No thanks. I'll save my money for a bigger/better iPad and an upgrade to the 6s. The iPhone 6 hardware is a QC nightmare.
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Apple Targeting March for Apple Watch Launch, Retail Training Begins Next Month
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why does anyone even want one of these? the only way i'd take one is if i won one for free. The price is absurd for a device with less functionality than a phone, crap battery life, and a chunky boring design. if this thing had turned out to be a wrist cuff with a wrap around screen like the Moment Smartwatch it might have been more compelling
Stop making sense and putting everything into rational perspective!
Why would it be that slow? Isn't the watch going to have a very small battery? And the charging system that they are showing seems very robust. I haven't looked into it being induction. But they are using a fairly large adapter and then connecting it to the entire back. Seems like a lot of contact point and then a very small battery.
I was thinking charging might be very fast.
With a battery that small I wouldn't be surprised if it was 30 minutes. What I really hope is they tweaked or to be half as thick
Considering the size of the battery, the size of the charger and the fact most time it won't be fully discharged, I'd expect 30 minutes on average, less for light users (10-20 minutes) and 40-45 minutes for the few people who drain the watch each day. There will be less battery in the smaller one, so it should charge even faster.
Actually if the first gen were waterproof it'd be a BUY for me rather than a... "I'll wait for reviews and maybe even the 2nd gen".
Based on my experience with Apple their first gen products are always crippled in some way and then their 2nd Gen fixes what should have been fixed to begin with. ie iPhone 1 was only EDGE when 3G was already readily available for years. iPod Touch 1 didn't have volume buttons, iPad 1 lacked bluetooth and sufficient RAM.
Prime example being the iPad... it stopped supporting it at iOS5, but the iPad 2 is STILL being supported today at iOS8.
Watch 1 will be like a beta tester's device and 2nd gen will have it down like usual... I still want one though.
Iphone 1 was dramatically better than any smartphone on the market. You were crippled if you didn't have it. By that I mean, that folks with iPhone 1 could access the internet from their pocket in a way that no one else could. It gave them almost super powers.
iPod 1 was amazing. I still have one that works.
iPad 1. Sister has inherited it. Still works like a beast. Given to the nephew from time to time. Good enough for the kids to use. Hasn't broken. Not nearly crippled.
Yes, like the Iphone 6 was one big fail... It failed to wipe Samsung from the map, but it very came close...
Technically Apple doesn't do keynotes anymore. Product announcements were called keynotes when they were held as the plenary sessions at MacWorld. Now they are called special events, though Apple still refers to the videos of the special events as keynotes. Makes sense? I hope not.
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I will keep waiting for the next generation. That way I will never have to buy anything at all!
Two things:
1: I think in general, the faster the charging of any battery the worse it is for the battery.
2: Inductive charging I think will always be slower that a physical wire, so it will probably have slower charging using the method they selected.
Not that I have anything against wireless charging. Just pointing this out
I think Macrumors should have to cite me as a source since I "leaked" this story first:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1835493/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1835493/
I know at least one person that has to have one. My teenage daughter. She's mad because I emphatically told her no. 2nd gen maybe, but definitely not 1st gen. I am a horrible parent because I won't allow her to use Apple Pay (she has no job and wants to use one of my credit cards. Too damn funny) and I won't buy her a Gen 1
Good time to start teaching her a lesson about a budget.
It sounds like she has an Pay equipped iPhone or iPad. If so do this:
- create a sub account to your credit card in her name;
- Amex min is 200$. Tell her she can use up to her allowance amount;
- give it a fixed amount of credit equal to her allowance;
- let her use that card to satisfy her Pay desires;
- if she overshoots her budget, block her card.
- side benefit is that with Amex at least, she will pick up your member since date and this will benefit her in her fico credit rating calculation, where 15% of the weight is given to average age of credit accounts.
Regards to your C9WB!
Don't know about you but I run year round, I don't stop running because my there isn't a race on my schedule for a few months.
Our first gen iPad is still in daily use here. Little did I know it was so crippled.
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It's emotionally crippled.
Uh, what's so impressive about it? It's a brand new device in a brand new category. They could have released the thing any month of the year if they wanted.
why does anyone even want one of these? the only way i'd take one is if i won one for free. The price is absurd for a device with less functionality than a phone, crap battery life, and a chunky boring design. if this thing had turned out to be a wrist cuff with a wrap around screen like the Moment Smartwatch it might have been more compelling
I don't know if I want one or not... too few details released about it at the preview to make an honest judgment. I'm keeping an open mind until the official unveiling. If it can function as a true running watch like my Garmin and act as an iPhone mirror and remote, yes it's something that interests me very much.
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Funny.