I don't know about you Keith, but I "always" have my iPhone in my pocket, on my desk, or in my hand. I expect that's true for 98% of people out there who own iPhones.
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Apple Watch News Apps Bring At-a-Glance Headlines to Your Wrist
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I don't know about you Keith, but I "always" have my iPhone in my pocket, on my desk, or in my hand. I expect that's true for 98% of people out there who own iPhones.
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The time is completely wrong in those screenshots, it says 10:09 and it is 16:59 , this is totally unacceptable.
Get your priorities straight Apple, it's supposed to be a Watch, you can sort out the GeeWhiz here's the news features later, but I'm not buying an iWatch unless the time is correct to at LEAST +/- 10 minutes.
The time is completely wrong in those screenshots, it says 10:09 and it is 16:59 , this is totally unacceptable.
Get your priorities straight Apple, it's supposed to be a Watch, you can sort out the GeeWhiz here's the news features later, but I'm not buying an iWatch unless the time is correct to at LEAST +/- 10 minutes.
Yeah, I thought the idea behind the watch was to be less intrusive than the iPhone. But to be fair, no one is forcing people to install these apps on their watches.
Then why do you need an overpriced watch if you always have it on you.
I think most people initially imagined that the watch would take it's place for times when you didn't want to bring your phone (jogs, workouts, hikes, bike rides, sports, a billion other things), but it's not.
I get it - that tech wouldn't fit into a watch and have decent battery life, but then why release it?
I feel like the Apple Watch is an iPhone with 5% of the function on a tiny worthless screen, and it's only benefit is that you don't have to take your iPhone out of your pocket to read text messages.
I'm not trolling, which I'm sure many will say. I just think that press releases stating that the watch can give you news highlights shows how worthless this thing actually is.
I don't know how people have survived this long without having the news on their wrist every second of the day. Between this and never missing a Facebook notification, life will never be the same. 
Well, if you don't want to know these things, I'm pretty sure you can turn it off. If you're a trader, or a journalists, maybe you want to know all those things. Low priority is RELATIVE TO YOU, not everyone else.
In other words, it does the same thing that my phone does which is right next to me, face up. Oh but wait, just in case I need to stand up and move 5 feet away from my phone, I need to get a headline on my wrist.
Really lame apple. Hope use cases improve.
Really lame apple. Hope use cases improve.
You are doing the "concern trolling" variety, Look it up.
Lets repeat this like a mantra : my own wants/needs are not the same as those of others.
Some people may want this kind of thing to go to their wrists (traders, journalists, news junkies, those people who info on some breaking situation, local news that affect them (tornado warnings), etc); so, who are you decide for them.
If you can filter the news to the subject/location you want, you could create hyperlocal personal news/alerts this way.
It's not Apple's fault, though. It's on the developers to come up with clever and new ways of thinking when creating apps for the watch vs. what they've done with the iPhone & iPad.
Local breaking news and weather alerts would be great.
you spend waaaaaaaay too much time on internet forums to know your own lingo. and like it or not i'm having a conversation on a forum where i can state my views.
I've been on the Internet since 1987, I think I've picked up a few words since then... Many words I've picked up in the 1980s aren't even used these days, that's how long I've been around.
I'm just telling your your "views" are following a well worn groove, that has its own name already.
Not what I meant. Widgets really are great.
What I meant is the treatment they get. SO much potential completely overshadowed by the tons of crap that were allowed to be submit.
I hope they manage to give it proper App store treatment.
Apple Watch, bringing a whole new level of distracted driving to the world's highways.
Please, somebody tell me that these At-a-Glance headlines are automatically shut off if the Apple Watch is moving more than 10 mph!
Mark
Please, somebody tell me that these At-a-Glance headlines are automatically shut off if the Apple Watch is moving more than 10 mph!
Mark
Really boring use for the Watch. How can you read news on that tiny screen? People bought iPhone 6 plus so they can see everything big, now we're going back to tiny screen with Watches.
But, the convenience!
I sure hope this also includes ABC here in Australia.. not just U.S
I'm wondering if u at least u can pair say an iphone and ipad, maybe not at the same time, but switch between pairing.
since i frequently access info on both, but if both can now be done via the Apple watch, then that would be good.
I'm wondering if u at least u can pair say an iphone and ipad, maybe not at the same time, but switch between pairing.
since i frequently access info on both, but if both can now be done via the Apple watch, then that would be good.
In theory that might be useful, but there is no local news online. These days it's all feeds from AP (Assigned Propaganda) or Bloomberg (Botberg). But hey, it's all good, obey, submit, consume.
So we could get dozens of breaking news alerts about the Apple Watch.. on the Apple Watch?
Inception, anyone?
What's it called when someone first attempts to counter an argument with a belittlement?
It doesn't mean that it shouldn't be offered or exist though. You named health, email, news, and messages. You're a fan of 3 out of 4 of those. Great! Use those three. There may be a news junkie out there who finds news on their watch as useful as email.
EDIT: I don't mean for what I said to come off as an attack. Some posts really go off on every app on the watch. You explained, in your opinion, that news doesn't seem like it will work well, and I can see what you mean. I don't think I'll be using it either, but it's fine that it's there.