Apple Pay

dr_adidas01

colsten wrote: »

I absolutely love Apple Pay!! I made all sorts of small purchases today in various shops today and it worked a treat everywhere. It's fantastic to have an instant record of all the spending, and I can finally make contactless payments with my non-contactless Nationwide credit card. Marvellous.

I think I 'need' an Apple Watch now, to save me from having to fish for my phone in the depths of my handbag!

What do the experts say - is buying the watch now a good idea or will the current models be obsolete within the next 12 to 18 months?

It was faster than actually using my physical contactless card when using it on my Apple Watch, Its an apple product so in 12 months time there will be a new one that's the way technology is these days.

knack92

anoncol wrote: »

All pictures go in the one camera roll though dont they? Not now in iOS 9.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/07/08/latest-ios-9-beta-includes-separate-folders-for-selfies

Copy paste was a recent edition.

With multiple iphones itunes gets mixed up and forgets your settings for auto launching. Happens all the time in software development when you work on Iphone (which i did for a few years). Now sure if its fixed now, but this was even a common thing with OSX itunes. So couldn't be blamed on the dire pile of dung itunes is on Windows.

I don't agree that June 2009 is recent.

dr_adidas01

knack92 wrote: »

I don't agree that June 2009 is recent.

Have to agree with you, I've been using apple products since 2001 and most of the features you say aren't available have been since way back then.

If you're referring to iPhone then yes some features weren't available till recently, lets face it Apple usually leads the way in many things and other companies try to copy it and vice versa.

NFH

dr_adidas01 wrote: »

Have you actually used and Apple watch to make the assumption that battery lacks sufficient durtion?

No, I haven't used one, but I want a watch with at least double the current power to allow for periods of higher usage.

dr_adidas01 wrote: »

As for it being chunky again that maybe your opinion, its no more chunky than most fashion or other watches such as the pebble watch.

True, but I wouldn't buy the other watches either. Apple has a track record of thinning devices over time. I'll wait for them to do the same with the Apple Watch.

NFH

Today I've used Apple Pay 14 times on TfL - 10 DLR card readers, 2 Tube barriers and 2 DLR ticket inspections. It works perfectly. There are two methods:

1. Hold your iPhone near a card reader and touch your fingerprint when it lights up
2. Go into Passbook, pre-authenticate an imminent transaction with your fingerprint, then hold your iPhone near a card reader

The second method takes longer overall, but reduces the time spent at the card reader, for example ticket inspections and at ticket barriers where there can be queues of people. It's also what TfL advise at https://tfl.gov.uk/fares-and-payments/contactless/other-methods-of-contactless-payment/apple-pay

TfL doesn't support online journey history for Apple Pay via Amex cards yet, both according to TfL's above link and a message from Amex that appears in Passbook after using Apple Pay on TfL:

"Thank you. Online support and journey history is not yet available in your online TfL account. This will be resolved soon."

InsideInsurance

NFH wrote: »

I would hold back until the 2nd generation watch is released. The current one is too chunky and lacks sufficient battery duration.

I am interested to see how the different generations work. Charging £13k on an annual product? You'd hope that there is an option to upgrade the innards, at least for the gold cases.

NFH

InsideInsurance wrote: »

I am interested to see how the different generations work. Charging £13k on an annual product? You'd hope that there is an option to upgrade the innards, at least for the gold cases.

Yes, that is what Apple proposes. However, once you start doing that, there won't be much left of the original watch. It would be like Trigger's broom.

dr_adidas01

InsideInsurance wrote: »

I am interested to see how the different generations work. Charging £13k on an annual product? You'd hope that there is an option to upgrade the innards, at least for the gold cases.

If you can afford to pay £13,500 for a watch you're not going to be worried about it being obsolete in 12 to 18 months time as most will simply buy another one.

It will be the average user who maybe spent £339 or £649 on the Sports Watch or the Apple watch that will probably think twice before considering upgrading to a new version.

NFH

dr_adidas01 wrote: »

If you can afford to pay £13,500 for a watch you're not going to be worried about it being obsolete in 12 to 18 months time as most will simply buy another one.

I disagree. Traditionally when one spends this kind of money on a watch, one expects it to last for years or decades.

shortcrust

dr_adidas01 wrote: »

If you can afford to pay £13,500 for a watch you're not going to be worried about it being obsolete in 12 to 18 months time as most will simply buy another one.

NFH wrote: »

I disagree. Traditionally when one spends this kind of money on a watch, one expects it to last for years or decades.

But not when you buy an Apple Watch that you know will be obsolete a couple of years down the line. Even my 96 year old grandma said "but it'll be out of date next year!" when I told her I'd spent £600 on my Apple Watch.