welshdog

ferdinandcc said:

mac_128 said:

This is a horrible company, with defective products, and horrible customer service -- in my experience with them. I ordered all three of their original products -- the indoor/outdoor thermostat, the rain gauge, and the wind speed monitor.  The thermostat worked fine for a year, then the waterproof outdoor sensor leaked. The rain gauge never worked after hours spent on the phone with Netatmo, and the wind gauge never worked out of the box. Netatmo refused to replace any of them, or acknowledge they had any fault. The continually blamed the malfunctioning products on user error. 

Maybe your milage varies, but I will never buy another Netatmo product. 

That’s odd, because my experience with Netatmo has been quite the opposite. Their products have worked so flawlessly and been so rock-solid for me that I look forward to each new product they announce. I hope to get this one as soon as I can!

Same here. My Netatmo weather devices have been just fine except for an outdoor temperature sensor that got damaged by leaky batteries. FYI don't buy Kirkland batteries from Costco. They will absolutely leak all over your devices. I have switched everything I can to Eneloops.  Notably, none of the Netatmo devices will accept rechargeable batteries.  Not sure why or how, but I could never get any of the units to work on Eneloops or other NiMH batteries.

One, we don't have tumbleweeds in Austin. That is more of a West Texas thing.
And B, take a look at Apple's job listings for Austin (you can set a filter). You'll see that some are customer service, or software engineering, but a lot of them are hardware engineering. I think most of the jobs in engineering outside of Cupertino are of a more mundane nature. It's the unglorified, nuts and bolts work that ultimately results in the functioning product envisioned and created by the upper tier engineers in California.  In Apple world, all workers outside of the mothership are considered B Team one way or another.

Was exploring new Mini configuration and prices. Noticed their trade-in offer so I put i the deets form my Late 2012. They offered me $105 and I probably could get more than $400 on Ebay right now.

Well, maybe not now since the new Mini is such a big improvement over the last version.

Good tip. Reminds me of the time I was an Apple At Home Advisor for iOS. A client had somehow deleted voice mails that were the only recording she had of her late father's voice. She was distraught, but as a new employee I had no idea how these files could be recovered. In fact I had been taught that they were gone permanently.  However, I kicked her up to a Tier 2 rep to be sure.  Bedfore hander her off, I spoke with the Tier 2 guy and he said "Oh no problem, we have backups." I made the Scooby Doo sound and expressed my amazement.  The next day I went back to review the case (I was not supposed to do that) and found that her files had been restored.  Seemingly, Apple does not really want people to know things are backed up and how easy it can be to restore them.

I no longer wear watches, but that is a really nice complication. Very well thought out - as we would expect. My wife wears an original Apple Watch with a cracked face. Someone gave it to her and it still works great. I plan to get her a Series 4 this holiday season.