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It’s not even true that you can’t update an Apple Watch without an iPhone.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204641


I popped into an Apple Store (Covent Garden) recently and directly asked (as I want the heart rate monitor Apple has)... and the assistant's response was that you need an iPhone to set up the watch initially, and that same iPhone must be used periodically for updates (which ruled out using one in-store to set it up, apparently the watch is paired to an iPhone?). I trusted what the Apple person told me.


But you need an iPhone to set one up. It's a weird vestigial requirement at this point, and I suspect it's more about cell carrier limitations than Apple's preferences.


why would a cell carrier be involved in setting up a wifi apple watch


Don't you need an iPhone to even set up the watch?


There’s a certain irony of the whole thing


What version of iOS/which iPhone? 12 Pro Max here on 17.1.2 and having no issues.


I have used Infuse for years. I just use a basic NAS with a torrent client and a watch folder. I have pretty fast broadband too, so all together it’s a really nice experience. Plus the devices I’m usually watching from are an iPad, Mac or Apple TV anyway, so it works super nicely for me. I’ve never really understood the appeal of Plex to be honest.


They shouldn't be. I don't see them as synonymous.


This is sad but unsurprising. Microsoft did so well purchasing Xamarin and then systematically ripped it apart and didn’t bother to put any effort behind VS Mac. Then it did early this year and then just gave up.


They basically killed almost everything from Xamarin.

The only surviving part is the AOT toolchain that powers Blazor AOT and iOS/Android.


I wonder if Jacob Rees-Mogg remembers this?


The real worry is those that operate it will think that France is in England.


thanks for pointing it out, I corrected it =)

As a german when I hear about bad privacy my first thought is always of the UK ;)


Ah then the perspective makes more sense. German privacy is something different.

However it tends to be individual privacy. A grainy picture of a pool processed without judgement by an algorithm feels a lot like panorama rights to me. The software sees the same thing I can see on Google Maps.


That's rich taking into consideration how involved Germany is in internet surveillance.


internet surveillance is one thing and yes we are involved but still less than the united states or other actors.

However there still is a reasonable expectency of privacy in the real world here.


I'm a massive fan of Shazam in Control Centre. It let me have space for another app on the home screen, and they also sync with the iOS app now too.


This is a joke right?


Checking in on competitors is one thing, monitoring their every move seems borderline obsessive to the point you're not focusing on your own product roadmap.

I wouldn't want Google alerts about competition. That feels like paranoia.

edit: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1109220781035307009


> I wouldn't want Google alerts about competition. That feels like paranoia.

Just as with many other jobs and roles, this might not be what many (or even most) people would want to do, but having somebody (even if the kind of person who would be a good fit for it is rare) do it would still be a good thing for organisation as a whole.


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