Apart from all that junk space next to the camera lens.

Recent iPads have M series chips, so same as a Macbook anyway.

I just don't get why they don't produce a tablet Mac. Seems like a slam dunk to me

Bluetooth speakers have already ruined the beach in much of the world.

1. People use these GPS watches for Ironman triathlons, ultra running & cycling events etc. They can't and won't charge before the battery is done - and remember the battery with a daily charge will degrade significantly. If it's borderline on release, it'll be inadequate after a year.

2. Just for general convenience, having to take another special cable for every late night or overnight trip is maddening. I always have a phone anyway for any actual interactions.

I find it hard to believe many people are writing texts on their watches, it's just a nice to have gimmick feature that everyone I know has stopped using.

> and remember the battery with a daily charge will degrade significantly. If it's borderline on release, it'll be inadequate after a year.

That has not been my experience though - having used both an Apple Watch and a Pixel Watch for years on end every single day. Absolutely outside my area of expertise, but I would imagine that you can design batteries to have a much longer lifetime (no of recharge cycles) when their capacity is smaller.

That’s not how Lion charging works - degradation and lifetime (to a first approximation) depend on full charges. If you charge daily from 80% to 100% or charge every 5 days from 1% to 100%, your battery degradation and lifetime will be the same.

And that's the fancy screen, gimmick edition garmin watch - the normal MIP display garmin watches (even an old, midrange Forerunner 255) will easily get a couple of weeks of battery life, more for the higher end ones.

OLED is just the wrong screen tech for these devices, never made any sense to me given how little I care about graphics and how little time I spend reading the display.

But it's not the screen that causes it to lose energy as fast, but the general purpose OS with a decent CPU.

The restrictions on iOS content blockers mean that it's not possible to add value, it's just basic competence to apply pre-existing filter lists maintained by someone else.

Gorhill's browser extensions are great, have actual features. This isn't possible in iOS.

Competitors that require a $10k car and minimum wage, not a $500k car. That's a lot of margin to make up.

Do you know how many cities and towns in the US and worldwide have been bankrupted by road maintenance costs? It's car-centric design that is not economically viable, but it's subsidised to the hilt by governments, at the expense of far more cost effective transit methods, to the benefit of... Car and oil companies.

Literally impossible for your battery life not to have degraded in 5.5 years, battery tech just degrades - my 14 Pro was noticably worse in less than a year.

Hence the use of 'noticeably', as opposed to 'measurably'. There's no point in arguing about subjective experience.