The WSJ interview video with transcriptThanks ! Not doubting you, just wanted to know when did Cook go into the details like that
So right now ... I wounder what is it like to do heavy usage for Apple watch !?
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Cook said it will need to be charged NIGHTLY, if you have something proving otherwise, link it. And no, it will not be useful to me.
As for 2 sizes, and? Doesn't mean the battery is going to any bigger, that's just your assumption.
Again, if you have something to show to indicate what you are saying, link it, otherwise, just stop making assumptions.
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From your link :
MR. COOK: We think that people are going to use it so much that youre going to wind up charging it daily. Overnight.
This isnt like a notebook, where theres a very well-understood history of use.
Given my own experience and others around me, youre going to wind up charging it every day, because youre going to use it so much that its going to need to be charged.
When you're in college preparing for grad school, yes, $350 is an investment.At least when it comes to a more novelty item. An iPhone or MacBook costs more, but provides a functional benefit. I am merely saying that I want to wait and see how the concept develops and make sure this isn't something Apple will dump in 2 years.
Expenditure may be a better word for an electronic gizmo. $350 is a lot of money to throw away for most people if the value isn't returned somehow. Only collectors value mere possession.
$350 is the starts at price...
The price will likely rise to $10,000 for the gold watch/bracelet.
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The naysayers here are the same one who tell their friends a year or so later that they love their new Apple Watch.
I think the luxury watchmakers should be worried. Their products have only had one update since 1850, when quartz happened in 1975.
The Apple Watch will be like the Apple 1. When people sell their "perfect condition" gold Apple Watch 25 years from now, it will have appreciated by a similar percentage. By then the new ones will be on sale with "air" charging and an-AI based assistant.
The price will likely rise to $10,000 for the gold watch/bracelet.
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The naysayers here are the same one who tell their friends a year or so later that they love their new Apple Watch.
I think the luxury watchmakers should be worried. Their products have only had one update since 1850, when quartz happened in 1975.
The Apple Watch will be like the Apple 1. When people sell their "perfect condition" gold Apple Watch 25 years from now, it will have appreciated by a similar percentage. By then the new ones will be on sale with "air" charging and an-AI based assistant.
The luxury watch makers aren't worrying about some consumer tech company, and 25 years from now, these watches will be worth exactly 0.The price will likely rise to $10,000 for the gold watch/bracelet.
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The naysayers here are the same one who tell their friends a year or so later that they love their new Apple Watch.
I think the luxury watchmakers should be worried. Their products have only had one update since 1850, when quartz happened in 1975.
The Apple Watch will be like the Apple 1. When people sell their "perfect condition" gold Apple Watch 25 years from now, it will have appreciated by a similar percentage. By then the new ones will be on sale with "air" charging and an-AI based assistant.
Just because they aren't doesn't mean they shouldn't be. Microsoft/Ballmer wasn't worrying about the iPhone either.
The 5C sold less than predicted but it is hardly a flop. Many corporations use it as the company smartphone. I work at Novartis where a big portion of the more than 100,000 employees use them.
And don't you think a company like Apple won't have done a bit more research to come to the conclusion that it is priced right, than you did?
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You can't compare the two situations at all. Microsoft and Apple were and are direct competitors, while the Apple Watch and luxury watches have minute overlapping customer segments at best.
I have an old Polar watch that I find hard to use. It requires me to use reading glasses to see the smaller elements on the display, which makes it impossible for me to make full use of it when I'm out running or swimming.
I need an iOS compatible (or better yet, an OS agnostic) fitness watch with big graphic elements that can be seen in bright sunlight and without reading glasses. It should be 100% waterproof to a depth of 16+ feet, and it should continue to collect bio-data while I am swimming. I don't wear much when I swim, and I do this without my iPhone 6+ strapped on.
Also, the case of the watch must not corrode when subjected to the elements and body oils. Every watch I have ever owned has corroded over time, be it the back of the case, around the battery compartment, the strap supports, the adjustment knobs/buttons, or the buckle/clasp mechanism.
I don't care if an aWatch needs to be periodically "tethered" to a nearby iPhone to dump its data as long as the following are true:
1. Can hold enough data to go more than 16 hours without being tethered. This way the user won't be penalized for leaving his phone in the car and not realizing it until morning (I resemble that remark!).
2. Tethering and "de-tethering" are automatic and reliable
3. Tethering and "de-tethering" are not annoying with popups that must be answered or dismissed on one or both devices.
I need an iOS compatible (or better yet, an OS agnostic) fitness watch with big graphic elements that can be seen in bright sunlight and without reading glasses. It should be 100% waterproof to a depth of 16+ feet, and it should continue to collect bio-data while I am swimming. I don't wear much when I swim, and I do this without my iPhone 6+ strapped on.
Also, the case of the watch must not corrode when subjected to the elements and body oils. Every watch I have ever owned has corroded over time, be it the back of the case, around the battery compartment, the strap supports, the adjustment knobs/buttons, or the buckle/clasp mechanism.
I don't care if an aWatch needs to be periodically "tethered" to a nearby iPhone to dump its data as long as the following are true:
1. Can hold enough data to go more than 16 hours without being tethered. This way the user won't be penalized for leaving his phone in the car and not realizing it until morning (I resemble that remark!).
2. Tethering and "de-tethering" are automatic and reliable
3. Tethering and "de-tethering" are not annoying with popups that must be answered or dismissed on one or both devices.
I wish I knew what "hipster" meant. You kids and your crazy trendy slang...
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I invested in AAPL. I use some of my gains to purchase products, like the Apple Watch.
