I’m really shocked this wasn’t found sooner. Did Apple not have field testing of this Apple Watch for a significant time - and would appear to be a significant fumble, uncharacteristic for Apple.
I’m glad I’m not in the market for, nor placed a preorder for an LTE Apple Watch - a week out from “shipping” is not a good place to be with a major flaw in the software. If Steve were still running things, there would be proverbial heads rolling...
I am too. That's why I think it was something that was accidentally left un-corrected on another change right at the end on the Gold-Master. Some minor switch off, to test something else, that the programmer just accidentally forgot to turn back on, or remove a loop, kind of thing. Like I said above, this is boiler-plate type coding, used for years to do switch-off between WIFI and LTE and other sourcing on iPhones and LTE equipped iPads. It's not rocket science at this stage. It's a rookie programming mistake done while changing something else. Probably something as simple as a slip of a finger typo that dropped an extraneous character in the wrong area while making a change in another module. . .