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Apple Employees 'Set Low Expectations' For iWatch Battery Life
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Apple designs the actual components for the most part. Other companies do the fabrication, not the design.
A lightning port is a HUGE amount of space on a watch - plus you need a way to seal it when not in use so it's watertight. And that little hinged or sliding cover would wear out long before the watch would.
I've owned a couple of Garmin GPS watches and they've used a charger that attaches magnetically to the back and plugs into a USB port or charger.
It seems from other stories the charging will likely be wireless, so lightning seems very unlikely.
Motorola made the mistake of using an ancient processor built from technology released almost 5 years ago. All other Android Wear watches use a more efficient quad core with 3 of the cores disabled making it much more power efficient. The Motorola 360 has the worst battery life so far in all the Android Wear watches released because of their cpu selection and small battery. They basically went style first and function later.
So I wouldnt use the Motorola 360 when comparing battery life to the iWatch which should work in Apples favor unless they really screw up by using old tech from years ago. Sadly if there is no watch to release in 2014 we will most likely be comparing the iWatch to gen 2 Android Wear devices making the comparison silly to do today. Apple could decide not to give a battery life figure if the watch is not finalized.
Yeah and I'll be Samsung laptops and desktops use a lot of stock items too.
Read up on Apple's VP of technology: http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/johny-srouji.html
Apple does a lot more hardware design than you think.
I'm pretty sure this means replaceable batteries for this thing. You need the phone on your wrist while sleeping, so you have no time to charge it. I'm guessing the wireless charging is for the battery itself. Maybe throw it on some tray by the bed.
Either that or Apple managed to get motion charging working.
Either that or Apple managed to get motion charging working.
Nah, it's because they have nowhere else to go and nothing better to do.
(P.S. I'm 56)
I'm really not surprised. A big emphasis doesn't seem to be put into battery life- just stuff the product with features.
This is a watch: its pretty poor to be having to recharge every 1,2,3 days. Other smart watches have been criticized for such poor batteries.
I would think better of Apple to do this...
This is a watch: its pretty poor to be having to recharge every 1,2,3 days. Other smart watches have been criticized for such poor batteries.
I would think better of Apple to do this...
Replaceable batteries on a watch? On an Apple product? Since watches need to be highly water resistant, user-changeable batteries are unlikely.
haha, not surprised in the slightest, I guess it's going to be the same as all the other smart watches, 2 day's max.
This is a very interesting report from IFA made by the BBC news team, the topic? Battery's, the industry is annoyed that battery tech hasn't changed a bit more or less for a few years. And they are having to engineer solutions, as they say, around the issue. Interesting report anyway that Apple is just as subjected to:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29067284
This is a very interesting report from IFA made by the BBC news team, the topic? Battery's, the industry is annoyed that battery tech hasn't changed a bit more or less for a few years. And they are having to engineer solutions, as they say, around the issue. Interesting report anyway that Apple is just as subjected to:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29067284
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Yeah life is hell for people with devices that don't need to be charged every night
Yes, for many people, a watch is an "accessory," in other words a fashion/status piece of jewelry that happens to tell time. Usually women are into "accessories," but I guess "metrosexual" men could dig 'em too.
For many others, a watch is a tool, but it must have style as well. Insanely cool design is necessary but not sufficient.
The third group is pure function, and wears ugly monstrosities on their wrists because it's practical. Usually for work or hobbies.
I hope Apple combines the last two categories into one. They are capable, but I worry that Ive will impose severe functional restrictions in a quest for thin.
It is much easier to subtly glance at a wristwatch occasionally than it is to wriggle a phone out of the pocket of skinny jeans and press a button to activate the screen to see the time.
Um, light, heat, gravity, the magnetic field around earth, and all the radio waves moving through the air are all a form of energy.
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Their are tons and tons and tons of watches with user replaceable batteries, and some like this Suunto: http://www.suunto.com/en-GB/Products/sports-watches/Suunto-Core/SUUNTO-CORE-LIME-CRUSH/
Which is water resistant to 30 metres and has a user replaceable battery.
I think this is another case of Apple controlling the conversation and setting expectations. Over the years this has happened time and again where a supposed leak from Apple alters expectations prior to an event.
Of course the usual caveats apply. No one will really know anything until such a device is actually announced and its specs revealed. We may have some reason to speculate from leaks from Foxconn and the like. In the case of the iWatch there are none.
And then there are leaks from Apple. From past experience these are highly suspect. It could be taken at face value. Maybe Apple does have an iWatch and maybe the battery sucks.
Or it could be misdirection. Maybe Apple does have an iWatch and its battery is actually great but wouldn't it be a great differentiator if Apple lowered expectations in order to calibrate the media expectations? This is a page out of Montgomery Scotts Starship engineering handbook. Proving the audience and media pundits wrong is the strongest generator of ooohs and aahhhs at Apple keynotes. Planting the seed for an erroneous assumption only cultivates the mentality of the people who will be amazed by it.
Anyway, bottom line is not to buy into the rumor either way.
Of course the usual caveats apply. No one will really know anything until such a device is actually announced and its specs revealed. We may have some reason to speculate from leaks from Foxconn and the like. In the case of the iWatch there are none.
And then there are leaks from Apple. From past experience these are highly suspect. It could be taken at face value. Maybe Apple does have an iWatch and maybe the battery sucks.
Or it could be misdirection. Maybe Apple does have an iWatch and its battery is actually great but wouldn't it be a great differentiator if Apple lowered expectations in order to calibrate the media expectations? This is a page out of Montgomery Scotts Starship engineering handbook. Proving the audience and media pundits wrong is the strongest generator of ooohs and aahhhs at Apple keynotes. Planting the seed for an erroneous assumption only cultivates the mentality of the people who will be amazed by it.
Anyway, bottom line is not to buy into the rumor either way.
I can check my watch on the wrist without anybody noticing it. Ninja style. You lose.
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Meanwhile, you're ridiculing yourself trying to shove it in my throat that ANY kind of different is good. It's not. Case closed.
You have to break eye contact so...
You checking it with peripheral vision? Gimme a break.. Can't do that standing up.
I need to check the time as often as I need to check my phone for notifications