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There are plenty of instances where I might want directions while I'm on a run, but there is no way I'm paying $10 a month to add the device to my plan. Hopefully it is just shared data with my phone plan. We'll see what the carriers do, but I think it will make or break it for a lot of people.

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$10/month to no longer need my phone for map my run and Spotify? That's worth $120/yr to me

I'm embarrassed to admit how much I'd actually pay for this, but suffice it to say I'd consider $120/year a bargain.

I would even think about that kind of offers.. I actually don't care about youtube, but GPS and music .. reflects

You don't need that if you preload the music and just use the series 2 gps.

I honestly dont know if I have any music on my computer. I use Spotify for probably ~10 hours/day. (Work, Gym, Commute)

If it ends up compatible with project fi, their extra data-only device comes free (at $10/GB like the rest of the plan). Might make this the first smart watch I've found appealing.

The problem with that is that it would have to be completely decoupled from your phone since Project Fi only supports the Pixel and Apple Watch only supports iOS.

If you don't want the watch to interact with your phone at all, then you would be fine. But you'd presumably be losing quite a bit of functionality by doing so.

Project Fi works fine with Apple iOS Devices. You need a Pixel/Nexus device to activate.

I've got several Apple devices on extra Project Fi SIM cards (including an iPhone). All work fine. I've also tested on the primary SIM succesfully.

Works fine is a bit of a stretch: https://medium.com/aaronn/project-fi-on-iphone-7-2564acd9604...

Irony is that while Fi is the only plan where this makes sense, it's also the only plan you can't use with an iPhone.

Then again if you're using enough data to matter, you're better off paying the upfront cost for a plan that isn't $10/GB.

Oh how quickly we forget in the tech community. An internet-focused phone was laughable with the data plans of 2006.

Exactly. £10 per month (no contract) was probably the average spend then (for approx. 40mins calling and 300 SMS). Now I'm paying £60 per month for 2 years and it seems normal. An extra £10 per month to use your plan with up to 3 devices will be the norm in another couple of years.

It made TONS of sense to me.

The problem is that gave me something I wanted: the internet everywhere.

This gives me something I've been living without and don't want to pay that much for then privilege of: my smart watch working when I don't have my phone.

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