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danny602 said:

I had hoped for longer battery life, my current Apple Watch wouldn’t get me through my day and late night gym routine, it pooped out before I’d completed my workout. I love the new health features, as we grow older it’s important to keep track of our vital statistics so I’m buying, I’ll just have to carry my charger on my ride home from work to charge the battery. I hope it’s a little more durable, just reaching for something knocked the screen completely off the base, an unfortunate occurrence which rendered my current Apple Watch useless.

I think we all wish the watch had a 2-3 day battery life, but with all the features packed in and the limits of batteries these days, it's just not possible without having an ungainly thick watch.  However, I would recommend looking into a routine to get the most out of your watch's battery.  

For me, I always charge my Series 2 about 2 hours in the evening.  When I'm home and fixing dinner and winding down for the day, I rarely need my watch, so it's charging until I got to bed.  Put it on when I do go to bed a 100%.  I use the silent alarm to wake up because I get up 30 minutes before my wife and this wakes me up without waking her up from my alarm (can't tell you how much she likes this feature!).  I turn on Theater Mode so the watch's face never needs to light up at night. When I wake up 7 hours later my batter is anywhere from 95%-100%.  I work out for about an hour, and depending on my workout, if I stream music from the watch to my AirPods, etc, the batter may get down 60%-80%.  I charge the watch off while I shower and fix breakfast, and that will add about 10% to the battery. That's enough to get me through the rest of the day and I still rarely dip below 20% by the time I get home and ready to charge it again.  It's a routine that's worked for me and maybe twice last year I found that my watch ran out of power before I was ready.  Maybe you could fine a routine that works for you that helps to get the most out of your battery while still getting full use out of the watch.

Wow, this is quite shocking.  I've been using the X since Friday, and the one thing that bothers me the most is the blatant color shift that happens whenever I don't view the phone straight on.  Even if I turn the phone ever so slightly, the display turns a very cool bluish tint.  This is most noticeable when white is the primary color being displayed on the screen, such as a web site.  Pictures and video is less noticeable.  It's a bit annoying and not something I would expect in a $1200 product.  It's the one thing that may lead me to returning the phone at the end of the week and going back to my 7+. 

I will say though, that the screen does far exceed the 7+ when viewing at an angle and looking at brightness. When I compare the two, and hold at an angle, the X's screen is much brighter and is barely a difference than when looking straight on.  On the 7+, the screen gets very dim as the viewing angle increases.  So OLED definitely has that going for it. 

Am I the only one that's disappointed with the memory configurations on both the iPhone 8 and X?  64GB and 256GB?  What happened to 128GB?  Last year was the first year I opted for a 128GB iPhone.  Seemed like a perfect price point between plenty of storage without being too expensive.  Dropping 128 this year is quite disappointing.  No way I can go backwards to 64, so if I want to upgrade I have to opt for the most expensive model.  I really think the phones should have been 128 (for the price of 64) and 256. I guess this is the way they get all those millions of phones they sold in the last couple of years at 128 to opt for the most expensive models.  bummer.

appex said:

"Microsoft Executive Says iPad Pro Was Apple's Response to Surface".
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/06/16/microsoft-exec-says-ipad-pro-followed-surface

Of course. But the real response would be a true Mac tablet.

I've been using a surface pro for about 1 1/2 years at work now.  As far as a desktop replacement, it's a decent computer.  It's nice to be able to dock it at my workstation, but then grab it to take it to a meeting without having to rely on another computer.  To me it's 90% a portable desktop computer and 10% a tablet.  I almost never use it in tablet mode.  My stylus stays in my desk drawer all the time, and the resolution on the screen is so small using the touch screen as a tablet is too tedious.  

The surface is also buggy as hell.  A microsoft OS running on microsoft hardware should run just like an iPad, perfect.  The surface does not.  Excel (the program I'm in most of my day) crashes at least once a day.  Luckily I've gotten in the habit of saving my work often.  I don't mind it as a work computer, but I would never spend my hard earned $ on this for personal use.  

The iPad is a complete joy to use.  Solid, reliable and a UI that is made for a tablet.  Instant on, instant wake up.  No delay in waiting for anything.  Not with the Surface.  It's still trying to chug through Windows 10 which was not made for an ideal tablet experience.  I'm not saying the iPad could replace my surface because it can't.  I can't run my ERP system on it so I could never use it as a workstation.  So to me, like I said, it's really just a portable desktop replacement, not really a tablet that can compete with the iPad.