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Cake day: October 25th, 2023

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  • I’ve been purchasing Apple products for about 22 years. If anything, quality, durability, and product lifetime have gotten better. Apple is f-ing amazing when it comes to managing their supply chain these day, and I think a lot of that is Tim Cook.

    Apple used to always deliver products late and with problems in the 1980s and 1990s. Look at the number of iPhone, iPads, Apple Watches, AirPods, etc. that they deliver every year like clockwork. The scale of that, and the high quality in general, is just mind boggling and an underappreciated achievement.





  • I still find it is slower to access the infomation I want most of the time, though the fix to the temp complication at least made me stop wanting to smash my watch every time I used it. Some examples:

    I prefered the scrolling interface to the screen by screen. I use the temperature complication rather than conditions for the Weather app. To then get to conditions, it is multiple taps rather than a quick swipe.

    Activity is a mixed bag–with swiping/scrolling I’d often overshoot what I was looking for, and need to go back. Now it’s multiple actions or getting used to using the digital crown, which I basically never did before.

    I understand why they made the changes they did, and for many use-cases it will likely be easier. But for some (e.g. Weather app), it’s more work. Hopefully continued refinements will help. I wish I had been able to wait to upgrade to 10 for another couple months, but upgraded my X to an 15 Pro so was pretty much forced to upgrade.