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Like someone else mentioned, and as we most already know, it's best to not carry balances but if you have to, the rates being mentioned seem to be common now even if you've got a decent credit score.

I've kept one of my first credit cards (a little over 20 years now) which has ~ 6% rate, but the card has no 'perks' so I almost never use it. If I ever need to make a purchase though that I couldn't pay off by the needed date to avoid interest, I would probably fall back to that card.

MplsP said:

“Excuse me, my eyes are up here!”  

This would be cool, but it’s also the edge of a brave new world. What Apple is doing is real time computer-controlled video editing. Fixing your eyes on FaceTime is a trivial change, but what about using the technology for more complex and less-than ethical uses? We’re reaching a point where ‘live’ video may not be real, and that gets scary in our current political environment. 

(Note - I’m not saying Apple would do this, just making a comment about the technology in general.)

Spot on thought. And funnily enough, from my Medium Daily Digest this morning!  Deepfakes Are Coming. We Can No Longer Believe What We See.

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I wonder how it'll work. Can I purchase a metrocard for my Apple Watch and just use that whenever I walk through a turnstile? I hope so.

Probably tie in with the MetroCard replacement, OMNY. https://new.mta.info/system_modernization/omny

Timeline (source: https://www.amny.com/transit/metrocard-replacement-omny-1.29297988):

MetroCard phase out timeline:

—Late May, 2019: Initial pilot on Lexington Avenue line and Staten Island Buses

—2019: Incorporate payments via digital wallets, like Apple Pay, Samsung Pay or Google Pay

—Fall 2019: OMNY account management live on new MTA website and phone app

—December 2020: OMNY readers launch at all subway stations and bus routes

—February 2021: OMNY cards launch, on sale at local retailers

—February 2021: Launch OMNY/eTix 2.0 for Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North

—Late 2021: Incorporate other transit networks in region

—2022: Install 2,180 OMNY vending card machines in MTA stations

—2023: Retire MetroCard

wonkothesane said:

Does this mean that Apple didn’t find that the apps conduct some side loading?
in this case I’m wondering how walled the garden actually still is. 

Garden is still very walled. “Side-loading” does not go through the “walled garden”...

The apps don’t “conduct some side loading”. The user has to “side-load” (in this case be provided the app, in this case an .ipa, .apk (for Android)) the app. iOS devices will run apps not downloaded via the App Store if signed with a valid enterprise cert. this is meant for internal organization use only. iOS devices will launch those apps unless/until the enterprise cert is revoked; which is what apple has done.

jdw said:

While great for AirPod users, it's a crying shame that my wife's now-lost 6th gen iPod Nano (one of the best iPods ever, IMHO) doesn't have the same feature (which Apple could have probably added to it easily).

Apparently bluetooth wasn't added to the iPod Nano's till the 7th generation back in 2012 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Nano). Without them running iOS like software (like the iPod Touch), to say: which Apple could have probably added to it easily, were you even talking about the 7th generation is a big reach I think.

But agree; great that AirPod users have it.