bartturner

joined 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Honestly anyone but AmEx would be fine. I travel a ton and AmEx would make it so I do not use my Apple card any longer.

There are so few places that take it in SEA.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

If true this is really bad news.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Better UX. Which it did. Was the primary card I have been using.

But if move to Amex that will end that. Amex is worthless if you travel and I travel 50% of the time. Mostly SEA.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That was the rumor. BUt lets hope that does not happen. If does then I can't use it any longer.

I live half my time in South East Asia and Amex is not taken there at 90% of places.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Please do NOT switch to American Express. I travel a lot and AmEx is worthless in South East Asia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

We replaced ours with Google WiFi and been very happy with the results.

The Google WiFi is a mesh solution which is really the way to go in 2023, IMHO.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Surprising. But it is not just Apple. Look at Amazon and Meta also being really bad.

Google and Microsoft doing much better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can't believe it took this long. Google is releasing their fifth generation of their TPUs.

They started on it in 2014 or 9 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Curious what financial benefit is there to making it have 25% less memory bandwidth?

Is it to drive consumers to a more expensive product?

I get they have 25% less bandwidth. But why?