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Battery, Screen and Manufacturing Issues Plaguing Apple's iWatch Development
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It's always the screen... image retention on Retina Macbooks and iPad Minis, yellowing on iMacs... Apple should just get rid of screen on its products -- or build its own display facility. Samsung, LG and Sharp proved being too problematic suppliers.
ZERO use for this product
what a waste of "innovation"
are they coming out with a "Smart Sneaker" or an "iToaster" next
Ah, the old "if it's not useful to me it's not useful to the rest of the world" logic, ayy?
Send your AppleTV and iPad to me, I'll give them to the kids. I use my iPad daily and my family is on the AppleTV all the time.
You need to learn to be more responsible with your money and only buy what you will use
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Right. Because that's so easy to do. The three major Apple innovations over the last decade--iPod, iPhone and iPad--have really spoiled us to where anything short of market upheaval with a product is unacceptable and a waste of time.
Agreed. People get flabbergasted these day when Apple doesn't release a new break-through product every year. And when they don't....
....doom.Please...these folks need to get real.
There was nothing unfinished about the mini. It just didn't have the right specs.
Because anyone sporting a smartwatch is unlikely to go outside often enough.
(also sleeves)
Its probably not much, but the pebble used a 130mAH battery, so i would've though the iwatch should be at least this or more, considering Apples tech know how.
Citizen and others do it with success. It will charge from available light, indoors or out. Perhaps I shouldn't have used the word solar.
i know this is a 1/2 joke, but im rocking a Casio Oceanus with solar. Charges from sun and artificial light. Of course that works due to the face of the watch being able to house a solar panel, but i'd say there should be enough room around the bezel of an LCD watch to fit one.
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Please tell me if you would wear an iWatch here.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1691941/
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Don't listen to him apple.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1691941/
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Don't listen to him apple.
These seem to be the issues that many of the other smart watches are suffering, but they have been released, allowing the public to pay for the development. I'd rather wait for something to be done right.
Wouldn't you just rather wear a nice, classy aluminum or leather strap watch instead of this?
Not really. Actually I don't want to wear a watch at all.
The power consumption of a smart watch is likely 1,000x (if not 10,000x) that of a simple clock chip in a watch.
Maybe Apple is trying to do too much, maybe simplification is required.
Sony's smart watch 2 with its colour touch screen display only lasts three days. Samsung's smart watch is 24 hour battery life. Way too short.
I expect Apple is trying to get the kitchen sink in its iWatch.
Sony's smart watch 2 with its colour touch screen display only lasts three days. Samsung's smart watch is 24 hour battery life. Way too short.
I expect Apple is trying to get the kitchen sink in its iWatch.
Just what I want. A watch that looks like it belongs to a nerd. Make a smart watch that looks like a real watch and they will sell millions.
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