Man. Hook line and sinker. Apple loves this mindset. They do this so they can get us to upgrade. Plain and simple. New hardware would hardly be necessary.
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All the New Watch Faces in watchOS 5
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Man. Hook line and sinker. Apple loves this mindset. They do this so they can get us to upgrade. Plain and simple. New hardware would hardly be necessary.
Me too. If it can't do 8, go for 6. That watch face is quite bad anyway. Who is designing them?
Still the modular is the best one so far.
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Theres no watch face conspiracy to make you upgrade, take off the tinfoil hat. Your logic (or lack of) would also suggest that an iPhone XR with 1792-by-828-pixel resolution at 326 ppi should have no problem displaying an image in the exact same manner as an XS with 2436-by-1125-pixel resolution at 458 ppi. Thats not how any of this works. If your CRT TV is almost the same size as your new 4K, would you expect it to handle the same picture?
I’m pretty much disappointed with every release of watchOS. I guess the breath app watch face is kind of cool. But I find the fire and water or liquid metal too gimmicky.
How about some more classy analogue watch faces? I’m pretty tired of the chronograph, colour, simple and utility faces.
How about some more classy analogue watch faces? I’m pretty tired of the chronograph, colour, simple and utility faces.
Right, but Apple is scaling the graphics and text to the applicable resolution.
Here's the 42mm watch with the new watch face inserted into the original active display area. And next to it, the 40mm watch with the new watch face in the new active display area. I don't know that it feels that claustrophobic, nor is it that much smaller. Though it's not optimal, but it's not that bad either. It's certainly not as bad as the downscaling difference between the original 42 and 38mm displays.
Perfidious fiends! Trying to promote their latest product. Are there no depths to which they will not stoop?
Yes. Because the CRT TV would scale and down sample the 4K image to fit the screen and lower pixel density. In the early days of flat panels, I had 720p TV, that easily displayed 1080i broadcasts, and looked the same as they did on my 1080p flat panel, and for that matter looked the same on my old CRT with letterboxing, albeit not as sharp — but that’s really not the consideration with the Apple Watch.
The Series 4 has more pixels, but the same UI and graphics as the lower pixel density Series 3, each scaled for the applicable pixel density, both of which are “retina” quality — so it’s not even like going from UHD to SD in your example. Moreover, they’re actually giving us some Series 4 watch faces that are scaled down for the Series 3. And the Series 3 already does a much more significant down scaling of the exact same watch faces from the 42mm to the 38mm which likewise has a much lower pixel count. I’m still not following this argument.
You had a better point, though I’m not sure it’s valid, that the touch interface is tied to the pixel density, and shrinking the size of the buttons, might affect accuracy when being touched. However, since the pixel density is already at “retina” levels, that seems like stretch. And since the 42mm active display area is not substantially smaller than the 40mm active display area, there’s no effective difference in pixel count such that it would substantially affect touch zones.
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It's pure marketing. A bunch of marketers and product engineers sit around a table and decide which features need to be exclusive to the Series 4 to make it a compelling upgrade for consumers. I expect they also decide which features will be reserved for Series 5 (FaceTime camera anyone?)
Patting your shoulder.
At least, you have better rationale to get the new watch than those of us who has the series 3.
Does anyone here actually OWN any Apple products! Akk the bitching and whining ("Apple does this to force us to upgrade ") YA THINK? CORRECT! They're in the business of doing BUSINESS. If you're such a cheap dunce that you cannot get a grip on reality, please stay away from this forum - stay in your windoze world and leave the adults alone!!
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Does anyone here actually OWN any Apple products! Akk the bitching and whining ("Apple does this to force us to upgrade ") YA THINK? CORRECT! They're in the business of doing BUSINESS. If you're such a cheap dunce that you cannot get a grip on reality, please stay away from this forum - stay in your windoze world and leave the adults alone!!
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Does anyone here actually OWN any Apple products! Akk the bitching and whining ("Apple does this to force us to upgrade ") YA THINK? CORRECT! They're in the business of doing BUSINESS. If you're such a cheap dunce that you cannot get a grip on reality, please stay away from this forum - stay in your windoze world and leave the adults alone!!
Well, I suppose I should have gone into a bit more detail so someone like yourself wouldn't make random assumptions. Simple fact is they could easily scale the new watch faces to fit the previous gen. Their explanation on this is the complications would be too small, etc. I'm pretty sure they do scaling between several other products in their lineup that have different sizes, resolutions, etc.
So perhaps you should reconsider your logic, or as you put it, lack there of.
I downloaded Watch OS5 and I don’t understand the recovery rate on the Siri watch screen. The top one makes sense, that’s my heart rate, that's obvious. But what is the negative number? Is that a glitch? I have 2 different shots from my watch and you tell me if you aren't confused by this negative number.
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At least I own a bed. So tired of wasting time reading comments from Windoze-mind ghetto losers who want only to complain about AMAZING, FANTASTIC, WORLD-CHANGING APPLE PRODUCTS - HERE ! - in an Apple forum. FFS, BUY APPLE PRODUCTS OR LEAVE !!!!! Stop complaining and just leave.
I wish the watch had square faces to match the square shape. All the faces are circular which makes no sense.
Apple is going to introduce them when they roll out their first round Apple Watch model.
Until then, you’ll need to buy the Hermès.