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iWatch to Run Third-Party Apps, Key Developer Partners Already at Work
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iWatch to Run Third-Party Apps, Key Developer Partners Already at Work
There's no law that dictates that you have a band strictly on your left hand, but what sort of an Illuminati secret handshake has people's wrists touching each other?
Edit: perhaps a new kind of "bro-pump" to tap the wrists together and share tinder matches?
Who shakes hands with their left hand?
Don't think you thought your idea through
There's no law that dictates that you have a band strictly on your left hand, but what sort of an Illuminati secret handshake has people's wrists touching each other?
Edit: perhaps a new kind of "bro-pump" to tap the wrists together and share tinder matches?
It's going to be a manic Monday as everyone sifts through the rumors and aleged leaks to figure out what's coming the next day...
Yep, I think you are right.
For audio streaming yes, it does reduce battery life by 25% or more in my my experience. It should be noted that vanilla BT is NOT used for things like notifications, ibeacons, or proximity sensing. Low Energy uses about 1-5% battery throughout the day.
You think there will be a LTE radio in the iWatch? If you're just referring to the iPhone,then that's ok since it's got a larger battery than the supposed iWatch.
Only if you want your app to be watch compatible.
I see this a little like the whole "Apple TV needs an App Store". I agree that it does, especially if they are going to keep it at 8GB of storage. I should be able to control what goes on it and not this 'well you can make it invisible' halfway thing that is still sucking up space. But I don't agree that that App Store needs to be all apps. Some just don't work well on that kind of setting. Video and Audio playback apps sure. Many games yes, especially console type set ups (so Infinity Blade yes but perhaps not Candy Crush. Pages etc no. If you want a computer like setting to run those, get a dang computer.
Same thought pattern, I don't think that every single app out there will be appropriate from any kind of wrist or eye piece. And hopefully only those developers that have an app that can truly benefit from this piece will use it. And only Apple will approve those apps that truly work with it in an ideal way.
I help design and test apps for internal use for my work. As a company we feel that only an iPad is appropriate for what we are doing with these apps so we have never designed an iPhone version and even if a 5.5 comes out we likely still won't. At this point there is nothing we see as a use for a wrist piece so we won't bother with that. Maybe in the future we might think of something.
Next years models are already leaking out. And they are very different than anything anyone has presented.
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Since the days of Steve killing the OEM program all of Apple's products are only made by Apple. That is nothing new. They are only made by Apple, can only be service by Apple and people Apple has approved. They only run (without use of helper programs) OS made by Apple etc
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I think that's a solid guess and basically what I am expecting as well. I think that even the 3rd party apps will be essentially just notifications, not email games etc
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We don't know that. there could be all kinds of improvements on the way for the Apple TV. The catch is the question of what the geeks want and what is really best for this device in Apple's eyes.
I don't think that Apple is trying to bring back the WebTV with this item. So I don't see things like email, Facebook etc on it. I see them looking at this as an alternative to the cable box as a primary task with some radio and photo viewing added in. So yes access to Facebook photo albums might be in there, just not the rest.
I also don't see them as trying to create an AppleTV that is a game console killer. At least not at this point. They will first try to get buy in for the iPad etc from these developers. Which in a way is better for us consumers cause then we can have a 'console' (via Airplay) and 'mobile' (cause it's on our iPhones and iPads) version without dealing with two versions. Then perhaps in another generation or two they might add games directly to the box. But they need to get it on a fuller version of iOS first etc
No. There is no need to take up space on the phone for watch apps.
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Siri worked great in iOS 6 but since iOS 7 I can never use it. Just says "I'm really sorry about this, but I can't take any requests right now" or just never answers. However, when Siri does work, it is very helpful.
So now there're 4 App Stores:
1] iPhone/iPad App Store-iOS
2] Mac App Store-OSX
3] iPod Nano-Pixo
3] iBand App Store-???
Will iBand run a new, fourth OS? "iOS Lite"? "iOSX"?
