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Some Tattoos Found to Interfere With Apple Watch's Sensors
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First of all, I don't get the seething hatred of tattoos. I don't like them either, but people with tattoos aren't any better or worse than anyone else. It's a personal decision, and that's the end of the story.
That said, I have to laugh at the pathetic attempt that some people are making to blow this up into some sort of scandal. The same people that complain about people defending Apple are desperately trying to make this seem like a huge catastrophe, as if Apple has some vendetta against people with tattoos and is using the Apple Watch to exercise their will.
I suppose some people just aren't happy unless everybody dislikes Apple as much as they do. I'm so grateful those people are here on MacRumors to set us mindless fanboys straight.
That said, I have to laugh at the pathetic attempt that some people are making to blow this up into some sort of scandal. The same people that complain about people defending Apple are desperately trying to make this seem like a huge catastrophe, as if Apple has some vendetta against people with tattoos and is using the Apple Watch to exercise their will.
I suppose some people just aren't happy unless everybody dislikes Apple as much as they do. I'm so grateful those people are here on MacRumors to set us mindless fanboys straight.
How is this any different to medical grade pulse-oxymeters struggling to get an accurate reading through nail varnish? They are calibrated for 'normality'.
If I had extensive burns and scar tissue over my wrist then I would expect to find some discrepancy with device reporting. How many builders complain that their Apple Watch doesnt work after their wrist is dunked into a can of paint...
If I had extensive burns and scar tissue over my wrist then I would expect to find some discrepancy with device reporting. How many builders complain that their Apple Watch doesnt work after their wrist is dunked into a can of paint...
Actually he's got sound logic. You see, all those things are easily reversible. Tattoos are permanent (well, there is removal, but it's far from perfect ATM).
And if I get where you're going, Tattoos project a look because all those other things project a certain image. I thought people with tatts did them for themselves?
If people with arm sleeve tatts or wrist tatts want to use an Apple Watch, they'll just have to make a choice - go without or get em removed. There's no drama here. They still have the choice, just like when they chose and took responsibility for getting toughie stickers in the first place.
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.
A hardware issue with a software update? The ink blocks the light, only thing they could do (if the hardware allows) is boost the light output, or much detectors (or both) and you'd probable have your watch dying inside 4h if you did that.
Like being mermen, of course!
(I've had more ink added since this shot last summer)
I don't even know where to begin... it's been quite awhile since a thread in a forum got me this riled up! I had a whole rant that I had typed, but surely it would have put me in "time out" so the cleaned up version instead (still written in the heat of the moment):
First, SHAME ON YOU to those that dare judge a book by it's cover. Get out of the dark ages, it's the 21st Century!
Besides myself being inked (with only two tats, one on the back of my neck and a large piece on my right forearm... and more to come) - me, being a professional composer, photographer, filmmaker, designer and author with a certified-by-Mensa higher IQ than ANY of you that are spewing hate towards those that are inked - the majority of my friends are also tattooed, much heavier than I; friends that included Restauranteurs at the top restaurants both here in Portland and in Los Angeles (my home town), Rocket Scientists, Micro Biologists, Tech Entrepreneurs, Doctors and Surgeons, a Wine Maker with his own award winning Vineyard... and I could go on and on. All upper middle-class professionals, that happen to be liberal... ah, I see where all this hate is all actually coming from now!
STOP this insane judgement towards people that are different than you! If you need to justify your own mediocre and boring middle-of-the-road identity due to lack of personal creativity and your "conservative" values, I'm sure there's a republican support group or church outing that will let you wear pointy white hoods which you can join.*
Anyway, let's forget about my own friends that I mentioned, how about an article from either Forbes or this one that actually lists and shows many heavily tattooed professionals, again, from Doctors to Corporate Attorneys to Scientists and beyond.
And for those that won't bother clicking on the links:
Dave, a Corporate Attorney in Boston -
Bob, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. Lawrence University -
Robert, Director of Analysis for a NYC Govermental Agency -
NYC Attorney and Author Marissa -
Leah, an MD at a St. Louis Children's Hospital -
.. and SO many more.
