I love all these tattoo haters commenting, calling people with tattoos trash. As if not having tattoos makes you better than someone who does? I have both arms sleeved, am 33 years old, make over $300K annually with my own consulting business and have a net worth of over $2.5m... Am I "trash" because I have tattoos, yet my suit and business clothing covers them no problem? This site irritates me with fan boys and geeks who only have the balls to speak up online with anonymity. I chose not to purchase this watch as I see no need, and this watch is the exact thing that will define you as a nerd- just like the Casio calculator watch did. I'd rather have tattoos than walk around like a geek with a souped up calculator watch..!
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Some Tattoos Found to Interfere With Apple Watch's Sensors
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I read most of these comments as nothing but a bunch of 'bro' bullies named Zachary and Bradley wearing polos and penny loafers, pointing at people with tattoos and hurling insults and yelling certain slurs. You stay classy with your conservative judgements, Apple fans.
Couldn't the democratic party rent offices in a Holiday Inn instead in 1970-ish?
I think Apple did a lot of testing with regards to the different colors and shades of people out there. Just probably not those with ink on their watch-wearing area.
Before anyone bashes tattoos, remember that tattoos can cost more than your precious Apple Watch ever could imagine costing. I know famous artists that charge $300 an hour, because their work is that GOOD. So thinking people with tattoos are poor/criminals is NOT correct. (No one has said this, but I'm sure people will)
Now, we get into the fact that it's only blocking the heart monitor?
I mean, I have a full leg sleeve, and some arm tattoos, but I'm also pretty sure I'm not going to spend what the Apple Watch costs to be able to check my pulse...
I don't really see that as an issue, as long as nothing else is affected, I don't get the big fuss. I mean really, after like a day or two with the "look at this nifty feature" is anyone besides an athlete going to check? Probably not.
I do agree that it shouldn't be an issue and should have been tested if it wasn't, but I'm sure not many people are heart broken because they can't get a reading. I highly doubt these people bought it to get a heart monitor reading.
Just like, I'm sure it'll be addressed on the next version whenever that is released.
Now, we get into the fact that it's only blocking the heart monitor?
I mean, I have a full leg sleeve, and some arm tattoos, but I'm also pretty sure I'm not going to spend what the Apple Watch costs to be able to check my pulse...
I don't really see that as an issue, as long as nothing else is affected, I don't get the big fuss. I mean really, after like a day or two with the "look at this nifty feature" is anyone besides an athlete going to check? Probably not.
I do agree that it shouldn't be an issue and should have been tested if it wasn't, but I'm sure not many people are heart broken because they can't get a reading. I highly doubt these people bought it to get a heart monitor reading.
Just like, I'm sure it'll be addressed on the next version whenever that is released.
Or
3: people with sleeve tats make up such a small percentage of the world population that it didn't make sense spending money to solve that issue.
At least this guy can still tell time with his Apple Watch.. the time to his next parole hearing that is. His only gripe is that he can't set a 10 to 20 year timer without jailbreaking his watch.
PS. 1000 "pardons" if this guy isn't an actual inmate. I guess that is my bias coming through.
PS. 1000 "pardons" if this guy isn't an actual inmate. I guess that is my bias coming through.
"How is it Apple's fault for someone holding their phone like they've always held it?"
Sound familiar?
All new gates being found
Seriously MacRumors, Tattoogate, that's the tag you have come up with?
What next I wonder?
Seriously MacRumors, Tattoogate, that's the tag you have come up with?
What next I wonder?
HUh?
Dude, I live in PDX. Full-sleeve or wrist tattoos aren't rare, but they're certainly not the norm.
Dude, I live in PDX. Full-sleeve or wrist tattoos aren't rare, but they're certainly not the norm.
Sure
Sure, but Apple doesn't design products for the way people use to use them, they design products for how people could use them.
"How is it Apple's fault for someone holding their phone like they've always held it?"
Sound familiar?
Sure, but Apple doesn't design products for the way people use to use them, they design products for how people could use them.
As someone working with similar sensors every day, I'm not at all surprised. Unfortunately a tattoo isn't benign. I'm not saying it's dumb to get one, but people should realize there are fairly large implications to getting one. For example:
Any kind of neuraxial anesthesia (epidural or spinal): acrylic dyes are metal flakes...if I have to stick a needle through your tattoo for either of these techniques, I am, in essence, introducing non-sterile metal flakes into your spinal column. There is a chance that could be catastrophic.
To be fair the literature is mixed and the probability is low - but it is a risk. Along with Hepatitis and other factors we may or may not yet know about...people just need to realize it isn't the same as putting on a necklace or even getting piercings.
Any kind of neuraxial anesthesia (epidural or spinal): acrylic dyes are metal flakes...if I have to stick a needle through your tattoo for either of these techniques, I am, in essence, introducing non-sterile metal flakes into your spinal column. There is a chance that could be catastrophic.
To be fair the literature is mixed and the probability is low - but it is a risk. Along with Hepatitis and other factors we may or may not yet know about...people just need to realize it isn't the same as putting on a necklace or even getting piercings.
I have a theory that the more tattoos a person has the less smart they are, and vice versa.
Look at Asians. Very few of them have tattoos. Most of them are smart.
Look at athletes and criminals. Almost all of them have tattoos. None of them are smart.
Look at Asians. Very few of them have tattoos. Most of them are smart.
Look at athletes and criminals. Almost all of them have tattoos. None of them are smart.
We actually all share a very similar hue, it's just the amount of saturation (the amount of pigment in our skin) that makes our skin look different. On a vectorscope (a tool used in video/film color grading) there is actually a Flesh Tone Line that everyone (regardless of skin color and ethnicity) will fall on/near.
Below is an example from PrepShootPost blog:
It's an image of 15 faces (ranging from white to brown to black) and everyone falls around the flesh tone line.