It's Apples fault for not looking into it. As I'm sure you know, and have seen many of times. Apple's very own employees are a wide variety of normal to completely tattooed and pierced. If Apple can do no wrong, shouldn't you be defending their employees because Apple hired them to work for their company. Which by your logic, wouldn't be wrong because Apple can't do wrong, meaning that by their hiring logic. Tattoos are right, so they probably should have tested that, especially since lots of their own employees have tattoos, which means, they in fact DIDN'T DO SOMETHING, which would in fact MAKE THEM WRONG.
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Some Tattoos Found to Interfere With Apple Watch's Sensors
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It's Apples fault for not looking into it. As I'm sure you know, and have seen many of times. Apple's very own employees are a wide variety of normal to completely tattooed and pierced. If Apple can do no wrong, shouldn't you be defending their employees because Apple hired them to work for their company. Which by your logic, wouldn't be wrong because Apple can't do wrong, meaning that by their hiring logic. Tattoos are right, so they probably should have tested that, especially since lots of their own employees have tattoos, which means, they in fact DIDN'T DO SOMETHING, which would in fact MAKE THEM WRONG.
So Apple had a way to implement the hear rate sensor so that it could read through skin with dark colored ink on it but didn't because no one at Apple thought to test for that? Has there been confirmation that ANY wrist tattoo causes the heart rate sensor not to function?
Huh?
Since when did assigning fault have to do with right/wrong?
I'm not sure you understand the argument you're attempting to make here.
Since when did assigning fault have to do with right/wrong?
I'm not sure you understand the argument you're attempting to make here.
You're probably "trash" compared to the person without tattoos who makes over $500k annually. See what I did there? You have tattoos. Big deal. Some people like them and some don't. Get over yourself. Or don't. The majority of humanity could care less. Keep doing what makes you feel good about yourself.
Anyone and everyone who appends -gate to something they perceive as scandalous is a moron.
Where's the Tattoogate building?
Where's the Tattoogate building?
Or...
3: They tested it a *few* people with them but given the variety of inks and pigmentation combos used in tattoos, there might not have been enough ink there (ie. non-sleeve type tattoos) or the ink used wasn't dark enough.
Note that with testing, i doubt that they tested it on hundreds of tattoo wearers. They prob tested the apple watch on a few hundred people *total* with maybe a few of them wearing tattoos.
I can't speak for all athletes or asians, but Michio Kaku is a tad smarter than Dennis Rodman. So that comment does have some merit to it.
Matt Taylor works for NASA and has both arms fully covered, and I'm sure he has more not on his arms.
So please think before being so dumb.
I'm still waiting for the NFL to release the deflategate report... does that make me dumb?
I'm mostly amazed that people with that many tattoos could even get jobs to buy the Apple Watch.
so now people who get tattoos are trashy and aren't worthy of owning apple products?
good lord... i've never seen a more judgemental group of people than on macrumors.
So what? And what are you implying by these so called "consequences?" And to take it further, what does the "job market" have anything to do with buying a product such as a watch? Nothing.
Quit stereotyping and quit apologizing for Apple.
Oh yes, indeed. I can fully accept that.
However, this is not something that people should now be by chance finding out at random after paying and waiting for these items to be delivered to them.
As Tattoo's on the body are not THAT amazingly rare, and there must be tens of thousands of iPhone users with tattoo's and a small percentage of those may have an arm tattoo which may be in this area.
It should of been highlighted at point of sale that this may be an issue, and not just kept quite about and hope.
Or just remove the tattoo from the specific portion of your arm where you wear an Apple Watch. So long as you're always wearing a watch, no one will notice that your sleeve tattoos aren't actually covering your whole arm.
I've never heard of someone just removing a portion of a tattoo before (it's always all or nothing)... but my understanding is that tattoo removals cost about 10x what tattoos cost in the first place, and a tattoo the size of the Apple watch sensor would be $100, max. So at most, I expect the removal procedure for a small section would be $1000, max, and possibly as low as $300.
It's an alternative to getting a new arm, since I would expect the technology to get a new, biological arm, is at least a decade away. Artificial arms... I think they're already here, aren't they? They're not as good as a new biological arm yet, but they're on their way...
I understand that you want to defend Apple so blindly, but Apple also made a decision to hire modified employees. So by your logic, that wouldn't be a bad thing since Apple can't do anything wrong.
Therefore those people that work for Apple should be able to use a watch without a problem, seeing as those are the people 99% of the general public think of when it comes to Apple employees.
I think the employees of the company they should work for regardless of tattoos or not should be able to use the watch without an issue. Which is something Apple should have probably looked into, especially to represent their employees that have tattoos.
They didn't do that, which kind of makes them WRONG.
He has tattoos? I would've never known that from the outcry over his freakin' awesome shirt.