Are they pricey? A new appletv costs $150. Let’s assume you don’t even have an iPhone, so some of the “apple” features like airplay, HomeKit, etc don’t even matter. Is that really expensive for a box that will give you AT LEAST 3 years of use every single day?

It will always have the latest apps and updates (small exception being google video apps, but those features come) because of the huge install base and higher end hardware. The interface is better than every other competitor and has zero in your face ads (the closest thing is the top bar if you select TV as a top bar app, but that’s almost a feature) it doesn’t suck up your habits and data and is kept updated overtime.

It’s expensive in comparison to the other junk in the space, but that’s just because those are subsidized by the ads and tracking. And they’re rarely updated, and the experience sucks, and, and, and.

DVD players were always more than $150 until the very end. Nobody said they were expensive and they only could do one thing.

Another 10 years? No. But another 2 years while Facebook flails around trying to stay relevant doing the dirty work of explaining to your 50 year old aunt what VR even is. Sure.

Then, once there’s even a single compelling reason for the average person (apple doesn’t target niche groups with hardware) to want a VR headset, apple will unveil theirs.

The first iPhone was (I believe) $600 with no subsidy available when paying even $1 for a cell phone was unheard of.

The first iPod (the very first) was expensive relative to other mp3 players.

Again, by Apples playbook you don’t have to be cheap if your product is the best. And, again based on past products, having the first gen be somewhat unattainable for the average person only fuels the demand when gen 2 rolls around at a lower price.

And it will perform twice as well, sell twice as many, and define the category. See: mp3 player, smart phone, tablet, smart watch/wearable, and so on.

This is the playbook. See what the competition is doing. Find a way to improve the experience, not the spec sheet, release the product touting the use case. Profit.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

Enough about this already. I’m sure it’s coming, but until anyone else releases a compelling VR/AR product, apple is never going to. They are not going to be the ones to tip their hands on what the next generation of these devices can be.

An aside, you should never run data cables parallel (through the same hole) as power. You’re power cables will interfere with the data and reduce performance.

You can’t just open a single faucet and be done. You need to open up at least 2, and preferably at different elevations with one being lower than most of your water pipes.

What this commenter is saying (I assume) is that shutting off the supply, and then opening just one faucet, you potentially trap whatever water is “below” that open faucet. Without moving water, those pipes can more easily burst when frozen. It won’t flood while you’re gone, but it can still freeze and then flood when you turn it back on.

What OP is trying to quickly describe is to empty your houses water lines completely before leaving. Then, with empty pipes there’s nothing to freeze. But not every house is the same, and in a somewhat typical 2 story house with a basement, shutting off the supply and then opening a faucet in the 1st or 2nd floor will leave the pipes in the basement (where it is coldest) full of water. It’s possible that the water freezing will expand up the empty pipe, and not “out” to burst them, but that’s not a guarantee.

Also, if you have water lines that feed a garden hose, which are not frost proof, those could very easily freeze and are almost certainly below a first floor faucet.

This is somewhat reckless advice as it’s incomplete.