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This. I seldom, if ever, carry my iPhone outside my house. My Apple Watch with cellular is enough for internet connectivity when away from home. In my perfec
by zikduruqe 4y ago
This.
I seldom, if ever, carry my iPhone outside my house. My Apple Watch with cellular is enough for internet connectivity when away from home.
In my perfect world, I could provision my Apple Watch as a standalone device, and I could get a MacBook with an eSIM.
- enos_feedler 4y agoI think macbook with eSIM could land once the OS has good controls over the network usage. Carriers aren’t gonna let those things run wild
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- zikduruqe 4y agoYep. I am very, intimately familiar with the inner workings of carriers. But one can dream.
- mcculley 4y agoJust bill me by bandwidth used. It is ridiculous that one cannot buy a MacBook Pro with a cell modem. I fight with tethering at least once a week.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoi had a windows laptop with inbuilt 4G modem, was great fpr business travel. Had better reception than a phone. Many business people use mac and would love this. Really weired
- enos_feedler 4y agoI think its less about money and more about network capacity and also ensuring your average mac user can leave it on without running up a surprise bill. Until users have good control with sane defaults it wont happen
- mcculley 4y agoYou can buy a Dell with a cell modem. It’s more likely about the patent/royalty situation with Qualcomm. If Apple starts making their own cell modems, they will start putting them in laptops.
- enos_feedler 4y agoDell also cares less about users sim card bills. Apple is the kind of company that just wants it to be done right.
- mcculley 4y agoI remain unconvinced that it has anything to do with Apple thinking about the user’s mobile data bill. Watch what happens when Apple is no longer entangled with Qualcomm royalties. Though I do like the idea that this is why tethering to my iPhone is so flaky. It isn’t due to bugs, it is because Apple cares about my mobile data bill!
- TillE 4y ago> I seldom, if ever, carry my iPhone outside my house. This is such an extreme outlier behavior, nobody is designing products around it. Pretty much everyone who owns a smartphone carries it around everywhere, because why not.
- jabbany 4y agoNot OP but I know quite a few people who really do not like to carry their phone around. I couldn't understand this for the longest time until I asked my sister, who kept handing her phone to me to hold on to while on a family trip, about this one day. Apparently, a lot of women's clothing doesn't have "usable" pockets (they're tiny or fake...)! And with the size of modern phones, it's actually often quite a nuisance to carry around a phone. While this may not be OP's situation, I would guess this might be one reason for the proliferation of cellular-enabled smart watches...