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Apple to Use 'Stepped Battery' Technology from LG Chem for iWatch

Swampbaby985 said:
Enough with this iWatch stuff already! I haven't worn a watch since I was 12. With everyone having cell phones these days I really honestly see absolutely zero purpose for such a device.
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Yeah well intelligent people do see a purpose.

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cube said:
Although I agree the iWatch hype is annoying, it is easier to look at the time on your wrist than on a phone.
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Not made to tell time, anyone who still thinks that...well there's just no hope for them at all.

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dec. said:
Spot on.

That's why there aren't any watches anymore. Nobody bought them, so the watch industry closed down. Look at a dedicated watch forum like "watchuseek" - it's a complete wasteland. Nobody posts there because they all are busy posting on macrumors and android central talking about their cell phones. Have you ever tried to find a watch on Amazon? It's almost impossible.

Ever heard about that kickstarted project "Pebble"? It's a flop - instead of the targeted $100.000 goal, they barely made it over $10.000.000.
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Yeah and Apple's isn't a watch first of all, secondly it is a wearable that will save people's lives, especially so, being on 10s of millions of people.
 
I'm sure it'll do far more than just tell the time.

It'll probably be able to read you heart rate when jogging, etc...

Push a button and you'll get some health advice.."You're still fat!".

I personally don't like the feel of anything on my wrist and a lot of people at my work agree with me. None of us wear watches!
 
Elbon said:
As I've mentioned before, I'd much rather wear an iWatch than carry an iPhone (assuming that the hypothetical iWatch can operate independently from another iDevice). I hate carrying a phone in my pocket.
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I'm sort of the opposite. Any device that can be worn on my wrist is not going to be as functional as my phone. I don't think the iWatch will be anything but a complement to an iPhone. It'll probably feed various biometric data back to your iOS devices, in addition to telling time and other simple tasks.
 
elbon said:
you are joking, right? I just searched for "watches" on amazon.com and got 923,783 results. Narrowing it down to the "watches" category produces 361,678 results. "men's watches" produces 149,467 results, represented by over 50 brands.

I agree that perhaps watches are not as popular as they were 20 years ago, but i think it is safe to say that the watch industry has not "closed down".
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whooooshhhh
 
Swampbaby985 said:
Enough with this iWatch stuff already! I haven't worn a watch since I was 12. With everyone having cell phones these days I really honestly see absolutely zero purpose for such a device.
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I have a watch. I wear one every day. You want to dig out your phone and look at the screen evey time you want to know what time it is, go right ahead.
 
It'd be yet another device to have to be plugged in at night. Yes I'm aware of the Pebble watch however at what point do we stop calling it a watch? Wouldn't it look rather silly seeing someone holding their wrist up to their ears so they can hear what the watch is saying? I'm sure a device large enough to be comfortably on your wrist would have to have pretty small speaker(s) with low audio output.

I'm also not trolling. I'm an Apple fan just like the rest of you guys here.
 
o0smoothies0o said:
Yeah and Apple's isn't a watch first of all, secondly it is a wearable that will save people's lives, especially so, being on 10s of millions of people.
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Right, it's going to save lives. More likely, it'll just be one more thing to put a notification badge or an ad onto.
 
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Just saving you a Google search :)
 
If only LG is producing the stepped battery, does that mean there will be 2 versions of iWatch?

Swampbaby985 said:
Enough with this iWatch stuff already! I haven't worn a watch since I was 12. With everyone having cell phones these days I really honestly see absolutely zero purpose for such a device.
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Soooo you didnt wear a watch for a year now? :p
 
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Swampbaby985 said:
Enough with this iWatch stuff already! I haven't worn a watch since I was 12. With everyone having cell phones these days I really honestly see absolutely zero purpose for such a device.
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Does your smartphone tell your pulse? Can you wear your smartphone in the rain?
 
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Apple should basically just drop the screen and do interface through your iPhone. No screen (or a limited screen) will save a ton of battery life. Then run all the scans and tests for health related reasons. My teeny FitBit is smaller and lighter than a watch and it last nearly a week. The iWatch will do many more things, but with a flexible battery wrapping around the entire wrist, there should be a pretty good source of power.
 
Swampbaby985 said:
Enough with this iWatch stuff already! I haven't worn a watch since I was 12. With everyone having cell phones these days I really honestly see absolutely zero purpose for such a device.
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You're right despite the comments you've received.

Watches are anachronistic holdovers and the only reason to have one is the awesome battery life and simplicity. They do what they do pretty well...but they're basically just jewelery at this point.

Unless these new smart watches aid augmented/virtual reality stuff I see no purpose.

