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SiTime said:

I have an Apple Watch Series 6 and I have very little reason to upgrade. And that’s not because the Apple Watch is a bad product or anything. It’s actually the exact opposite. The Apple Watch is such a good product that I’m still very happy to continue using mine almost 5 years after it was released. Everything that I need my Apple Watch to do, it does.

My Series 6’s battery health is getting a little long in the tooth (at completely normal and expected level after all these years). So that’ll probably be my reason for eventually upgrading (rather than paying $100 or so for a battery replacement). But for now, I can probably get another year or so out of it.

Also… my Series 6 has the blood oxygen feature that the Series 10 and Ultra 2 lack (in the US), lol.

KohanMike said:

I firmly believe Trump and his cohorts have made these moves knowing full well that the stock market will drop drastically, and they're shorting it in under-the-table to profit from their actions. And I'll say this outright, Trump is following the same path as Hitler did, killing journalism services that would tell the truth, like Radio Free Europe, taking over magnanimous services like the Kennedy Center to push his own prejudicial attitude, like The Kennedy Center. My parents were Holocaust survivors, with that I'm very sensitive to the kind of actions Trump is taking.

avon b7 said:

beowulfschmidt said:

If they had said, "ATT is fine, but Apple has to follow the same rules, so since you didn't, we're fining you," that would have been pretty legit.

Instead they said, "ATT is fine, nothing wrong with it.  But we're going to fine you anyway.  Because we can, and there's not a damned thing you can do about it."

The Reuters article is a little clearer on that point. 

"Coeuré told reporters the regulator had not spelled out how Apple should change its app, but that it was up to the company to make sure it now complied with the ruling.

The compliance process could take some time, he added, because Apple was waiting for rulings on regulators in Germany, Italy, Poland and Romania who are also investigating the ATT tool."

https://www.reuters.com/technology/french-antitrust-regulator-fines-apple-150-million-euros-over-privacy-tool-2025-03-31/

On the size of the fine, that was also tackled head on (it was proportional):

"We apply competition law in an apolitical manner," Benoit Coeure told a press conference."

While maximum fines can be up to 10% of global revenue (and it's global as a dissuasory measure), the fines still have to be proportional and take into account other factors such as reincidence. 

AppleInsider said:

only notable new feature in watchOS 11.4 is a brand new "Break Through Silent Mode" alarm option in Sound & Haptics. This means that if you wear your Apple Watch to bed, sound and haptics will play when waking a user with an alarm, regardless of whether or not Silent Mode is toggled on.

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