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Some Tattoos Found to Interfere With Apple Watch's Sensors

akb said:
Unfortunately? That's some editorial bias, isn't it?
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If you don't want to read editorial bias then Appel rumour forums are not for you. Every article from every Apple rumour site has at least some degree of editorial bias. But we are smart enough to disregard all the bias and get to the truth in the articles (in the articles that have truth).

The MR articles though not perfect are some of the best in the Apple rumour website world. And that's why I'm still here. It's really the best.

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Sonmi451 said:
I can't handle the stupidity in these forums anymore. Grow up people.
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If you can't handle stupidity, then it's your job to make the people less stupid with your wisdom, not just paying them out for being dumbasses.
 
imoxja said:
I'm mostly amazed that people with that many tattoos could even get jobs to buy the Apple Watch. :D

Just kidding, I know there are jobs that can be had by those with tattoos. I'm just one of the people that never saw the big deal about having them.
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I never saw the point about people cheering when they got their credit cards charged by Apple for the Apple Watch "Yay I paid Apple money, now I'm so happy". Both others seem to love this and that's ok. it's just something that is not for me, it's for others.

Same deal with tattoos.
 
the8thark said:
If you don't want to read editorial bias then Appel rumour forums are not for you. Every article from every Apple rumour site has at least some degree of editorial bias. But we are smart enough to disregard all the bias and get to the truth in the articles (in the articles that have truth).

The MR articles though not perfect are some of the best in the Apple rumour website world. And that's why I'm still here. It's really the best.

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If you can't handle stupidity, then it's your job to make the people less stupid with your wisdom, not just paying them out for being dumbasses.
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Everyone has their breaking point. You guys hit mine today. I'm not sure I can keep reading comments here.
 
SSonnentag said:
Seriously people...you tat yourself up to look like a circus freak and get all upset when your your fancy new optical sensors can't recognize you as having a normal skin tone. Really?
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Their body, their choice. And they have to live with the consequences of their actions. Have some more respect for some people. If you hate tattoos, so be it, others like them and that's their choice. I'll never ever get one, but that's just my choice, if others want them, their choice.

There is zero need to call them circus freaks because you dislike their choices in life.
 
furi0usbee said:
I honestly never heard of the term "tramp stamp." This is the first actual piece of information I've learned in this entire thread. Now I know what to call them when I see them.
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For future reference the side of the ribcage is the skank plank.
 
Unfortunately I'm one of the people affected by this as I have had a half sleeve on my arm for about a decade now.
Luckily, If i slide the watch all the way down till its on my wrist bone it works fine, it's just not exactly where I prefer it to sit.
I'm fairly sure that if this affects enough people that Apple will find a way to resolve it in a future software update, from my observation a lot of Apple users have tats.
PS: All of you ignorant pricks that have been leaving replies judging people with ink can go F yourself. :D
 
hahaha brilliant! Well that's one sensor they will need to work on!

I can see Tim now, showing you that your wearing it wrong and you need to put the watch on with the sensors against the bottom of your wrist, providing that's not tattooed.

I get freaked out by those giant disks people wear in their ear lobes! It just looks so odd and painful?? But I always respect someones decision to wear them, like tattoos, it's all personal choice.
 
myemosoul said:
Unfortunately I'm one of the people affected by this as I have had a half sleeve on my arm for about a decade now.
Luckily, If i slide the watch all the way down till its on my wrist bone it works fine, it's just not exactly where I prefer it to sit.
I'm fairly sure that if this affects enough people that Apple will find a way to resolve it in a future software update, from my observation a lot of Apple users have tats.
PS: All of you ignorant pricks that have been leaving replies judging people with ink can go F yourself. :D
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iPhone users are typically in the middle-upper class. From MY observation, almost all of those people DON'T have big wrist tatoos.
 
myemosoul said:
Unfortunately I'm one of the people affected by this as I have had a half sleeve on my arm for about a decade now.
Luckily, If i slide the watch all the way down till its on my wrist bone it works fine, it's just not exactly where I prefer it to sit.
I'm fairly sure that if this affects enough people that Apple will find a way to resolve it in a future software update, from my observation a lot of Apple users have tats.
PS: All of you ignorant pricks that have been leaving replies judging people with ink can go F yourself. :D
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That sucks. :(

I have tattoos, but not on my arms or wrists. I have one on my leg and one on my back (upper-mid back).

