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Apple Will Not Release watchOS 2 Today Due to Significant Bug
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I haven't updated, so I haven't had the issue, but it seems to be an issue for a bunch of GM adopters, something I'm sure Apple doesn't want to deal with...
There was speculation earlier in this thread that ios9 will cut off notifications unless you're running os2 on your watch. Was that just made up or true?
If anything, I'd say it's the opposite. They're moving very quickly in this space; faster than any other product line that I can remember... They're coming out with watch OS2 only 5 months after Apple watch went on sale!
Also, if you caught the keynote you'd know that they introduced a ton of new bands and additional sport models. Not to mention, the beautiful Hermes lineup.
As for it not doing much, that depends on the user. I use it to control my music, Hue lights, Apple TV, take/make calls, stay abreast of news, track my health/fitness, pay for stuff and it gives me immediate access to weather, stocks and of course date & time.
Oh yeah, and those notifications coming through discreetly on my wrist are extremely useful and worth the price of admission alone.
I don't think that true. I'm running iOS 9.1 and I'm getting notifications. All is working as it's supposed to.
How is that awkward? They found a bug and are delaying the release. Simple as that.
Wonder if this bug is the same bug that won't let people download iOS 9 -_-;.... Yes I know that's not how bugs work.
A friend of mine complained about the same thing earlier today (running iOS8/watchOS 1)
iMessage must be broken again on Apple's servers. Again.
I think people realize there are certain realities and it takes guts to do what Apple did... Once a release date is announced, there's tremendous pressure to meet that deadline. They could just as easily have released the OS with this major bug and released a patch a few weeks later.
Embarrassing to whom? the 3 million Apple watch owners who may or may not even know Watch OS 2.0 exists?
You realize people who don't own an Apple watch could care less right?
nope, what They could do is "couldn't care less", the exact opposite of could care less, I thought we HaD cleared this up ages....
search for David Mitchell and "could care less", you will find all you need to know...
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WOW! I thought you could not play music through the watch's speaker.
My quote right? I fail to see how my response doesn't make sense. 8.1 was a a bad release. Which is they pulled this update, to avoid that mistake.
Upon reading this story I was reminded of a certain character from literature so I decided to post an illustration of him, but then got told off for it being a frivolous post, because it was only one image (my bad!).
Even though they say 'a picture can paint a thousand words', in case anyone else thinks it's purely frivolous I thought I had better explain my thinking behind the posting of the image above if I was going to re-post it in any context.
It is of course the White Rabbit from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a character who in various editions and adaptations famously carries a watch, crying 'I'm late!"
On one level it was visual joke, yet still directly relevant. On another level it was making a point - that the White Rabbit carried a watch, and yet was late. It spoke, in direct relevance to the thread, to the irony of software for a timepiece being delayed. I realise to some, this may seem obvious, but I accept others may not have immediately understood, or even have knowledge of, the character illustrated or the possible reasons for me posting the image.
More than that, the White Rabbit of course went down the rabbit-hole. There is something a little surreal about a modern re-invention of technology that leads to complications (if you'll excuse the watch-related pun!) over the traditional technology it is to some degree emulating and improving upon.
Philosophically one might ask whether Carroll's White Rabbit would have been late had he had an Apple Watch instead of a traditional clockwork pocket-watch. He could have set a reminder on his Apple Watch of course, but then if he was waiting upon the Watch OS 2 update, he'd still have been late, and therein lies some more timepiece-based irony.
Of course many other comments in this thread are highly relevant and perfectly reasonable. It is good the software release is slightly delayed if it has a significant bug. I could have just said that as well, but I wanted to post something that I felt summed up a variety of on-topic issues in a creative manner that didn't clutter up the thread with repetitive phraseology or an unnecessary long-winded piece of text (arguably a little bit like this one I suppose!). Anyway, I hope some feel that this post, whether by image or by text, contributed to the thread in some way, and certainly wasn't too frivolous, and I hope the apple Watch OS 2 software is released as soon as it's considered ready for it by Apple.
Even though they say 'a picture can paint a thousand words', in case anyone else thinks it's purely frivolous I thought I had better explain my thinking behind the posting of the image above if I was going to re-post it in any context.
It is of course the White Rabbit from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a character who in various editions and adaptations famously carries a watch, crying 'I'm late!"
On one level it was visual joke, yet still directly relevant. On another level it was making a point - that the White Rabbit carried a watch, and yet was late. It spoke, in direct relevance to the thread, to the irony of software for a timepiece being delayed. I realise to some, this may seem obvious, but I accept others may not have immediately understood, or even have knowledge of, the character illustrated or the possible reasons for me posting the image.
More than that, the White Rabbit of course went down the rabbit-hole. There is something a little surreal about a modern re-invention of technology that leads to complications (if you'll excuse the watch-related pun!) over the traditional technology it is to some degree emulating and improving upon.
Philosophically one might ask whether Carroll's White Rabbit would have been late had he had an Apple Watch instead of a traditional clockwork pocket-watch. He could have set a reminder on his Apple Watch of course, but then if he was waiting upon the Watch OS 2 update, he'd still have been late, and therein lies some more timepiece-based irony.
Of course many other comments in this thread are highly relevant and perfectly reasonable. It is good the software release is slightly delayed if it has a significant bug. I could have just said that as well, but I wanted to post something that I felt summed up a variety of on-topic issues in a creative manner that didn't clutter up the thread with repetitive phraseology or an unnecessary long-winded piece of text (arguably a little bit like this one I suppose!). Anyway, I hope some feel that this post, whether by image or by text, contributed to the thread in some way, and certainly wasn't too frivolous, and I hope the apple Watch OS 2 software is released as soon as it's considered ready for it by Apple.
Being deprived of something you already owned is different than a delay in receiving something you've never had before.
And likely the bug wasn't discovered just today, but rather they just failed to fix it by the deadline, due to complexity. I don't actually know though.
im thinking watchOS 2 will be released at any given time.. will just show up when its ready not necessarily at 10:00 am PST on any given day.