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  • Demand for Apple Watch Series 3 with cellular stronger than expected, taking 80%+ of preor...

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    macgui said:
    I ordered one, mainly— just because. I may not activate the cellular part right away. Is it as easy to activate/deactivate as the iPad? I got the impression that it wasn't the same business model, more of a subscription than just buying chunks of time/data. Once activated, I highly doubt I'll flip it on and off.

    It's meant to be more of a backup for the times when I forget my phone, rather than a replacement. So it will be used more for notifications and the occasional GPS function, and maybe Siri, than making phone calls.

    I have somewhat infrequent to use my Watch to answer phone calls and am not really impressed although others are so there's that. LOL There's no privacy unless I'm using my AirPods and the Watch requires me to speak louder than my phone. I find it annoying and anybody else near me would, too. People who use talk too loudly on their phone or use the speakerphone really annoy me (even though cellphones themselves are partly responsible) and I really don't want to be One of Them.


    I think the AW plans are designed with a rebate to encourage you to keep your service for some amount of time - 3 or 6 month. After you use the feature a few times, the likelihood of turning it off are low - it's just a couple of trips to Starbucks a month.
    watto_cobra

  • Demand for Apple Watch Series 3 with cellular stronger than expected, taking 80%+ of preor...

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    Ed789 said:
    Only one hour talk time! 
    Talk time doesnt matter. Its not designed to be a phone replacement. The thing is like 1/6th the size of my phone so I don't mind that the battery doesn't match what a phone's does.
    I have a kid in high school and 1 in college and our family does more texting than anything else . Even at work, we use texting more than calls. With voice calls, immediate responses are short and I don't plan to have long conversations until I get back to a desk.

    Even with the AW2, I have answered calls on my watch when my phone was at the other end of the house. It's a lot easier to give a quick answer to a question either by vox or text than have to explain how come I missed a call.
    GeorgeBMaclolliverwatto_cobra

  • Apple Upgrade Program participants complain of no stock, scheduling problems

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    Soli said:
    The whole point of the program is to be able to get a new phone after 12 months, not 14 or 15.
    You seriously thought the point of the program was to magically make components appear out of thin air because you signed a contract? Did Dumbledore send this agreement to you via owl?
    The point is that the program is actually a 2 year deal ... you get to trade in after a year and your contract restarts for another 2 years. That means that you slowly creep up to stretching the exchange period past the 2 year deal ... if you can't get an upgrade until 15 months, they have you on the hook for 2 years and 3 months.
    anantksundaram

  • Dearth of new data from San Bernardino iPhone helpful to FBI investigation, sources say

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    sandor said:
    "the lack of information is, in itself, helpful information"


    Or perhaps the opening salvo ... since we found no information, that gave us information, therefore we should have access to everyone's phone just to make sure there is a "lack of information" on all of their phones as well. 

    So so how exactly would a FISA request have been justified if absolutely nothing incriminating was found?
    sandorlostkiwi

  • DOJ confirms successful iPhone data extraction, withdraws encryption case against Apple [u]

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    I call BS on this ...
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