• Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz
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    9 months ago

    Nah, it just has no apps, a poor battery life and like all new Apple product lines will be massively put to shame by its successors.

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      9 months ago

      It doesn’t have a poor battery life it has a poor battery design. If they put a decent battery on the damn thing it would be okay, it’s not particularly power hungry but apple just give it a gnat’s testicle of a battery.

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        9 months ago

        The design makes perfect sense. You can trivially add an additional pack with capacity if that’s your use case. The included pack does the power management and has enough for plenty of people without being in the way, and it’s as simple as plugging in any source of USC-C power at appropriate specs to extend it.

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          9 months ago

          That would be a fine argument if the device didn’t cost more than my mortgage repayments. But for device that expensive, they absolutely need to put a decent battery on the thing.

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            9 months ago

            A “decent battery” is bigger and more weight to carry around that plenty of use cases don’t want or benefit from. It’s not small for cost reasons. It’s because it’s a worse device if you force it to be huge.

            The price is high, but only if you ignore how much tech is in it. A lesser but close dumb display from anyone else is thousands in its own.