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The reason I could (sic: should be couldn't) stream music yesterday is pretty simple:

"...because I can't read." It even says right on Apple's Watch page, under Apple Music: "coming soon". Okay, so maybe the author is not one of those geeky types that keeps track of the goings on in Apple's world.

Luckily I’m enrolled in the developer program

Oops, guess not. I really don't understand the complaint here. "I'm returning my Apple Watch because it won't stream music." Umm, no one said that an Apple Watch that you buy today (or "yesterday") would stream music without an iPhone. It will standalone stream music "soon", but not right now.

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Sure - I'm not necessarily complaining with Apple. By reading more I could also have known that Spotify wasn't available. I tried to be pretty honest in describing my experience, and I don't blame them. It's also a consumer right, I think, to return a product if you discover that it doesn't meet your expectations.

Also, I thought that my experience could be useful to other people -- I don't think everybody's reading all details before making a purchase, so I wanted to share it.

Thanks for catching the typo, will fix it asap.

Also, I thought that my experience could be useful to other people

Despite bustin' your chops, I'll grant you that one. I constantly forget that not everyone has been occasionally disappointed with their tech purchase over the past thirty years, and therefore doesn't research their purchase with the necessary skepticism. Kinda like that XKCD "you're one of the 10,000" cartoon: "congratulations, you've made your first disappointing tech purchase! Now let's go get some Mentos and Coke."

I don't blame him for not paying close attention to "coming soon." If you watched the Apple Watch Keynote, the emphasis was on the experience of a tetherless Watch with streaming/phone/text services. If you're paying for that experience, I can understand why you would be frustrated. On the other hand, when you're on the bleeding bloody edge, maybe that experience is rough around the edges. A little patience would go a long way for this reviewer.

I have patience - but I don't want to pay the extra price during the patience time (in fairness, both verizon and apple music are free for 3 months). I'll downgrade and upgrade back when apps are there.

I'm going to downgrade because I know there's only a 14-day time frame for doing that, and I don't want to bet that apps will be there in the next 3 months. I hope I'm wrong of course.

For years Apple has released products that are dependent on a feature not yet available. (Apple Pencil, AirPods, etc on the hardware front, and OS features touted for new hardware not available at launch, like Portrait Mode) For those that are heavy consumers of Apple products, years of keynote announcements should have conditioned this expectation.

Agreed - and in fact my decision wasn't taken so lightly.

I guess another way of seeing what happened is this. I imagined a watch that could work disconnected from the iphone, which is a drastically new product. Beside making calls and paying, and beside the "watch-specific" uses such as activity tracking, I was under the impression that music streaming could be there. And I was wrong (and, as pointed out elsewhere, I could have read more).

Makes sense. I'm sure in the coming months support will expand.

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