If anything I’d say Apple’s only flaw is that they gamified activity/fitness too well. Perhaps the exercise ring should use a different name like Active Minutes, to parallel Stand Hours.
And then in the other hand, if they put in some sort of rest day mechanic, it would shut up the ring addicts. So maybe I should be for it regardless? 🤣
Mine is set to something achievable even on my off days, but not so low that I'll achieve my goal by laying on the couch all day. Simply because I want to at least move a certain amount even though I'm not working out.
That’s what I do. I’ve set them to a baseline just to make sure I don’t go full sloth. If I’m actually exercising I’m following a specific workout goal. I couldn’t care less about awards. I’m wearing the Watch, not the other way round.
It’s a problem because they’re addicted to closing their rings and collecting awards can’t see it for what it is.
Boxes are smaller, which means more units per shipment which means fewer shipments per quarter which means less logistics cost. And yes; less emissions/carbon footprint overall. That part is not bullshit but make no mistake, Apple found a way to increase their bottom line simultaneously.
This move to is supported by power adapters or Qi/MagSafe pads and Bluetooth headphones (sorry audiophiles) being ubiquitous at this point. Especially with Apple moving primary devices to USB-C.
It would be odd at this point for someone not to have a adapter or pad when they get their new iPhone/iPad/AirPods/Apple TV 4K. The caveat is if you’re transitioning from USB-A to Lightning and somehow missed the USBC-C to Lightning transition years. Then horror upon horror, you might need a $10-20 USBC charger to use with the appropriate USBC charge cable that still comes with the iPhone.
I will say that the Apple TV should still come with a cable to charge the Siri Remote, in my opinion. You could conceivably have an ATV4K and not have another Apple device.
My 11 Pro went from then end of September 2019 until February 2023 until I finally talked Apple into letting me replace the battery at 83% health rating. Pretty sure it would still have been at ≥80% by the time my 15 Pro Max arrived at the beginning of November.
The 15 Pro Max is lasting longer than the 11 Pro with a fresh battery and a Smart Battery Case. Although to be fair, the 15 Pro Max gets charged during the two hours of commuting I do per day at whatever wattage my Civic puts out. But then, so did the 11 Pro.
I’ve gone from 100% to 63% in about 12 hours. Heavy usage on WiFi with LPM and AOD off. This battery will probably make it a solid three years before I’ll need to consider replacement.
I’m hoping to see an updated MagSafe Battery Pack with a shallower wider body, now that there’s no Mini. Then I can just use that as needed and set it to limit charge to 80%. Might make it considerably longer before a battery replacement that way.
Safari 99% of the time.
I do have Chrome as a compatibility backup on the iPad and the iMac. On the iPad and iMac, it bypasses the complaints of a particular website that claims it won’t work with Safari and yet it works fine on iPad Chrome anyway.
Well that sucks. But specifically that’s T-Mobile having a shitty policy. No doubt supremely frustrating though.
On the flip side, the cellular providers won’t catch up until they’re forced. They still haven’t bothered with carrier side RCS. Apple’s going eSIM as much as possible now, and how much you want to bet Samsung and Pixel will follow through within a year or two?
But none of that diminishes the pain points for those of you traveling internationally this year, I know.
I was with my brother when he went to pick up his iPhone 7 at the physical Apple Store. First thing he did and taking it out of the box to to set up an iCloud transfer from his old phone was Butterfinger and drop it straight to the floor. The look on his face! The Apple Store guy was a total bro and without missing a beat he said “it’s OK, sir. This is a safe place and if there’s anything wrong with your phone I’m just going to assume it arrived damaged and was like that before you dropped it.” But the phone was fine.
how less durable
SMH. Glass is glass. You were just lucky with the previous models. The glass on the XS was actually curved and the 13 Pro just had corners instead of bevels on the frame. If that’s a 15 Pro, the display glass is still flat. It’s just the frame that has a slight bevel to the edge for comfort in the hand.
Or they could just go to the subscriptions section of the their Settings > iCloud, where all their other Apple subscriptions live.
Interesting ideas but I don’t see them manifesting. Apple’s entire sleep tracking philosophy is encouraging regularly nightly sleep habits, not just tracking whenever you randomly nap during the day. That’s why it only tracks during sleep focus and only records if it’s been more than four hours. From Apple’s perspective, you’re meant to be working on a good nightly sleep routine.
I would like intelligent sleep alarms, i.e up to ±X minutes from the nominal alarm time to try to wake you during a lighter sleep phase.