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In the last six months I have purchased:

16 inch M1 Max ~4k

Apple Watch Ultra ~800

Air pods pro 2 ~250

13 inch M1 16 GB ~2000

= 7000 dollars.

A huge spend and I don't regret one single purchase. Each subsequent product interfaces extremely well with the ecosystem. I no longer carry my phone with me 80% of the time. I bring my watch and usually have a laptop if needed.

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Do you text with friends, family, or colleagues, and if so, is it from the laptop? I find my communication hampered without the phone, but like the idea of leaving it away from me more often.

The texting is actually pretty good from the watch, can use Siri or type into the watch keyboard. Same with phone calls, I use the air pods to connect and its like talking on a regular phone.

Apple pay works very well. Get emails, slack messages, etc. Can easily reply to slack messages from the watch. Cant see conversations but

Basically everything works that I need.

Alot of apps dont work, but thats the point. I dont need those apps all the time.

Yeah iMessage has a pretty great tie in with iPhones to the point that they don’t even have to be on the same network to send an sms from your laptop via your phone.

Just remember to deregister your number if you ever move off of Apple, or else every text from any iPhone to you will disappear into the void

This used to be true but is not true anymore.

Link?

I won an iPad years ago. It was so much smoother than my Samsung. Fast forward to today, and I’m in a similar situation as you.

I keep throwing money at Apple and they almost never disappoint.

Does the watch work without having an iphone around? I would love to buy an apple watch, but I don't have (nor want) an iphone.

Interesting. Does the watch have a cellular connection? I thought it piggybacked off of an iphone.

Yeah the cellular connection is 10 bucks a month. But I can talk on the phone/receive texts like its a phone.

Not OP but yes, if you buy the pricier model, it has its own data plan.

That is more than I have spend on computing hardware in my entire life...

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