But even then, why would you need more CPU power in a watch? lol. The phone, yes for sure, but no one will really notice a difference in the watch.
Make it more efficient .
But even then, why would you need more CPU power in a watch? lol. The phone, yes for sure, but no one will really notice a difference in the watch.
As a former navigator of destroyers - yes, it absolutely does matter.Doesn't matter if the apple watch is getting your compass data from your iphone or directly via gps.
Weight training is probably the thing the AW is worst at. It's a great running watch for the *vast* majority of people.Magnetic attachment? Don't people use the watch to measure their sporty activities? Is Apple's idea of sports just pushing weights in a gym?
Can’t you sidestep FDA approval with some kind of statement that its not a medical device, this feature is for entertainment purposes only?Blood sugar and blood pressure are the holy grails indeed. Samsung's blood pressure monitoring requires the user to repeatedly (re)calibrate their watch using a cuff. Apple would never do something like that. These technologies are also pushing these devices into the medical realm, which I imagine, at some point, will trigger a need for FDA approval. I somewhat doubt we'll see blood pressure or blood sugar in Watch X, but I do think we'll get a full-blown redesign, versus more evolutionary design tweaks.
Hypertension is something that affects a massive number of people, so yeah - it might actually help you keep a life, if you don't already have one. As far as FDA approval goes, this is an enormously expensive research and development undertaking. It's really not worth offering it for "entertainment", so if it's offered, it'll actually likely be worth having and paying attention to. My Dad had atrial fibrillation at Xmas this year, confirmed by my Series 8 - and the PDF trace it output was confirmed by my wife (a doc) to be pretty damned good. He was in hospital for treatment the next morning and it likely prevented his having a stroke. This stuff matters.Can’t you sidestep FDA approval with some kind of statement that its not a medical device, this feature is for entertainment purposes only?
If anyone’s marketing (legal ?) dept. has the chops to come up with the right weasel words, it.s Apple.
Then again, if I’m measuring blood pressure for fun, I really have got to get a life….
when you’re not using a magnometer for the compass. It doesn’t. The iPhone will do the compass data for you.As a former navigator of destroyers - yes, it absolutely does matter.
If you're in fog with a dead phone, 20 feet from a cliff edge and don't have a functional compass, you've got to move for GPS to give you a bearing. Move in the wrong direction and you're going off that cliff. Trusting GPS for a bearing ain't it. We don't even use it when we can see land.when you’re not using a magnometer for the compass. It doesn’t. The iPhone will do the compass data for you.
Also there are many systems with magnometer in them that utilize carefully placed and magnets with calibration data that offset the effects of the magnets. There are so many ways to do this now.
We will be looking forward to the first Apple Watch Band museum … 😀Thinking about the 50+ official Watch bands I bought since 2015
Even “only” 5 days and I will finally replace my AW4 …That’s good stuff!
Hopefully, battery life can be extended to 7 Days on a single charge.
Great point in general but this one stood out, totally agree.(…) And you won’t be able to have your watch strap tight for workouts. (…)
It is. I’ll agree. Except to the non-techy person, they want simple. Charging daily is not simple. Hence why it keeps folks away. Folks weigh what it does to what they have to do (cost/maintenance). Apple Watch does more but it costs (maintaining battery daily) more.I agree & disagree, for none cellular users the current 18 hrs is sufficient, especially as the 7 & 8 have fast charging.
For Cellular users it's not enough, it should be at least as long as the Ultra.
As to Polar & Garmin, they are purely sports/ activity watches, consume much less power than AW watch which is a smart watch, that can also track sports & Activities, so really it's like comparing apples & oranges
I'd give it about a 2/10 likelihood. Maybe.If Apple makes garbage out of everyone's current Watch bands, we're done.
The complexity of the existing band locking mechanism is ridiculous - new machines had to be built to allow it to be made. What you've shown here is more a dock than an attachment system, with a huge number of potential points of failure. I don't see that happening.I was having a hard time envisioning a system for attaching bands that uses magnets but also has a mechanical attachment, as some people have been describing. Finally found an image that helped it click (no pun intended) for me. If they go this route I can imagine it freeing up internal space without sacrificing a secure attachment, and (of course) priming customers for lots and lots of new band purchases.
I hope you're right.... It would seem to be a bad idea... but it wouldn't be the first time. (No SD card for any iPad ever as one terrible example.).I doubt the band attachment system will change. It would very seriously aggravate an awfully large number of customers - and as someone else said, it smells a lot like a piece of deliberate misinformation to trap internal leakers.
I think that sort of depends on WHY you'd see it as an omission/terrible example. iPad excels at being a simple shape, a closed unit with as few apertures in the case as possible. When you add a slot, you also add a place for stuff to get jammed, an edge to get caught on things and snap a card or damage internals if the card snags on something, battery life drain for read/write (small though it would be), using up space taken up by the battery, etc. etc. I'm not saying it's perfect, but I can absolutely understand why there wasn't / isn't an SD slot.I hope you're right.... It would seem to be a bad idea... but it wouldn't be the first time. (No SD card for any iPad ever as one terrible example.).
Yeah, a hint that a new range of colours will be out in a month.You will find a lot of the bands in Apple Stores on back order. Even the newer ones. Same online. A hint?
True - but this is a little different, I think.The amount of times we've had to buy new phone cases over the years, to fit our new phones... having to change our watch band to for a new watch design isn't all that different. Although I feel for the people who have built up a large collection of them
You expect new colors for Milanese? I would ask for titanium.Yeah, a hint that a new range of colours will be out in a month.
Who knows? It’s not a strap I’d personally wear, but I’d imagine a wide range of shades in the other options will appear, as well as some new bands for the Ultra. My card is ready and waiting!You expect new colors for Milanese? I would ask for titanium.