i just think the possibilities on the watch would be a lot higher than newer applets's. When they added the airplay from mac back in 2011 i think you no longer really need to jailbreak a AppleTV. using xbmc on your mac and air playing the screen.
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i just think the possibilities on the watch would be a lot higher than newer applets's. When they added the airplay from mac back in 2011 i think you no longer really need to jailbreak a AppleTV. using xbmc on your mac and air playing the screen.
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I could see some anxious lawyers telling Apple to be careful allowing people to create watch faces that might look like other watch manufacturers' faces...
I could see some anxious lawyers telling Apple to be careful allowing people to create watch faces that might look like other watch manufacturers' faces...
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This does make sense. They will very likely in the near future release a 'Watch Face Store' where devs can integrate their custom watch face right into th existing system.... The last thing they would then want is a load of apps in the app store which provide a different experience.
more than likely it's to prevent devs from copying watch makers time faces (i.e. rolex) and selling them. Apple would get sued for this. The people who approve Apple apps wouldn't know which watch face is infringing on a companies brand. So Apple would be held directly liable.
Youre losing sight of the fact that its a license thing. Im going to exaggerate, (only a little mind), but they are telling you what you can do with the OS in an indirect way.
What if the license terms of OSX said the same thing? You cant replicate functionality. For one that would mean no more Parallels straight away. Im wondering if this is part of a slippery slope ..
It will come, we prob have to wait for native apps, that will pull the time direct from the watch... Please make this happen Apple!
You mean that railway station clock, which Apple ...umm forgot to license? By accident, sure thing.
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Seriously? The available watch faces are not exactly fantastic. They're rather plain and dull and who the hell wants a Mickey Mouse watch face? I'm not 12 years old. I'd love to be able to change it for a better designed face. I hope they change their policy on this sooner rather than later.
It's the ultimate irony. 3rd party watch faces not allowed. Probably because of the overwhelming amount of face designs that will flood the software chain.
Not such a bad thing
I can see why they have restricted the
watch faces for now and agree with most that more will become available over time. For now they need to keep a close control on how the watch will be portrayed by the millions of people that are showing interest over the next few months.. can you imagine how the designers at Porsche feel after crafting every fine detail of a car to have someone do this to it, it must be heart breaking for them! and would be even worse if this is the first image a potential customer see's after searching for it
I can see why they have restricted the
watch faces for now and agree with most that more will become available over time. For now they need to keep a close control on how the watch will be portrayed by the millions of people that are showing interest over the next few months.. can you imagine how the designers at Porsche feel after crafting every fine detail of a car to have someone do this to it, it must be heart breaking for them! and would be even worse if this is the first image a potential customer see's after searching for it
They are being held to the standard that Google set with android wear. I think people are annoyed that they can't really personalise the apple watch with whatever design they want..
To be frank, Apple has started using the sort of double speak that all tyrants use. "Friends! We are the most free people ever! Come get your ear pierced with your personal government issued tag in the morning, so you can feel your personal freedom every moment of the day!"
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That is kind of silly really. That same problem exists for any app, wallpaper, etc. for any device. Someone can put Mario in their iPhone game, and Apple would have to remove it from the store.
But the threat of copyright infringement is no basis for disallowing games in the App Store.
Digital seconds
Exactly! For such a "precision" timepiece it has no way to indicate that precision except for a sweeping second hand. I like the modular watch face, but I'd like to have digital seconds.
Exactly! For such a "precision" timepiece it has no way to indicate that precision except for a sweeping second hand. I like the modular watch face, but I'd like to have digital seconds.
Most personal device ever, yet millions of Apple Watch users stuck with the same 5 or 6 watch faces
Does every slight bit of sarcasm need to have a /s attached for you guys to "get it?" I'm astonished at how many of you don't know what sarcasm is and don't understand that spelling out a joke makes it not funny anymore.
I love watch faces!
I have been using Moto 360 and its fancy Rolex, Omega watch faces are really refreshing and I keep changing many Watch Faces. They even provide an app to customise the look and feel of Watch Face...Apple Watch may be doing disservice by denying such options for developers and eventually consumers.
I have been using Moto 360 and its fancy Rolex, Omega watch faces are really refreshing and I keep changing many Watch Faces. They even provide an app to customise the look and feel of Watch Face...Apple Watch may be doing disservice by denying such options for developers and eventually consumers.
You know he was being sarcastic? Funny. As in other threads people make poor analogies (albeit usually automotive in nature) it's almost impossible to distinguish sarcasm from not sometimes
I can see why they have restricted the
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once people buy a product they can do whatever they want to it. if a novice searching for a 911 can't tell the difference between a hood-rat's janky used car with JC Whitney tossed in vs a non janky one then they shouldn't be driving a 911.
seriously, if you buy a digital smart watch in 2015 you should at least be allowed to change the watch face. again, typical apple.
No it's not...no more than Crayola would be liable if someone created imitation art with their products or if a software company comes out with duplication products used on a computer.
Makes sense. Apple doesn't want a bunch of third party watch apps on the App Store, and they're going to wait until WWDC to allow developers to create watch faces that will be integrated directly into the watch app.
those two make zero sense ... if I take the Rolex watch face and put it on a Apple watch as a watch face that's not art. I'm ripping off another companies design to profit and or gain some type of return be it praise, download status, etc. a Rolex watch face design will get more downloads verse any of the current watch faces. Based on the look, popularity and brand relation. Apple would get sued if they allowed dev's to rip popular watch brand faces and market it in the store.
Apple had to pay Disney for the Mickey watch face, what you think they got that for free? Really who do you think a company would sue first, a billion dollar company that allowed it or some dev that could careless about brands and copyright laws?
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wallpapers are either given out by the artist/company, copyrighted text on it, and never sold for profit. If you download a Iron Man wallpaper on your own to use for personal use that's fine. if you take the Iron Man image and try to sell those wallpaper for profit, you could bet your life you'd be sued. You do not own the rights to it.
This is like common sense, don't see what the debate is here... any Apple Dev knows the rules. Apple will flag and app if it has known copyrighted content in it and you're not an owner.
don't tell anyone at Rolex that my Androidwear is sporting their face then or that my Gear S is sporting Apples Watch face because both are
will they sue me or the app developer that allows me the easily capability of doing both? good luck to both with that.....mind you they didn't sell either design but they give me the ability to plug in my photoshop creations and run with it.
In the end apple is on a power trip. they absolutely can allow a dev. to market an app so users can customize their watch face and not risk the chance of being sued. no different than Adobe isn't going to be sued for giving me the ability to pirate a photo or image and use it for personal use. Apple is purposely choosing to shut down that ability.
I don't need to pay Disney to put Mickey on my watch. The dev. doesn't need to pay anyone either. just allow for the ability to integrate my own image and I'm good to go.
Ironically the most personal device they've made is not able to be personalized.
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