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MKBHD is one of my very favorite reviewers. I don't always agree with him but I like is presentations. His point about this Watch signaling that we're in for incremental sameness down a long road is disappointing because he's probably right.

The S10 would be a second Apple Watch for me so the SpO2 function isn't a consideration. The difference in display size is so small it's measure in pixels not mm. To that end they're the same to me. Having the ability to read the S10 display at a shallower angle is a plus, maybe not a big one. My oldest Watch is an S8 so the S10 might be a bit of a performance upgrade but again not much in practical terms.

iOS_Guy80 said:

daven said:

I agree that having everyone on the same billing cycle isn’t a good idea. You end up with a boom of calls early in the month and not much the rest of the month which is a staffing nightmare. I am not a fan of Chase based on past experiences. Oh well, we will see.

That’s the best feature of the whole Apple Card/Goldman relationship.

I love that. I'm pretty much onboard with every feature of the Apple Card. Being VISA would be better for me as there is one place I go that doesn't take MS. G-S doesn't want the card and probably very few others do, given that G-S got the job. If JPM gets the Card I hope the feature set doesn't change for the worse. I pay the card off every month so the interest rate isn't a huge consideration. The app is a great incentive to avoid making a payment amount that would incur interest.

tht said:

Have you folks noticed an uptick in people wearing Airpods Max? It's taken about 3 to 4 years, but I'm noticing a lot more Airpods Max headsets on people's heads.

There are some crazy people who wear full-on tin can headsets, which is the form factor of the Airpods Max, during their workouts at the gym. A rather significant fraction of them are Airpods Max. I wonder if they put the ear cups through the wash? They have multiple ear cups and put them through the wash?

Then there are the double crazies who wear a hoodie, indoors, and they wear their headsets over their hoodies...

Yes, it is an ecosystem. The user experience of connecting Apple's accessories is huge. Connection by way of the Bluetooth settings is mostly easy, but the way Apple does it for AirPods and Watches? Tough to do better.

Tin can headsets? What did Maxes do to piss you off? Why does it bother you so much? Or at all. I've seen three people wearing Maxes while driving. Now that bothers me. Maxes in the gym bug you? Maybe they seal better than Pros. Maybe IECs bother the wearers. But you call that crazy. What somebody does in their own home doesn't budge the "crazy" meter needle. Intolerant much?

Apple once prided itself on not drilling down as was the case with all cellphones prior to the iPhone. More and more we have to drill down. I don't like the Control Center Comms button, upper left. It was fine before 18.0 and now they've crammed too many items on one button.

Photos is indeed a mess. Scroll scroll scroll over things I'm not interested in to get to stuff I want. Give Photos the multi-page functionality of Control Center. Let me have a simple first pages as before, and lets someone else have it they way they want.

I'm not disappointed an AI not shipping withe 18. Why? Because Apple said it wouldn't. Probably because it wasn't ready. The last thing I need is Apple conforming to my expectations at the expense of them shipping before they think it should. I should be acclimated to 18 right around the time 19 is "ready".

MAGA creed:

He hates what I hate, so his character doesn't matter.
Except that you're not rich so he doesn't care about you, tiny character flaw.

He won't back down.
How about a debate where he got his ass handed to him.

He tells it like it is.
What a mess that is, nothing but word salad.

The military loves me.
Except that he thinks they dead, bullet riddled and losers.

I love the poorly educated.
I just don't give a damn about them.

It would take one ultra scary mf-candidate to make me vote for Trump. He's about as bad is gets. A garden gnome would get my vote over Trump. A sack of hammers would get my vote over Trump. He is a clear and present danger. The fact that his cult base doesn't see that or doesn't care says more about them than him.