It's crystal clear most with an Apple watch don't knows its features either as evidenced by the countless numbers I've known who barely use the bloody thing to its full potential. Folks have spent more money on crappy bands than any apps & it's quite common for them to have never used some apps even after years. It's the modern day version of an electronic organiser that mostly gets used as a calculator.
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That's a different space, and not necessarily CE. Apple also did some exception allowances for Swatch.
IIRC, the license agreement says they have exclusive rights, but they can approve and allow exceptions. Basically they have to give permission for any use in CE.
Now this may be with the IP from the US LQMT company, and may not apply to the Chinese partners. There is much murkiness here due to some developments in the last few years.
This doesn’t make sense. They need to come out with a $100,000 model targeted at billionaires. That will be more environmentally friendly (very few units) and they can be hugely profitable even by selling just a 1000 of them. A billionaire would buy a bunch of them for friends and family.
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I'm sure when mobile phones came out the boomers said the same thing about landlines. Don't get me wrong, fancy watches are great and I myself own a piece or two worth 50 Apple Watches each. But they only tell time (and date and a few more things if you're lucky).
I wear my AW only to work out (1-2 hours a day) and sleep (6-8 hours a day) and I consider it an essential piece of tech. My Moonwatch only serves one purpose and I'd be perfectly fine without it. AW is a quiet alarm, heart rate monitor, running/yoga/working out tracking device, lets me control my music easily when I run/lift.
“most with an Apple watch don't knows its features either as evidenced by the countless numbers I've known who barely use the bloody thing to its full potential.”
Yes. “Guilty as Charged”.. There’s always a tutorial, tips old and new features waiting to be used.
Yes. “Guilty as Charged”.. There’s always a tutorial, tips old and new features waiting to be used.
@Rogifan ... I didn't know this but the 7X has even better battery..:
Battery performance: in smartwatch mode, up to 28 days while indoors or up to 37 days with solar charging in 3 hours of direct sunlight (50,000 lux) per day; in GPS mode, up to 89 hours indoors or up to 122 hours with solar
That's what I used to think for a long time until just recently almost on a whim I bought a Series 7 Apple Watch, and I have to say the more I have it the more I appreciate it. There's a phone on my wrist! I love the notifications, the voice notes, Siri, the alarms, the health tracking, the reminders, the calendar stuff. It's much more useful than I thought. On top of all that it charges up in half an hour and lasts around three days.
IIRC: Lighter, stronger than titanium, some flexibility, different RF properties, can be injection molded like plastic, as opposed to milling and grinding like how aluminum and steel are done. Can have smooth finish out of the mold.
It's really amazing stuff. There is some online pics that they used BMGs for the metal sides of the beats headphones.
Larger screen could be a Samsung move. Put in larger screen, which makes more room for bigger battery, which gives better battery life.
Samsung did it with phones to keep up with iPhone battery life, consumers got hooked on bigger screens. But it started as a way to get bigger batteries in there for longer life to match iPhone.
Samsung did it with phones to keep up with iPhone battery life, consumers got hooked on bigger screens. But it started as a way to get bigger batteries in there for longer life to match iPhone.
Good point, and I agree AW needs more choices, just think there would be better ways than this…
That sounds very, very interesting. I also found this quote (wrt Omega watch bezels): „A completed ceramic and Liquidmetal dial has strength, durability, and wear-free colors.“ Which sounds exactly like something Apple would use for a „rugged“ Watch that still looks much more nice/elegant than bulky G-Shock/Garmin type watches. Now I‘m officially intrigued …
liquidmetal.com has lots on it, it's their marketing website for the US company.
I don’t recall that Liquidmetal offered any strength improvements (compared to titanium), but rather it was simply about making a metal that could be injection molded. Using it for a Watch could make sense, given the smaller size and volumes needed, but given we haven’t really seen any kind of updates on the process, doubt they’re at the point where it will make it to this potential new active Watch. I would think that titanium would be the more likely material used for this new Watch.
As somebody who has used fitness trackers for close to nine years and an Apple Watch for close to a year, I have been of two minds in regard to the latter. One way to see the Apple Watch as an iPhone with a tiny screen, asking oneself why one would want to use the former if one has the latter at hand as well (I’ve accessed the information gathered by my fitness trackers 99% of the time via my phone). The other way to see the Apple Watch is as a more convenient way of accessing information than holding a phone in your hand.
Compared to other fitness tracking devices from Suunto, Garmin and Fitbit, the Apple Watch isn’t necessarily the most sophisticated/comprehensive one but it is pretty good, with third-party apps adding some things that might be missing from the stock device. But it is, in my eyes, the best looking both in terms of hardware and graphic/presentation.
And then there are the situations when you cannot find your phone … and at the very least your Apple Watch will help you find it.
And sadly there will be people who buy it because there is an Apple logo on it… not that it is superior quality or workmanship. If you want one of these watches now, just get the cheapest series 7 and dress it up in one of the many rugged cases/straps that are available to you… which by the way covers almost all of the watches exterior… no one seems to be interested in value for $ anymore - or maybe its just not being taught in our education system… basic economics…