RSGinSF

Kudos, ovations, back-slaps, toasts, twirly dancing and hee-haws for another brilliant takedown of the Apple-doom pundit puppetry!!

And: thanks, as always. That I'm aware of, it's just you, Gruber and the Macalope, consistently offering up hard-edged facts, cold reason and rationally-observed market reality against this lazy assemblage of smug 'experts' who haven't had an original thought about Apple in the last 25 years. Some of this recent stuff IMO has been libel- and slander-worthy (esp the Bloomberg China-chip crap), but I doubt Apple will ever dignify it by suing (maybe, though!). I suppose tho that the 90-95% of industry profits that they stuff in the bank every quarter is, really, the loudest, and bestest, last word.

A nightmare is waking up to your house on fire. A nightmare is having a crazy person point a gun at you. A nightmare is a nuclear bomb detonating in the middle of your city. It is NOT having a little bit of trouble buying a computer cable. C'mon, guys/gals.

Got my 44mm AW4 today. Physically, the watch feels about the same size as my AW3 42mm, though it's obviously bigger if I really look at it. I have a big wrist, and I think the increased WxH gets offset by being flatter (like Gruber said in his review).

That said, the face seems disproportionately, absolutely huge. It's gorgeous, of course, but I'm seriously considering dropping down to the 40mm size (major drawback there being all my straps would no longer fit.) My old customized Modular watch face actually seems a little adrift on the bigger display, with the complication placements slightly 'off.' I'm trying out the Infograph face for a while, with a couple complications turned off: it seems better 'tuned' for the real estate than my old one. (Face font sizes do not seem affected by the 'Font Size' Settings.)

That aside: wow so far. Faster all over, from detecting heart rate to Airplay & Siri response, to search results, etc. Tomorrow I'll swim with it. Can't wait to try out the ECG/Afib features (which I didn't know were 'coming-later-this-year' features).

Are there any reliable statistics on (or even way to know) how many Apple customers are subscribing to the Upgrade program, and what kind of influence the program's having on YOY unit sales and APS?

So much analysis seems to center around customers making a spending decision based on the (astronomical) asking price of the new phones as a single, bulk-sum transaction, when I suspect there's a bunch of people who don't view it that way at all, just viewing it as an ongoing, monthly bill like a utility.

Tip: my printout was about ¼" shy of 'actual size.' I used a 103% scale & got exact-size printout. Assume this may vary with your machine & your printer, but verify your printout against a tape measure/ruler to be sure.