Oh, and have any of these tech bloggers bothered to ask why Samsung's Fold has a deeper crease than panels they provide to other OEMs? I mean, duh: is there a legitimate reason?

Bravo Alan, I've been with T-Mobile pre LTE and watched it grow as John Legere took the CEOs of AT&T and Verizon out to the woodshed. That T-Mobile was cool to be a part of, now it's just the same as the rest. Sievert is a sub par CEO running a company that USED to put others on notice.

Was a Sr Manager in the retail channel and quit in January due to their complete and utter disregard of their employees and customers. 16 years with the Company. Great years up until to the Sprint merger. They killed all operational support in Sept. Put it all on the field which is already overworked. Then started raising quotas to where it was nearly impossible to make a decent check. Then the employees started slamming features and lines on accounts so they could make money. Upper Mgmt turned a blind eye to it. This from a company that prided itself on being customer and employee centric. No longer. They got their merger with Sprint and gave a big Middle Finger to the govt, its customers and the employees. There will be a special place in hell reserved for Mike Sievert and Jon Freier.

I'm also a T-Mobile sales rep under a 3rd party retailer (Not corporate) Making an account just to comment. Very thankful that this is becoming more known 👍 Our district has heavily discouraged upgrading customers as well simply as a way of maintaining metrics. Reps don't see it as being worth their time because commission incentive is only fifty cents per upgrade if you're not getting those extras (plan change, insurance, accessories, watch, etc) I've been with this company for over three years and am currently working out my last two weeks. I've been struggling to pay bills for the past half a year and to be told that we're not watching numbers closely enough is unbelievably disheartening, especially when you're spending 1-2 hours helping a customer just to be paid half a dollar. As someone else stated in the comments, we're really not trying to be rude or mean, we just don't want to get fired for disobeying or throwing off sales numbers.

Useless is maybe an exaggeration, but they are monumentally overpriced. All thanks to the industry's constant antitrust abuses no authority takes seriously. The main offender, as usual, being Apple; locking everybody else out from core necessities while gimping their watch on any other platform. 5-700 bucks for a watch with a tiny display, a few moderately accurate sensors, a cheap processor, a battery, and a few grams of mass-produced metal and sapphire doesn't cost anything near that to make. There is no longevity in the products either, so the "timepiece argument" goes out the window with the industry's chronic planned obsolescence.

Depends how you define the world, but if you ask me, nearly nothing is "safe" these days. When major companies benefit from using our usage records/data to further manipulate us into spending more to finance their further intrusive and greedy practices (like AI without proper regulation and incentive to improve the craft of creators), unfortunately nothing short of disconnecting society will let you escape from recent trends. It stopped being about personal privacy and pleasing customers decades ago. Global recession have created a trend where companies are desperate enough to push technologies without caring much about the repurcussions. Unfortunately, thinking companies like Apple are knights in shining armor is the sort of niavety that will push the top 5% into being richer and the middle class into oblivion.