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Some Tattoos Found to Interfere With Apple Watch's Sensors
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I'd prefer "don't get the watch" comments. A tattoo is more useful in my opinion.
Have you NEVER walked into an Apple store?
It's crazy diverse in there. Tattoos, colored hair, hell when I interviewed I killed some time by talking to a Native American employee who had a (really striking) necklace type thing (I really wish I knew what it was called).
Apple is not Wall Street.
Now, I have to say this.
Personally I am not a fan of such things on the body, but, it's a free choice and if that's your thing, then fair enough, it's a personal thing.
However, given that Apple has been testing the watch for such a L-O-N-G time out in the real world with real people, it's almost unbelievable that no one at all at Apple thought about this and tested this issue.
If it is an issue, they simply should of passed this info onto customers as a warning note before purchase, and to Apple store staff to point out also.
Does not mean there is anything wrong with the watch, just that Apple should of tested this, and informed people.
Either:
1: They never tested it, which seems utterly amazing if they never did.
2: They found out it was a problem, and simply did not say anything.
Personally I am not a fan of such things on the body, but, it's a free choice and if that's your thing, then fair enough, it's a personal thing.
However, given that Apple has been testing the watch for such a L-O-N-G time out in the real world with real people, it's almost unbelievable that no one at all at Apple thought about this and tested this issue.
If it is an issue, they simply should of passed this info onto customers as a warning note before purchase, and to Apple store staff to point out also.
Does not mean there is anything wrong with the watch, just that Apple should of tested this, and informed people.
Either:
1: They never tested it, which seems utterly amazing if they never did.
2: They found out it was a problem, and simply did not say anything.
Or just don't get disgusting body "art"!
Yet another of the myriad of reasons not to disgrace your body with graffiti.
So glad to see one voice of reason here. Of course, it will be drowned out by all of the voices of unreason.
(By the way, I am not anti-tattoo. I have one myself - just not on my arms).
Never said it was, in fact, my original post said "I'm guessing". I'm not afraid to be wrong, I was just positing a possibility, and using Starbucks as another example.
If I'm missing my left arm, that's a problem too, I guess Apple needs to solve? You can't solve all problems. I would have loved a detailed, technical paper on how the watch works, how all the new tech works, then people could have put 2+2 together to come up with that beforehand. But Apple was tight-lipped about everything for months. I mean that must have known this, but no big deal.
People who cannot tell time with an analog face... or people who can't read... they can't solve all problems.
Two Arms?
Or you just wear it on the other arm?
If you can't do that because both your arms have full sleeve tattoos extending beyond the wrist, I would submit to you that you've made some poor life decisions, but that's just my $0.02
Or you just wear it on the other arm?
If you can't do that because both your arms have full sleeve tattoos extending beyond the wrist, I would submit to you that you've made some poor life decisions, but that's just my $0.02
Amazing that people don't see the humor in the reapplication of relevant comments into todays tech discussions.
Totally relevant, totally on point and made even better by the fact that two guys posted the same comment within the same minute.
HAHAHAHA so the hipsters cant have the newest shiny thing from apple?
Nah, hipsters wear Casio and do it ironically. And I'm sure they've moved onto fob watches by the time I've written this...
No worries, the trendy sleeve tattoo craze has almost run its course.
Darn hipsters.
I wouldn't be surprised if "shorter sleeves" become a thing as smartwatches become ubiquitous. That or "certified smart watch friendly" tattoo inks will take over the industry.
That's not at all surprising to me. I mean, how many people do you see with tattoos on their wrists? It's certainly not something most people would think of when creating test cases for this type of device, especially when there are a million other, more important considerations.
HAHAHAHA so the hipsters cant have the newest shiny thing from apple?
only hipsters have tattoos? right...
seriously, why does everyone call anyone different than them a hipster?
