For years I thought “I will wait for next year, maybe there is something really crazy coming” but this year with the Series 9 I finally pulled the trigger and honestly I should have done it years ago. It motivates me so much to be more active, I put more attention towards my sleep quality, I discovered Fitness Plus for me, etc. Even if the Series X is going to be some ground breaking re-invention of the Apple Watch, it will be the first generation of whatever that would be and you can get a more refined version of it a couple of years down the line.

If you think you will benefit from an Apple Watch, I would pull the trigger now. If it is an SE, Series 8 or Series 9 depends on what you want to spend and what features you want, but I wouldn’t make it dependent on whatever the Series X might be.

Can‘t wait for my father to enable it, ruin his phone by downloading and installing dodgy shit and I am the one who has to fix it again.

Why would it? Do you have any legislation that would demand it?

Which is fair, but at the same time a solvable problem. The app could process everything locally and save it in your iCloud account, no need for the other company to have your data ever.

Also the same argument can be made about so many other things. You can’t record a workout on your iPhone if you don’t have a Apple Watch so you need a third party app like Strava to record it. So Strava gets quite some health information about me. Is Apple supposed to also create a full alternative for that too? Where do you draw the line what Apple is responsible for solving?

I don’t quite understand why something like this needs to be an OS feature. I understand the benefit of the OS providing the “Moments” but this seems much more like a feature that can be exposed by an API that third party apps than can make use of.

There was a real distinction then in hardware. Screen size and chassis size but also storage, disk drives and ports. Real qualitative differences, not just quantitative.

You still have all those things that differentiate an Air from a Pro? More CPU cores, more GPU power, more RAM, more storage, better pixel density, better refresh rate, better brightness, better connectivity, better audio and mics, etc. I don‘t quite understand your point.

Regular Macbook, Macbook Air and Macbook Pro were the 3 segments that Apple had before and that was fine. I don‘t see any problem with that lineup (besides the 13“ Macbook Pro but I think most people don‘t share that sentiment).