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Apple made a huge error not buying Eero and making AppleTV and HomePod devices into zero effort mesh points. They got out of the router business just a couple years too early since it was fully commoditized at the time, but the mesh revolution was just around the corner with a whole new market to conqueror.

Letting Amazon get Eero is one of the few consumer facing misses Apple has made in the last few years (the keyboard debacle being the other)

TBH I think mesh routers are overhyped garbage. They don't work well, and pollute the spectrum, and are a really poor substitute for cables.

The only reason why they sell well is because people will buy anything as long as they don't need to lay cables.

Sounds like you would have appreciated a reliable mesh from Apple. I certainly would.

> Then someday may be they could allow Apple TV to be a Router so there is one less devices in my living room. And they could also act as a mesh system.

This is a great idea! Also, it would be awesome if Apple offered a version of Apple TV as a sound bar. Ideally it would be sound bar/router/tvOS.

> And Apple courting current TV Station to put out an App for their current livestream content. Essentially replacing Over the Air Broadcast with Broadcast via IP.

This is already a reality in Finland.

I haven't owned an antenna cable for over 5 years. All my TV comes directly through the internet from each channel's own app. Most provide live TV or at least make digital releases available at the same time as the live broadcast. (Not that I watch "live" TV anymore, since I don't do sports - which IMO are the only thing where being live actually matters)

My LG TV is just a large monitor for me. The only use it gets is when I need to adjust volume for my consoles or turn the TV on/off. With the new ATV remote it'll be relegated to a fancy console volume controller =)

Apple confirmed to Verge that it doesn't have UWB.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/20/22394335/apple-u1-uwb-loc...

My current TV turns on when I turn on the Apple TV. It's probably an option for the HDMI plug, when it senses power to turn on the TV itself.

It could always turn a TV on or off. I had to change my television settings to allow it to accept commands over hdmi.

>Add the $29 to the price of Apple TV 4K or Remote if they really cared about money.

I'm very happy with my Roku. It has a remote finder/beeper, and was dirt cheap. I looked at Apple TV, but didn't see what it had to offer that would justify $180-$200.

I actually attached a Tile to my remote because my one year likes to hide it.