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Apple Aiming for 19 Hours of Apple Watch Battery Life With 'Mixed Usage'

Number 41 said:
This definitely smells like a product Jobs would have killed / tabled had he been running Apple.

The device is a solution looking for a problem to solve, and the tech simply isn't ripe enough if the battery can't make it a full day without needing a recharge.
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Tim Cook & co must know what's riding on the Watch. They've openly said "This project started after Steve's death".

This is their chance to prove they can redefine a category and launch a game-changing new product. I am sure they would not have launched something they had doubts with.

If they were under pressure to release a new category, but did not have the ability to conceive a new idea, I'm sure the Apple TV would have been released. If Steve was the only ideas man, that's all they have left.

It would have been easy for Apple to shrug off the smart watch category, in the same way most customers have.
 
Never mind 19 hours, if it was a week it's still pitiful for a WATCH.

I have an e-ink watch and while it isn't a 'smart watch' I haven't changed the battery in 3 YEARS and the display is always on.
 

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Plus now you have to charge two things every night.

I feel like a slave to the phone sometimes, always making sure its charged, or I can charge it on the go. Now you have a watch to worry about also.

I was considering getting the watch for apple pay, but m better off just waiting for the 6s to come out. Im nit sure the perks of an apple watch warrant yet another thing to charge.
 
touchdown101 said:
people like you said the iPad was a bad idea and it was not, people like you said that netbooks would be here to stay and they did not.
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What's even more incredible is naysayers gave good, rational reasons why netbooks were superior - including mutitasking, MS Office, and price - and they were still wrong!
 
If I believe Apple's battery guidelines, it will be 19 hours looking at the pretty strap around you wrist, but maybe 7-8 hours of actual real world usage.
 
CoMoMacUser said:
Still trying to figure out why I'd need or even want a smart watch from Apple or another vendor when it 1) has to be tethered to 2) my phone, which already does just about everything the watch does. Seems like a solution to a non-problem.
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It's for those who think their life is so important that they can't miss a text/tweet.

Say they're working as a waiter/waitress or working at a fast food place, they're not allowed to pull their phone out of their pocket, but they can glance at their phone when a notification comes up, then go to the bathroom to respond to friends that they'll meet somewhere after work. People in loud night clubs, bars, people doing things where they can't reach in their pocket, or might miss a vibration in their pocket that they wouldn't on their wrist. (I do that all the time - can't feel the phone in my jeans pocket)

It's a small set of people that can use this. And it seems like just for the people who think their life is so important.

Business people don't seem to be of the set of people who can't use their cell phones. So.... we'll see how this goes. For me, at a computer all day, it doesn't make sense.
 
IbisDoc said:
Those of us who work for a living do it routinely.
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Let's you work for 9 hours a day (9am-6pm), your commute is an hour, so you leave at 8am and get home at 7pm. You're saying you routinely stay up a further 8 hours? That you regularly get only five hours sleep?

You must be an anomaly. Then again, as Tim Cook supposedly works crazy hours, I'm sure Apple will have thought of this.
 
touchdown101 said:
Shows how much you know, it will be a hit because that IS what Apple does, people like you said the iPhone would flop and it did not. people like you said the iPad was a bad idea and it was not, people like you said that netbooks would be here to stay and they did not.
People like you don't have a good track record really? I remember all of you saying how that when it was announced Apple had bought Authentec (the company that builds bio sensors) it would not work if added to the iPhone. Yeah and look how right you were.(end sarcasm)
99.9999% of Apple Watch users will NOT be globe trotting travellers who need a Watch that lasts for 50 days solid. Besides which if you think that you will maybe be the 0.0001% of users who may be in that situation then perhaps buy an old fashioned Watch as a backup, the same way people do who need extra power for long trips buy Battery Packs for their phones!
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I'm not saying that the Watch and smart watch industry is a dud.

I think quite the opposite. I think it can become something great. I have been dissapointed in Android wears offerings for the similar reasons I'm dissapointed in the Apple Watch.

