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he expanded a little on twitter

 

Wish the apple card perks were a little better. They’re slightly worse than than all of other “basic” no fee cards so I’m not really dying to switch over yet. Can we at least get a 5% cash back calendar or somethin?

 

News+ is pretty slick, I must admit. And $10/mo isn’t bad when you factor in family sharing and the price of printed magazines.

Question though for those who signed up today: is there a way to “favorite” specific magazines? I haven’t found that option yet, if it’s even there.

 

I am definitely going to try and explore news+ as much as possible in the next month to see if i want to keep it around.

Visually though it looks incredible

 

Yeah, wholly unimpressed with the terms. I have all of my cards on 0% financing for 12-18 months, still earn rewards/points. Sure, the tracking features are fun and all, but don’t really change anything for me. I care about actual money more than pretty features.

 

Do my cards like that pls

 

Look for 0% balance transfers - should be easy enough to find. Or, get 0% cash advances and use those advances to pay off your current cc balances. It’s not too hard, just gotta look around.

 

A little disappointed in Apple’s announcements today tbh - no credit card outside the US, no announcement on when News+ will be available outside the US but I’m not holding my breath we’ll get it before the end of the year, if at all, which is a shame because it’s definitely the service I’m most interested in. Jury’s out on Apple TV+ until some more information about the content filters through, but Spielberg and Oprah being involved kinda seems like a throwback to a bygone era. I don’t doubt it will be a success but I don’t think Netflix has anything to worry about...yet.

 

yeah i don't quite understand the ui (and this is someone who is a ui designer lol). I tapped the cloud icon on magazines I liked in the list but when I went to 'my magazines' the only ones that were there were the ones I previewed. I can think of a million better ways to do this lol

 

After reading some more on it, the Apple Card is pretty lame.

 

I’m interested in News+ but not even the normal News app is available in Ireland

 

Nothing blew me away here. Expected to see much more of the TV App and the actual content. Maybe that’s just my expectations.

More of a software thing, so I’m sure I’ll get these answers in June.

Will episodes bought in iTunes auto play the next episode in the ATV app?

Will tv series be sorted by season if bought as a collection? It’s a mess right now.

Can I sort movies how I want to? Every trilogy, saga etc is out of order unless strictly titled 1,2,3.

News+ isn’t my thing, personally. Imagine big magazine lovers will be very into it though.

Never play games on Apple devices really, but the Arcade stuff looks cool!

I’d have also liked to see if they had changes in the works for music.

 

It's so bad. I own all the Friends seasons and watch them on Netflix instead because of how bad it is.

 

Yep! Same with Friends and the U.S Office. (Now watch Friends on Netflix and U.S Office on Prime UK)

 

First reports are claiming that sound quality has been massively improved with the AirPods 2. Also much louder.

Very curious.

 

Apparently also the first gen airpods are getting a huge update with the latest firmware.

Super interesting stuff.

 

Boy I REALLY doubt that.

 

I don’t believe the increased sound quality takes at all. But I haven’t heard them, so I’ll reserve final judgement. I think this is the definition of placebo at play with a lot of folks.

 

This is purely anecdotal, but I noticed this morning that my AirPods were giving me the connection screen really quickly today. They've been getting worse lately at pairing, so it stuck out to me that the 3 times I've pulled them out today the've connected right away. Just checked and I do have the new firmware. I'll take it.

 

Yeah they sound better. And louder. And connect faster.

At this point I’m doubting if an upgrade is even worth it for me.

 

Welp, even though there’s no black option like I hoped, I ordered the wireless charging AirPods. Hopefully they get here sooner rather than later because I gave my other pair to my mom.

 

do you still want my first gen AirPods for $75?

 

my second gen AirPods are waiting for me at home - I'll report back later about first impressions

 

Getting mine tomorrow.

 

Surprised to see them available in store to buy at my local store - maybe they made more for the initial launch this time? I feel like the original launch i was seeing 6-8 week delivery for like 5 months lol