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slow n easy said:

It's hard for me to understand why so many people hold their phones vertically. That never made sense to me. Especially for videos, I just shake my head in disbelief, that so many people hold their phones vertically.

Maybe they shoot portrait photos? Or their cat jumps vertically?

elijahg said:

Our school did exactly this, replacing a few hundred netbooks with iPads. But unfortunately all we had was complaints about usability; kids couldn't write essays with the iPad keyboard, maths work was tedious and without a system to submit and mark work there is no way other than email to get coursework to the teachers - obviously that's not an Apple problem, it's a governmental lets spend $370 million and think about the practicalities later problem. Eventually our iPads got ditched for cheap laptops. Also, I'm not sure Scotland should be spending this kind of money considering their financial deficit.

That new generation who exchange dozens of messages every day from their on-screen keyboards can not use iPad’s? Obviously this is a complaint of an adult from last century. I understand that texting and writing an essay are not the same thing, but computer keyboards won’t help either unless the kids are trained to manipulate long blocks of text and are given some basic notions about structuring and formatting. Math work is always tedious regardless of the device. What those last century adults expect from kids, learning and writing in MathML? Regarding coursework this the courseware as a whole which is crap, not only homework part.

seanismorris said:

StrangeDays said:

kkqd1337 said:

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kkqd1337 said:

Paying extra for these watches with better materials is a really poor investment. 

tbh I can’t tell the difference between them, and no one cares either. You want a quality watch get a patek philippe.

i’ve said It over and over, they need to make the watch thinner. Most comments I get when I wear mine is that it looks chunky. 

Who says it’s an investment? It’s part tool, part jewelry. To me aluminum looks junky compared to steel. 

Can’t imagine being told it’s chunky, as it’s thinner than the popular men’s watch fashion of having fat watches.

Yeah people often comment how bulky it looks compared to how phones seem to be getting slimmer and slimmer. That’s I guess what they compare it too. Phones are obviously a similar thickness, but not worn on your wrist, so different level of expectation there..

to put it simply. Any premium material should be offering more than a cosmetic/robustness benefit 

Huh? Not following you there....what should the material do in addition to a robustness or cosmetic benefit, of which the non-Sport models indeed do? Steel, ceramic, and titanium all wear better than aluminum (and the ceramic and titanium better than steel), and also have cosmetic value. 

Ok, so a premium material should allow a more premium design; with some sort of functional and tangible benefit.

For example: 

I own a Aluminium Watch 4. The steel version is identical. Both are 10.7mm thick; its bulky and ugly. It’s the Achilles heel of the Apple Watch design. 

If Apple are proposing a titanium or ceramic version at a premium price point I would expect that it’s main design flaw would be improved. To my eye, a 7mm watch would deserve a premium price point.

You’ve done a great job listing your opinions as fact. Alas, they are not. 

Well I agree with the other poster... Apple Watches are bulky and ugly.

A titanium version should allow for a more streamlined watch.

I do agree with you though that aluminum vs steel are very different in appearance...

I did a bit of research on ceramics and determined that there is enormous variation... conductive/non-conductive.  It all depends on what it’s made of.  But, it’s pretty much universal ceramics are hard but brittle.  Making a ceramic watch is a lot more challenging and probably not worth it... which is probably why Apple stopped.

Ceramics for a better wireless signal looks real (vs metals) but not as good as glass or plastics. 

If you did that bit of research you already know that this is not toilet bowl ceramic, this ls zirconium oxide, a.k.a zirconia. Zirconia is as resistant as steel, this is why it is also used in ceramic knives. You cannot produce a knife with a brittle material. If you know how to break it all materials are brittle.

gingerbreadfeeling said:

Are the screenshots verified? Find it strange the text around the outside is in Helvetica rather than San Francisco.

San Francisco is not Apple’s “official” font, it is a user interface font. Its licence doesn’t permit uses other than the user interface. The text on the ceramic Series 2 back looks like San Francisco, however.

elijahg said:

macplusplus said:

You removed my post because I was critical of the article but now I am posting again the correct way to make storage space in iOS, without any comment on the article.

They seem to have a habit of that lately. 

I have a ridiculous amount of "other" on my phone, it's at about 15GB now. It's gradually grown over time and I used to erase my phone and set up as fresh to fix it, but that meant losing most app data. Restoring the phone from backup seems to erase about 20% of the "other", not not most. I used to spend a fair amount of time after erasing the phone with a third party app going through my iPhone backup, restoring things I wanted individually. But Apple has since "fixed" that loophole of usefulness. I especially don't want to lose my health data, so I can't erase the phone and setup as new. 

On that iPad above System takes about 7.64 GB, obviously included in the Other category. Showing the System storage at the very end of that list but not separately in the colored graph is an omission IMO and a feedback may be sent for that. At least people might be less concerned once the System storage is excluded from that Other category.

BTW if you use iCloud Health your health data will be preserved between devices. 10 devices are listed as source in my Health app.