I'm somewhat ashamed to admit I love my LTE. It really fills a tech gap for my needs.
Yea and price fills the other "gap"

I'm somewhat ashamed to admit I love my LTE. It really fills a tech gap for my needs.
I think it also creates a void of $10 or $20 every month in your pocket.I'm somewhat ashamed to admit I love my LTE. It really fills a tech gap for my needs.
Why would Apple ever want to untether it? They want you to buy a watch AND an iPhone.
Happy to read this news. I was more excited for the Apple Watch than any other device during the keynote. I was waiting for LTE capability and finally purchased my first Watch with the Series 3. I absolutely love this device, wear it every day, and hopefully will have a story to share with Apple in the future. Can’t wait to see what future iterations bring.
Your anecdotal evidence still doesn't counter the claim that most people carry their phones with them. There's no math that can support that. Look at this way. Even if every AW sold in Q317 was an AW3 cellular(it wasn't) and every one of those was activated (they weren't) and every one of the owners left their phones at home (they didn't) you'd still only come up with approximately 4 million people. The math isn't there. What percentage of people do you think don't have their phones with them at pretty much all times?
Those would be Suunto, Tag Heuer, Fossil, etc. I think Michael Kors even has a smart watch.What are the other's?
Yea and price fills the other "gap"![]()
Apple watches aren't to far outside the normal though, my Android wear is $400 which puts it right in the Aluminum S3 price range
Apologies. When you replied to my quote about most people carrying a phone with an anecdote about you not carrying a phone I assumed it was a counter to my point and not just an fyi about habits changing in the future. I honestly didn't pick up that particular message from the words in your quote.I'm not countering the fact that most people carry their cell phones with them - I never even alluded to it. It's definitely true right now.
I just pointed out that some people are starting to switch, including me.
There really hasn't been a choice in the past. If you want to be connected to others to get their texts and phone calls, you need to carry a phone with you. With the recent advent of watches with cell connectivity, this will all change very soon.
Most of the people I know only want to be constantly connected to know what's going on with friends and family. They don't care about large screens, playing games or facebooking/twittering on the go. Things will change in the next 5 years where carrying a hunk of plastic/metal/glass in your pocket is something most people do not want to do.
Unrelated to Apple but it's nice to see Xiaomi doing so well. To offer such great hardware for the price they is amazing.
The interesting thing is hat the Apple Watch is number one even though other companies have products as cheap as chips. Stocking fillers even. It will be interesting what happens in the Christmas quarter.
Also, are these cheap products even included in this count?
Rubbish. I don’t want to take my phone on the run, or do an errand near my place.
Ok, i'll rephrase my answer.But that is Cook's point. W/ AW LTE you don't have to take your phone with you everywhere -- like when you are just going for a run or walk or somewhere else a phone is more of a burden. The concept is a game changer.
How about reading peoples answers?Rubbish. I don’t want to take my phone on the run, or do an errand near my place.
And this is different from Apple how?![]()
Series 3 was huge for the Apple Watch this year with LTE. It puts the Apple Watch on another sector away from the iPhone from being tethered. And add in the capabilities of GPS, 50 m water resistance, faster dual core processor, the Watch has matured a lot since its inception in April of 2015.
I’m on my second Apple Watch S2 Nike+ and I’m also finding the band irritating my wrist more than before. I only wear it for 24hrs at most but had a tiny rash. I do shower and wash my watch separately thoroughly as the rubber does seem to prevent skin breathing. I’m unsure how the leather loops work with water (submerged, showering or in the rain).I gave up with Apple Watch not because it wasn't useful, I loved it, but it made my wrist so sore I couldn't wear it more than 1/2 a day out of a day, less by day 3. I tried it for 2 weeks and I was red sore and puffy. The desire to keep it on to track everything I do probably didn't make it better. The times I clicked-apple-pay were amazing but I was in quite a lot of pain and had to send it back.
This was a NIKE+, I run a lot, I sweat a lot, I live in the tropics. A watch covers a lot of skin and it sweats even in the aircon. I bought the 42 because I preferred the larger text, it's a fairly large watch on my wrist.
Is there something I missed here? I loved Apple Watch for the insight I got, the full health monitoring and very accurate energy counts, it was just way too hard to wear. If there's a way to mitigate that, I'll by another.
Nice gift! Without knowing whether it is the LTE model or not, or how long she’s actually used the watch, I’ll refer to my experience of having just upgraded from a Series 0 to Series 3 GPS only model.On a serious note: what does it do more than the time and messages. I gifted my wife Apple watch series 3. She is having a very hard time finding a value in it to keep it. I would like to know all the additional things that the watch can do.
Thanks. I got the non-LTE version. She is liking the activity tracking.Nice gift! Without knowing whether it is the LTE model or not, or how long she’s actually used the watch, I’ll refer to my experience of having just upgraded from a Series 0 to Series 3 GPS only model.
AW, for me, is an extension of my iPhone, which is with me basically all of the time. And I’ve found it to be a surprisingly useful extension.
I like it because of not having to haul out my iPhone for:
That’s just my daily use case, or most of it. Very little of that may apply to your wife’s. Maybe it’s just not for her.
- Discreetly noting texts during a meeting or in a conversation.
- Seeing who’s calling and being able to decide whether or not to take it just then.
- Using Maps whilst driving with haptic feedback and not having to refer to the iPhone screen.
- Apple Pay, which makes using the iPhone for that purpose seem quite primitive in comparison.
- Weather, date, day of week at a glance.
- Checking off items on my shopping list
- Reminders to stand, move, exercise (I have a mostly deskbound job)
- Fantastical
- Email from selected individuals
The checking of one's watch while in coversation with another person has meant and will always mean "You're boring and I need to go".I like it because of not having to haul out my iPhone for:
- Discreetly noting texts during a meeting or in a conversation.
The checking of one's watch while in coversation with another person has meant and will always mean "You're boring and I need to go".
The checking of one's watch while in coversation with another person has meant and will always mean "You're boring and I need to go".
On a serious note: what does it do more than the time and messages. I gifted my wife Apple watch series 3. She is having a very hard time finding a value in it to keep it. I would like to know all the additional things that the watch can do.
Like with the AppleTV?
Pretty sure you're taking the joke by @ChrisCW11 a little too seriously. Kinda obvious he was poking fun at comments like the one made by Iconoclysm.
No judgement regarding your post. Just using it as an example. We all know how much you love Apple.
'Twas a joke. Your post just coincidentally matched it's tenor and was in close proximity on the page. Just my opinion but you present as if you take this Apple stuff way too seriously. Dude made a joke about a toaster and you're creating a business case as if it's a viable idea that Apple could/would make a toaster.What I really love is pointing out complete fallacies and biases and this board is rife with them.
Knowing that Apple will build a toaster that costs more than anyone else's out there and knowing they wouldn't even enter that market unless they thought they could change it does not mean I blindly love Apple. I just know what they do and why they do it.