And, wouldn't you know it? White collar professional. ;)

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MikePLP said:
iPhone users are typically in the middle-upper class. From MY observation, almost all of those people DON'T have big wrist tatoos.
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Not true. Was true up through about iPhone 4S, though.
 
But... I don't have a tattoo.

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applezulu said:
I'm looking forward to 2025, when there are enough middle-aged people schlepping around with sagging, fading tattoos so that younger people avoid them like they avoid facebook now. ("Eww. Get a tattoo? No, my dad has tattoos, and he thinks they're cool!")

Seriously, people have every right to decide they want tattoos wherever they want them. They just don't have a right to make it someone else's problem if something like an apple watch can't reliably sense a pulse through a layer of ink.

Tattoos are a thing that oddly combines the ephemeral nature of fashion and the lifelong commitment of having permanent ink injected under your skin. When you choose to get a tattoo located somewhere that isn't easily covered by clothing, you are committing to a lifetime of having that particular fashion choice be your front-and-center presentation to the world. You are committing to having people make their first impressions of you based on that tattoo, whether that impression is "cool tat!" or "makes bad choices in life." You are also apparently committing to the risk that your new apple watch might not work as well as you'd hoped.
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I saw something recently that labeled the Millenials as a group that only think and care about themselves and that conversations about others quickly turn into conversations about themselves. Hence, I don't think this group (who I expect is the group most heavily into tattooing) cares what other people think. Boomers, on the other hand, do. :)
 
MikePLP said:
iPhone users are typically in the middle-upper class. From MY observation, almost all of those people DON'T have big wrist tatoos.
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I wouldn't agree.
Maybe the early iPhone models, but these days certainly not true.
Looking at recent iPhone sales figures... I doubt the global "middle-upper class" can be so vast.
Here (Central Europe) I see many working class teenagers with iPhones.
And tattoos.

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dmylrea said:
I saw something recently that labeled the Millenials as a group that only think and care about themselves and that conversations about others quickly turn into conversations about themselves. Hence, I don't think this group (who I expect is the group most heavily into tattooing) cares what other people think. Boomers, on the other hand, do. :)
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Well, yes, plausible on the one hand. But I'd say that people who have tattoos by definition certainly do care what other people think of them, all types of grooming, modification, make-up etc is a sign that one cares what others think.
(I have nothing against tattoos or other personal choices, I don't have or want an apple watch, and I am shocked by the the bizarre judgemental posts on this thread)
 
Tompkinson said:
I wouldn't agree.
Maybe the early iPhone models, but these days certainly not true.
Looking at recent iPhone sales figures... I doubt the global "middle-upper class" can be so vast.
Here (Central Europe) I see many working class teenagers with iPhones.
And tattoos.

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Well, i'm specifically talking about wrist tattoos. There are many people with tattoos, but they're usually concealed. When you have it on your wrist, you WANT EVERYONE to know that you have a tattoo. That's a much smaller segment of the tattoo community.

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MikePLP said:
Well, i'm specifically talking about wrist tattoos. There are many people with tattoos, but they're usually concealed. When you have it on your wrist, you WANT EVERYONE to know that you have a tattoo. That's a much smaller segment of the tattoo community.
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I was replying to your observation that "iPhone users are typically in the middle-upper class".
No worries .
 
Cuban Missles said:
There must be something about the ink pigmentation that is different than say an African black skin (about the darkest that I know at least), becasue a natural black skin can be very dark, darker than some of the tats I have seen.

In any case, this is why I have always told my daughters not to get tats as you can never go back if you have regrets later. (like good daughters, they totally ignored me SMH).
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Melanin in the skin is different than ink in the skin. Very dark skin color can still be translucent when a light is shined into it. Oxygen saturation sensors, like the kind a nurse clips onto your finger during an exam, use exactly the same technology (skin penetrating light) as the Apple Watch does for heart rate sensing (in fact, the Apple Watch is technically capable of measuring O2 saturation, but Apple hasn't turned that feature on). And O2 saturation sensors work on all skin tones. However, if you were to have a fingertip tattoo, it probably wouldn't work on that.
 
Well I was right about this theory.

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=21177728#post21177728

Bunch of smart asses
 
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