Bongo Heracles
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 13, 2023 14:57:17 GMT
Incredibly, my old release day, Gen 1, 2015 Apple Watch is still in absolutely perfect working order. Not a scratch on it and the battery is still as shit as the day I bought it.
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Post by otto on Sept 13, 2023 15:02:02 GMT
I may just have preordered the Ultra 2 with a £75 trade in on my perfectly cromulent series 5
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Post by elstoof on Sept 13, 2023 15:07:25 GMT
My Series 5 with black steel link bracelet is one of the more expensive things I’ve shoved in a drawer and forgotten about recently
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Post by Binky on Sept 13, 2023 15:11:31 GMT
I may just have preordered the Ultra 2 with a £75 trade in on my perfectly cromulent series 5 Have you tried on an Ultra? They looked pretty big compared to the S8 when I picked that up. I'm not saying I remember your dainty wrists being dainty, but... Sod it. Tech \o/ Of the 3 items I picked up last year in my first Apple splurge in a long time (iphone 14 pro max, MBP 16 m2, apple watch s8) the watch is definitely my favourite of the lot. So much better than I expected it to be. |
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Post by otto on Sept 13, 2023 15:25:19 GMT
Have you tried on an Ultra? They looked pretty big compared to the S8 when I picked that up. I haven't actually tried one on myself, but I've seen several out and about so I have a decent idea of how big they look. It's mainly envy of the other dads at the school gate that's motivating me if I'm honest. That and my need for superior activity tracking as I'm an active outdoorsman* *putting out the bins every week, mowing the lawn at least once a month |
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Post by Phattso on Sept 13, 2023 15:29:57 GMT
The Watch, though... my Series 4 is ready for a refresh! Buddy! Are you back in Blighty??
I'm tempted to treat myself to a fancy Ultra but then that would be totally irresponsible. I have no idea which series watch I have but whichever it is, it's fine.
That went from "tempted" to "bought" in whiplash time!  And yeah, I'm back a few years now. SE16 if you find yourself in the zone and want a pint (Paddington for work, also well served for boozers). |
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Post by otto on Sept 13, 2023 15:33:28 GMT
That went from "tempted" to "bought" in whiplash time! And yeah, I'm back a few years now. SE16 if you find yourself in the zone and want a pint (Paddington for work, also well served for boozers). When it comes to a fool and his money I don't shit about. It would be great to meet up one of these days, lots has happened on the life front since last we met and I'm very rarely in London these days but with some planning I believe it ought to be possible. |
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Post by X201 on Sept 14, 2023 4:39:28 GMT
What’s Apple’s history like for early adopters getting shafted with a flawed product that gets the bugs ironed out in later revisions?
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Post by askew on Sept 14, 2023 5:14:31 GMT
I think I trust them when it comes to implementing USB-C
Edit: though they have done that thing where the iPhone 15 gets USB 2.0 (480Mbps) and the Pro gets USB 3.0 (10Gbps)
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Post by elstoof on Sept 14, 2023 6:08:56 GMT
What’s Apple’s history like for early adopters getting shafted with a flawed product that gets the bugs ironed out in later revisions?  |
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Post by elstoof on Sept 14, 2023 6:19:43 GMT
I’ve got an iPad 3 in the bottom of my sock drawer too, might be a collectors item now
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Post by Dougs on Sept 14, 2023 6:32:27 GMT
I still fairly regularly use an iPad 2!
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Post by elstoof on Sept 14, 2023 6:43:56 GMT
3 was the borked one they replaced after 6 months. The only iPad I got, hardly used it
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Post by elstoof on Sept 14, 2023 6:48:35 GMT
Also had a Touch Bar MacBook Pro, with the dodgy keyboards and last of the intel cpus. First laptop i didn’t keep for 6+ years, traded in for an M1 asap
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Post by Dougs on Sept 14, 2023 7:14:32 GMT
3 was the borked one they replaced after 6 months. The only iPad I got, hardly used it What did they do to it?! |
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Post by elstoof on Sept 14, 2023 7:25:22 GMT
They launched a Retina display about 6 months before they had a chip that could drive the extra pixels
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Post by otto on Sept 14, 2023 7:32:56 GMT
What’s Apple’s history like for early adopters getting shafted with a flawed product that gets the bugs ironed out in later revisions? Oh Jesus. That POS is still sat under my desk, I couldn't even trade it in for peanuts because the motherboard died a couple of weeks after it went out of warranty. |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 14, 2023 7:50:51 GMT
The rule of thumb is never to buy a v1 of any apple product. They either break or a missing critical features. Well, akshully... |
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Post by ozthegweat on Sept 14, 2023 8:07:46 GMT
M1 Macs, Apple Watch Ultra and AirPods (non-Pro and Pro) have been solid gen 1 products. So I'd say it's a toss-up.
What gen 1 product is X201 wanting to buy anyway?
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Post by elstoof on Sept 14, 2023 8:13:02 GMT
WELL AKSHULLY
AirPod pro had a recall for failing noise cancelling, now my replscement earbuds are also broken in the same way
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Post by Fake_Blood on Sept 14, 2023 8:20:53 GMT
I had to send them 2 times for replacement, my 3rd pair also broke but then switched to the gen2 pro's.
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Post by otto on Sept 14, 2023 8:41:27 GMT
Yeah on the whole I think Apple has a pretty solid history when it comes to new products - and we're not really talking about new products here, the touchbar MBP wasn't a new product, it was just a dodgy iteration with a couple of daft features. The first Apple Watch was a bit of a dog and I wouldn't get the first gen Vision Pro, but other than that...
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Post by dogbot on Sept 14, 2023 8:46:16 GMT
That's definitely not just an Apple thing, though.
I'm generally lairy about buying any first gen new tech.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 14, 2023 8:58:45 GMT
Yeah on the whole I think Apple has a pretty solid history when it comes to new products Hmmnnn.... I disagree with that, on the whole. The touchbar *was* new tech and it was shit. v2 is almost always the sweet spot or, in the touchbars case, the v that completely removes it. What I will give them is that they are masters of iteration, which is why the second gen is usually the jump on point. Even if the first gen works, like my apple watch, the second generation always contains basic functionality they skipped in the rush to market. |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 14, 2023 8:59:43 GMT
I say this as someone who is fully immersed in the eco-system and has and probably will buy Gen 1 products again because I'm an idiot.
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Post by Fake_Blood on Sept 14, 2023 9:09:27 GMT
They have gotten better at it. Jobs definitely had the tendency to just say you’re using it wrong like with antenna gate. That said, I still miss my iphone 4. But now, they’ve transitioned from intel silicon to their own arm chips with almost no trouble, which I still find amazing.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 14, 2023 9:14:42 GMT
The iPhone is the classic example. The follow up to the gen one was so much more fully featured, they skipped an entire version number for it and went straight onto the iPhone 3(g).
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Post by otto on Sept 14, 2023 9:20:31 GMT
The touchbar *was* new tech and it was shit. I think I'll agree to disagree on this - the touchbar wasn't new tech, and the MBP wasn't a new product, it was using existing tech on an existing product line in an innovative way which turned out to be a really bad idea, so they dropped it. The keyboard on those MBPs was I think even more of a problem, arguably that *was* new tech and it didn't work. |
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Post by TheSaint on Sept 14, 2023 9:29:59 GMT
In fairness, the switch to Apple silicon could have been an absolute disaster, and before that came out, many people suggested skipping the first gen, but the M1 line is still holding up all these years later.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Sept 14, 2023 9:40:06 GMT
The phones and ipads were all using the bionic chips for years, which the M1 built on so its not like they were reinventing the wheel.
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