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New Apple Watch Series 2 Ad Encourages Users to 'Live Bright'
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Circumstances changed, and the company changed, and that’s just the way she goes.
You are right, I have not looked at the safe spaces on college campus. The youth I see are actually at work at real jobs, and would, I suppose need to pay for things themselves rather than mother buy it for them. None of them I talk to have expressed any interest in the Watch however.
An impressively sized computer that uses iPhone for an internet connection when not in range of wifi.
And useless comments could use better spelling.
Dude, kiss those days goodbye and deal with it. Or just go ahead and let go and go PCs.
Apple makes its fortune selling phones and watches and ecosystem. The irony is that they're selling more computers than they ever have as a computer company.
I don't know. From personal experience I just south the entry level series 2 with the sport band. I was looking at fitness tracker and figured since I'm deeply in the Apple ecosystem just get this. The added functionality supporting the iPhone and fashion were nice adds since using. It's not a I can't live without it device but much more focused than the Apple watch 1. Of course it was a change in software design not hardware that enhanced it.
Are you saying the watch falls off the bandWhy does the watches in the commercial always stay on, but mine does not
or that the band doesn't stay on your wrist? If the watch is falling off, then you should take it into the store. Something is wrong as that watch should clip in and hold, even if you're doing some pretty extreme sports. If the band isn't staying on...take it in. They might exchange it. Then again, if it's one of the silicone bands, I will agree they don't have the strongest or best security latch. The right pull and they could pop open (mine never has, but I don't do the sort of sports that might test the clasp). I think the Nike band is better at staying closed and on the wrist if engaging in rough sports. But I also think there might be some kind of simple fix to keep the band from popping open and off like, say, a rubber band.
No the display. The commercial shows the watch face always on when they exercise, mine doesn'tAre you saying the watch falls off the band
A flexible, agile company? Innovative? They took the mouse from Xerox, took touch screen tech that already existed on Japanese phones. As for flexible and agile...I don't remember Jobs giving an inch (Or is Jobs included on the "passive grey turd" list? That outrageous building project--Apple Park--was his idea, was pushed through by him, and he would have been the one making it real had he lived). And have you forgotten all those failures? Like the Newton and the Tissue Box? Have you forgotten that Apple almost died as a company and vanished in the 90's. It was saved by the skin of it's teeth by the iPod...and many back in the day said the same as you about that iPod. Lifestyle nonsense, all about money not music, destroying music so its CEO's can have huge salaries and expensive cars.
So, no, Apple was never all unicorns and rainbows, not even back in 1984. And I'm saying this as someone who still loves Apple. Yes, it was sometimes innovative, etc. Other times not. And I don't believe that's changed. It still can be agile, etc. sometimes. And other times not. The only real difference is that back before the phones, buyers of Apple products were small and few and part of a cult like club. Now Apple products are everywhere...and we don't get to feel like visionary underdogs. Sad that. But it is what it is. There's no turning back the clock, no putting the genie back in the bottle.
What you can do, however, if you really believe what you say, is give away the phone, take off the watch (if you even have one, which, given what you say, probably not), and find a new, flexible, agile, and innovative tech company. There are plenty of new ones out there. And they could use your support. Buy their products. Frequent their boards. They're like Apple only still young and fresh and uncorrupted. Still in their garages knowing that it's "All about the music/tech" not about treating customers like milk cows.
Go forth, Bacillus! They're out there. And they need you. We, alas, are lost and unsalvageable. Too bad on us, but you can escape...if you don't give into just sitting on the Titanic's deck chair complaining about how wet it's getting.
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Heh. The way you put it made it sound like the watch was literally "falling off."Well, I don't think the watch is on "all the time" in the ads. It's just on when we see the person's watch up close, and usually they've got it upright or facing "them"--like they've turned their wrist; either that or it's flashing a message like "goal achieved."
I imagine that an always-on watch face is coming very soon...but if you get that option, and can toggle it on and off, you've got to promise not to complain about it undermining the battery life. That is why the watch face isn't on all the time. Then again, battery life will likely improve in the next incarnation.
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i completley agree that all but 1 maybe 2 of the executive staff has been overeating like fat rats and not even exercising enough yet they all wwar the apple watch. Probably to watch sales numbers and their stock price and remote controls. Yet it doesnt mean the effort into eveolving this product is not being improved nor thr joy of using it. Ot does have value.
I dont recall Apple in the early years as being an "agile" company nor even in heir product designs. Im in disagreement of the store being a boring repair shop; thats what it was 2-3yrs ago. Its now a swap out shop on warranty!
Apple has squeezed out all tbe amaller authorized retailers where they'd remember your name even after 6mths between your purchases and that was prior to the digital ise of Apple ID's. It has overblown ita purpose and wothiut great architecture it needs a revamp.
A space for training and setting up your new product purchases away from the main product display area and the main retail or repair counter (formerly Genius area).
But ive experience a glimmer of hope last night.
Why does the watches in the commercial always stay on, but mine does not
No, The Watch face is not always on. What Apple did is use their marketing technique to show the display illuminated from the "Wake screen" option from 15 seconds to 70 seconds when you tap the display. When Apple filmed this advertisement, they did so in low lighting conditions to display the screen brightness exclusive to the Series 2 (1000 Nits) in low lighting conditions. They likely tapped the screen and then started filming. What you're seeing in the Ad is the display illuminated Between the 15 or 70 seconds option.
Assuming you have the latest WatchOS update:
Under settings on the Watch: General, Wake Screen, then scroll down and you have two options: 15 or 70 seconds for the display to stay on when you tap to wake it.
Go forth, Bacillus! They're out there. And they need you. We, alas, are lost and unsalvageable. Too bad on us, but you can escape...if you don't give into just sitting on the Titanic's deck chair complaining about how wet it's getting.
Welcome to the show.
Everybody here seems to be eager to join Xiaomi, Huawei (or anything else not forcing us to run circles around aged bezels) but we all have our iCloud, subscriptions, peripherals and environment that we invested in to be further developed instead of neglected.
So we better get the fat grey turds moving before desinvesting everything
Agreed.
I guess these folks in the ads are their target market nowadays. Young urban hipsters with lots of
If the activity rings are shown lighting up, then they aren't showing it as being always on.
Everything, it's only off my wrist for a brief period (less than one out of twenty four hours each day) in the evening when it is oh the charger.
Why not?
I'm seeing mostly younger people wearing Apple Watches. A couple of days ago the young lady working the drive through window at Starbucks excitedly told me about her new Apple Watch and asked me how I liked mine.
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You mean like the "ordinary" people in the Ipod ads of the early 2000s?
This is kind of a throwback.
Also is has a Sense8, world is a party stage, type vibe.
No, I mean I don't understand what are the man at 0:21 doing (in a barbie doll miniskirt, without a bra). He is protesting something or partying in the streets or what?
Even she is a girl (sorry), but making smoke everywhere in the neighborhood?
Well, now I have to admit that I am kind of throwback...
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