Okay, I get what you mean now. I thought you expected it to be capacitve for both pressing and rotating. Still doesn‘t really make sense to me that it‘s only 50% capacitive but it might still improve waterproofing.
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Okay, I get what you mean now. I thought you expected it to be capacitve for both pressing and rotating. Still doesn‘t really make sense to me that it‘s only 50% capacitive but it might still improve waterproofing.
That is NOT an extra Mic. It is a hard reset button. With the side button and wheel becoming haptic, there needs to be a way to manually reboot a watch — hence the need for the extra hole/hard reset button.
Multiple mics make it much easier to filter out ambient noise from a human voice. (Noise might be anything from background music to wind noise to a fan.)
A high end phone (like say iPhone 7) has 4 mics. Even old (2013 say) MacBooks had two mics (and they clearly suffer in how well they can reject noise compared to an iPhone). Modern MacBooks I believe have three.
I don't think he means "promise" like "Apple promises the feature is coming soon". I assume he meant it in a more general futurism type of manner, like "We've been promised weather control and flying cars for decades now".
Assuming that is the case, various pundits have suggested it would be a useful feature in navigation/map apps.
That's not how it works. It's like a plane cockpit or even a car dashboard.
Of course the first time you see it, there's a lot of info; but soon you internalize what info is where. You don't look at the screen with vacant eyes, wondering what it all means --- you decide "what's the temperature?" or "what's the time in Tokyo?" or "when's my next meeting?" and your eyes know where to look on the screen.
While I understand your concern I doubt that Apple would place a reset hole that prominently. If it‘s necessary I expect it hidden on either the back or where you connect the bands.
It doesn't need a hard reset button when there's already a diagnostic port. The pins on the port can be shorted.
Perhaps, but if you are speculating, you should say so. Because right now you are "correcting" others and stating this as if it were verified fact, in which case I'd ask what your source is.
Fortunate for me and others who do not have this problem
That's what I meant, "future promise". But there was an explicit mention, at the time the iPhone was released, that this would be part of larger indoor mapping APIs that would, among other things, distinguish what floor you were on in indoor contexts. Unfortunately pretty much everything about THAT indoor mapping effort went no-where. BT beacons are barely used (I have a theory about why, but this not the place), and floor levels are never given in Maps or similar apps.
Of course over the last year we've seen a different round of indoor mapping come to fruition --- in a few specific locations like some airports, or malls, or stations. But even those don't seem to (in my experience) automatically track for you which level you are on.
I’m happy with my Series 3 w/LTE but I wonder if the higher end models will have the different Digital Crown and the ‘cheaper’ models will continue with the current set up?
This was predicted a few months ago by Fast Company, so I can't take credit for it.
https://www.fastcompany.com/40583301/apple-watch-will-soon-get-touch-sensitive-solid-state-buttons
Too complicated FOR YOU maybe. I'm rather loving it myself, I'm super tempted to switch, honestly.
A sensor would be covered up by your sleeve a lot of the time, plus be rendered useless by indoors ceilings...
It's very likely weather info supplied by Apple's data provider.Thinner, not so likely I'm thinking as that would shrink the crown and make it less precise.
I just wnat to know how much more storage does it have, Tired of the messages of my watch storage being full
I remember that rumor but not the detail that it would still rotate. Thanks for refreshing my memory!