Apple watch / vendor incompetence
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We purchased an Apple watch on amazon, from amazon being the seller (authorized), with cellular.
Between Verizon, Apple, then physically setting foot at Apple and Verizon, nobody could get the cellular to activate.
Out of frustration, I decided to try on my own at home, and I got it to work.
That's 3+ hours of my life I'll never get back. Verizon blamed amazon, saying you never know what you're getting, just return it. Nice conclusion.
At any rate, I think it would have been easier to fly our new car to Mars this winter, than it would have been to activate cellular on this watch.
If AI is such a solution to everything, any one of these touch points could have used it, right?
Technology imho can't overcome human incompetence, which at times, appears to be growing.
There was once a time when we understood gravity, at what temps water boils and freezes, how many quarters are in a dollar, etc. etc. But times have changed lol
Yep, I'm the old man yelling at clouds!
Just a totally disappointing and underwhelming experience above.
It is in no sense thimking (sic).
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If AI is such a solution to everything, any one of these touch points could have used it, right?
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There was once a time when we understood gravity, at what temps water boils and freezes, how many quarters are in a dollar, etc. etc. But times have changed lol
No no no. AI (as available to the likes of us) relies on a knowledge base to look things up. It is in no sense thimking (sic). If there is an answer out there maybe it’ll find it after the next re-learn cycle. What LLMs do is 1) sorta look things up, sorta, and 2) find the next suitable word iteratively to construct sentences. JIC, LLMs are “large language models”. JIC, JIC was once "just in case" before it was abbreviated.
If I understand correctly, the AI systems that e.g. design proteins are not much more capable than e.g.ChatGPT but are designed specifically for their intended purpose.
BTW,,, we do not understand gravity. We can compute what it does either classically or relativistically as appropriate, but we don’t know what it is.
Anyone out there know enough to correct me? Looking forward to someone who knows what they are talking about.
@John, the verizon rep was
@John, the verizon rep was right about amazon. Look up "amazon product commingling". This is when amazon mixes inventory sold by third parties but fulfilled by amazon with their own. Product shipped to you comes from closest warehouse, even if it may not be actual amazon owned inventory.
https://www.buffalo.edu/news/tipsheets/2024/amazon-commingli...
Over the last 2 years we've significantly reduced interaction and sales with amazon. Avoiding it at all costs if possible.
Here's the pdf referenced in the article above - https://www.villanovalawreview.com/article/123451.pdf
I tried
@John, the verizon rep was right about amazon. Look up "amazon product commingling". This is when amazon mixes inventory sold by third parties but fulfilled by amazon with their own. Product shipped to you comes from closest warehouse, even if it may not be actual amazon owned inventory.
https://www.buffalo.edu/news/tipsheets/2024/amazon-commingli...
Over the last 2 years we've significantly reduced interaction and sales with amazon. Avoiding it at all costs if possible.
Here's the pdf referenced in the article above - https://www.villanovalawreview.com/article/123451.pdf
I thought I could fool AI on this one (asking if we could fly our new car to the sun), but I could not. According to AI:
"No, a Chevy Tahoe cannot fly to the sun and back to Earth. The vehicle lacks the fundamental technology and protective features required for space travel, and the sun's extreme conditions would destroy it almost instantly."
Today, I got the most wonderful Verizon rep on the phone. I didn't ask where she's located but I know the USA. She got the watch totally working and standalone. I don't think there's any reason for it to have been this hard, but, I would not recommend trying to use an Apple watch standalone with its own number. Again, the other forum says these occurrences take years off of an older person's life, and best avoided. I agree.....
edit ps on amazon, as a shareholder (long time), I agree with what Bezos said, they will one day go out of business. They've been lagging for a while. Hats off to Costco (also a shareholder), who in the bricks and mortar space is knocking it and has been knocking it out of the park. There are folks like my buddy who refuse to join, to save on gas and other things, due to his supreme leader (DR), does not "pay to shop." More like refuse to save lol
At any rate, examples. On two occasions, amazon either overcharged me (long story), or shorted me an item (ordered max 10, got 9). On both occasions, rather than try to understand what happened, amazon issued a full refund. Makes no sense. I only got 9 out of 10, please send me the other qty 1 so I have the 10 I paid for. We will refund you the 10. Why? Can you send me the 1? No, we will issue a full refund (my hunch on this, they issue a credit to the gift card balance knowing it will be spent anyway).
That's like Jerry Garcia divorcing his second wife, she asked for 2 million (people weren't greedy back then). He said how about we make it double, would that be OK?