Senstone wearable voice recorder: Our first take

If you’re going to talk to yourself, you might as well remember what you’re saying — and the Senstone wants to help you. It’s a piece of jewelry that combines form and function, serving as a 21st century note-taking device — because pen and paper are so last century.

The Senstone is a Kickstarter project that initially launched in November, but was later postponed. It’s now live again, and early bird backers will get their units in July. We managed to get our hands on a unit, but we can’t offer a final verdict yet as it’s still a prototype — there are a set of features that are expected to be in the final product that are not in the review unit.

Jewelry you may not want to wear

For a device that’s meant to sit on your wrist or neck, or be clipped onto a dress or collar, the Senstone isn’t very pretty. While design is largely subjective, the black polycarbonate panel is an incredibly glossy fingerprint magnet, and the wearable is pretty thick.

More: Despite making history, Super Bowl LI set no social media records

To be fair, the final production unit won’t use polycarbonate, but will instead feature a scratch-resistant glass screen.

Regardless, the oblong, oval shape isn’t aesthetically pleasing — especially with the pointed edges on both its sides. The necklace it comes with to allow you to wear it as a pendant is just a cheap cord — hopefully the final one is better — but at least it’s easy to slap it on and off. Place the Senstone on the holder sideways and twist. It comes with a clip, and there will be different colors available for the final version.

The strap doesn’t come with it, but it would allow you to wear the Senstone on your wrist like a watch. Keep in mind that you’d have to raise your wrist to your mouth all the time, though, as the company recommends speaking directly into the device, at a distance of at least eight inches from your mouth.

Transcribed notes and a sleek app

The Senstone pendant records voice memos, organizes them, and then translates them into text. Think of it as a hands-free digital notepad. Whether you were just struck by inspiration or need to remember to set a date, the Senstone can help.

More: Take your notes to the next level in iOS 10 with collaboration

The button to record on the prototype is a little slippery and hard to press, but it does the job. For the final production unit, you’ll only have to touch the front screen to start and stop recording. LED lights in the front panel light up in different patterns to indicate what the Senstone is doing — whether it’s actively recording, or if a session just ended.

If you’re in a relatively quiet environment, the Senstone is able to process whatever you say and transcribe it into text via the Bluetooth-connected iOS app. Support for Android is in the works.

The whole process takes about a minute or two after you stop recording (depending on how long your recording is). If your phone isn’t nearby, the device can store up to two and a half hours of recording and will sync with your phone when it’s in range. Its ability to transcribe is fairly remarkable — in quiet environments, it accurately translated long sentences to text fairly quickly with hardly any errors.

The app is well-designed and lets you edit translated text in case there are some errors. You can see the location of where you took a note, and you can play back the recording if you want to hear it again. What’s neat is that you can also use hashtags to organize your memos — just say hashtag and follow it with a single-word tag. You’ll then be able to easily search for your notes via hashtag in the app.

The battery level is indicated on the app, and the company claims it can provide about four days of average use. After making a handful of recordings in two days, our Senstone only went down 10 percent — so it really depends on how many recordings you make. The device rests on a dock to wirelessly charge.

Upcoming features

Unfortunately, in slightly noisy to loud environments, the Senstone didn’t offer text at all — just a voice recording. What should help is a second microphone, which the company plans to add into the final product to help with noise reduction. It’s hard to tell how much the second microphone would help, but in most public environments, the prototype Senstone basically turns into a voice recorder with no text-translating services.

Thankfully, you don’t necessarily have to give up your existing note-taking app — Senstone integrates with Evernote, and the company is promising to integrate more apps. The team has plans to also add in integrations with other kinds of apps like Google Docs and Trello.

Senstone will also be injected with artificial intelligence to understand your surroundings so it can remove noise if you’re in a crowd; add correct punctuation; and recognize emotions and intonation, to adapt to your speaking style and mood.

You’ll be able to snap your fingers to activate a recording session in the final product.

Availability and price

Kickstarter backers can get the the Senstone for $120 — early bird options go as low as $80 — but the final retail price will be $145. It’s a little steep, but if you find yourself forgetting to write down notes when you’re out and about, the Senstone can be a useful tool.

