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jedwards87 said:

I just wish they would add a round version to their offering. 

Me too. I've been requesting this via Apple Feedback since the first iteration of the Watch. If Apple hasn't done one by now, they never will. In saying never, let Apple prove me wrong. Part of the reason is Samsung already doing well with the Galaxy line. I never worry about who's on first, first, but I think Apple gives it some consideration.

jedwards87 said:

Use it for quick bits of info which would fit perfectly fine on a round watch.

Again we agree. Just because it's a "smartwatch" doesn't mean it must be of a shape to make the most possible use of any data that might possibly be stored on it. There are cars that are hard tops and cars that are convertibles. There are cars that are four-door cars that are two-door. There are two-place and four/five-place cars. There are pickup trucks. There are motorcycles that are one or two-place. Yet they all perform some common functions, one of them getting the driver from point A to B.

A round smartwatch can have as much utility for its supporters as a rectangular/square smartwatch can have for their supporters. Use cases are not always equal. One smartwatch doesn't have to be and isn't the same thing for everybody.

I think there are two reasons Apple hasn't/won't make a round watch. They don't think they'll sell enough to make it worthwhile, and Samsung already has the Galaxy line. It's a very decent watch and the only reason I don't own one is it doesn't run watchOS.

Some people will have closets full of white shirts, black suits, black ties, and polished wingtips . Others may choose black T-shirts, jeans, and trainers. There are those who don't subscribe to either.

Apples concession to style is different bands and different color cases. There's the Ultra but that's more than just a style change. So I'd buy a round Apple Watch in a tick.

MplsP said:

robin phuber said:

No good deed goes unpunished. The “throttling” was not nefarious

Like I’ve said before, had Apple simply been more clear in disclosing the throttling there would have been no issue. Since they didn’t, they left their intentions open to interpretation. Whether they did to protect consumers or as an underhanded move to drive sales is completely dependent on your view of Apple. Even in the charitable view they may have driven people to unnecessarily buy new phones when a simple battery replacement would have sufficed. 

Exactamundo on both points. I think Apple didn't want to say in any way "our iPhones slow down" because they knew there would be ugly YTers mugging for their cameras shouting "APPLE THROTTLES iPHONES SPEED" and "YOUR iPHONE IS SLOW" or whatever. And as it happens that's what they got anyway.

Given that some well known provider throttle "unlimited" throughput I can see why Apple might want to avoid "nannyism" backlash. And they got it anyway.

If they had braved that in the beginning it might have cost them a lot less than $500M pocket lint. $500M here, $500M there, pretty soon we're talking real money.

Why is it so hard to find something with AppleInsider's search function? Trying to find more info on the various 17 betas I did a search for iOS 17 betas after watching this video and Search returned:
https://appleinsider.com/search/?query=iOS+17+beta

This wasn't helpful but going to another site got me what I wanted. WTF AI? Search as been like this as long as I can remember. Did I use bad keywords?

The Watch started off pretty slow. Apple figured out what they wanted to with it and now they're everywhere, and wildly copied in design, if lacking function.

Until Apple delivers this device, nobody really knows what it will do or how Apple will develop it down the road. It probably won't be a phone or a watch for most people. That doesn't mean it won't have appeal to more than a tiny group like the trolls suggest.

I don't need AR or gaming goggles. I'd like to put these on and travel the world, space, the sea or just watch a movie in highrez. No need for a 120" Samsung TV. Pretty basic compared to what some people want with these.

They may not be what I want when they ship or maybe never, after they ship. Hope they do well for Apple because that means they're doing something for some consumers even if I'm not one of them.

I only have two complaints about the Apple card: 

Cash back is paltry
It's a Master Card
I think it works as any other conventional card in a reader in that there's no token.

But having it since day one, it's my EDC card, and all the others sit in a drawer. Well, I do keep one VISA with me. The app is probably the my thing about Apple Card and Apple Pay. It's so easy to keep track of purchases and payments. Clicking the Pay Early button shows exactly what interest will be charged based on the amount of payment made.

It also shows the minimum payment needed to avoid any interest if you decided not to pay the entire balance. This is not the "minimum payment" of some pittance. This is the full amount that charged up to the time of the monthly closing. Anything charged after that is due on the payment after next.

I've used that a couple of time when making a big ticket purchase. Make it after the closing date and payment isn't due until the next billing cycle. It the meantime I've payed of the current monthly balance in full, and not a penny for tribute.

Apple keeps the cash back on the Card use low to encourage the use of Apple Pay, and I'm ok with that. Though it would be nice if Apple bumped up the cash back so I could flaunt the Card itself. 

And then there's the Apple Cash Card. I can't believe how quickly the daily cash back raises the balance on the Cash Card.