Exactly, LOTS of tasty data and the first mainstream step in that direction so I would agree with the "pretty significant" remark.
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Jony Ive on Apple Watch Series 4: 'Every Bone in My Body Tells Me This is Very Significant'
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I will name one....Health. That is a killer app or should I say non-killer as in life saving. I lied, Maps app while driving with the Apple Watch, workout app, timers app, phone app, weather app, notifications app, and Siri all killer apps. Apple Watch developing into one of the Most productive devices developed to date. Might give the Apple Watch another closer look, just might see the value.
I love it when irony is lost on those that make baselessly toxic comments like this
Every bone in my body tell me this is "not significant". Wearables are not important. People love
their phones, end of story for 95% of the market.
their phones, end of story for 95% of the market.
You missed out all the Shitmoji(s) from Bozo Era...
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He’s already got a Sir title. Don’t get us started with Dr Ive...
With the Series 4 LTE, I decided that the Apple Watch was fast enough and independent of the iPhone enough that I would try to live without a phone, relying on the AppleWatch + AirPods for phone calls, messages, news alerts, third party apps like Things and Siri for any question I might have.
I almost got there but the world today relies too much on conversation length messaging. If you call someone, they're offended that you didn't send them a bunch of messages. Sending a few short messages on the Apple Watch works well but full blown conversations are impossible. There's also the loss of an always on you camera.
Surprisingly, what I didn't miss was a large screen for browsing and apps that would normally sink me into my phone for hours a day.
Apple glasses will solve some of these issues. A camera to capture things you see around you and superimposing information on the real world via AR. Soon enough, an iPhone will be able to be replaced with a wrist worn computer. Apple is smart to be betting big on the Apple Watch. Wearables will do to iPhone, what iPhone did to iPod, another fantastically popular device that today has all but vanished.
I almost got there but the world today relies too much on conversation length messaging. If you call someone, they're offended that you didn't send them a bunch of messages. Sending a few short messages on the Apple Watch works well but full blown conversations are impossible. There's also the loss of an always on you camera.
Surprisingly, what I didn't miss was a large screen for browsing and apps that would normally sink me into my phone for hours a day.
Apple glasses will solve some of these issues. A camera to capture things you see around you and superimposing information on the real world via AR. Soon enough, an iPhone will be able to be replaced with a wrist worn computer. Apple is smart to be betting big on the Apple Watch. Wearables will do to iPhone, what iPhone did to iPod, another fantastically popular device that today has all but vanished.
Which feature are you talking about?
The fall detector? That only calls an emergency number if you fall and don’t move for a minute. It wouldn’t do much good it didn’t call for help in that situations.
The ECG and possible A-feb? Those don’t make any emergency calls, they just generate a recommendation that you make an appointment with your doctor.
So, what’s going to generate massive false alarms to police and medics?
All he needs is a lab coat so his appearance is as minimal as possible in that white box he’s trapped in.
The watch stole the show. Even my wife was amazed and she doesn't give two hoots about tech stuff.
I like this Apple Watch. But because it finally feels like a good first version of a watch I’d buy. This should have been what the watch was on day 1. In a few more revs I’ll give one a go.
Agreed that it whipped the pants off the iPhone demo. Frankly all I recall about the iPhone this time around is, they went gold with it (gag, gaudy), and it’s $1500, as much as a decent computer.
Agreed that it whipped the pants off the iPhone demo. Frankly all I recall about the iPhone this time around is, they went gold with it (gag, gaudy), and it’s $1500, as much as a decent computer.
Its iterative.
it could have gotten to this point without the other ones to pave the way. Same as with the original iPhone and the model T. You don’t start with a jet plane without first having the wright brothers and their contemporaries.
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Will you also celebrate their first FDA-mandated product recall when some aspect of the hardware or software proves problematic? Will you cheer when the medical malpractice snipers zero-in on the "world's most valuable company" and begin filing complaints?
What a revelation, tell me more about how “it” works, absolutely requiring the full production of every rev in your plm from half-baked concepts & early prototypes onward. Becayse that’s how product development works.
Yeah no yourself.
Yeah no yourself.
I don’t get the naysayers. This effing thing actually saves lives, what more do you want? Ive may be hyperbolic and all that but he absolutely has a point, and even if he’s in Apple mainly for the money (I don’t think he is, otherwise the products would’ve gone shoddier fit and finish-wise), he’d have to be an outright sociopath not to be touched by those people’s letters.
Now that I think of it, maybe it’s you people who are creepily insensitive by focusing on how very expensive the Apple Watch is and not on how it can save your life. Guess what, a Rolex is even more so and will only tell you the time (and up your social status… or something). Who’s got their priorities straight here, after all?