More: OneNote’s update for insiders makes the note-taking app even more secure

The campaign also offers some interesting ideas on other use cases, such as sending memos to your co-workers. If it works well — and if the company follows through on promised features such as emotion and intonation recognition, AI, and third-party integration — the Senstone could certainly be a compelling, modern-day Dictaphone.

The Senstone will be available for retail, if the Kickstarter is successfully funded, in the fall.

Article originally published in October. Updated on 02-07-2017 by Julian Chokkattu: Added first impressions of the Senstone.

Senstone wearable voice recorder: Our first take

If you’re going to talk to yourself, you might as well remember what you’re saying — and the Senstone wants to help you. It’s a piece of jewelry that combines form and function, serving as a 21st century note-taking device — because pen and paper are so last century.

The Senstone is a Kickstarter project that initially launched in November, but was later postponed. It’s now live again, and early bird backers will get their units in July. We managed to get our hands on a unit, but we can’t offer a final verdict yet as it’s still a prototype — there are a set of features that are expected to be in the final product that are not in the review unit.

Jewelry you may not want to wear

For a device that’s meant to sit on your wrist or neck, or be clipped onto a dress or collar, the Senstone isn’t very pretty. While design is largely subjective, the black polycarbonate panel is an incredibly glossy fingerprint magnet, and the wearable is pretty thick.

More: Despite making history, Super Bowl LI set no social media records

To be fair, the final production unit won’t use polycarbonate, but will instead feature a scratch-resistant glass screen.

Regardless, the oblong, oval shape isn’t aesthetically pleasing — especially with the pointed edges on both its sides. The necklace it comes with to allow you to wear it as a pendant is just a cheap cord — hopefully the final one is better — but at least it’s easy to slap it on and off. Place the Senstone on the holder sideways and twist. It comes with a clip, and there will be different colors available for the final version.

The strap doesn’t come with it, but it would allow you to wear the Senstone on your wrist like a watch. Keep in mind that you’d have to raise your wrist to your mouth all the time, though, as the company recommends speaking directly into the device, at a distance of at least eight inches from your mouth.

Transcribed notes and a sleek app

The Senstone pendant records voice memos, organizes them, and then translates them into text. Think of it as a hands-free digital notepad. Whether you were just struck by inspiration or need to remember to set a date, the Senstone can help.

More: Take your notes to the next level in iOS 10 with collaboration

The button to record on the prototype is a little slippery and hard to press, but it does the job. For the final production unit, you’ll only have to touch the front screen to start and stop recording. LED lights in the front panel light up in different patterns to indicate what the Senstone is doing — whether it’s actively recording, or if a session just ended.

If you’re in a relatively quiet environment, the Senstone is able to process whatever you say and transcribe it into text via the Bluetooth-connected iOS app. Support for Android is in the works.

The whole process takes about a minute or two after you stop recording (depending on how long your recording is). If your phone isn’t nearby, the device can store up to two and a half hours of recording and will sync with your phone when it’s in range. Its ability to transcribe is fairly remarkable — in quiet environments, it accurately translated long sentences to text fairly quickly with hardly any errors.

The app is well-designed and lets you edit translated text in case there are some errors. You can see the location of where you took a note, and you can play back the recording if you want to hear it again. What’s neat is that you can also use hashtags to organize your memos — just say hashtag and follow it with a single-word tag. You’ll then be able to easily search for your notes via hashtag in the app.

The battery level is indicated on the app, and the company claims it can provide about four days of average use. After making a handful of recordings in two days, our Senstone only went down 10 percent — so it really depends on how many recordings you make. The device rests on a dock to wirelessly charge.

Upcoming features

Unfortunately, in slightly noisy to loud environments, the Senstone didn’t offer text at all — just a voice recording. What should help is a second microphone, which the company plans to add into the final product to help with noise reduction. It’s hard to tell how much the second microphone would help, but in most public environments, the prototype Senstone basically turns into a voice recorder with no text-translating services.

Thankfully, you don’t necessarily have to give up your existing note-taking app — Senstone integrates with Evernote, and the company is promising to integrate more apps. The team has plans to also add in integrations with other kinds of apps like Google Docs and Trello.

