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Apple Solves Yield Issues with Apple Watch Components, Mass Production Now Slated for January Claims Report

When the Apple Watch was first announced, I was most excited about the fitness tracking aspects. I've been in the market for a good fitness tracker, and I generally really like Apple products, so it seemed like a perfect fit (other than having to wait for it to be released...).

Practically every day since the announcement I think of a new use case that's not related to health tracking (a lot of them revolve around using Siri "hands-free"). Couple of examples:
1. When grilling/cooking, ask Siri to start a timer without having to interrupt what I'm doing to wash my hands and pull my phone out of my pocket.
2. Being able to message people safely while driving without having to take my eyes off the road and fumble with a phone (which I don't do now, in case anyone was wondering). Just being able to lift my wrist towards my face and say something like "Hey Siri, ask my wife if she picked up the mail" and then having an easy and quick way to see the response is awesome.

Does anyone else have any good examples?
 
maflynn said:
Nice, hopefully the quality will be to the level we expect from Apple.
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Well in the post SJ era I'd prefer to say 'better than the level we expect from Apple' since what I expect from them these days is mediocracy.
 
The hardware may be ready to be produced, but is the software? iOS8 launch was rough.
 
samcraig said:
This logic makes absolutely no sense.
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Hi Samcraig

I think what his saying is that most smartphones have had one day battery too, so if daily recharging makes the poster not want a device, he probably shouldn't have wanted a smartphone either.

That's how I understood it.
 
lk400 said:
Hi Samcraig

I think what his saying is that most smartphones have had one day battery too, so if daily recharging makes the poster not want a device, he probably shouldn't have wanted a smartphone either.

That's how I understood it.
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Only if you have exactly the same expectations. The poster was being dismissive.
 
As long as the battery life lasts a whole day with lots of use, it'll be fine. I've owned a smart watch and smart band, both of which last several days on a charge, but I still charge them every night, since I'm charging my phone, anyways.
 
samcraig said:
Only if you have exactly the same expectations. The poster was being dismissive.
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He/she was indeed!

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douglasf13 said:
As long as the battery life lasts a whole day with lots of use, it'll be fine. I've owned a smart watch and smart band, both of which last several days on a charge, but I still charge them every night, since I'm charging my phone, anyways.
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Yes. I have the iPhone 6+ which requires charging for me knly every 2 days. Sometimes 3 if I don't use it much. Somehow I find myself charging it every night anyway. In fact, I prefer daily charging to less often (although having the extra power available is useful).
 
Maybe it's just me, but I have to see this watch in person. I do not find it very attractive from the pictures that have been posted.

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Runt888 said:
When the Apple Watch was first announced, I was most excited about the fitness tracking aspects. I've been in the market for a good fitness tracker, and I generally really like Apple products, so it seemed like a perfect fit (other than having to wait for it to be released...).

Practically every day since the announcement I think of a new use case that's not related to health tracking (a lot of them revolve around using Siri "hands-free"). Couple of examples:
1. When grilling/cooking, ask Siri to start a timer without having to interrupt what I'm doing to wash my hands and pull my phone out of my pocket.
2. Being able to message people safely while driving without having to take my eyes off the road and fumble with a phone (which I don't do now, in case anyone was wondering). Just being able to lift my wrist towards my face and say something like "Hey Siri, ask my wife if she picked up the mail" and then having an easy and quick way to see the response is awesome.

Does anyone else have any good examples?
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It won't be long until we'll be surrounded by people talking to their wrists. I can picture it now.
 
JeffyTheQuik said:
"Will now likely miss a new 'IPhone 6s' rollout this spring"

I know the article stated it, but why would Apple start shipping a new product when they can't make enough of the one, 3 months (6 months by rollout) old, at the current time?
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Maybe it isn't a 6S but rather a small form factor iPhone, something between a 4 & 5 in size. I'm not a fan of these large cell phones but I would like to see far better performance in a small device. If A9 or whatever might be, is a lower power chip suitable for the smaller batteries in such a phone it would be fantastic.
It was a strange causal relationship between the :Apple:watch and the extremely low likelihood of the 6s release.
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I doubt there is any relationship at all. Probably just a coincidence.
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Because here at Macrumors, people need a reason to be sorely unhappy.
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I does make you wonder about people at times. No one really needs to have a new iPhone every year, as such why complain if Apple can get one on the market at the beginning of the year. The other thing here is that these are rumors and as such you can't really rationally get upset over them.

