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When will we get a watch that can be fully de-coupled from your phone? I’d love to make that trade right now.
Does anyone understand why Apple Watch only works with some mobile networks? I have an LTE version, but it’s not “supported” by any networks in my country. I’ve owned it for many years and it’s not really useful unless in proximity of the phone. I’d love to be without phone and perform simple productivity tasks, “queries”, etc.
As others have pointed out, it’s probably the carrier that does not support the right kind of E-Sim. But furthermore, an Apple Watch with cellular bought in the US, cannot use cellular data in e.g. the EU. Not sure why, but it must be localized on a software/hardware (?) level. At least that’s what the Apple genius told me on my last visit to the states..
I've noticed I'm wasting a lot more time checking my phone during the pandemic (trivial things, and, shock horror... even too much HN at times).
Anything with a "feed" can definitely be addictive. It's too easy for me to browse my RSS feeds, HN, and podcast feeds on my phone. And I'm doing it a lot.
Not sure I could go quite to the extreme of Watch-only but it has made me consider whether I could make more use of my Apple Watch instead of my phone to reduce distractions.
Does anyone understand why Apple Watch only works with some mobile networks? I have an LTE version, but it’s not “supported” by any networks in my country. I’ve owned it for many years and it’s not really useful unless in proximity of the phone. I’d love to be without phone and perform simple productivity tasks, “queries”, etc.
Your carrier needs support for eSIM, which may be the holdup.
Does anyone know if AirPods work with the Apple Watch without an iPhone? As in, if I leave my phone at home, will I be able to stream music and calls from my watch to my AirPods while I go for a run? Or does it have to route through the phone?
If you have the cellular version, yes. However, I have found that the handoff from WiFi to Cellular is terrible. It takes a few minutes for the watch to realize it's not going to reconnect to WiFi soon, and in the meantime you're just sort of left waiting for when it decides to switch over to cellular. This is especially annoying if you're listening to streaming radio (like NPR) and going for a walk. It will just dro…
No, you can use AirPods on a non-cellular watch just fine, it has bluetooth. Cellular only affects your ability to stream content (eg. Music or podcasts), but you are also able to download/cache those while on WiFi on the non-cellular watch.
> The future will be audio-first. Fully disagree. Would the author also have made the claim back in 2006 when Twitter was founded, that the future of the internet are short texts with a 140 character limit?
...he posted in 172 characters.
In 2006 predicting that the future of the internet wasn’t going to be in longform text would’ve been pretty bold and pretty prescient.
Look at what’s happened to longer text content since then. The concept of “long reads” is all but dead now. Been replaced by short snarky comments, tweet threads, videos, and social feeds.
Does anyone understand why Apple Watch only works with some mobile networks? I have an LTE version, but it’s not “supported” by any networks in my country. I’ve owned it for many years and it’s not really useful unless in proximity of the phone. I’d love to be without phone and perform simple productivity tasks, “queries”, etc.
LTE is not one thing. It's a bunch of different radio frequency bands that are selectively used by different networks in different countries.
Because of that, cross-network phone interoperability is a consumer nightmare of technical minutia. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LTE_networks and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_frequency_bands
Article complains about distractions, and is littered with animated GIFs everywhere. You can hardly read any portion of the text without having nervous pixels jumping around somewhere.
No kidding, it's hard to focus on the text because there's so many irrelevant animations firing all the time.
But I see younger people making presentations at work that are littered with animations. To me it looks extremely unprofessional (both from the distraction and the usual childish nature of the images themselves), but its common enough that it's clearly within mainstream norms.
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No kidding, it's hard to focus on the text because there's so many irrelevant animations firing all the time.
I'm curious if this is an age thing? I'm in my early 40s, and I cant stand animated gifs, I find that I have to close my eyes if they are in a presentation, or move them off the page in a website like the OP. But I see younger people making presentations at work that are littered with animations. To me it looks extremely unprofessional (both from the distraction and the usual childish nature of the images themselves)…
I now listen to audiobooks, podcasts for ~2 hours daily, while walking my dog. If there's a way to control apps, navigate options, perform useful dictation, I haven't found it. I can barely get Siri to reliably start and stop audio playback.
I'm now curious how blind people manage these things. Also, I dimly recall Marvin Minsky or Donald Norman or Alan Kay... writing about early experiments with conversational user interfaces. It really seems to me that we have to go back to the basics, to start over with new assumptions. (I still have the books, I might be able to relocate those notions.)
To wrap up, much as it's clear my Apple Watch (w/ AirPods) has the potential to replace my iPhone, and my clear desire for that to happen, today it's not on the horizon.
Oh, here's my gratuitous geek cred: We were trying to use voice control in early 90s. For stuff like AutoCAD. While some of my users liked it, one even excelled with it, most didn't. So I've been waiting for this for a long time.