Senstone will also be injected with artificial intelligence to understand your surroundings so it can remove noise if you’re in a crowd; add correct punctuation; and recognize emotions and intonation, to adapt to your speaking style and mood.

You’ll be able to snap your fingers to activate a recording session in the final product.

Availability and price

Kickstarter backers can get the the Senstone for $120 — early bird options go as low as $80 — but the final retail price will be $145. It’s a little steep, but if you find yourself forgetting to write down notes when you’re out and about, the Senstone can be a useful tool.

More: OneNote’s update for insiders makes the note-taking app even more secure

The campaign also offers some interesting ideas on other use cases, such as sending memos to your co-workers. If it works well — and if the company follows through on promised features such as emotion and intonation recognition, AI, and third-party integration — the Senstone could certainly be a compelling, modern-day Dictaphone.

The Senstone will be available for retail, if the Kickstarter is successfully funded, in the fall.

Article originally published in October. Updated on 02-07-2017 by Julian Chokkattu: Added first impressions of the Senstone.

‘Overwatch’ tests server browsing and retains CTF

Blizzard’s roster of games have all evolved from their initial versions through periodic updates tweaking rules and adding content, but only after extensive testing on the studio’s end. To let players in on the fun, some of the titles have opened up temporary beta servers called Public Test Realms to fiddle with proposed changes before they’re fully implemented into the games. Hero shooter Overwatch is finally getting its own PTR today which PC players can use to try out the new Server Browser and Capture The Flag mode, along with a few character alterations.

Unfortunately, console versions won’t get to take part in the playtesting, as they aren’t getting a PTR. As the game’s director Jeff Kaplan commented in a forum thread back in November, the consoles require content updates to pass certification before new things are added…a process so rigorous that they use the PTR to iron out the kinks, so it’s kind of a chicken-egg problem, he said.

If you’re playing on a computer, though, the PTR hosts a few fun additions and tweaks. The Server Browser shouldn’t surprise any shooter multiplayer fans from the pre-Matchmaking era: It lists games in your region and allows you to filter out maps or conditions you don’t want. The new Capture The Flag mode that launched as a temporary brawl two weeks ago for the Lunar New Year event will become a regular feature. There are a few hero tweaks, which are listed on Overwatch’s official blog. Lastly, custom games is getting developer love with new conditional changes, and they’ll finally award players XP.

As befits the studio’s “it’s done when it’s done” motto, there’s no indication how long these changes will stay in the PTR before implementation in the main game. We’ve reached out for more information and will update this post should it arrive. Happy testing, PC players.

Source: Overwatch blog

Apple hires a new boss to revamp Apple TV’s image

For further evidence that Apple is looking to revamp its TV strategy, I present exhibit A: the hiring of Timothy D. Twerdahl, previously head of Amazon’s Fire TV division. A report from Bloomberg says that Twerdahl will be the new vice president running Apple TV’s marketing wing. Whether that means there will be a different approach to how Apple tries selling the gizmo, or something else entirely remains to be seen. Something tells me Apple isn’t going to hire Gary Busey for its ads anytime soon, though.

Source: Bloomberg

Apple’s WebKit Team Proposes W3C Community Group to Strive for More Powerful Graphics on the Web

Apple’s WebKit team today proposed a new Community Group at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) focused on discussing the future of 3D graphics on the web. The goal of the group is to lead to development of a new Web API that would better prepare web browsers to take advantage of modern, and future, GPU technologies on a variety of platforms.

On the WebKit blog, Apple’s Dean Jackson says new software APIs “better reflect” modern GPUs, but that many of the major ones — Direct3D 12 from Microsoft, Metal from Apple and Vulkan from Khronos Group — aren’t available on all platforms. While the success of the web requires common standards, Jackson argues, these platform-specific APIs make following a single API, like OpenGL, impossible in the future.

Instead, Apple’s WebKit team is proposing that a new standard is needed. The new standard needs to provide a “core set of required features,” an API that can be implemented on a variety of platforms with different system technologies, sitting on top of technologies like Direct3D, Metal and Vulkan, and the security and safety required for the Web.

