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goodbyeranch said:

I know this wont happen but I dream that This is Apple’s chance to drop the watch altogether and exit that market. It is by far the worst Apple product ever. I’m embarrassed for Apple. I’ve tried and given up on several models, most recently the Ultra 1. Obnoxious phone/watch integration and by the time I turn off 1001 unwanted naggy intrusive “features” there’s little value for the price. Excuse me while I search Apple support forums to figure out how to disable this screeching beeping crisis alarm signal because I bent my wrist too far at the gym. The Apple Watch “experience” is trash. Unpopular opinion but surely I’m not alone. 

davidmalcolm said:

It’s a shame that they’re raising the price. My wages certainly haven’t gone up 15% since the start of Apple One. 

TV+ is good but I can easily pirate that. Music is good, but I could also get that elsewhere. There are a few good Apple Arcade games. News+ is terrible, it’s full of ads and half the time it removes the end of the good articles. It’s such a mess to navigate, I find far more useful and interesting content subscribing to a few RSS feeds in Feedly. 

And Fitness+ is… a bunch of stuff I’m subscribed to because I needed more iCloud storage for everyone in the family. On the one hand I think some of the videos are good. But on the other hand the fact that its scope is so dang narrow is really disappointing. 

If you look at Fitness+ from the perspective of somebody who is not already working out from home and may be having trouble getting started, all it is is the most boring version of YouTube. There should be stuff in there like you list what fitness equipment you have (free weights, stationary bike, rower, elliptical, etc.) you tell it what your goal is, and the. You could have it help create workout plans for you.

there’s just so much that Fitness+ should be doing to justify its price tag, and it’s like the team behind it has no idea how to improve it. (Or maybe it’s seen as something that is already a cash cow that just needs the same old investment in.)

At this point I’m looking at dropping us down to the Family Tier to ditch the dead weight services and just adding on the cost for an extra 200 gigs. 

I just have to clean out the iCloud space of our biggest family user… then clear out some of mine… and then probably give an ultimatum to a friend who I think isn’t really paying attention to what is and isn’t taking up their iCloud storage.