saralily

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learning doctor. i help people make computers do things.

but here it’s mostly manga

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But it's the present. Today was the first time I took a fast walk with only my AirPods Pro and Apple Watch Ultra on. I was streaming an Audible book over LTE, getting voice alerts on 1km splits, and getting biofeedback about my workout. I had nothing else with me, and I had the ability to pay for things, communicate through every major protocol, privately, with sensory isolation, using devices I could conceal in one closed hand. I think that's neat.


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About $1k for the watch and headphones, give or take, and $10/m for the cell plan on the watch. Plus an iPhone. I'm fully bought into Apple stuff and have been for a long time, with iCloud Advanced Data Protection on and all that. My company mostly uses Apple devices, and I developed apps and educational games for iOS/iPadOS for six years before working there. I'm embedded, and that's okay. I could spin up what I needed in Linux, and have, and practice that every year or two, but the walled garden is just fine for most of my needs.

good to know, im ballparking to save up. i'd like to have these bad boys before i go to japan. i frankly have a lot of trauma associated (indirectly) with android style UX, I feel like a switch would be good for me. i also like that apple does one thing seemingly windows & android have continuously failed at which is a semi-harmonious transportable experience across devices.

also the experience you're describing feels pretty liberating- i pretty much only go outside with my phone bc it's my wallet + safety device, otherwise id eagerly leave it at home. seems ideal.

It is liberating. The Ultra has a powerful alarm/siren thing on it, too. I think you can do a lot of this without the Ultra, and just a normal cellular Apple Watch. And you're right about the cross-device experience. I can go to any of my devices and resume my browsing sessions in each iCloud tab group, and changes to those sessions are reflected pretty fast, so much so that changing pages on one site can sometimes update them in near real time on another device. It's nice.