If you live in a city that supports it like NYC or Toronto, just tap your wrist (no unlock) on transit and you’re in.
When I visit Japan though, Apple watch works fine with SUICA. Unfortunately, in China, AliPay is too complicated to be used on a watch and you have to whip out your phone regardless because of the QR code thing. If China ever upgrades to NFC, it will work fine.
I tell myself, eh first world problems. But agreed that it's also a Seattle Process problem.
For a city with so many tech companies, the city itself isn't very technological.
Sounds like an AliPay problem, not necessarily a "China" problem because in the Apple Wallet app, there is a list of nearly 50 Chinese transit cards that can be added.
Perhaps someone in China can provide more information.
This is a new phrase for me.
I really need to just put in a better fence eventually, but for now I just rely on yelling them off.
Is this ‘ground floor’ in UK, Australia, New Zealand?
Americans count like people: 1, 2, 3…
Europeans count like machines: 0, 1, 2…
- Apple Pay (I don't have to take out my phone to pay for things). One really cool feature is that the apple watch maintains your credentials as long as you don't take it off your wrist, so you don't need to unlock anything to pay for something.
- Apple Car/Home Key (I don't have to take out my phone to unlock my front door)
- notifications on my wrist when my washer machine is done
- notifications on my wrist when an unhoused neighbor door checks my car in the middle of the night.
- Apple Health: metrics on my daily workout.
- Screen time: grant kid 15 minutes of Roblox without taking my phone out of my pocket
- Edit: I'm embarrassed to admit that I also use the "find my phone" feature a lot when at home.
I don't really need an ultra for any of that, and I don't see a reason to upgrade my 2-3 year old Apple Watch now.