I'm currently paying a grand total of 0,99€ per MONTH for my unlimited (100 GB fair use) 4G/LTE Free(TM), unlimited voice international/EU roaming subscription in France. 10$ for a second SIM card on the same plan is lauphably expensive.
In case anyone wondered, yes, these figures are real. 100 GB LTE, unlimited everything, 0,99€/month for a year. This is the kind of prices we get here nowadays. It's a promotion, sure, but it's been going of for a couple of years now.
How does Apple expect to attract people with its partnership with Orange is beyond me. Orange are thieves. Orange is for old people who let themselves be robbed because "it's the phone company" from the time there was only one phone company.
Orange gets the worst user experience, with special settings on its modems that flood YouTube videos and websites with ads, whereas Free blocks them by default for instance. Or so it was, last time I had the opportunity to laugh incredulously at someone who had an Orange landline (their daddy was a surgeon).
Orange stealth charges you ******** services like "SMS news flashes" and doesn't ask permission, they just help themselves on you money.
This is the company Apple has chosen to work with exclusively to provide LTE service on their Watch 3...
My Free (bear with me, Free is a provider) plan would set me back some 100€ a month with Orange instead of the 0,99€ I'm paying now. (I'm neither joking NOR exagerating, you can check the prices for yourselves.)
So...
Will I spike the price of my perfectly good LTE plan a ****ING INSANE 12000% just to have a stupid watch that I can't use throughout Europe, or 10 kms from home over the border, say if I cross over the Rhein to go running in Kehl from Strasbourg, and have it poop out on me once its run out its 1h battery ?
I was sold instantly on the concept of a LTE Watch. It was exactly what was missing from the original design of the Apple Watch. But I pay Apple products full price, so as not to deal with foolishness.
This is foolish.