Rogue01

cpsro said:

Lack of a blood oxygen sensor will be a killer for many people.

linkman said:

Is there a way to obtain a reasonably accurate blood pressure measurement without some sort of cuff?

The blood O2 sensor did not have any effect on sales even when it was featured on the watch.  Nor did it affect sales when it was removed.  It has been written up in medical journals confirming how inaccurate the O2 sensor is.  It does not take a constant reading, it only takes a reading once in a while and then gives you an average.  If you had a health condition that caused your blood O2 to drop, a person with that condition won't be using an Apple Watch to check it.  They would be using a real blood O2 sensor to check for sudden drops.

The watch is not a medical device.  To get an accurate blood pressure, you must be seated, feet flat on the floor, resting, and your arm horizontal with the desk and the cuff properly placed on your arm.  The watch would never be able to do this.  It would be practically impossible for Apple to get proper approval to claim the watch is a certified medical device for certain tests.  Even the ECG sensor is not medically approved.

The watch is a fitness device.  Even most developers have abandoned the watch.  So Apple just improves the fitness aspect of the watch because the past 5 updates have been uneventful, and it looks like Watch 11 will be just like Watch 6, 7, 8, and 9, offering very little.  I am not even considering replacing my Watch 5 because every version after offers very little, and I barely wear it now that I mostly work from home.  It is pretty clear that Apple can't come up with anything significant with the watch.  It still has the same design since the Watch 1, but at least the 10 has a decent improvement with screen size.  I don't think I would ever buy another one.  Charging it daily is a pain.

Actually, 18.4 fixed the random disconnects with my iPhone 15 Pro using a USB-C to USB-A cable with my factory stereo.  It would randomly disconnect, iPhone 15 Pro not responding and then reconnect, or sometimes have to pull the cable and plug back in to get it to reconnect.

But I have noticed that if you are listening to music on your phone with the now playing screen and you unplug and turn the car off.  When you plug back into CarPlay the next day, it will resume the music but be on the home screen with icons instead of the Now Playing screen.

At least it stays connected now because it was really annoying when using Waze for a destination for navigation prompts and the phone randomly disconnects losing your Map display and not hearing the navigation prompts until you get it reconnected.

But yeah, CarPlay is a S**tshow and Apple thinks they want to take over the entire car with CarPlay 2.0?  Not a chance with all these bugs.

HiramAbif said:

Wesley Hilliard said:

slickdealer said:

The most likely scenario remains that China lowers tariffs on US goods and our reciprocal tariffs automatically adjust.  

Why all of these articles fail to mention how reciprocal tariffs work baffles me. 

It seems you are the one that doesn't understand how tariffs work. The tariffs enacted by the Trump administration were calculated using the trade deficit divided by the exports. That's not how you determine what China's tariffs are on US goods.

China's original rate was less than 5%, but now they've got no choice but to respond to the US tariffs. The only way prices go down on imported goods is if the US lowers tariffs, not China.

All tariffs are a tax on the country that imposes the tariffs. It is basic economics. The US government tried to impose tariffs in the 1930s to save the economy, but spoiler! It failed and led to the great depression.

The great depression was NOT caused by tariffs, and in fact tariffs have been utilized since the country's founding, and accounted for up to 95% of the revenue to the government up until the income tax was created in the early 20th century. 

You are incorrect.  Look up the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.  It caused the US to sink further into the Great Depression.  "Hoover signed the bill against the advice of many senior economists, yielding to pressure from his party and business leaders. Intended to bolster domestic employment and manufacturing, the tariffs instead deepened the Depression because the U.S.'s trading partners retaliated with tariffs of their own, leading to U.S. exports and global trade plummeting. Economists and historians widely regard the act as a policy misstep, and it remains a cautionary example of protectionist policy in modern economic debates."

Then go watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off as Ben Stein's famous classroom speech also explained it.  We are headed for another depression due to Trump's misguided Tariffs.  The economy is crashing, if you haven't been paying attention.

The Air is now thicker and heavier than the Pro, which defeats the entire purpose of the Air.  The Air was meant to be the thinner and lighter model, as it once was.  But all iPads run the same OS and apps so the base model runs everything equally well compared to the Pro or Air.  

Will it be a live keynote, or another awful cringe-worthy video?  Maybe they will be apologizing for Apple Intelligence instead of trying to push out more half-baked features.  They already blundered with Siri, unless they try and do damage control and more promises of features that won't be ready with iOS 19.

I miss the days when Apple released new software and the features they previewed at WWDC were actually in the release version.  Instead all we get are 'coming soon' and then 'maybe next year'.  I stopped watching the videos because they were nothing more than reading press releases and spec sheets.