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This is great. I actually tracked down the email address of the head of customer experience and sent an email about 2 weeks ago begging for this. I'm sure it's all lucking timing, but I'd like to think I helped push the needle in this direction.

tiredskills said:

I'm not sure why airlines erring on the side of caution when it comes to safety needs to be treated with such snark and suspicion.

It was treated snarkily because AirTags had been out for 1.5 years already and were not a proven danger. They justified the ban with reasons that were false, citing laws and regulations that absolutely didn't apply to the devices. The ban also came out shortly after some very embarrassing screw ups with customers baggage by Lufthansa had recently been pointed out in the press. The ban was not based on safety, it was there to try and change a narrative about how they provide customer service and it backfired immediately because people could see directly through the BS.

entropys said:

Why not just straight with Mastercard or visa? Logo issues?

Might even make it easier to expand Apple Card overseas.

Credit cards don't work that way. Visa and MasterCard are the payment networks but not the actual issuers of cards. Credit Cards must be issued by a bank that provides the financial backbone for the account. There is a lot of regulations involved which is why Apple can't simply just issue the cards themselves. They need to partner with a bank that can manage the accounts and create the cards. International is even more complicated because of the individual banking regulations a company must adhere to in each country to comply with the law. Apple will need to find banking partners in every company they want to issue cards in to be compliant with the law.

clexman said:

So the cops that originally said this was happening weren't idiots. They were on to something.

Well...they were kind of idiots because they came up with a cockamamy story about how the phones were secretly talking to each other and sending covert signals to reboot when this is a much more simple and less "conspiracy" kinda answer. They could have easily reported that there was some kind of rebooting going on, however they insisted it was more of a conspiracy to try and make Apple look shady and therefore they're being idiots about it.

Afarstar said:

“If accurate, Apple's existing stock of first-gen units may be enough to feed demand until the second-gen iteration launches.”

What demand?

370,000 in 8 months...so on average around 1,500 a day. Just because YOU might not want one doesn't mean others don't. Is it selling in the same quantities as iPhone? Of course not, it's a niche product, but I'm sure there's plenty of firms out there that would see a sales number of 1,500 units a day as quite a good demand. It's all relative.