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For me its: - Apple Pay (I don't have to take out my phone to pay for things). One really cool feature is that the apple watch maintains your credentials as lo
by seanmcdirmid 1y ago
For me its:
- Apple Pay (I don't have to take out my phone to pay for things). One really cool feature is that the apple watch maintains your credentials as long as you don't take it off your wrist, so you don't need to unlock anything to pay for something.
- Apple Car/Home Key (I don't have to take out my phone to unlock my front door)
- notifications on my wrist when my washer machine is done
- notifications on my wrist when an unhoused neighbor door checks my car in the middle of the night.
- Apple Health: metrics on my daily workout.
- Screen time: grant kid 15 minutes of Roblox without taking my phone out of my pocket
- Edit: I'm embarrassed to admit that I also use the "find my phone" feature a lot when at home.
I don't really need an ultra for any of that, and I don't see a reason to upgrade my 2-3 year old Apple Watch now.
- wenc 1y agoAlso Express Transit. If you live in a city that supports it like NYC or Toronto, just tap your wrist (no unlock) on transit and you’re in.
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoI live in Seattle. Android gets that, but we don't yet, and they keep putting it off. This is basically Seattle's core dysfunction on display (called the "Seattle Process"), and its why our escalators are always broken, our transit projects are a few decades behind schedule, and why ORCA cards can't be loaded into an Apple Wallet yet. When I visit Japan though, Apple watch works fine with SUICA. Unfortunately, in China, AliPay is too complicated to be used on a watch and you have to whip out your phone regardless because of the QR code thing. If China ever upgrades to NFC, it will work fine.
- wenc 1y agoI also live in Seattle, and have to dig my Orca card out of my wallet every time. I can't even tap my wallet because there are multiple NFC cards in there. I tell myself, eh first world problems. But agreed that it's also a Seattle Process problem. For a city with so many tech companies, the city itself isn't very technological.
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoYa. Also Washington state is going to be the last state to get digital driver licenses..even Utah has those already.
- chrisrogers 1y agoLouisiana had them like 7 years ago
- reaperducer 1y agoIf China ever upgrades to NFC, it will work fine. Sounds like an AliPay problem, not necessarily a "China" problem because in the Apple Wallet app, there is a list of nearly 50 Chinese transit cards that can be added. Perhaps someone in China can provide more information.
- davidf18 1y ago[dead]
- lostlogin 1y ago> unhoused neighbor This is a new phrase for me.
- billforsternz 1y agoMe too. Having figured out what it means I cannot over-empathise how much I DO NOT WANT NOTIFICATIONS of an unhoused neighbour door checking my car in the middle of the night.
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoMy kid sleeps on the first floor and so I’m interested in any skulking at ground level. Usually they just door check the car (our garage doesn’t have walls on two sides), but sometimes they make it in the backyard. I really need to just put in a better fence eventually, but for now I just rely on yelling them off.
- lostlogin 1y ago> first floor Is this ‘ground floor’ in UK, Australia, New Zealand?
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- reaperducer 1y agoIt's an off-by-one issue. Americans count like people: 1, 2, 3… Europeans count like machines: 0, 1, 2…
- billforsternz 1y agoUnderstandable, thanks for explaining.
- adastra22 1y agoYou’d rather not know?
- randycupertino 1y agoI use the find my phone option regularly, too. In the newest upgrade it now tells you how many feet you are away from the phone and gets green as you get closer. It's very cool!
- adastra22 1y agoSoo much better. I wish I could turn off the beeping on the first try though—the direction and distance is usually good enough.