While being a new open standard that’s compatible with platform-specific technologies, Apple says the new standard must also be easy to to adopt, “expose the general-purpose computational functionality of modern GPUs,” and work well with emerging standards like WebAssembly and WebVR.

Apple’s initial proposal, which it calls an experiment, is “WebGPU.” Apple says WebGPU started out as a mapping of Metal to JavaScript, and some graphics programmers are calling the proposal “Metal on the Web.” Apple says it doesn’t expect WebGPU to become the actual API in the new standard, but it does think there is “a lot of value” in its prototype.

Jackson says that WebGPU is much more object-oriented than WebGL, which is why Jackson says grants WebGPU its efficiencies. For instance, WebGPU handles “states” differently, reducing the work needed before a drawing operation.

The WebKit team will share its prototype with the Community Group, and is also inviting everyone with interest or experience in GPU web technologies to join the group.

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The legal arguments for and against reviving Trump’s travel ban

San Francisco’s Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments this afternoon in the State of Washington v. Donald Trump, the lawsuit that led to the suspension of President Donald Trump’s contentious immigration ban. Leading companies in the tech world, including Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook, have spoken out and taken legal action against the ban. Today, lawyers for the Trump administration argued to lift the injunction placed on Trump’s executive order, while Washington’s solicitor general fought to keep the suspension in place.

Before diving into today’s arguments, some background: On January 27th, Trump signed an executive order temporarily banning travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. The ban affected refugees, visa holders and US permanent residents from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen, and was implemented immediately. Authorities detained travelers from these countries at airports across the nation, and others around the world were barred from boarding their flights to the US.

The State Department estimates 60,000 visas were revoked under the ban, not including refugees. There may be an additional 64,000 admitted refugees now barred from entering the US, according to Politifact. The executive order bans refugees from Syria indefinitely, and affects refugees from the remaining countries for 120 days.

As we’ve noted, a ban on immigration is an attack on Silicon Valley. Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella are from India, Google co-founder Sergey Brin is a refugee from Russia, and all large tech companies including Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon and Microsoft regularly recruit foreign talent. Following the ban, tech companies including Uber, Google and Lyft pledged to donate millions to the ACLU and pro-immigrant causes.

Trump has argued the ban is in the interest of national security. The executive order mentions the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, as an example of the US visa process failing. It’s worth noting that most of the 9/11 conspirators came from Saudi Arabia, a country not included in the travel ban. Since 9/11, no one in the US has been killed in a terrorist attack orchestrated by someone from the seven countries named in Trump’s executive order.

After the signing, protestors and lawyers looking to help travelers enter the US flooded airports across the country. More than 100 companies in the technology industry, including Google, Apple, Intel and Microsoft, filed an amicus brief in support of lawsuits against the executive order.

The order was quickly challenged in court and last week, Judge James Robart blocked it, allowing immigration to resume. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Trump administration’s attempt to overturn the stay — which brings us to today.

Audio from the hearing was streamed live on YouTube and at one point the video had more than 100,000 viewers (or listeners, in this case). Cable news networks also aired the arguments live.

In presenting his case to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, Justice Department lawyer August Flentje argued the President has the authority to determine risks to national security and react with an executive order like the travel ban.

“Are you arguing the president’s decision in that regard is un-reviewable?” asked Judge Michelle Friedland, an appointee of Barack Obama.

“Yes,” Flentje responded.

The judges — Friedland, George W. Bush appointee Richard Clifton and Jimmy Carter appointee William Canby Jr. — then pressed Flentje on allegations that the Trump administration conceived of the travel ban in “bad faith.” Essentially, that it was intended to be a Muslim ban in everything but name. Flentje argued the executive order should be considered as it was written: “Any review should be confined to the four corners of the document.”

Judge Canby then pressed the limits of Flentje’s argument that the president’s judgement on national security was above review, asking, “Could the president simply say in the order, ‘We’re not going to let any Muslims in?’”

Flentje answered, “This is a far cry from that situation,” noting that the order doesn’t discriminate on the basis of religion. He continually suggested that Washington state had no legal standing to sue in this matter.

And then, the tables turned. Washington Solicitor General Noah Purcell argued for the state’s ability to sue on the basis of proprietary harms including lost tax revenue and university faculty members being stranded overseas, and parens patriae, the theory that the government is the legal protector of people who are unable to protect themselves.