*NOTE: I really didn't want to turn this into a political thing, but it seems that's what it always winds up being, Conservatives (the very definition meaning: "to hold on to traditional values, cautious of change or innovation, conventional, reactionary") bashing on Liberals (liberals: "to liberate, set free, open-minded, tolerant, enlightened, unprejudiced, un-bigoted" you know, just like both our Declaration of Independance and Pledge of Allegiance promises... liberty for all!)
First, SHAME ON YOU to those that dare judge a book by it's cover. Get out of the dark ages, it's the 21st Century!
Besides myself being inked (with only two tats, one on the back of my neck and a large piece on my right forearm... and more to come) - me, being a professional composer, photographer, filmmaker, designer and author with a certified-by-Mensa higher IQ than ANY of you that are spewing hate towards those that are inked - the majority of my friends are also tattooed, much heavier than I; friends that included Restauranteurs at the top restaurants both here in Portland and in Los Angeles (my home town), Rocket Scientists, Micro Biologists, Tech Entrepreneurs, Doctors and Surgeons, a Wine Maker with his own award winning Vineyard... and I could go on and on. All upper middle-class professionals, that happen to be liberal... ah, I see where all this hate is all actually coming from now!
STOP this insane judgement towards people that are different than you! If you need to justify your own mediocre and boring middle-of-the-road identity due to lack of personal creativity and your "conservative" values, I'm sure there's a republican support group or church outing that will let you wear pointy white hoods which you can join.*
Anyway, let's forget about my own friends that I mentioned, how about an article from either Forbes or this one that actually lists and shows many heavily tattooed professionals, again, from Doctors to Corporate Attorneys to Scientists and beyond.
And for those that won't bother clicking on the links:
Dave, a Corporate Attorney in Boston -
Bob, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at St. Lawrence University -
Robert, Director of Analysis for a NYC Govermental Agency -
NYC Attorney and Author Marissa -
Leah, an MD at a St. Louis Children's Hospital -
.. and SO many more.
*NOTE: I really didn't want to turn this into a political thing, but it seems that's what it always winds up being, Conservatives (the very definition meaning: "to hold on to traditional values, cautious of change or innovation, conventional, reactionary") bashing on Liberals (liberals: "to liberate, set free, open-minded, tolerant, enlightened, unprejudiced, un-bigoted" you know, just like both our Declaration of Independance and Pledge of Allegiance promises... liberty for all!)
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Give me a break! Did they test it so it can read through a sleeve shirts too... No, because they can't.
IF you wear a tattoo that blocks light from reaching your wrist blood vessels on both wrists (very few tattooed people have that btw), it's fine esthetically, I've got no issue with anyone doing that; but assume your own choice and don't wine that some company won't make a device that cover your every whim.
This is getting very very tiresome. People have to take responsibility for their own actions; everything you do has a tradeoff, can't have everything.
What I judge is not the tattoos (btw, most of those don't cover the wrists), it is not assuming the possible consequence that come with it. Assuming that if Apple don't make a device for tattooed wrist people (not even all tattooed people), they're imposing a conservative agenda.
That's the ludicrous part that some whiny people are doing (who incidentally are tattooed, thankfully not all tattooed people are like that).
Anyone who affirms that from any company (no matter what they ask of that company), need to get slapped around
BTW, my tattoos are larger, and more visible (2 of them), than the women there (the bottom one, I'm a women too), so I'm obviously not anti-tattoo. Undoubtedly, some don't like my tattoos (though they're kind of tasteful), and that's OK (not everyone likes my hair either ;-) ; I'm a director and engineer, and I think I offer a positive example of what a tattoo wearer can be (not the stereotype).
I agree, but my post was directed at those that say people with tattoos must be low IQ, lower class, drug addict, thieves that couldn't afford an Apple Watch. THAT is what's truly ludicrous; that anyone in this day and age would make such judgments.