It's not a new Apple marketing term. Been around a long TIME
Wikipedia:
"In horology, the study of clocks and watches, a complication refers to any feature in a timepiece beyond the simple display of hours and minutes. A timepiece indicating only hours and minutes is otherwise known as a simple movement. Common complications in commercial watches are day/date displays, alarms, chronographs, and automatic winding mechanisms."
With the nose ring, I'm assuming that she's at least 18 and either unemployed, not yet in a full career, or maybe has a career at Orange Julius or maybe Spensers or Hot Topic.
Based on this one thing plus no traces of wrinkles, she's probably between 18 and 24. And by the way, she's not dressed like a "hipster", which (if I understand the term correctly) would be like a 55 year old dressing in 1970's styles.
So hipster: no.
But she is wearing said nose ring and a striped shirt, and appears to be seated on a motor bike or a reel-mower.
So maybe she's just a young referee for the newest sport of champion green lawn care professionals! Race-mowers, if you will. Her upper body looks lean enough to compete as a race-mower. But the legs would tell us if she's a sprinter or distance mower.
But at the other end of the spectrum, maybe she could be a coder; maybe a device driver developer who rides a red Vespa on Saturdays.
Based on this one thing plus no traces of wrinkles, she's probably between 18 and 24. And by the way, she's not dressed like a "hipster", which (if I understand the term correctly) would be like a 55 year old dressing in 1970's styles.
So hipster: no.
But she is wearing said nose ring and a striped shirt, and appears to be seated on a motor bike or a reel-mower.
So maybe she's just a young referee for the newest sport of champion green lawn care professionals! Race-mowers, if you will. Her upper body looks lean enough to compete as a race-mower. But the legs would tell us if she's a sprinter or distance mower.
But at the other end of the spectrum, maybe she could be a coder; maybe a device driver developer who rides a red Vespa on Saturdays.
Honestly, the "MR. COOK's We think that people are going to use it so much that you’re going to wind up charging it daily. Overnight" phrase has been overused and overanalysed so much it lost all its meanings, which for all we know, might just be Mr. Cook's hyperbolyzing the people interest. Or perhaps just a side glance answer with a little facts on it.
Whichever it is, one should expect to charge a smart watch regularly just like iPhone. It's not that hard to understand.
What are the chances that Apple will engineer this watch to be water-resistant enough so it can work for people who really, REALLY sweat when they work out?
Yeah, really... then go get yourself a smart watch for $99 anywhere else... you're certainly going to get a masterpiece of technology and utility, not to mention the design and aesthetics.
Dude, for $99 you may be getting a low-end Timex...
It's funny how much people worry about the price. I own 3 watches, one cost $2500 (Seiko Astron), another cost $7500 (IWC Top Gun), and the other cost $10000 (Breitling Chronometre). Even without being tethered to an iPhone the Apple Watch will do everything those watches do (i.e. tell time and work as a stop watch) and do it for a tenth of the price.
The drawback is that I've owned my Breitling for 15 years, and despite maintenance costs of about $100/YR on average it has actually increased in value. The Apple watch will lose 50% or more of its value in 2 years when the next version is released.
If the Apple Watch looks as cool on my wrist as it does in the ads I'll buy one on day 1. I don't wear my watch to bed so one day of battery life means It will always be charged. My Seiko is my regular daily watch and I don't wear the IWC and Breitling so much as mechanical watches are a pain in the @$$ if you don't wear them every day as they have to be wound and reset. I would expect my Seiko will become my weekday watch and the Apple Watch will become my weekend activity watch.
The drawback is that I've owned my Breitling for 15 years, and despite maintenance costs of about $100/YR on average it has actually increased in value. The Apple watch will lose 50% or more of its value in 2 years when the next version is released.
If the Apple Watch looks as cool on my wrist as it does in the ads I'll buy one on day 1. I don't wear my watch to bed so one day of battery life means It will always be charged. My Seiko is my regular daily watch and I don't wear the IWC and Breitling so much as mechanical watches are a pain in the @$$ if you don't wear them every day as they have to be wound and reset. I would expect my Seiko will become my weekday watch and the Apple Watch will become my weekend activity watch.
I bought a watch winder for that purpose. Problem solved and a great way to store your watch in the mean time.
Beco Watch Winder
I love using "jokes" like yours (where there's no indication if you're joking or not) as a vehicle for obliterating something. You didn't expect this, did ya?
It's like you pointed your toy gun at someone as a joke and they pulled theirs and now you're dead.Try to be factually correct next time in your jokes. The communicator is in your pocket. What's on your wrist is only an external monitor/speaker/mic to that real communicator.
It would have been more funny and factually correct if you replayed Steve's words as "it's not three separate devices... it's TWO separate devices".
A timepiece. A communicator. A fitness tracker.
A timepiece. A communicator. A fitness tracker.
A timepiece. A communicator. A fitness tracker.
Are you getting it? These are not three separate devices. This is one device.
So good! Reading this just makes me more eager for the Apple Watch.
Ironic, yet, I posted something to prove exactly what he said, while you sit here claiming something else and still haven't linked to prove it.
Typical Apple defender. Can't stand facts.
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Or, you know, she's just a *gasp*...model!With the nose ring, I'm assuming that she's at least 18 and either unemployed, not yet in a full career, or maybe has a career at Orange Julius or maybe Spensers or Hot Topic.
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He said it, there isn't much more to analyze. And no, it's not that hard to understand, he said for the most part, people would be charging it every night. I am sure he would know just a tad bit more than some random nobody on the internet who doesn't actually work for them.