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JP234 said:

Having to disassemble the lock to replace the AA battery is a non-starter for me. So is having to remember to carry an extra physical key for the inevitable, a dead battery.

Really getting sick of all the assorted batteries in my life that need constant replacing or recharging. I have to have a box full of AAA, AA, C, D, 2032, 2430. 2025, 312, and spare power tool batteries, to avoid having to go to the store in the middle of some activity. And then there's the rat's nest of adapters, chargers and cables.

This is a ridiculous comment. Do you still have a wired TV remote because changing the batteries once every 2 years is too cumbersome? How would you expect to power the lock without a battery? Constant AC running through your front door?

Changing the battery is a 30 second exercise. Your phone will notify you when the battery gets low, I have the old version and with normal usage batteries last around 120 days. You’ll get notified in PLENTY of time to change the battery before it dies. Notifications that the battery is low, and then critically low come about 2 weeks later. Sure, the battery is a CR2 - which isnt common to most devices, but theyre readily available wherever you get batteries from.

22july2013 said:

It sounds like the right hand doesn't know what the Lufthansa is doing.

Thank you for this comment. Lmao. xD

retrogusto said:

Even on a bad day, the online experience beats the in-store experience by a large margin. The last two times I bought an iPhone (one for me, one for a gift), it took around an hour in the store, despite the fact that I knew exactly what I wanted when I walked in the door. Both times I was in too much of a rush to wait for delivery of an online purchase, but it seemed crazy to me that I couldn’t just hand someone my credit card and walk out the door a few minutes later, the way you can in most retail stores when you know what you want, are ready to pay, and they have it in stock. Instead you find one person who can put your name on a list to talk to a salesperson, wait a long time for them, then talk to them, wait a while for the device to be sent out from a back room…

I’m hoping to never be in a position again where I have to buy a phone in a hurry, but sometimes your phone just dies and you don’t have a lot of options. I guess maybe the purpose is to force you to stand around with nothing to do but play with other Apple devices, in the hope that you’ll buy more stuff? It may also be faster if you buy online for in-store pickup, but I bet you still have to wait a while to talk to the person who can help you.

SAME. After doing delivery to home for several years I tried the in-store pickup for the 13 Pro - NEVER again. I picked up from Scottsdale Fashion Square and while the employees were nice and friendly - others in line were not. I can't remember what my exact pickup time was, but lets say it was 10a for sake of argument. People were in line trying and SUCCEEDING to pick up a phone who had scheduled pickup times much later in the day, sometimes several hours later. This of course caused things to get hectic because Apple is expecting X people between 10a-11a for pickup because that's all they scheduled. Apple employees had to comb through the line and start removing people who were in line too early, which of course caused a lot of entitlement issues. I lost count of how many 'Apple Shareholders' were being removed and would email Tim directly. "I got an email that says my phone is ready! See!! Here it is!! Go get my phone! Why do I have to wait until 4p?!" And that's edited for NSFW language.

Once I got inside the door and ready to get my phone, it was like you described, waiting for an associate to come by, ask me what I ordered, go get it...etc.  Im thankful the young lady stood there and waited until the phone turned on and I was able to make/receive calls on the new device, just to be sure all was ok. But she could have easily done this for 6-8 people at once while we all stood around a table, instead of just working with 1 person at a time. 

After that experience - I'll never pickup in store again for a launch day device.

winston2010 said:

Maybe a green outline around the pill cutout to indicate the camera is turned on and in use?

I genuinely like this idea. I’d prefer this to a simple ‘dot’.

I never understood why Apple didnt start with asking me what Apple Watch size / band I currently use. Cant be too hard for them to figure out which size braided solo loop for me to buy if I have a 44mm watch with L sport band on the third hole. Users who dont currently own an Apple Watch can be prompted to borrow a friends or start with household items. This seems like an over complication of a simple problem.