No I did not, and if you follow Apple's financials you could easily do the math and come up with a very similar, if higher, figure.
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Apple Watch 2 Rumored to Include Cellular Connectivity Amid Push for iPhone Independency
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No I did not, and if you follow Apple's financials you could easily do the math and come up with a very similar, if higher, figure.
I'm not going to give AT&T another $10 a month or more to connect a useless Apple Watch. If Apple can't sell more watches after the 2nd version is released, I think they should just drop this product category--it's meh.
I am hoping on a iPad 1 to iPad 2 magnitude update where the figure out the main pain points and have a vastly improved product. For me personally, I want to have GPS independent of the phone. And additional/improved sensors. If I am somewhere where it is onerous to drag a phone (a run for example) I can live without phone calls and texts, but I don't want to drag a phone with me to work out.
I see, it's a watch.
i can see where a watch would be better than a phone for cellular, we will be be weathering Bluetooth anyway.paired from the watch to whatever bluetooth device we want to use. But radical changes need to be made..
I guess storage is NOT one of them, since we use our phones for that for large capacity... I dunno if anyone would wanna carry 32Gig on of music on their Apple watch, but its good to think about.
We are then going back to the old mp3 player days which did the same thing.
I dunno how an extra data plan could help,,,, Sim cards are not that tiny (yet). It somehow u could do the same as an email *add an alais to your account*. so mobile carrier could only need serial number of the watch or IMEI (since it would be a separate hard ware device ) and carrers add it to your iPhone account/contract.. that could be one way without needing to pay "an extra" thing for..
Or, a watch (with phone capabilities)
I guess storage is NOT one of them, since we use our phones for that for large capacity... I dunno if anyone would wanna carry 32Gig on of music on their Apple watch, but its good to think about.
We are then going back to the old mp3 player days which did the same thing.
I dunno how an extra data plan could help,,,, Sim cards are not that tiny (yet). It somehow u could do the same as an email *add an alais to your account*. so mobile carrier could only need serial number of the watch or IMEI (since it would be a separate hard ware device ) and carrers add it to your iPhone account/contract.. that could be one way without needing to pay "an extra" thing for..
Or, a watch (with phone capabilities)
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*All* the features? Like replying to messages?
I've owned 3 Pebbles and developed apps for them for 2 years before switching to the Apple Watch and let me tell you: The current Apple Watch, in its laughable state, is light years ahead of any Pebble.
You people make me laugh. A round smart watch is not a good idea functionally. Be honest, if it were round you'd consider buying one and then stop yourself to complain about something else.
Burns my eyes looking at this abomination.It's a phone. See?
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I only need it to be round. I could not care less about everything else.
Not necessarily. My brother got a free Samsung smartwatch with his new Galaxy phone and all Verizon charged hims for was an extra 5 bucks a month for a "connected device". He was given a separate phone number for the watch so he can make and receive calls, but the data pulls from the same pool as the phone. Unless things change due to increased adoption rates of such devices and thus giving carriers an avenue to gouge more money out of people I don't see any difference is the Apple Watch goes standalone.
Means that the best form factor for a smartphone was the one we grown accustomed to, not the early Nokia Communicators or Palms, for example.
Also means that the best form factor for a smartwatch is square-ish, as watches used to be round due to a old technology that is no longer used; that did not stop watchmakers to build nice looking square watches, as the Monaco I linked to.
Faster and Thinner for me. I would never pay to add cellular to the watch. If I am out, doing something with out the phone, and miss a call, I really don't care. I lived for 40 years with just a land line on the kitchen wall.
To me, make the battery smaller, and the watch thinner. I get 2 days from the watch now, and only need 1 day. Every night it goes on the nightstand on charge to act as an alarm clock anyway.
To me, make the battery smaller, and the watch thinner. I get 2 days from the watch now, and only need 1 day. Every night it goes on the nightstand on charge to act as an alarm clock anyway.
"Abomination"? That speaks volumes about your watch culture.
Means that i want a round smartwatch. Nothing more, nothing less.
Just make it have android compatibility already... Really limiting your market!
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Most actually prefer round watches so...
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Most actually prefer round watches so...
Oh behold the high watch culture. Sorry to disturb your distortion field.
No sim card like CDMA (but GSM watch)... How'd that work?
With CDMA u signed up at purse of the watch....... If Apple did this, they'd need to make two versions.. one on contact, and pick your carrier,,, and another one unlocked Apple watch u pay upfront cost...
How many devices do we wants we must decide on that? We already have an iPhone, an iPad with cellular, and now an Apple watch..
Lets the rumor-mil take control. D
What distortion field? The fact that many classic mechanical watches are square? The Monaco is one of the most iconic designs, ever, far from an "abomination". That said, you could very well dislike square designs, but that doesn't mean round smartwatches make sense. They don't.