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Apple and Nike Launch New Neutral-Toned 'Apple Watch NikeLab'
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this really required a team up?
btw what great marketing apple did with the watch.
you still think these actors are still at apple after this photo op?
BTW the heart rate data and gps of the watch are very inaccurate compared to other watches. But some of you guys will believe otherwise. https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2016/02/apple-watch-review.html "BUT I LOVE MY APPLE WATCH!! APPLE IS THE BESTEST IN THE WORLD!!"
The HR is junk for me , especially for gym workouts. What Apple needs is a HR in the band, not more bloody colour options like this Nike effort.
Hmm, actually, bone colored fluoroelastomer strap on a stark white ceramic watch? I'm not so sure, might look a little off.
But you've got plenty of time to come on here and be rude and arrogant?
Folks are entitled to their opinion and should be able to express them without folks like you jumping down their throats
You could buy this band MONTHS ago on Ali Express (3rd party lookalike band).
I think it looks cool, like a stormtrooper.
I think it looks cool, like a stormtrooper.
Yep, these Nike editions are a big "NO NO HELL NO" for me and anyone who suffers from trypofobia: too many big holes in one tiny product, pure torture :S.
I highly doubt that you could buy this band on Ali Express, you could buy an approximation of the same color scheme in silicone rather than fluoroelastomer. I have seen third party sports bands that are of acceptable quality, I have not seen any that would pass for being the same as Apple's bands. They're not even the same material.
I'm in no way saying Garmins products isn't great or covering another part of the market - obviously they do or else they wouldn't have such great success with them. And I acknowledge they also provide a bigger amount of statistics and an online site and more.
As I said I would love to get more stuff on the AW - they already made it better with the watchOS updates, so might be miles better already this summer. But to say that after trying a Garmin watch you wouldn't say the AW is perfect for running just isn't fair in my mind - Different products and even though I'm running quite a lot (30 km run tomorrow) I must say this Watch Series 2 is just the best running buddy I've ever had. I've been using everything from iPod+Nike to a dedicated GPS watch and my iPhone - Room for improvement? Yes, but it's a damn great watch for me to motivate me and love it
All valid points on your behalf. And I'm also impartial to my Apple Watch. But I do think Garmin is making strides in certain areas and certainly growing.
Oh please, step off your soap box. Every adult on this forum has a budget, necessities to buy, required monthly payments to pay. You are not alone. But this is a tech blog. People come here because they like to discuss tech, what's coming, what's good, what's new, what's better, what they wish for, what they hate, etc. If it wigs you out when people suggest different tools than what you currently use them maybe you should pick a hobby. But certainly you should refrain from sticking your nose into posts that didn't specifically address you if you can't grasp there intention.
Good, we ideally don't want Apple to have another iPhone, one is bad enough for us as Apple fans - the most big products they have the less smaller projects we get like this - I want niche projects not massive successes which makes it pointless for Apple to experiment with anything else.
Does your garmin do anything except stat tracking? How does it handle calls and texts? Can you unlock your smart door locks with it? Can you use it to pay for goods? Or is it only good at 1 thing?
The watch could never be another iPhone, I never understood why people would have thought this at the outset. The first issue - it only works with an iPhone. So at 100% uptake you aren't going to have more watches than iPhones. Second, a majority of the population doesn't wear a watch at all (Thanks in large part to the iPhone itself.) Third, those that wear watches tend to wear them as status symbols, and with that, they like to swap them out depending on what they are doing.
Combine that with the high price and slow software of Gen 1 and you get a really slow uptake. That said, the Apple watch is still doing well as a product. You can't go more than a day without seeing one on someones wrist if you look for it.
If Apple gives the series 3 wireless capabilities without needing a phone tether I think it could see a bit of a resurgence. Being able to leave the house without your phone would be a pretty huge change for people.
Love it how people harp on in most Apple watch threads about ''serious running watches''. Apple is mainstream, it builds products for the 80%. People like Nike branding, a lot of people run and do Sport, it does what is adequate but not what is niche to the mainstream.
