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.

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.

So now the lead of one failed product is taking over another failed product?  What could possibly go wrong?

Vision Pro has been a complete failure for Apple.  Overpriced.  No developers.  No one cares about AR.  It doesn't solve any problem.  Walk into an Apple Store and no one pays attention to them.  For decades, no one has cared about AR because they don't want goggles on their head.  Just like no one wanted to wear 3D glasses to watch TV and 3D TVs are non-existent.  So why would anyone spend $3500 for a heavy pair of goggles on their head?

And now this guy is going to fix Siri?  The same Siri that Apple has pretty much abandoned for the past 14 years?  Gets things wrong constantly and it is inconsistent on the Mac, iPhone, AppleTV and the speaker.  Good luck with that.

Apple Intelligence has been a huge disappointment so far.  Siri still makes constant mistakes on simple dictation for a text message.  Siri, do you want me to send this?  NO!

eriamjh said:

I remember when Apple would launch a product that would beat the competition on spec AND price.    SuperDrive DVD burners in PowerMacs.   iPod 5GB for little more than the bare drive which was so new, no one knew they existed.  

What others?  

The iMac 27" 5K.  You got an incredible 5K display and computer came with it.  Not anymore.  Now it is a 5K display, overpriced, with leftover iPhone 11 parts in it.  Their fantasy HomePad will be a small iPad grafted onto a speaker with outdated chips running it, and be overpriced as well.

Apple has lost touch with reality.  VP is a failure at $3500, and if they make a foldable phone over $2,000, no one will be buying it.  The displays are prone for failure or a crease line after you constantly fold and unfold it every single day, multiple times a day.  It doesn't really solve a problem, just like VP doesn't solve a problem.  Why would anyone want something thicker folded up in their pocket?