If it operates as I would expect it to, you probably have to raise it and turn it, otherwise it would turn on every time you moved your arm...which would be dumb.
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J.J. Abrams Wears Apple Watch During Star Wars Panel in Anaheim
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If it operates as I would expect it to, you probably have to raise it and turn it, otherwise it would turn on every time you moved your arm...which would be dumb.
OF. COURSE. how can there be so much babble about this?? this is what ALL companies do, are you kidding? it's just that the apple watch has such a fanatic apple fanbase squinty-eyed for any little tidbit we are hearing/seeing it all. but, jeans companies do it, jewelry companies, clothing designers, car manufacturers, sunglasses, handbags, wallets, purses, belts, pens, computers, phones, e-cigs, e-books..... EVERYTHING. it is how the game works. stop feigning such shock over it all.
and, yes, the richer you are the more free things you get. that is also how it works. i'm not saying it's good, it's just the way it is. hate the game, not the player.
They wouldn't have been satisfied with selling as few Apple watches as they did with the initial iPhone or iPod releases.
They wanted much bigger numbers and they got them. Maybe celebrity advertising helped.
It's amazing people is asking these silly question as to why give to the celebrities, really?
Your statement is hyperbole.
These are not free to the rich. Nearly every single rich person who wants one will have to buy one like everyone else.
These watches are free in very limited quantity to certain specifically positioned celebrities in exchange for those celebrities marketing the watch for Apple.
All i'm saying is that I haven't seen these Apple Watch celebrities articles other than tech sites and apple sites.
Right...Like the hundreds or thousands of Apple watch given to celebs will correct the shortage.
I'm a little surprised at how many people here don't get how this all works.
Fashion designers don't put their latest fashions on a "normal person" and have he or she walk around the trailer park to publicize their wares... they put their latest fashions on super models and celebs and have them strut their stuff in public venues.
It's all aspirational.. Want to be 'cool' like JJ Abrams? Simple, buy an iWatch!
Is it working? Apparently on some, but it seems to PO (for now) the True Believers since they are thinking that it will delay their acquisition of their own iWatch. Hopefully it delivers, otherwise we'll have to listen to all the complaints about how Apple spent too much time installing iWatches on celebritehs instead of making sure the actual device met their expectations.
Regardless, it all seems to be getting rather tiresome for those (few?) of us not drawn to the magicalness of the iWatch.
Fashion designers don't put their latest fashions on a "normal person" and have he or she walk around the trailer park to publicize their wares... they put their latest fashions on super models and celebs and have them strut their stuff in public venues.
It's all aspirational.. Want to be 'cool' like JJ Abrams? Simple, buy an iWatch!
Is it working? Apparently on some, but it seems to PO (for now) the True Believers since they are thinking that it will delay their acquisition of their own iWatch. Hopefully it delivers, otherwise we'll have to listen to all the complaints about how Apple spent too much time installing iWatches on celebritehs instead of making sure the actual device met their expectations.
Regardless, it all seems to be getting rather tiresome for those (few?) of us not drawn to the magicalness of the iWatch.
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That's because this is an article pointing it out because it's MacRumors. All the other publicity will simply be people seeing the watch on a celebrity in public and wondering about it. No article necessary. Like the examples I posted screenshots of. Like people seeing a Mac in a movie or tv show. Yeah, there might be an article about that on here but nowhere else. Doesn't mean it doesn't make an influence on people's buying habits. Every time I watch Hell's Kitchen they are making Beef Wellington. I want to try Beef Wellington so badly but not many restaurants sell it and it's a bear to make.
that's correct but JJ Abrams knows and works and is friends with a lot of people in Hollywood so Apple is getting product into the hands of "influencers", which translates to other's seeing product via word of mouth/friends vs. traditional marketing. Every co. from luxury to adidas and Nike do this. The only surprising thing about this whole thing is people are actually surprised....
Eee, kids these days. Back in the 70s we all had to press a button on our LED digital watches to see the time and we were grateful.
Thanks to Apple, after decades of digital watches being cheap, accurate and efficient, all the digital watch jokes in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy suddenly make sense again.
Look what I saw on eBay:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/2913...3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0-L&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=108
...so, £299 for a 40-year-old product that originally cost £25 and was alreadypretty rubbish at the time? Who knows, maybe that V1.0 Apple Watch is a good investment after all?
And I also don't get why some people won't call the Apple Watch by its proper name... Do you think it's clever when you do that? The old "I'm too cool to call it the right name" thing most people outgrow after high school?
Actually I think it's this: There's zero chance Samsung could knock off a copy in the days remaining before shipment. So why the hell not have some style-leaders parade around with it.
Which is exactly why I think it fails on a fashion level.
Fair enough. Black is better than gray, but still not ideal to me. Pretty much makes the idea of custom watch faces completely self-serving.
Not sure you got you numbers correct.
Either way, without the top 1%, then money would be more evenly distributed and everyone's income would be up, therefore the tax burden would actually be less on the lower 99%.
I read an article (not sure if it was on here) that said Apple was using a tremendous amount of resources into researching our basic everyday movements. This was so that it could correctly count our steps when using the watch for that, and also to differentiate when we want to look at our wrist or are simply moving our arm for something else. I don't think that can ever work perfectly, but at least in this pic it looks like it's working as designed.
Opinions differ. Your blank is my bad.
Not sure what the Pulsar watch has to do with the blank face of the apple watch. Are you saying both faces being blank is affirmation that a blank watch face is understandable in 2015? Really lost on the point of the dollar value. You're way over my head today.
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We all have our opinions. Mine being no more valid than yours. I actually own and wear several watches. My perspective may be colored. A watch with no face just looks bad to me.
Opinions differ. Your blank is my bad.
Not sure what the Pulsar watch has to do with the blank face of the apple watch. Are you saying both faces being blank is affirmation that a blank watch face is understandable in 2015? Really lost on the point of the dollar value. You're way over my head today.
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We all have our opinions. Mine being no more valid than yours. I actually own and wear several watches. My perspective may be colored. A watch with no face just looks bad to me.
Why do you care what other people see on your watch? Do you actually think it says something important about you?
No, Apple bought Beats who excelled at high visibility product placement for "informal" advertising and they have new people from the fashion industry in charge of things now who use this as well.
I would expect to see the next visibly different iThing launch also include this type of "advertising" as well from here on out...bit sad.
It's something different for Apple - previously the price for things while expensive were always within reach of most middle class income levels (if prioritized enough) and everyone (no matter how rich) got the same shot at the first deliveries...now we have toys in that same price range but also versions only for the ultra rich - and only the ultra rich / famous get them before anyone else who has to wait for a delayed online delivery...seems rather un Jobs'ian...but its the way Apple is turning.
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When you boil it down that simplistically, then what is the point of the pattern in the shirt you wear? The style of the frame of the glasses you wear? The color of your shoes?
See where this is going?
The blank watch face is fine from a tech and functionality perspective. But it's obvious Apple is branding the watch as a fashion piece as well. A fashion accessory is meant to be seen and noticed.