You people don’t want to be on the wrong side of thread #500 2.0 (for the MR newbies out there who have no idea what I’m talking about – and something tells me there’s a bit of an overlap between those and the naysayers, but I digress –, do search for it in the archives and have yourself a good laugh), trust me. The joke will be on you…
Full disclaimer: I own an S0 watch and while I never took as much advantage of its functionality as I should or intended to, I still love it for what it is. It does what it’s supposed to, without fail, and it’s a beautiful object, too; as a matter of fact, it is possibly the best thing, build quality-wise, that I’ve ever owned and ever will – until I get a new one, that is. For context, I owned a 3G iPod, a G4 iMac and some SONY gear back when their quality still justified the insane prices they also charged for it, so I should know a thing or two about mythical consumer electronics.
And besides all the crappy Swatch “timepieces” everyone and their dog worn back in the day, I did have a rather decent AKTEO watch when I was a kid, my dad also took part on a Mondaine contest and was awarded a collection of those himself (that company is an SBB-CFF-FFS licensee, so they produce the wrist-worn version of the railways clock Apple plagiarized on their Clock app and was forced to license as well – they never displayed the SBB logo because, you know, Apple, but they did keep the iconic circular terminal on the red seconds hand –, back in the pre-iOS 7 days, and one of his watches is indeed one of those, it looks very cool), so it’s not like I never handled nice, middle-level Swiss-made quartz watches (Apple’s target market, by the way) either. Anyone with half a brain should’ve figured by now that the Swiss watch industry is utterly fscked.
And before anyone tells me “blah blah the luxury market”, there’s a reason why Vertu went out of business, its much less tackier and rather leaner spiritual successor, Feld&Volk, has to recondition new-ish iPhones and Apple itself caved in with their Edition range and partnered with Hermès instead for what is arguably an “affordable luxury” line (yes, even by Hermès standards, because even if you pay up through the nose for the bands, the watch is still an Apple Watch and not that much more expensive). All but the most prohibitively, obscenely, insanely expensive mechanical watches will be razed out of existence as soon as this thing (and its competitors, we’ll have to hand it to them in a few years’ time, too) reaches its full potential and really takes off. The iPhone and the iPod also took a few years to establish themselves on the market, don’t you know that?
Now that I think of it, maybe it’s you people who are creepily insensitive by focusing on how very expensive the Apple Watch is and not on how it can save your life. Guess what, a Rolex is even more so and will only tell you the time (and up your social status… or something). Who’s got their priorities straight here, after all?
You people don’t want to be on the wrong side of thread #500 2.0 (for the MR newbies out there who have no idea what I’m talking about – and something tells me there’s a bit of an overlap between those and the naysayers, but I digress –, do search for it in the archives and have yourself a good laugh), trust me. The joke will be on you…
Full disclaimer: I own an S0 watch and while I never took as much advantage of its functionality as I should or intended to, I still love it for what it is. It does what it’s supposed to, without fail, and it’s a beautiful object, too; as a matter of fact, it is possibly the best thing, build quality-wise, that I’ve ever owned and ever will – until I get a new one, that is. For context, I owned a 3G iPod, a G4 iMac and some SONY gear back when their quality still justified the insane prices they also charged for it, so I should know a thing or two about mythical consumer electronics.
And besides all the crappy Swatch “timepieces” everyone and their dog worn back in the day, I did have a rather decent AKTEO watch when I was a kid, my dad also took part on a Mondaine contest and was awarded a collection of those himself (that company is an SBB-CFF-FFS licensee, so they produce the wrist-worn version of the railways clock Apple plagiarized on their Clock app and was forced to license as well – they never displayed the SBB logo because, you know, Apple, but they did keep the iconic circular terminal on the red seconds hand –, back in the pre-iOS 7 days, and one of his watches is indeed one of those, it looks very cool), so it’s not like I never handled nice, middle-level Swiss-made quartz watches (Apple’s target market, by the way) either. Anyone with half a brain should’ve figured by now that the Swiss watch industry is utterly fscked.
And before anyone tells me “blah blah the luxury market”, there’s a reason why Vertu went out of business, its much less tackier and rather leaner spiritual successor, Feld&Volk, has to recondition new-ish iPhones and Apple itself caved in with their Edition range and partnered with Hermès instead for what is arguably an “affordable luxury” line (yes, even by Hermès standards, because even if you pay up through the nose for the bands, the watch is still an Apple Watch and not that much more expensive). All but the most prohibitively, obscenely, insanely expensive mechanical watches will be razed out of existence as soon as this thing (and its competitors, we’ll have to hand it to them in a few years’ time, too) reaches its full potential and really takes off. The iPhone and the iPod also took a few years to establish themselves on the market, don’t you know that?
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