Maybe I had unreasonable expectations, but I had hoped that Apple, like they often do, see a geeky niche market, and make something so refined that it doesn't feel like a geeky tech product anymore.

I'm not seeing this with the Apple Watch. I'm seeing more of the same and i'm feeling let down that I believe they missed the mark in a few places that they could have really shined in above everyone else.
 
We’re told that the Watch should be able to display its clock face for approximately three hours, including watch ticking animations, if nothing else is done with the device.
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LOL....this product is a disgrace. A watch that displays time for 3 hours.

Epic. Fail.
 
Based on my use case, I see the desire for a smart watch. I originally owned (and still do own) a Pebble. Worked perfectly - it has simple notifications, the time, battery lasts forever, etc.

Great for when the kid is asleep and you don't want your phone going off - instead you get a vibration on your wrist. Same deal at the office - I can step away but still see alerts on my watch.

As I wrote earlier - I know own an LG G smart watch. Had no intention of replacing my Pebble. But there was a groupon which offered it for $80. So why not.

Here's where I'm going with this. I truly wonder if the negativity about whether a smart watch is needed or not is a lot about price. Whether it's Android Wear for $199-300 or the Apple Watch - the barrier is signficant when compared to a smartphone (subsidized).

But under $100 (which I understand is not sustainable for these types of devices) and it's a lot easier to "try" one and get to like it.
 
thekeyring said:
Let's you work for 9 hours a day (9am-6pm), your commute is an hour, so you leave at 8am and get home at 7pm. You're saying you routinely stay up a further 8 hours? That you regularly get only five hours sleep?

You must be an anomaly. Then again, as Tim Cook supposedly works crazy hours, I'm sure Apple will have thought of this.
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I'm not an anomaly. And LOL at those hours you just stated.
 
Remember the AppleTV 1? - it sucked - it was replaced and forgotten with a much better v2.

Remember the iPhone 1? - it sucked - it was replaced and forgotten with a much better v2.

Remember the iPad 1? - it sucked - it was replaced and forgotten with a much better v2.

Two years from now...

Remember the Apple Watch 1 - .....

Point being, don't bet against Apple until you see v2.
 
IbisDoc said:
LOL....this product is a disgrace. A watch that displays time for 3 hours.

Epic. Fail.
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How often does anyone stare at a watch for 3 hours in a day?

Sure, the Watch will be better once it can last 2-3 days between charges, but right now the only way to do that is to make it bigger. People are already complaining how big it is.

I still plan to get one to see how it works.
 
One glance at a watch is maybe 10 seconds. 3 hours of screen time means 1800 looks. How many times do you look at your watch a day? One look a minute is 1,440 looks per day.
 
thekeyring said:
Tim Cook & co must know what's riding on the Watch. They've openly said "This project started after Steve's death".

This is their chance to prove they can redefine a category and launch a game-changing new product. I am sure they would not have launched something they had doubts with.

If they were under pressure to release a new category, but did not have the ability to conceive a new idea, I'm sure the Apple TV would have been released. If Steve was the only ideas man, that's all they have left.

It would have been easy for Apple to shrug off the smart watch category, in the same way most customers have.
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Since Apple isn't known for spec whoring I can't see them adding a powerful chip and retina display just because. The one thing we rarely get with rumors is reasons behind decisions made.
 
Mr. Gates said:
If you have to carry a charger with you for a watch , you need to sit down and think about your priorities.

Jawbone Surge lasts 7 days on a charge. No, you don't have the ability to send your heartbeat to someone, or send a smiley face. But guess what, nobody who buys it gives a crap because even if they DID have an Apple Watch ....GUESS WHAT !!!! It doesn't matter if the damn thing is out of juice before your lunch break !

It's a neat concept device, but it's just not there yet. I'm not foolish with my money.
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Jawbone makes the UP3 and Fitbit makes the Surge. What you bought kind sir is a chinese knockoff using one brands name and a different brands product name...it seems maybe you are foolish with your money ;)
 
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