Tuesday cannot arrive fast enough ....
Also, please nobody preorder. I want there to be enough for me. Thank you.
1] iPhone/iPad App Store-iOS
2] Mac App Store-OSX
3] iPod Nano-Pixo
3] iBand App Store-???
Will iBand run a new, fourth OS? "iOS Lite"? "iOSX"?
Tuesday cannot arrive fast enough ....
Also, please nobody preorder. I want there to be enough for me. Thank you.
Who shakes hands with their left hand?
Don't think you thought your idea through
Not everyone wears their watch on the left. Also, with a function like this, people will switch their iWatch to the right just to do this.
I'm good then! I sat next to a left handed kid in my first school and copied him on what wrist I should put my new watch on, even though I'm right handed...
I bought a Nike fuelband but even the small was too big. I got a refund from the apple store due to dreadful battery life, but that wasn't the only reason - I found the rigidity of it uncomfortable for working at a keyboard all day (especially as I could still put about three or four fingers between the band and my wrist). Given the fitness angle, you'd expect to wear it all day, and it needs to be comfortable as well as look acceptable. These two mockups look great but my weirdly small wrists will count me out...
And as for being too lazy to pull a phone out of a pocket, consider some of us who carry our phones in a bag - hearing that phone call in a crowded shopping centre holding two children's hands is a little difficult...
Well then bring on the bangles, baby!
It looks better than most of the other mockups.
We will find out. Im hoping it bridges the gap between some other wifi enabled tech I use for training. I really hate having three items strapped to me when I run (heart rate monitor, Pulse, and phone... hoping I can just use the iWatch)
Lets get everything to run third party apps hey...
While we were previously saying "Security is not an issue." it will be soon when attacks, and this like i say with iOS 8, the same applies here...
Will we start seeing a user download a third party app to their watch and suddenly, the owner sees their watch change time every 24 hour to a different country ?
While everyone things thinks this is a col idea, i think Apples moving in the away from security, not improving it... I could go on and on, but the list is too long.
We'll see what the future holds.
While we were previously saying "Security is not an issue." it will be soon when attacks, and this like i say with iOS 8, the same applies here...
Will we start seeing a user download a third party app to their watch and suddenly, the owner sees their watch change time every 24 hour to a different country ?
While everyone things thinks this is a col idea, i think Apples moving in the away from security, not improving it... I could go on and on, but the list is too long.
We'll see what the future holds.
I don't think so
I don't think we are going to see "just" a watch as a wearable device from apple. I could imagine it being more like a device, that you can put anywhere on your clothes or your body, instead of having to wear it on your wrist. Maybe something with a clip, like the ipod shuffle had. You will definately be able to wear it on your wrist, if you want to. But you will have the choice! Does anybody else think so, too?
I don't think we are going to see "just" a watch as a wearable device from apple. I could imagine it being more like a device, that you can put anywhere on your clothes or your body, instead of having to wear it on your wrist. Maybe something with a clip, like the ipod shuffle had. You will definately be able to wear it on your wrist, if you want to. But you will have the choice! Does anybody else think so, too?
If the watch doesn't look like this, than Apple should fire Jon Ivy and hire Todd Hamilton. Of all the mockups I have seen of the watch, this is the only one I would want to put on my wrist.
All the rest with their gargantuan screens remind of the dweebs in the 80s with big clunky calculator watches in their wrist.
really? You want to be that guy?
Likely I'm the only one on this board who thinks a "Wearable Device" is useless to most people, or "Yet Another Fad That Lands In The Drawer, never to be used again" or NFkn Way they get you further down the road than an iPhone with any other device. Most People are not idiots (in spite of popular opinion)
The iPad proves this theory wrong in one respect. A low powered device with limited ability sells. Laptops run circles around it, but people buy bling. I could be wrong.
The iPad proves this theory wrong in one respect. A low powered device with limited ability sells. Laptops run circles around it, but people buy bling. I could be wrong.