J.J. Abrams Wears Apple Watch During Star Wars Panel in Anaheim

[D-Dave]

So is Macrumors going to make a post every time a celebrity is seen wearing an iWatch?

As someone said eralier in this thread....I don't want to be that guy.....but I'll be that guy anyway:
Could we PLEASE get a Watch News Subsection???
While I do not mind news about the Watch itself (I do not personaly care, but as it is an apple product and this is a site about apple products...) BUT having a front page article about any celebrity that wears one is rather annoying...
Thanks

 

[Nightarchaon]

lots of product placment as the watch as afashion item, because its pretty much usless as a watch unless your near a power outlet 23 hrs a day,

think ill wait for my pebble, with its always on e-paper screen and week long battery life than buy an iWatch , going off apples previous products the battery life will be around 10hrs or less after a month of charging.

 

[ZCT]

lots of product placment as the watch as afashion item, because its pretty much usless as a watch unless your near a power outlet 23 hrs a day,

think ill wait for my pebble, with its always on e-paper screen and week long battery life than buy an iWatch , going off apples previous products the battery life will be around 10hrs or less after a month of charging.

First off, why are you calling it an iWatch? The name has been known for months now, there is no such thing as an iWatch.

Secondly, all the reviews, of which there have been plenty, point to an all day battery life. And this is among journalists playing with the watch extensively so they can review it.

You are making generalizations based on zero experience or facts, that fly in the face of dozens of journalists who have hands on tested the watch for over a week or more.

 

[pragmatous]

So you admit he's in a better class than yourself and myself and that we live in a oligarchy society? There's no democracy or republic traditions in an oligarchy.

Him somebody. You nobody.

 

[ginkobiloba]

Also, this hasn't been mentionned much, but they hired Paul Neve, former head of Yves Saint-Laurent. If that's not the sign they're going all the way into the luxury and fashion market with the watch, I don't what would prove it more.

 

[C DM]

You still don't see the difference? With Apple's computers, you can can the base model or the best, but they are all within a similar price range. With the iphone, same thing. With the watch, you have the base model, and the high class model which is over 10 times the price. You're drunk on Apple's koo-aid. The gold used in the high-class watch is not worth $7000. The design is the same, the function is the same. One watch is specifically marketed for the elites, the others for everyone else. Get it?

A difference of a few thousand dollars between low end models of a computer with a high end model is just as "unaffordable" to various people as the case here. So they make a more expensive watch that does the same thins and only costs more because of the precious metals used. If anything it's less of a divide as I mentioned before since everyone gets a device that does the same thing the difference is just the perceived cost of the materials.

Welcome to long established reality where a steel watch will cost way less than the same watch made fully out of gold, from any manufacturer in pretty much any era. Yet the world has kept in spinning just fine all these centuries. Seems like trying to make some sort of a mountain of something that isn't even a mole hill (strongly coming off as something from good old plain jealousy and nothing more).

 

[Bigsk8r]

As someone said eralier in this thread....I don't want to be that guy.....but I'll be that guy anyway:
Could we PLEASE get a Watch News Subsection???
While I do not mind news about the Watch itself (I do not personaly care, but as it is an apple product and this is a site about apple products...) BUT having a front page article about any celebrity that wears one is rather annoying...
Thanks

Amen. Every celebrity wearing an Apple Watch can be on the sidebar, doesn't need to be front page.

 

[zed1291]

I almost didn't recognize him without lens flare.

Best post of the day

 

[Nightarchaon]

First off, why are you calling it an iWatch? The name has been known for months now, there is no such thing as an iWatch.

Secondly, all the reviews, of which there have been plenty, point to an all day battery life. And this is among journalists playing with the watch extensively so they can review it.

You are making generalizations based on zero experience or facts, that fly in the face of dozens of journalists who have hands on tested the watch for over a week or more.

its an iWatch, Apple Watch, Expensive useless jewelry, the first thing i think when anyone that jumps on it being call an iWatch is "ahh, here comes another Apple fanboy who will ignore its MASSIVE and glaringly obvious faults that make it a gimmicky useless piece of tosh"

A single Days battery life, is based on a brand new watch... this will drop off sharply, as it does in all battery products, batteries lose 20-30% of max charge within the first 100 charges, and over half its total charge after 300-500 and with the iWatch that's charged daily well, so you go from the 18hrs max battery life Tim Cook was talking about to 9 hrs by the end of the first year.

but i suppose that as apples plan, in a year they will expect everyone to throw away this years model and buy a new one, and i find that utterly stupid... Its an un-usable , over priced device, compared to either a Normal Watch , or an E-paper smart watch, Had apple gone with a better, less battery intensive draining screen, and had a battery that lasted a week, could monitor sleep patterns, and was generally "useful" i would have been first in line.

Oh.. quick edit about "journalists", i wouldnt trust any of them to give an unbiased review, ever, I look at the tech, and, the batteries that apple use with daily charge regime = dud battery life. I remember when i got my iPhone 3G, 4 and 5, they all had great battery life, for 3 months, after that it fell off a cliff until i couldnt hold a charge past 2 pm, and given the number of people in the office that are all asking for iPhone charge cables every day, that has not been fixed in the iPhone 6 models, and i expect the watches to do the same, because the tech is the same.

