What else would you want it to do, though? Maybe touch ID, I guess, and press your finger to the watch?
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What else would you want it to do, though? Maybe touch ID, I guess, and press your finger to the watch?
Well since the US is joining the rest of the world and rolling out chip and pin, you choices are soon going to be enter you pin for your watch at your first transaction (no one said you have to do it first thing, just by the first transaction) or enter it at every transaction after pulling out your card and stabbing it into the reader, or pulling out your iPhone 6, scanning your finger and doing it that way.
Seems too cumbersome for a device that you have to charge every night. You would need to input the PIN at least once a day.
then they're going to have to make use of the sensors that monitor pulse to also confirm uninterrupted contact without relying on presence of a pulse for that contact monitoring feature.
Otherwise the payment system isn't going to work with a prosthetic, and I doubt they'd walk into that particular PR faux-pas
Oh FFS lol.
How many times per day does a user input their pin using a debit card? Unlocking their pre-5S iPhone?
This Watch and all other devices like it will lead to LESS work for a person for certain tasks, but a lot of you are acting like this is somehow MORE work.
No. It's just NEW. You want new toys and things, but you're stuck in your old ways and being cranky.
Why not have it prompt you to do touchID on your phone once you put the watch on?. Then the watch knows it's on the right person. The phone can then authorize the watch to act as a proxy.
Then have the watch key into something unique about your heart rhythm. If it's removed or moved quickly to a different person, it should be able to sense this.
Then have the watch key into something unique about your heart rhythm. If it's removed or moved quickly to a different person, it should be able to sense this.
The pin program would launch automatically with a full screen of ten digits. Punching in the code would take two seconds. Probably less time than putting on the watch to begin with.
It detects blood flow (HR monitor) so in theory it should be even harder to manipulate than just checking temps
If it does happen, I'm going to follow everyone I see wearing an
Watch. 
I won't have to pay for anything!Why are so many people complaining about having to enter the PIN every time they put the watch on? THAT'S EXACTLY THE POINT! So you don't leave your watch lying around and someone steals it and starts making purchases.
It's assuming that between entering your PIN and taking your watch off you are aware of the whereabouts of your wrist. Enter the PIN once when you start shopping and you're done. Personally, I go shopping once or twice a week at most, so I wouldn't even need to the PIN every day (not that I couldn't spare those 1.2 seconds every morning anyway).
It's assuming that between entering your PIN and taking your watch off you are aware of the whereabouts of your wrist. Enter the PIN once when you start shopping and you're done. Personally, I go shopping once or twice a week at most, so I wouldn't even need to the PIN every day (not that I couldn't spare those 1.2 seconds every morning anyway).
I didn't read all the way through to see if they spoke up already, but...
At least one person on this forum in the past few weeks predicted exactly this, that the watch could be used for NFC payments and would watch to see if it had been removed. So kudos to them.
A downside is that it's another drain on the battery. Wonder how often it tests.
At least one person on this forum in the past few weeks predicted exactly this, that the watch could be used for NFC payments and would watch to see if it had been removed. So kudos to them.
A downside is that it's another drain on the battery. Wonder how often it tests.
My credit card uses something similar to NFC and it doesn't have a battery, so I can't imagine it's that much of a drain.
I still don't understand Apple Pay on Apple Watch
wouldn't the Apple Watch itself need NFC chip?
Instead of merely keeping a sensor warm, it could be more related to the infrared guns that they sometimes use in delis (the ones that give you a ballpark temp of cooked chicken from 20 feet away). They get less accurate the further you go back, it's possible a small sensor + subtle readings are enough to be apply to the Apple watch.
Granted I don't know much about the tech in these, so I could easily be wrong.
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Entering a pin once a day? The HORROR!
People used to enter pins multiple times a day to unlock their smartphone (and still do for Android smartphones).