Long past time for Apple to add this capability. Android has had it for ages. Samsung with Good Lock can even have app-specific audio settings.

You will probably love the Samsung, but not love the way it fits with your iPhone friends and family. Apple makes this hard, and you will feel every bit of the difficulty.

It’s imessage.

If android phones showed up in imessage as red bubbles or purple bubbles but everything still worked OR if Apple released iMessage for Android very few would actually care about the type of phone used .

I understand completely, my Fold 5 feels faster/snappier but not quite as buttery smooth overall as my iPhone 15.

In addition to just generally being chunky I am disappointed that Apple only has 1-axis navigation on the Home Screen (X = up and down vertically). I think they do this because the Digital Crown only has up/down.

But all other watch os (Google, Samsung, Fitbit, Amazfit, garmin) have 2-axis navigation (X and Y). Swiping side ways adds quite a few nice navigation options in addition to up/down.

Get ready for lower App Store prices overall, the proliferation of new iPhone app stores (Amazon, Microsoft, and some 3rd parties), and a spawning of some really garbage apps and malware.

Apple may be monopolizing, but they have the strictest standards for app approval. This means iOS apps which don’t update to adopt new iOS look/feel and APIs stop getting approved. With a 3rd party app store, we’ll start to see apps that look ‘old’ because Apple can’t reject them from a 3rd party app store. And of course, we’ll see new malware that Apple also can no longer reject.

Still, I expect Apple to make it glaringly obvious to users that non-Apple apps are sketchy (probably a warning box every time they are launched) and it will eventually look a lot like the current situation on Android.

I think TSMC’s 3nm has been a dud. Yields are lower, which constrains available chips and forces Apple to use more ‘binned” chips where something is wrong (GPU core doesn’t work right, memory bus is not fully functioning, etc) and also accept some chips that need higher power to stay stable.

This leads to a weak generational leap and the odd proliferation of chip configs/chip options.

I’m trying to imagine how Apple could have made it even worse. Trying, and failing. It’s awful. The UI is trash, the navigation is trash, it’s laggy, it updates wierdly…