During Purcell’s arguments, the judges discussed whether the order was unconstitutional on the basis of religious discrimination. Judge Clifton noted the majority of Muslims worldwide would not be affected by the travel ban, and Purcell argued he did not have to prove the order affected all or only Muslims, but that it was conceived as a tool to discriminate against Muslim people. This is the bad faith argument the judges alluded to with Flentje.

Statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration: https://t.co/HCWU16z6SR pic.twitter.com/d1dhaIs0S7

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 7, 2015

Purcell said there was “shocking evidence of intent to discriminate against Muslims” by the Trump administration, including public statements from the president and his aides.

In his rebuttal, Flentje argued the state’s case was based on newspaper articles reporting what Trump and his administration have said. Judge Clifton pressed Flentje for clarification, asking, “Do you deny that those statements were made?”

“Those are on the record,” Flentje eventually conceded. He ended his time by requesting the judges stay the injunction or limit it to Washington state alone. Judge Friedland promised the court would rule “as soon as possible.”

Apple Hires Amazon Fire TV Head to Spearhead Apple TV Business

Apple has hired Timothy D. Twerdahl, the general manager and director of Amazon’s Fire TV business, to be the vice president in charge of Apple TV product marketing, reports Bloomberg. Twerdahl joined Apple earlier this month.

Twerdahl has been in charge of Fire TV since 2013, overseeing two generations of the product and its rise as one of the more popular internet-connected set-top boxes. At Apple, Twerdahl will report to Greg Joswiak, VP of iOS and iPhone Product Marketing.

The move will allow Pete Distad, the former head of Apple TV product marketing, to concentrate on helping Apple land content deals, which are headed by Eddy Cue. Before joining Apple in 2013, Distad was senior vice president of content distribution at Hulu.

Having Distad join content negotiations is intended to shore up content for Apple TV, according to Bloomberg, as efforts to secure exclusive content deals for Apple TV have stalled in the past due to failed negotiations.

With the fourth-generation Apple TV, Apple was originally aiming to provide a full a la carte television service that could replace traditional cable and satellite packages, similar to Sony’s PlayStation Vue service. However, Apple unsurprisingly saw pushback from both content and cable companies after using negotiating tactics described as “assertive” and “hard-nosed,” declining to back down from the terms the company wanted. Apple scaled back its TV ambitions in the past couple of years, though it considered both a slimmed-down subscription service and purchasing Time Warner.

In addition to leading product marketing for the Fire TV, Twerdahl was also the senior director of internet TV at Netflix and a vice president of consumer devices at Roku, according to his LinkedIn.

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Rossignol and PIQ Sport Intelligence create world’s first ‘connected ski’

Why it matters to you

This connected smart ski offers a wealth of performance measurables that has previously been unavailable to downhill enthusiasts.

At the ISPO sports trade show in Munich this week, two French companies announced they were joining forces to create the first “connected ski.” The device is the result of a collaboration between outdoor apparel and ski manufacturer Rossignol and tech startup PIQ Sport Intelligence, a company that focuses on creating wearables that track motion and provides real-time feedback on performance. Both bring their considerable expertise to the project, creating a new ski that has the potential to revolutionize our time on the slopes.

When building this high-tech device, Rossignol started with its popular and iconic Hero Master and integrated PIQ’s Robot nano-computer directly into the ski itself. That computer is programmed with the Group of Artificial Intelligence Applications (GAIA) system, which was specifically designed to analyze movement in sports and provide constantly updating feedback on performance. When it comes to skiing specifically, the AI can track speed, the angle of turns, G-forces felt, and much more, giving skiers a wealth of data that has never been available to them before.

More: Sena Technologies’ Calvary Helmet keeps you connected, protected on long rides

We have seen smart devices designed to track skiers before but what sets this one apart is that the skis actually come with a built-in LED screen. Located just in front of the ski binding, that display is capable of providing information to the skier in real time, even as they bomb down the mountain. That puts GAIA’s data front and center, allowing the user to see at a glance just how well they are performing. In the past, skiers would typically have to wait until after they had finished their run to get a look at those variables.