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samcraig said:
Mattresses do have great battery life!
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That is because they get recharged every night. Well they do if you are young and have a willing rider.
 
AppleScruff1 said:
Maybe it's just me, but I have to see this watch in person. I do not find it very attractive from the pictures that have been posted.
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I do think the Apple Watch is the best looking smartwatch so far but it's bland looking when compared to most traditional watches, especially when the display is turned off.

When the screen is off it reminds me of one of those LED watches that were popular in the late 1970's.
 
bearboy said:
Meh I spent $100 on a Samsung Gear 2 Neo on Black Friday. It's a nice gadget, but $100 is about the limit I would spend on a smartwatch as of now.

$350+ sounds like an instant pass for most people.
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This is an interesting comment. I do wonder sometimes how many people would actually buy Iphones if they were paying full price. There are many that equate the price of the iphone with the $199 carrier price.
 
maflynn said:
Agreed, and I think this is what was delaying the watch (this and the short battery life)
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You mean the imaginary "short battery life", along with that imaginary yield issue. I detailed in a previous post (another thread) that even if they took the Ipad Nano (same volume as the biggest watch) internals, the battery life would already be competitive with current watches (let alone a whole new slew of design and components).

Cook said one day of intense use (didn't say for the big one or small, so we can assume the small is included) for the small watch; that watch 35% smaller than the MOTO 360 BTW, which doesn't last a whole even with slight to medium use.
 
nebo1ss said:
This is an interesting comment. I do wonder sometimes how many people would actually buy Iphones if they were paying full price. There are many that equate the price of the iphone with the $199 carrier price.
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They'd just finance it on their credit car instead... People are not as dumb as you think they are. BTW, the phone costs more financed by the phone company than yourself unless your a big data user.
 
AppleScruff1 said:
It won't be long until we'll be surrounded by people talking to their wrists. I can picture it now.
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...yet how quickly it becomes commonplace.
 
Keirasplace said:
You mean the imaginary "short battery life", along with that imaginary yield issue. I detailed in a previous post (another thread) that even if they took the Ipad Nano (same volume as the biggest watch) internals, the battery life would already be competitive with current watches (let alone a whole new slew of design and components).

Cook said one day of intense use (didn't say for the big one or small, so we can assume the small is included) for the small watch; that watch 35% smaller than the MOTO 360 BTW, which doesn't last a whole even with slight to medium use.
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And a month or so ago when Jony Ive received the Bay Area Treasure award he talked about Watch and said someone was using the taptic engine as an alarm:

“Just yesterday, somebody was saying, ‘Wow, do you know what I just did? I set the alarm in the morning, and it woke just me by tapping my wrist. It didn’t wake my wife or my baby,'” he recounted. “Isn’t that fantastic?”
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That seems to contradict Tim Cook's statements on charging. How can Watch tap you on the wrist if it's sitting on a charging stand? Which makes me wonder how long it will take the battery to charge. It would be awesome if it charged quickly enough that you could charge it before you go to bed, wear it to bed and then charge again when you get up.
 
nebo1ss said:
This is an interesting comment. I do wonder sometimes how many people would actually buy Iphones if they were paying full price. There are many that equate the price of the iphone with the $199 carrier price.
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But you do pay the full price (and then some) over time. These days I have a hard time believing anyone thinks they're only paying $199 for their phone. People aren't stupid.
 
Apple Watch Air

Man, I'm really looking forward to the watch Apple is holding back for the second generation that will be 30% thinner, lighter, and waterproof.
 
Rogifan said:
And a month or so ago when Jony Ive received the Bay Area Treasure award he talked about Watch and said someone was using the taptic engine as an alarm:

That seems to contradict Tim Cook's statements on charging. How can Watch tap you on the wrist if it's sitting on a charging stand? Which makes me wonder how long it will take the battery to charge. It would be awesome if it charged quickly enough that you could charge it before you go to bed, wear it to bed and then charge again when you get up.
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How long do you imagine a ~350mAh battery will take to charge?

My bet is about an hour.

Take it off and charge it when you have your shower and eat your breakfast and be good to go till the next morning.
 
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