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Apple Updates Apple Watch 'Guided Tours' Site With Videos on Phone Calls, Siri, Music, and Maps

And as always the colored-to-white ratio for photoshopped arms wearing the Apple Watch is exactly correct.
 
motulist said:
FYI, you don't have to wave your arm around at all, you just have to tip your phone around in your hand in a tiny circle.
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FYI, that's how you discretely calibrate the compass now.
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Long-time iPhone users know that when the compass was first introduced in the iPhone 3GS, it required a more dorky figure 8 motion.
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motulist said:
The more I see of the AppleWatch the more it confirms that I don't see the point of this device. Pretty much every single thing you can do on the watch you can also do on your phone, and the physical difference between raising your arm to look at your wrist vs. raising your arm to look at your hand with a phone in it is no difference at all.
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The first people to make use of the Apple Watch will be the ones who do see the point. Others may take longer to see the usefulness, and still others never will.
 
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motulist said:
The more I see of the AppleWatch the more it confirms that I don't see the point of this device. Pretty much every single thing you can do on the watch you can also do on your phone, and the physical difference between raising your arm to look at your wrist vs. raising your arm to look at your hand with a phone in it is no difference at all.
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There is a big difference if your phone is in your pocket. I listen to music on my phone whilst walking around town, and when travelling, with wireless headphones so my phone is in my pocket so with the Watch the phone will be in my pocket conserving battery life whilst I control stuff on my Watch. Not life changing stuff but nice.
 
kycophpd said:
Don't have your phone plugged in while watching the Siri video. Twice when she said "Hey Siri", my phone switched to Siri and was waiting for me to talk. I had to close out and go back in. I was so impressed with the fact that audio from the phone activated it itself that the disruption didn't bother me
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It happened to me too. I ended up with an alarm set for 6am and hanging up an outgoing call to my mom.
 
Dick Tracy move over....

Siri, phone calls.... and Maps ?? (sheesh) I won't be caught dead using that on tiny display...Think of all the panning u must do.

I still reckon there should of been a headphone jack on the corner though..
 
I've sent an email to Tim Cook with my concerns on how long it is taking them to make a video about Apple Pay
 
newagemac said:
They do offer public transport directions. What made you think that wasn't the case? And unlike with Google Maps you actually have choice.
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Uhm, where exactly do they offer public transport directions? I only always get a link to the App Store on my phone..

/edit: I never saw that it was possible to hit an app and it takes over the route Infos from maps. That's actually nice! Did they only recently implement that? Still, the watch needs that!
 
darkslide29 said:
In all seriousness (not sure if serious), there was an article that explained the 1.1ghz processor was indeed underpowered compared to MacBook Airs currently available. But added that the 1.2ghz mid-range option fared much better, closer in the gap with the MacBook Airs of today. It then mentioned the made to order 1.3 ghz higher end option has not been seen in benchmarks yet and we likely won't until they are delivered to customers. If that's what you're referring to, stay tuned.
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All very cool, although I have to admit the navigation of the music app looks to be a complex nightmare...

1000
 
RockSpider said:
Come on I'm so over this watch, I mean I love it and all that, and I love it that they gave one to that old half dead billionaire, such a sign of respect, but I wanna hear some stories about the new powerhouse MacBook.

You know the one with the powerhouse 1.1ghz processor, actually, I thought that was dead too.
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you mean the new ultra portable? why on earth would you expect a processor like the ones in the more powerful notebooks?
 
Is it disturbing that I noticed not one of them had a hair on their arms? **** I am a gorilla.
 
DirtySocks85 said:
It happened to me too. I ended up with an alarm set for 6am and hanging up an outgoing call to my mom.
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Your Mom's name is Danny?

Yep, alarm set for 6.

When I watched the videos there were two iPhones plugged in. Each called a person named Danny. Apple really needs to let you change the key word ior when there is more than one iPhone in the house.
 
RockSpider said:
From where I come from, going from 1.1ghz to 1.2ghz doesn't mean it goes from low end to mid range, it just gets minutely not so slow. Notice how I don't use the word faster, because nothing in this thing is fast.

You can show me all the benchmarks you want, the speed increase is absolutely negligible.
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Differently rated chips of the same CPU line (in regard to clock rate) are chips that run slightly cooler and more stable at higher clock rates (essentially slight hardware variations in terms of chip quality). Since the advent of turbo boost, a chip that runs slightly cooler and more stable at higher clock rates can sustain the turbo boost frequencies longer and on more cores. Thus the higher-rated chip can keep using both CPU cores longer and thus has an improvement in multi-threaded performance that exceeds what the pure clock rate difference would suggest.

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WilliamLondon said:
Have to admit the Maps functionality is pretty cool, especially the wrist taps to indicate turns, I'm always putting my phone back in my pocket to avoid walking down the street looking at it and don't ever seem to remember exactly which streets to turn down, so inevitably have to pull it back out again and again, sigh.
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Though this works less well in the old world where directions often require more nuanced information the right, straight-ahead and left.
 
I'm loving these guided tour videos!
Kind of keeps the excitement going while we wait for the product (not that I'm not excited as it is). :cool:
 
iBreatheApple said:
So you can't play music through the watch's speaker?
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Are you for real? Why would you want to? The music would sound so crap.

I don't get some questions people are asking about the watch. Today at the Apple Store I overheard someone asking if the white stand holding the iPad which accompanies the demo models comes with the watch when purchasing...omg
 
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