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Apple Watch Companion App Revealed in New Screenshots From iOS 8.2
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Any word on a activation lock similar to the iPhone? So the watch would be usless if stolen, or till the correct iTunes password is punched in.
The problem is resource limitations. It takes an obscene amount of work to maintain multiple versions of the UI for an OS. At the end of the day, it just isn't worth it.
Source: I worked at a company that once offered multiple "themes" for a complex software product. Maintaining the multiple UIs became a losing proposition and we were forced to cut it. Only a handful of users complained.
It is not the population of those countries but the huge import tariffs and bizarre retail distribution agreements that has to do with the way merchant sales have run in Scandinavia for centuries. To this day, the residents of Copenhagen has been screaming for an Apple Store on the Strøget. Many landlords have said they would bend over backwards to have an Apple store on their building on the Strøget.
Issue is some of the most bizarre and antiquated distributions systems are still common law in Scandinavian countries that makes Elon Musk's fight against auto dealer networks look tame. The fact there is a direct Bang & Olufsen store and not an Apple store on the Strøget screams cronyism.
I just don't get it, man... the thing is two inches from your phone when your hands are at your sides. To each their own...
They aren't actually screenshots; each pixel is a low quality leaked photo of an unreleased Apple product.
I might be wrong, but displaying black actually takes slightly (ever so slightly) more power on the iPhone's LCD.
This is a long way round.....
Just triple click the home button!!
But it's not actually a dark mode, go to your apps screen and it's like your off your head!!
This doesn't apply on the iPhone because it doesn't have an AMOLED display. On the iPhone a backlight is always on while the phone is in use, even when the entire screen is black. On the Watch there is no backlight, as each pixel is lit independently. Therefore, while a black background is displayed on the Watch most of the pixels are turned off, saving energy.
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Been there myself. We had one customer sell a load of BS to a marketing guy that had us spend weeks coding a bunch of looks, custom bitmaps and even behaviors for a specific distribution channel. It almost 10x the maintenance and build variations.
Hey, Canada is ahead just like every other first world country, personally, I'm offended.
Think that is integrated. For apple pay it only works when it's connected to your wrist... when you put in on again you have to enter a code - not sure how that works though
More like 3 feet! I put my watch on my left wrist and phone in my right pocket.
That is pretty funny to think about though, for those who place it on the same side.----------
Made me LOL. I can feel the cringe of every Canadian out there.
People do not get "extradited" over their breach of an electronic contractual agreement.
Yup. And believe it or not, this can change the social scene where people will not be staring at their phones the whole trip of on a bus, just glancing on their watches and being more social.
Since the iPhone 6s will probably get force touch it will need an OLED display to go along with it.
But your iPhone has. The app would remember the last GPS position from the iPhone while the Apple Watch was connected, in other words where you "lost" it. Just the same way like Find my iPhone can remember the iPhone's last position before the battery dies.
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Good point - I think we'll really see iOS 9 with dark mode. Also since there won't be many other new features, it makes even more sense. In 3 months we'll know.
I've personally gave up on iTunes years ago. I want to know if Spotify will release an Apple Watch app. Since you can store playlists locally on Spotify, I see no reason why that couldn't implement a "save and sync playlist" feature as well.
The Watch does lock when it is removed from your wrist, requiring a passcode to unlock again.
Presumably it can't then be reset or paired with another iPhone without knowing the unlock code.