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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.

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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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