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Apple Watch Spotted in the Wild (picture!)
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Not a picture, but a report of someone seeing one -
http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/29/i...the-train-this-morning-and-now-im-a-believer/
http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/29/i...the-train-this-morning-and-now-im-a-believer/
Very interesting article, i believe there are a few Apple Watches out there, now that Apple have showed us what it looks like they are not going to care about us seeing it out in public.
One interesting thing i have noticed tho is that in an interview with Tim Cook, the interviewer asks if the Watch has been tracking his heartbeat and Tim replies "I don't want to show you that, there are some things on here that are still secret"
Well according to John Gruber Apple is still working on the whole raise wrist to see information. Kind of get the impression they're having difficulties nailing that. I'm sure there's engineers working overtime right now to ensure the basics are nailed in time for launch. Last year Jony Ive said Watch was the most difficult project he's ever worked on at Apple. Some here laughed at that statement but I'll bet the April launch date is largely due to Apple still trying to nail the basics. Good first impressions will be extremely important with this product.
My thoughts exactly.
The thing with Apple products is that the basics are always spot on, which is where Apple gets the majority of its credit for the "It just works," phrase. While they do things that would be reaching a little far, often it is in ways that don't impact the consumer directly, or not every consumer, when fallible.
I have a hard time believing that Apple originally planned for a last-day of Early 2015 launch in April and there has been push backs since - that speculation leaves me even more to agree with you!
Yeah I agree completely.
To me, this being Cook's first post-Jobs, new-category product launch means there are things Apple can't afford to flub in this first-gen device. Battery life being the biggest, followed very closely by user experience.
If the Watch's battery life really doesn't last you a day or isn't better than comparable Android Wear devices, Apple risks souring the market for this device and creating an impression that'll be very hard to shake. Especially after their stunning financials, there are a lot of pundits and analysts that will be ready to shout any failure from the rooftops.
Anybody who's had a smartwatch that depended on using the wrist to turn on, knows how tricky it is. It either comes on too much, or too little.
For example, sometimes you're laying on your side in bed with someone snuggled up asleep in your arm.
With a regular watch, or one with an always on display, you slowly twist your wrist until you can see the time.
With a "raise wrist" smartwatch, you have to kind of flick your wrist, thus often waking the other person up.
Maybe Apple can nail it, but I don't think anyone else has yet.
Um, what? That makes zero sense. My grandfather was very elegant as they come and always wore a watch regardless if he was at work or at social functions. It is more of a bracelet that happens to tell time and for me, I feel so naked without it. And besides it blocks the tan line directly under it. Even in the middle of the winter it is still there.
I haven't worn a watch for over 25 years (it seems strange to wear another item all day just to tell the time, when I already usually have a phone with this information and a whole lot more). So I'm looking forward to see what new use this device might have to appeal to people like me.
To be honest, other than fitness monitoring, nothing I've seen in the presentations so far seems enough to make this a desirable item...
To be honest, other than fitness monitoring, nothing I've seen in the presentations so far seems enough to make this a desirable item...
These spotted in the "wild" are fake.
The fake Apple watch is already available in Asia for about $25. It likely has no function, and will turn your wrist green. Just like all fake stuff it probubly cost about $5 to manufacture, uses toxic materials, and has no real functionality.
I saw the fake iPhone 6+ about two months before the real thing was releasesed. Some guy was selling them for $100. I am guessing that they were just android phones that were modeled after pictures from the internet.
The fake Apple watch is already available in Asia for about $25. It likely has no function, and will turn your wrist green. Just like all fake stuff it probubly cost about $5 to manufacture, uses toxic materials, and has no real functionality.
I saw the fake iPhone 6+ about two months before the real thing was releasesed. Some guy was selling them for $100. I am guessing that they were just android phones that were modeled after pictures from the internet.
While yes, there are Chinese knockoffs, these sightings as posted are certainly not fake.
Another photo of the Apple Watch in the wild. I have to say, this photo made me laugh!
I've managed to live more than four decades on this Earth without ever hearing that wearing watches outside of work is rude. Not to say that I haven't met plenty of people who don't like wearing watches, but as a rule of etiquette? Never.
Not that I lose any sleep over it, but I personally consider it rude to be asked the time by someone not wearing a watch because they can always rely on someone else wearing one.
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Ugh, nojust, no. If I can't check the time most of the time just by turning my wrist, I might as well reach for my phone. I had a watch like that, a Phyode W/Me, and the push-to-display requirement is why I stopped using it.
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Interesting. I've had quite a few folks respond that way. Never guessed it would be so controversial.
I guess we can just chalk it up to being a long-dead and/or quaint foreign custom, then? (FWIW: More than five decades here. Mostly outside the US.)
Oh, I don't know. It's good conversation starter. Compliment their watch and they're usually delighted!
If I had to guess, Apple is probably wrestling with the heart rate monitor accuracy and need input from as many people as possible.
The three leading fitness watch manufacturers, that have continuous optical HR monitoring, are struggling trying to come up with the most accurate algorithm. It is a very difficult problem to solve given the trade offs in sensor size and LED power (affecting battery life), difference in peoples cardiovascular condition and physical shape (BMI, A-Fib, skin color, vein location, etc), and interpreting and compensating for body movements during exercise.
Since some of the these fitness watch manufacturers have been at this for two+ years and still haven't nailed it, it may take Apple some time before they get it to their standards.
The three leading fitness watch manufacturers, that have continuous optical HR monitoring, are struggling trying to come up with the most accurate algorithm. It is a very difficult problem to solve given the trade offs in sensor size and LED power (affecting battery life), difference in peoples cardiovascular condition and physical shape (BMI, A-Fib, skin color, vein location, etc), and interpreting and compensating for body movements during exercise.
Since some of the these fitness watch manufacturers have been at this for two+ years and still haven't nailed it, it may take Apple some time before they get it to their standards.
True but eventually employees will get them to try them out before they go on sale, at least I hope
Apple Retail Employee is about as close to indentured servitude as you can get these days. There are few perks and Apple plays on employees' love of the products to keep them happy. They only get access to new products when it is time to sell them.
Yes, to me it looks like the stainless steel version with the black sport band (the little pin can be seen) or possibly the classic leather strap?
Must be the sport band as the classic leather strap has a stainless steel buckle.