with the iPad wakes it up and connects it, since there's no "off" button. Because why would it need one when it has motion sensors to know when it's being used or not

And lottery tickets!

Not Star Trek â" Babylon 5. Valen spent time in a shell.

This. I would rather buy local, fresh from the farm a couple miles down the road, pesticide and chemical-free, but not certified organic because the certification process is too damned expensive.

What about this one?
http://help.apple.com/iphone/1...

That's a horrible idea. Seriously. That's just asking for a mouse infestation. Once they're in the car they'll chew on wires, get into the insulation and if they nest in the heating/ventilation system you'll never get the urine smell out.

Excellent, thank you.

0.10.5 on MacOS does not believe any new updates are available.

I have a Withings scale and use the Withings Health Mate iOS app to control it. I just checked and Health Mate is still available in the iOS App Store. They may have pulled the scale or other "physical" products out of the Apple Store (online and/or brick and mortar) but do not appear to have done anything with the iOS App Store.

Uh, yes, I do. I'm in fact capable of talking about two different technologies in the same post.

Yes, Windows boxes can wake on lan but in your case it sounds like the other computer is doing the waking. That's not the same as Bonjour Sleep Proxy, where the router continues to advertise the service via mDNS even though the machine that was offering that service has gone to sleep. Your "favorites" are completely different from Bonjour-advertised services. And my question remains about whether this means the end of NAT-PMP in favor of uPNP or not.

Airplay, mentioned by other responders, is another technology which I leverage strongly in the house and forgot to mention. I have Airport Extremes (which I have to use an ancient Netbook running XP in order to run a version of the #$%@! configuration utility that will work with them — hate you for that, Apple) plugged into powered speaker systems in several places in the house. When they eventually die, what will I replace them with? An old laptop running Airfoil Satellite???

One thing Apple routers had was the ability to set themselves up as a Bonjour proxy, so for example your Mac could advertise its iTunes library sharing, but go to sleep. The router would repoint the address to itself, and if you tried to access that library from another device, the router would send a wakeup to the Mac, then repoint Bonjour back at it.

Also, while the rest of the world uses uPNP, Apple routers use NAT-PMP.

Are these technologies just dead now?

And in response to the comments above about more availability for network drives to be used as remote Time Machine backups, instead of requiring a Time Capsule, will Apple decide to kill off remote backups entirely because the experience is no longer guaranteed or even consistent with third-party devices?