The watch is a lifestyle product, nice to have but nowhere near essential, looks decent with the right strap combo, far more customization than a traditional watch, affordable to a lot of adults. It won't replace an iPhone, the same as it won't replace a Macbook!!
The watch is a lifestyle product, nice to have but nowhere near essential, looks decent with the right strap combo, far more customization than a traditional watch, affordable to a lot of adults. It won't replace an iPhone, the same as it won't replace a Macbook!!
Cream...it's cream. Do you know how hard it is to make a white band....cream? All I can say is they aren't playing it safe anymore. If there were an appropriate word for this moment, it would be....courage. Creamy Courage.
If it had serious runner's GPS features and LTE (including all voice and data apps), it would be a great device, especially to pair with a real camera and a real laptop with pro features. But alas...
I'm tired of all-in-one's like the iPhone. For me, it's the worst of all worlds. Not big or powerful enough for productivity, too big to serve as an unobtrusive everyday communication device. My ideal tech world is totally reasonable and achievable - Jetson's style communication on your wrist (including secure financial transactions), with productivity on a 15" screen you can carry with you, but only when you need it. Photos? Best left to a real camera if, like me, you don't feel the need to constantly post your life for the world to follow.
Unfortunately, hardware vendors currently have little financial incentive to focus R&D on devices that can't serve you audio/video ads 24/7 on a screen big enough to view them, so this (totally achievable) tech scheme won't appear any time soon.
Apple, Inc. certainly is no Apple Computer. Jobs saw success in inventing useful technology. Cook only sees $ in enticing sheep to buy advertising equipment. It's great for the shareholders - not so much for the rest of us.
I'm tired of all-in-one's like the iPhone. For me, it's the worst of all worlds. Not big or powerful enough for productivity, too big to serve as an unobtrusive everyday communication device. My ideal tech world is totally reasonable and achievable - Jetson's style communication on your wrist (including secure financial transactions), with productivity on a 15" screen you can carry with you, but only when you need it. Photos? Best left to a real camera if, like me, you don't feel the need to constantly post your life for the world to follow.
Unfortunately, hardware vendors currently have little financial incentive to focus R&D on devices that can't serve you audio/video ads 24/7 on a screen big enough to view them, so this (totally achievable) tech scheme won't appear any time soon.
Apple, Inc. certainly is no Apple Computer. Jobs saw success in inventing useful technology. Cook only sees $ in enticing sheep to buy advertising equipment. It's great for the shareholders - not so much for the rest of us.
ehh, understandably bummed, but in the future, wait 7 months to buy the product and not 6, apple usually has these little mini-updates ~6 months in-between major releases. so that way you can make sure theres no extra update your missing out on.
** return tip from somebody who works in apple customer service, depending on where you bought it, if it was apple.com, online store reps can make exceptions up to 30 days without needing to talk to a manager, just tell them your having issues and want a refund or have a financial situation and they will make the exception.
if its in the retail store where you purchased it, bring it and the box in, immediately ask for a manager and tell them you were in yesterday(or what ever day the 13th day would be) and tell them you spent 2 hours waiting to for the return and never got helped and that you are upset, trust me, works almost every time.
as long as you don't directly tell us you want to return to buy the new one, we will be willing to work with you. we have a job to do and rules to follow yes, but most of of the time we are just people like you, and if you give us a good reason too, will look for any way around the system to help you out.
plenty of times I've been more then willing to argue with my management teams to get a return or refund set up for a customer well outside of the 14 days, (knowing damn well they were returning this 6s to buy the new 7, or needing to get a refund on their ipad they just bought because the new one was announced the day before) simply because they were nice, patient, and treated me with respect and didn't jump on the line screaming about how our return policy is BS.
Will people gonna realize what the Series 1 is? ... it's not the orig Watch, a 2nd gen product and is not Stainless. 'Series 1 SS' does not exist.Been rocking a series 1 SS and really want the aluminum for the light weight. What good timing
I think Apple's new naming was to trick people and blur the shortcomings of the orig Watch..
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