 

[andreyirra]

lots of product placment as the watch as afashion item, because its pretty much usless as a watch unless your near a power outlet 23 hrs a day,

think ill wait for my pebble, with its always on e-paper screen and week long battery life than buy an iWatch , going off apples previous products the battery life will be around 10hrs or less after a month of charging.

But that reasonning I should keep my Blackberry and use it instead of an iPhone because it lasts more days without charging.

You ignore the fact that people are willing to sacrifice some autonomy in exchange of good executed features.

 

[ChrisCW11]

Interesting

Most shots I have seen of Apple Watch in the wild show a blank screen. I am not sure if the screen goes blank to save energy, or the photo can't pick up the contrast enough to see the watch face, but I think this is interesting. Most people buy a watch as a fashion accessory, but if all Apple Watch is going to do is be a black square on your wrist this might not be the "it" device Apple is thinking it is.

While the Apple Watch may offer a lot of functionality to the user, without it showing a face 100% of the time while its on your wrist makes it less interesting, and definitely not a traditional "watch" killer.

 

[C DM]

Most shots I have seen of Apple Watch in the wild show a blank screen. I am not sure if the screen goes blank to save energy, or the photo can't pick up the contrast enough to see the watch face, but I think this is interesting. Most people buy a watch as a fashion accessory, but if all Apple Watch is going to do is be a black square on your wrist this might not be the "it" device Apple is thinking it is.

While the Apple Watch may offer a lot of functionality to the user, without it showing a face 100% of the time while its on your wrist makes it less interesting, and definitely not a traditional "watch" killer.

Bracelets don't show anything at all, and yet have been fashionable pieces for ages and people still buy and wear them. This might change the typical approach to watches similar to how touchscreen on a phone changed this as well when most regular people had a hard time imagining a phone without actual buttons for everything.

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its an iWatch, Apple Watch, Expensive useless jewelry, the first thing i think when anyone that jumps on it being call an iWatch is "ahh, here comes another Apple fanboy who will ignore its MASSIVE and glaringly obvious faults that make it a gimmicky useless piece of tosh"

A single Days battery life, is based on a brand new watch... this will drop off sharply, as it does in all battery products, batteries lose 20-30% of max charge within the first 100 charges, and over half its total charge after 300-500 and with the iWatch that's charged daily well, so you go from the 18hrs max battery life Tim Cook was talking about to 9 hrs by the end of the first year.

but i suppose that as apples plan, in a year they will expect everyone to throw away this years model and buy a new one, and i find that utterly stupid... Its an un-usable , over priced device, compared to either a Normal Watch , or an E-paper smart watch, Had apple gone with a better, less battery intensive draining screen, and had a battery that lasted a week, could monitor sleep patterns, and was generally "useful" i would have been first in line.

Oh.. quick edit about "journalists", i wouldnt trust any of them to give an unbiased review, ever, I look at the tech, and, the batteries that apple use with daily charge regime = dud battery life. I remember when i got my iPhone 3G, 4 and 5, they all had great battery life, for 3 months, after that it fell off a cliff until i couldnt hold a charge past 2 pm, and given the number of people in the office that are all asking for iPhone charge cables every day, that has not been fixed in the iPhone 6 models, and i expect the watches to do the same, because the tech is the same.

Somehow many devices don't lose that much battery these days after those numbers of charges.

 

[laurim]

First off, why are you calling it an iWatch? The name has been known for months now, there is no such thing as an iWatch.

Secondly, all the reviews, of which there have been plenty, point to an all day battery life. And this is among journalists playing with the watch extensively so they can review it.

You are making generalizations based on zero experience or facts, that fly in the face of dozens of journalists who have hands on tested the watch for over a week or more.

They have to justify buying a Pebble instead. As soon as someone calls it an iWatch, we know we can ignore anything they say because it's obviously not a reasonable comment. Just like posts including words like "sheeple" or "fanboy". If they can't make a comment without being childish, it's not worth reading or engaging with them. Freeze them out and their fun is over. Maybe then we can get back to a good forum with intelligent discussions about the good and bad features of a product.

 

[smorrissey]

It that an iphone? 6 or 6+?

 

[C DM]

They have to justify buying a Pebble instead. As soon as someone calls it an iWatch, we know we can ignore anything they say because it's obviously not a reasonable comment. Just like posts including words like "sheeple" or "fanboy". If they can't make a comment without being childish, it's not worth reading or engaging with them. Freeze them out and their fun is over. Maybe then we can get back to a good forum with intelligent discussions about the good and bad features of a product.

Don't really see someone referring to it as an iWatch as anything equivalent to being childish or using "sheeple" or "fanboy" or anything like that. Yes, it's technically not correct, but it's generally nothing like being childish or meaning it in some insulting way. Sure, some might use it like that, but that doesn't mean that just the use of that implies that someone is using it in that manner.

 

[thermodynamic]

Is apple gifting the watches to all the celebs or are they getting to purchase them ahead of everyone.

Regardless, now we know why there is such a shortage.

