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tommikele said:

fred1 said:

I tried to charge my Watch 4 with an Aukey charger and the Apple cable and got a message saying that the charging device is not supported. 

Fred, perhaps you should consider a more recent generation of the Apple Watch.

A very silly comment given the article makes it clear this is a problem on the Series 7 and other recent generations too.  The series 4 is still a great watch with about 95% of the same features and performance of the latest models.

chadbag said:

Of course, the number of people who regularly use their watch to read email can provval be counted on one hand...    I tried it, once...

Of course this should be fixed, but I would be interested to know how often the watch is used for email reading in the real world. 

In fairness that’s irrelevant, I’d wager most people get email notifications on their watch even if it’s just a cue to reach for the phone, and those notifications are enough to allow
tracking to occur - a bit annoying given apple’s boasts on privacy protection.

macbootx said:

Has Apple given this young engineer a job offer yet? 

Call me crazy but I think Apple’s own engineers may already know how to add USB-C to the iPhone.

I get that this would have been an interesting project for the guy who made it, and I also understand that $86k isn’t a lot to everybody, but I still struggle to see why anyone would pay anything for this.  I mean even as a bit of a geek I’m thinking… who cares?  

The thing is, all Apple are doing is continually improving their product.  That doesn’t and shouldn’t mean completely reinventing it every year, and it absolutely doesn’t mean that anyone must or should upgrade every year.  If the improvements in one year don’t interest you then great, keep your money, there’s nothing else to say about that.

The fact that the 13 doesn’t completely invalidate and obsolete the 12 shouldn’t be a criticism of Apple; the problem is that anyone might expect it to.