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China hopes that if they sell enough some will end up on the wrists of military or intelligence personnel, or more likely the family members of such people.
You think american military or intelligence personnel is gonna go on aliexpress to buy a 16 dollar smartwatch?
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Because sinophobia, or put in a more crass way, racism, imperialism, and patriotism. Why should I care if the Communinst Party of China is spying on me? They can't get at me. I have no connection to China. I have no property there and don't know anyone there. What are they going to do to me? Bottom line is that everyone on the planet should be concerned with their own government's intelligence angencies more than any…
They might not care that much about YOU unless you try to enter China at some point in your life. But they REALLY care about the activites of Chinese people living abroad. The CCP was operating secret 'police stations' in the UK and most likely elsewhere outside of their jurisdiction. [0] https://news.stv.tv/west-central/chinese-secret-police-stati...
TBH, such a low price for so many working (!) features is an amazing achievement if not subsidized! What bothers me here, however, is...a provenance. Let me guess, it asks from your smartphone access to your location, contacts, calendar, SMS archive, email, medical records and political views and attitude towards CCP and then does some shady syncs with .cn servers "just to keep you data safe in case a meteor hits you…
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They might not care that much about YOU unless you try to enter China at some point in your life. But they REALLY care about the activites of Chinese people living abroad. The CCP was operating secret 'police stations' in the UK and most likely elsewhere outside of their jurisdiction. [0] https://news.stv.tv/west-central/chinese-secret-police-stati...
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Please don't pretend you don't understand that risks of Google/Apple maybe even Samsung getting the information is just "a tiny bit different".
Yes, it's worse. Seven eyes almost certainly snoop on me, in partnership with those companies. CCP might , but even if they did, idgaf.
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Apple just put in a more capable processor, wifi and cellular, a brighter display and more sensors. They are just consuming the entire battery over a day because it is not such a big deal for customers.
Is it not a big deal? Or do customers lack the choice? If Apple had two lines of smartwatches, one for city/work crowd with the WiFi, Bright screen, NFC, powerful processor etc. but with tiny battery life. And another for hike/off-grid/travel/festival crowd without wifi, a slower, blander screen, slower hardware, less features but over a week)weeks on one charge. Would people not buy the second option?
They've seriously stuck themselves in a pickle with their WatchOS offering. They can't move away from touch-screen b/c they've committed to "being able to enter a PIN" from the device (so they can offer AND PROTECT on-watch payment capabilities).
They can't move away from touch-screen b/c they've duped all the uber's and door-dash's, and big-bank.com into writing "watch apps" that assume a touch screen.
The Garmin Fenix has the best response to this that I've seen so far, a "pinch-to-activate" touch screen on some of their watches with "enough" buttons (Up, Down, OK, Back, "light"). You can use the watch normally without fear of accidental activations and when you start up the map-type-stuff, it'll either auto-activate a twiddly touchscreen or you can "pinch to activate" (hold two diagonal buttons for 2-3 seconds) and then start messing with it (or are able to turn it off w/o issue).
They can't move away from bright color screens because then people can't have pictures of their kids on their watch, and at that point it's no longer an "Apple" product.
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Order the stuff from china instead of paying your local distributor a convenience tax. You can have it cheap or fast.
With shipping cost on an overall small item cost, it’s unlikely to be much cheaper. We also have the problem here where if the shipper doesn’t use a courier service and tries to rely on the local postal service, it’s a bit of a gamble you’ll get the item at all, and if you do, it tends to take months.
Screen protector for R89 on takealot right now, that’s what 5 dollars? And was the first result, did not even need to look hard.