Ahead of everyone. You think the representatives of the liberal media in California would have to live like everyone else?

Besides, the real reason for the "shortage" is simple: Keeping supply artificially low boosts profit.

 

[ginkobiloba]

... iWatch ...

So, you like to watch, heh ? It's ok, everyone is entitled to their own fantasies.

 

[laurim]

Don't really see someone referring to it as an iWatch as anything equivalent to being childish or using "sheeple" or "fanboy" or anything like that. Yes, it's technically not correct, but it's generally nothing like being childish or meaning it in some insulting way. Sure, some might use it like that, but that doesn't mean that just the use of that implies that someone is using it in that manner.

Has ANYONE on here calling it an iWatch done anything other than slam it and make stupid remarks and false claims about it? None that I've seen. I have yet to see any innocent references to an "iWatch" by someone with an honest desire to discuss it intelligently. You need to learn how to read into what people are saying when they use certain terminology. It will help you immensely when trying to figure out how people are manipulating you politically. People LOVE to say something that, on the face of it, is innocuous but everyone knows it really means something much worse and is meant to make you feel a certain way or mask the rotten thing they really mean.

 

[C DM]

Has ANYONE on here calling it an iWatch done anything other than slam it and make stupid remarks and false claims about it? None that I've seen. I have yet to see any innocent references to an iWatch by someone with an honest desire to discuss it intelligently.

Well, even if that's pretty much the case in this thread, it doesn't mean that's the actual association it has or should have in general. A few bad apples shouldn't be spoiling it all (no pun intended, or perhaps intended).

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Has ANYONE on here calling it an iWatch done anything other than slam it and make stupid remarks and false claims about it? None that I've seen. I have yet to see any innocent references to an "iWatch" by someone with an honest desire to discuss it intelligently. You need to learn how to read into what people are saying when they use certain terminology. It will help you immensely when trying to figure out how people are manipulating you politically. People LOVE to say something that, on the face of it, is innocuous but everyone knows it really means something much worse and is meant to make you feel a certain way or mask the rotten thing they really mean.

You can tell by all kinds of things what people are saying, claiming that the use of one word will on its own blindingly indicate that in essentially all cases, well, that's certainly being manipulated into something simply by buying into it on its face value. But thanks for the life lesson there (<-- lot's of things can be read into that if desired).

 

[laurim]

Well, even if that's pretty much the case in this thread, it doesn't mean that's the actual association it has or should have in general. A few bad apples shouldn't be spoiling it all (no pun intended, or perhaps intended).

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You can tell by all kinds of things what people are saying, claiming that the use of one word will on its own blindingly indicate that in essentially all cases, well, that's certainly being manipulated into something simply by buying into it on its face value. But thanks for the life lesson there (<-- lot's of things can be read into that if desired).

I've been using Apple products for 30 years so I have heard 30 years worth of trolling by Apple haters. I've become pretty good at identifying it. If someone is innocently clueless about the name of the watch after reading an abundance of posts, commercials and articles referring to it as an AppleWatch, their post probably isn't that interesting for me to read anyway. Feel free to handle their questions instead of me

 

[ZCT]

its an iWatch, Apple Watch, Expensive useless jewelry, the first thing i think when anyone that jumps on it being call an iWatch is "ahh, here comes another Apple fanboy who will ignore its MASSIVE and glaringly obvious faults that make it a gimmicky useless piece of tosh"

That's awesome. So you know what you can do? Don't buy one. That simple.

I simply cannot understand why the launch of a product you have zero intention of buying would make you so angry. Just bizarre.

I happen to think that Subaru make cars with hideous looking interiors that look 10-20 years out of date. But I don't troll Subaru forums to yell at Subaru drivers and mock them for having such ugly interiors.

I don't like them, I won't buy one, and that's as far as my interest lasts.

As for debating battery life with you, like I said dozens of journalists have tried it, and during the heavy use of reviewing a new product, it still lasted all day. I'm going to use mine fairly lightly, so even with a drop off after a few charges I suspect it will be fine.

In any case, I'd rather take the word of a consensus of journalists over your wild speculations based on guess work.

 

[damant]

+1. Don't like one .. Don't buy one.

Perhaps an apple watch workshop is highly recommended;-).
And some readings / research wouldn't hurt neither.

 

[anthony11]

Oh JJ. Say it ain't so.

Was there really any doubt previously that he's a ****?

 

[kahkityoong]

So you admit he's in a better class than yourself and myself and that we live in a oligarchy society? There's no democracy or republic traditions in an oligarchy.

No. But the difference is I don't care what other people are gifted. Giving you or myself a free Apple watch isn't going to make one iota of difference to the company; I understand that.

 

[76ShovelHead]

Not to be that guy but I'm going to be that guy.

Why is it that rich people get the watch early for free and yet customers have to purchase it and then wait? It reminds me of the tax system of the USA.

I'm just saying I want the watch now too.

The word "free" doesn't exist. Instead, if Apple is indeed "Gifting" these, its coming straight out of their 38 million-dollar advertising campaign. Apple will make a return on investment in no time with the prices they are charging, and their tactics are definitely working to garner the interest of us consumers.