Apple’s upcoming smart display product
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Welcome to the five max daily for wednesday, november thirteen th, twenty twenty four. I'm your host, chance Miller leading up today. Last week we talked about an upgrade to the find my APP in I O S eighteen point two, but to share the location of a lost air tag or find my network accessory using a link that anyone can view.

Now apple has published a press release detAiling the new feature, including partnerships that will see more than fifteen airlines began accepting. Find my item location links. The new feature allows you to generate a link and to find my APP for a lost air tiger.

Other accessory that link can then be shared with other people to help locate the lost item. Using the link, people can view a website that shows the location of the item on an interactive map and updates automatically when a new location is available with time stamps. For the most recent updates, apple says that its partnership with more than fifteen airlines will see those airlines except find my location links to help locate this handle or delayed bags.

The system will allow airlines to privately and security except share item location information. Apple says that he has worked closely with these airlines to put systems in place to privately and security. Except these location links.

Access to each link will be limited to a small number of people, and recipients will be required to authentication in order to view the link either through the apple account or a partner airline email address. Among the fifteen airlines include air canada, british airways, united, delta, virgin atlantic and others. IOS eighteen point two with this feature is currently available in developer and public beta testers and will be released to the general public in december.

Next up today, there is yet another battle burning between the european union and apple. And a press release week, the european commission announced that he has notified apple that IT may be violating the e use anti geo blocking rules with apple media services, including the apple store, apple music, apple T, V plus and more. The european commission says that a coordinated investigation by the consumer protection CoOperation network found a number of limitations on apple media services that unlawful, fully discriminate european and consumers based on their place of residence.

For example, apple media services have a different interface for different countries in the european union, and consumers are allowed to access the interface made for the country where they have registered their apple account, and they face significant chAllenges when attempting to change this, something that is not allowed under the E. U. Anti geo blocking rules.

When making paid purchases, customers are only allowed to use payment methods issued in the country where they are registered with their apple account, and because the APP store does not allow consumers to access the version of another E, U, country, consumers are not allowed to download the apps offered in those other countries. The E, U. Says that consumers should be able to download apps offered in other countries when they travel to or temporarily stay in that country.

Apple now has one month to respond to the findings and propose commitments on how they will address the identify geo blocking practices. The european commission may then enter into a dialogue with the company, but if apple fails to address the concerns, the E. C.

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Running out today, apple is aiming to release its first apple intelligence power smart home device as early as march. According to a new report from bloomberg. The product will take the form of a wall mounted display that resembles a traditional home security panel.

Apple's hope is that IT will serve as a command center for the home with a combination of apple apps, apple intelligence and integration with home kit. The device will feature a square display that is roughly six inches and about the size of two iphones side by side with a thick edge around the display. IT will reportedly feature a camera at the top center, along with a rechargeable built in battery and speakers.

The design is senate around being attached to a wall like a classic home security panel, and they'll be available in silver and black color options. Bomberg also reports that there will be bases with additional speakers that can be placed in the kitchen on a night stand or on a desk. The company has also developed a system that uses external sensors to detect how many people are nearby.

The product will be a stand alone device so you can Operate almost entirely on its own, but IT will require an iphone for some tasks, including parts of the initial set up. It'll also work with apples hand off feature, which lets use a trigger, a function on one device, then continue IT on their iphone after walking away on the software side of things, the user interface reportedly looks like a blind of the iphone. Stand by mode and watch O S.

Apple's belief, however, is that most people will use theory and apple intelligence features to interact with the product. The software will adapt the pinning on how close a person is to the display. So for example, if a person is several feather way IT might show the temperature.

But as the approach, you can switch to a panel for adJusting the home thermos. There also be a customizable home screen for things like widgets and a fully customized both screen to highlight different homecare controls. Apple reportedly discussed launching an APP store as part of device, but recently scrapped that plan for now.

Instead, I will run apple apps like safari, face time, apple music and apple news. And of course, I will happen to the homework. ID ecosystem for controlling smart home devices. Apple is also continuing its work on a higher and smart home product that features a robotic limb to move the screen around, Priced at around a thousand dollars.

This one count to display, however, will cost far less than that t and be similar to products like amazon's echo show, where Prices range from under one hundred dollars to around two hundred and fifty. The hardware was designed around APP intense, a system that lets apple intelligence precisely control applications and tasks set today view in the coming months. And apple is targeting a release for this warm ted display product by march that ups up another episode of ninety five mac daily.

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