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@Airnerd. Wondering if something isn’t wrong with your watch(es). I have a 44mm 5 LTE version. Put it on when I get up, usually around 5am. Throughout the day, I walk one dog 3 miles, one dog 2 miles, and bike anywhere from 3-11 miles. For each of those, I have music streaming from the watch (don’t carry my phone) and either outdoor walk or outdoor cycling workout app running. That’s 45 minutes first walk, 30 minutes second walk, and 15-55 minutes third walk. Throughout the day I stream music when taking dogs out for bathroom breaks or additional running in yard (50 and 60 pound working dogs with LOTS of energy). I almost always have 10% or more battery when going to bed around 9 pm. Never has the battery been below 5%. I have noticed sometimes my charge is only somewhere in the mid 80s or mid 90s when I grab watch off charger in the morning, but my charger sits on dog crate that dog gets in and out of occasionally at night. Not sure if he’s knocking it loose or the battery stops charging it intentionally like the iPhone does. I went from Watch 3 to Watch 5 as well, but I haven’t seen any battery degradation. I do close out the background apps on the watch at least once a day. Thus is all on 6.0.1, but has been the same since new.

While I don’t consider myself a fanboy, I do appreciate Apple quality.  While I have a 12.9 iPad Pro on the way, I just can’t find a reason to upgrade my 7Plus.  I was interested in the XR until I saw I would lose camera quality over my 7+.  I think if they would put the same camera that’s at “least” in the 7+, if not one of the newer models, XR would draw more interest (not saying it’s not, but based on the amount of recent Apple commercials I’m seeing for it, seems it’s not).  

Wife and I both have 7+, she has 2017 10.5 iPad Pro, I’m replacing 2015 iPAD Pro with 2018 arriving Wednesday.  Both are wearing Watch 3.  5 HomePods and uncountable iPods laying around in drawers going back to first edition.  IPhone owner since first release (and it still plays music for me!).  So I’m not bashing Apple.  I just think they didn't hit the right marketing spot with the XR. In my opinion, it needs to be about $100 less across all storages and it needs a better camera.

toysandme said:

The video is finally running properly. Looking at the new features I don’t see anything that would tell my watch to warn me when I forget my phone at home or the restaurant. The very first Pebble would buzz my arm to get my attention but the current Apple Watch simply displays a red rectangle with a line across it to tell me my phone is out of Bluetooth range. Apple, it’s time to catch up with the first generation Pebble!

That would be the Pebble that went out of business? (I had one; loved the battery life, iWatch puts it to shame).

SMH.  How much force would one have to actually pound the strap being changed into the screen to scratch it?  Not even sure why band would be in contact with screen.  Been wearing my watch daily since I got it day one of release (AW3), on my third band, and zero scratches.  Lawn work, car work, wrestling with two large 50 lb plus dogs, landscaping with bricks and gravel, etc.  Not one scratch.  Banged into car doors, walks, fences.  Not one single scratch.  Bet if I took an awl and dug into the screen I could scratch it.  

Agree the Canadian identification is unecessay.  Just as many dumbass gold diggers in the US and around the world.  Hence the stupid crap like “Hot coffee is hot”.  Now Apple will have to open AW with a screen that reads “if you pound objects into screen, it may scratch”.

techrules said:

rogifan_new said:

loopless said:

Pointless data unless you can break it down to show the "premium sound" category. Apple will never sell a $50 Homepod. So if they have 7% of the total market that WILL translate to a much higher % of against their real competition of Sonos and the high-end Google device.

How big is the market for a premium sound smart speaker?  I wish Apple would make a smart soundbar that I could connect to my TV.

There is a new Google Home sound bar coming out in July. Looks pretty incredible. https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/7/17321624/google-android-tv-jbl-link-bar-i-o-2018-pricing-release-date Google partners with JBL for an Android TV-powered soundbar ...

Google and Android...what could go wrong there concerning privacy and malware.