At the moment, the new connected ski is only a prototype, but Rossignol and PIQ have plans to move ahead with this project and eventually bring it to market. It’s unclear exactly when we can expect to be able to purchase a set, though.

Apple nabs over 91% of smartphone profits for seventh straight quarter

Why it matters to you

Apple is absolutely dominating the smartphone industry — which means it won’t stop making the iPhone we know and love anytime soon.

Apple is on a roll. The company took over 91 percent of the smartphone industry’s profits for six straight quarters, and now it has officially extended that record to seven straight quarters, according to a report from Canaccord Genuity. In fact, the company captured a hefty 92 percent of industry profits during the fourth quarter of 2016, despite only accounting for 18 percent of unit sales.

Apple has a history of taking massive profits in the smartphone industry — and in some quarters it has even taken more than 100 percent, something that is only achievable because other manufacturers actually lost money during that particular quarter. As part of the report, six major smartphone manufacturers were surveyed, and four of those manufacturers were profitable.

More: Research firm: When it comes to mobile payments, Apple Pay reigns supreme

So who else took profit? Well, according to the report, Samsung captured 9 percent, while Sony and BlackBerry both captured less than 1 percent. Again, the total figure only sits at over 100 percent because other manufacturers reported loses rater than profits. Those manufacturers, according to the report, include Microsoft and LG Electronics.

Apple’s success isn’t all on its own back — the company also may have benefited from the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 recall, which saw Samsung’s flagship device for the second half of 2016 coming off the market after users began reporting the Note 7’s battery catching fire.

It’s possible that Apple’s profit streak may break some time soon. According to Canaccord analyst T. Michael Walkley, it’s expected that iPhone sales will slow over the next few months as consumers begin looking forward to a new range of iPhones later in the year.

The last time the report was published, it was noted that Huawei was one of the most profitable smartphone manufacturers, with around 2 percent of industry profits. It’s unclear where Huawei sat in the new report — however, its possible that the company will report losses for the fourth quarter of 2016.

Lenovo Yoga 720 with GTX 1050 graphics rumored to arrive at MWC 2017

Why it matters to you

Making a decision between Windows 10 2-in-1 computers could get harder if recent Lenovo Yoga 720 rumors pan out.

Windows PC manufacturers continue their onslaught of new and updated machines, with CES 2017 full of Intel seventh-generation processors, Nvidia Pascal GPUs, and more. While Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017 is primarily aimed at things like smartphones and wearables, that is apparently not stopping Lenovo from leveraging the event for yet another new machine.

This time around it looks like Lenovo’s Yoga 710 is due for a refresh, moving up in nomenclature to the Yoga 720 and adding a number of new and updated components. Notable among the new stuff could be Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 GPUs, MS Power User reports.

More: CES 2017 proves 2-in-1s are becoming the new normal

The information, still in the rumor stage at this point, comes from Notebook Italia, which purports to have snagged some details — including some images — on the new Yoga 720. If the information holds up, then two versions of the Yoga 720 will be available, a 13.3-inch version and a larger model with a 15.6-inch display.

The Yoga 720 with 13.3-inch Full HD display will offer less performance, including up to an Intel Core i5-7200 dual-core CPU, up to 16GB RAM, and up to a 512GB solid-state drive. Wi-Fi duties will be performed by a 2 x 2 MU-MIMO 802.11ac adapter, and Bluetooth 4.1 will be on tap. Connectivity options will include a mix of legacy and USB Type-C ports. Power will be provided by a 48 watt-hour battery, and Windows Hello password-less login duty will be handled by a fingerprint reader located next to the keyboard.

The Yoga 720 with 15.6-inch Full HD display will be a more robust machine, with up to Intel Core i7-7700HQ quad-core CPU, up to 16GB RAM, and up to 512GB SSD. In addition to the beefier CPU, GPU options on the larger machine could include Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1050 with 2GB of GRDDR5 memory. A 72 watt-hour battery will power the machine.

We will have to wait until MWC 2017 to see if this Yoga 720 rumor is accurate, in addition to learning more about pricing and availability. If the information is accurate, then the Windows PC ecosystem appears to have yet a few more excellent options sometime soon.