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Apple Working on 'Find My Watch' and Third-Party Watch Complications, 'TVKit' Dev Tools for Apple TV
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Just looked it up and learned something new today - thanks! Obviously I was a member of the latter group!
What if you could lift your watch and say, "Siri, play Game of Thrones", and have the Apple TV automatically play the latest unwatched episode?
I can't speak for everyone, but I'm sure that a majority of us early adopters bought the watch not because it was just a shiny new gadget, but because it meets our current needs exactly. I was a bit hesitant on buying a first gen device, but I honestly can't think of any issues I have with my Steel Watch. The biggest and only one that comes to mind is that it takes a while to turn on compared to an iPhone or Mac, but then patience is a virtue. Battery life on it has exceeded my expectations and I can usually get more than a day and a half with my Watch with moderate use.
I love the convenience of wearing a watch that motivates me to be more active while also keeping me informed on current events with the NY Times app and giving me relevant notifications as they appear. I hardly ever use my 6 Plus anymore, which is hard to believe considering how three weeks ago I was so attached to it. The 2nd gen will definitely be better, but why endure the wait if the current product does all that you want/need it to.
Lol.
They don't have the content agreements in place to make anything other than the lame "watch crap like Hulu from a grid" that they currently have.
Also... NOBODY does. So....... your "getting pants beat off" statement is pretty asinine.
What current set top box allows users to cut ties with cable & pick and choose all their fave shows from any network, for a reasonable fee??
Oh yeah... none. There are NO compelling products in this space. NOBODY is winning in this area. NOBODY is "beating the pants off" anybody.
Cable is still the big unchallenged bully it has always been & it doesn't look like anyone has created a viable alternative.
Cec
Even better if they would support HDMI CEC. Then you could really hide the Apple TV behind the TV.
Daniel
Even better if they would support HDMI CEC. Then you could really hide the Apple TV behind the TV.
Daniel
You can disable it. My TV has "600Hz" mode. It's just awful, it can turn a movie into an amateur video. Movies are 24 Hz anyway and that's how they're intented to be viewed.
"Complications" is a horology (the study of clocks and watches) term, not one that Apple coined.
Will Find My Watch work on the watch I ordered over a month ago that still isn't here yet?
Yes, it says it's in China.
Having used my watch for a couple weeks now I'm finding a few usability annoyances that Apple needs to correct in future updates. For example, I needed to mail a birthday card today so I asked Siri on AW to give me the address of "Jane Doe". I was told the address would be in handoff on my iPhone screen! C'mon, if I wanted to pull my iPhone out I would have done that. I bought the AW so I wouldn't have to do that for micro-tasks.
I would LOVE an HDMI passthrough option (similar to XBONE) on the new Apple TV, but I suppose that would conflict with their plans for the subscription service.
Thank you! That is a great app. Didn't know about it... bought it as soon as I looked at it.
No.
I truly believe that voice/Siri is a niche feature that hardly anyone uses and will remain so for as long as it exists. Not once have I seen or heard anyone use it. It's an incredibly slow and inefficient way to get things done. Touch and typing is quicker, easier and more reliable, and is possible 100% of the time, whereas Siri is possible only when no-one is near you and where it is quiet.
Handoff could become useful one day, but in its present state, it's far too buggy and slow. Again, though, it's terribly niche. How many people really need to urgently switch from their iPhone to their Mac? Emails and documents get saved automatically anyway; it's not like you save any time. If everything syncs via iCloud, there is no need for the clunkiness of Handoff.
Developers badly need native watch apps. The current method of it being an extension is just too damn slow.
You can believe whatever you want, doesn't make it a fact.
Anecdotal therefore irrelevant to the masses at large.
Again, anecdotal.
If stating facts that are common knowledge is anecdotal, then yes, I agree with you.
HELL YES!!!!!! Make my Apple crap basics work again!!!!!!!!
Hilarious. Thanks for the laugh.
Yeah, the people saying Siri isn't worth improving have no idea what they're talking about. The future of technology is going to be voice-control. It's the stuff of sci-fi films but is slowly becoming reality. I'll admit that Siri isn't perfect but that's exactly why Apple should improve it.
Right now, I only use Siri for simple things like setting alarms and timers, sending text messages, asking about the weather and playing music. But with serious improvements, Siri could theoretically be used to do *anything* on iOS and that's exciting to me.
Right now, I only use Siri for simple things like setting alarms and timers, sending text messages, asking about the weather and playing music. But with serious improvements, Siri could theoretically be used to do *anything* on iOS and that's exciting to me.
Me, just a few minutes ago as I was preparing lunch: "Hey Siri, add Cliff bars to the grocery list."
I use it all the time and hope it only continues to improve. It's made leaps and bounds in the recent year with context-aware word substitution. I'm amazed at how well it figures things out dynamically, and even capitalizes proper names, like "Cliff" in the above example.
Other things I do, "Hey Siri, will it be hot today?" ... "And tomorrow?" That didn't used to work. We're getting closer.
I use Siri when it saves me time or when my hands or eyes are busy with other tasks, such as cooking.
Siri is far from perfect, but it has become useful enough to no longer be a novelty. Granted, we're not at the point of interacting with a human that can understand things like "Hey Siri, what was um, uh, that nifty drill bit index we saw at the hardware store?" ... "Oh that's right. Add it to the list for next time. No, actually, see if you can find it cheaper on Amazon, and if so, go ahead and order it for delivery to work by Tuesday if that's possible. Let me know."
Common knowledge is more than just your opinion. In my experience, Siri on the watch works very well - much better than Alexa (Amazon Echo) and Siri on the iPhone. There is a role for the keyboard, but there is a role for voice control as well.
I can type 90wpm on a real keyboard, but I almost never need to type 90wpm on my phone. In fact, typing on the watch is an order of magnitude more difficult than on the old feature phones...which is why I have a phone and a computer.
IRL the convenience/difficulty tradeoff is acceptable to me.
It's just like when old telco guys complain about voice quality. Sure cell quality isn't as good as a landline, but I'm not about to string cable behind me just to make a phone call.
anecdotal
[an-ik-doht-l, an-ik-doht-l]
adjective
3. based on personal observation, case study reports, or random investigations rather than systematic scientific evaluation: anecdotal evidence.
You are not a fact.