All Apple All Day

It has taken YEARS, but our biggest project - the finished basement - is finally done. And it's great! We've increased the usable living space in our house by a full 30%. The kids have a living-room area for board games, and there's an additional bedroom and bathroom. And now - finally - we have a built-in dry bar, which matches the built-in home theater upstairs.

We recently added a SONOS CONNECT to our primary home theater. This got some pushback... and I'll grant that it's a little bit unnecessary. Our home theater has an AppleTV and Apple Music... we can already play almost any song ever published, immediately, with voice control. So why a Sonos? Because we have a turntable!

Apple has always kept their cards close to their vest.  Eight years old and still getting it done.  But this is getting ridiculous.  The AAAD household has a LOT of Apple devices. But our Macs are getting a bit long in the tooth. I'd love to upgrade them, across the board. New Mac Mini, new iMac. But I wait. Because upgrades are surely just around the corner, right? Right?

We've been using Sony's Playstation Vue television service for a bit more than two months. Last Sunday, we had two families over to watch the Super Bowl. No one had any idea that we were using a streaming TV service. That is high praise indeed.

Seven years ago today, Steve Jobs invited Apple fans to to "come see our latest creation". He showed us the iPad, and almost immediately, it seemed familiar. In fact, it seemed as though the thing had always existed. It's hard to believe that we've only had iPads for seven years.

Just like that, we seem to have solved the issues with the Siri Remote on our primary AppleTV. I'm guessing that the problem lay with the AppleTV itself, and not the Siri Remote.

We recently made the decision to become cord-cutters, cancelling DirecTV. Now, we have Sony Playstation Vue (and DirecTV NOW) through our Apple TVs. And so far, so good! Until the primary Siri remote just.... stopped... working.