Oh, and to those saying people didn't understand the utility of an iPhone before it came out...bull. Wifi, wireless data, email client, contact manager, scheduler, and full web-browser all-in-one was OBVIOUSLY useful...it's just no one could do it. What need would the iWatch possibly fulfill?
 
Swampbaby985 said:
Enough with this iWatch stuff already! I haven't worn a watch since I was 12. With everyone having cell phones these days I really honestly see absolutely zero purpose for such a device.
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The watch you wore when you were 12 only told you the time. Maybe the date. Are you thinking that's all the iWatch is going to do?

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leorou said:
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Just saving you a Google search :)
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Hmm, I think this may lend more credence to the theory that the battery is for iWatch. There aren't very many curves in iPads or iPhones that a stepped battery would provide a significant capacity boost. A watch OTOH is practically all curves.
 
The iPhone made me quit wearing watches 5 years ago.

I want to see Apple try to make me put one on again.
 
will probably end up using these stepped batteries in iPhones going forward also. if they can get an increase for a watch imagine what they could do for iphone
 
Swampbaby985 said:
Enough with this iWatch stuff already! I haven't worn a watch since I was 12. With everyone having cell phones these days I really honestly see absolutely zero purpose for such a device.
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OK, so you're 15 years old now, big deal. My Casio G-Shock Solar Atomic MTGM900DA-8 barely ever leaves my wrist. It's been running for about three years now without a battery change and keeps perfect time, waterproof to 300 meters and wears like iron. It looks as new as the day I bought it. No smartphone will ever replace it. I can assure you plenty of people still wear watches. Amazon reviewers swear by it. I guess a person either likes watches or they don't and clearly you don't.
 
curmudgeon32 said:
Right, it's going to save lives. More likely, it'll just be one more thing to put a notification badge or an ad onto.
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Nope, not why Apple is making it. Sorry you don't understand it. Telling time and notifications are obvious, but not at all why they are making the device, as those aren't worth making a device for, especially a wearable. Apple is smart enough to know that a wearable is something you............wear. When you are wearing something on your body, guess what makes the most sense to do with it? Ding ding ding biosensors.
 
GSPice said:
The iPhone made me quit wearing watches 5 years ago.

I want to see Apple try to make me put one on again.
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It's sad people don't realize the point of this. I guess it's akin to why scientists should have always called 'global warming', 'climate change' instead. People don't understand that due to global warming, there can actually be places much colder, viscous winter storms, etc., the problem is, morons think it means strictly warming of the planet and nothing else is affected.

I digressed a little there, the iWatch shouldn't be called iWatch because people of low intellect think it is something to tell them the time or the date. Smartphones largely made watches irrelevant because they are always on your person, and tell you the same things, and so much more. However, this device isn't made to tell you those things, just as your iphone wasn't made to be a calculator for you to use. Just because the iPhone has a calculator doesn't mean it was made for that reason, it wouldn't have been made if that were the case. This device is made for tracking a person's health, and while it will do many other things like notifications and telling you the time, it certainly isn't being made for that reason. Apple wouldn't even make one for that reason alone. They are intelligent enough to know (unlike Samsung), that having a device that is almost always attached to a humans body, should be tracking biosensors, or it is a lost opportunity.

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SpectatorHere said:
You're right despite the comments you've received.

Watches are anachronistic holdovers and the only reason to have one is the awesome battery life and simplicity. They do what they do pretty well...but they're basically just jewelery at this point.

Unless these new smart watches aid augmented/virtual reality stuff I see no purpose.

Oh, and to those saying people didn't understand the utility of an iPhone before it came out...bull. Wifi, wireless data, email client, contact manager, scheduler, and full web-browser all-in-one was OBVIOUSLY useful...it's just no one could do it. What need would the iWatch possibly fulfill?
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You have to be intelligent and imaginative to see the possibilities, I can't spend all my time explaining it to people.
 
o0smoothies0o said:
People don't understand that due to global warming, there can actually be places much colder, viscous winter storms, etc., the problem is, morons think it means strictly warming of the planet and nothing else is affected.
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Except that global warming was sold to the public as just that - global warming, with all the fancy charts showing warming and ice caps melting away and polar bears running out of ice to live on, and island nations being covered by rising water levels due to melting, and terrible, terrible things happening in just a matter of years due to warming.

Besides the facts of what's actually happened in the last 20-50 years, 100 years, or 1000s of years, you can't blame the average joe's understanding of the repercussions of climate change when it's been sold as warming, then re-branded as climate change because the facts didn't support the commercials. I guess that's why scientists don't make good salesmen - but salesmen can make good "scientists." ;)

Anyway, to avoid getting sent to another thread, you're spot on - many companies simply respond to consumer demand. Apple defines consumer demand. I'm looking forward to what I'll be demanding on my wrist in a few months. :)
 
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