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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
We are Apple users...and I love my Apple Watch 3. My favorite thing about the watch is the ability to have all my store cards on the watch in the Stocard app, and being able to pay using Apple Pay. Not having to dig in my purse for the store card key cards and a credit card is great. Being able to remove all of those key ring cards from my key ring and touchless payments are a real benefit.
Reading & sending texts, tracking activity, answering phone calls, setting timers, checking calendars, all at my wrist? So cool and very handy.
That said, I never watch Apple events. I'd much rather read about the new devices or new firmware. I'd love a new phone and watch, but we've been an open wallet this month with small home improvements, no refund on a 4 day vacation we couldn't go on, and that new sewing machine. Not counting what medical bills we will end up with from hubby's appendectomy.
Hubby needs a new phone, and he is hoping work will help with that, since he's been using his personal phone for work since March 15th, and it's showing signs of battery failure. It's an iPhone 6.
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I keep being reminded how useful my Apple Watch is. Yesterday, I had left my iPhone downstairs when I went upstairs and got a phone call from my sister. I answered on my Watch (non cellular so this was via wifi) and had a 30 minute conversation with her that way. Dick Tracy eat your heart out! Exercise, outside temperature and heart beat all at a glance. I use it for Apple Pay as well. It's one of those devices where you don't think you would need it, but once you have it, you wonder how you could do without it.
From a developer point of view, Apple is slowly pushing towards true universal apps that run both on the iPad and Mac. Yea, those old apps that were written 10 years ago and either were abandoned or the developer is just coasting probably aren't going to take advantage of that, but the line is blurring more and more.
As I said, I'm not really in the market for anything new at the moment, but I won't say never. I almost pulled the trigger on last year's Apple Watch with the always on display. Maybe this year's model with have a built in way to take your temperature. That would be a pretty nifty feature in the era of covid-19. It already does heart rate and an EKG.