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Third-Party Tesla App Provides Look at Opportunities and Limitations of Apple Watch Development [Updated]
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That's the way Apple does things. Slowly slowly catchy monkey. Start small and add extra functionality with each new version so we keep upgrading.
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In a word yes. Why get your phone out of your pocket, log in then find the right app when a quick glance at your wrist followed by a few taps does the trick. Lazy maybe but very handy all the same.
I don't think going slow with this SDK is about obsolescence. This is a brand new product where use case/usage patterns is still a big unknown. Plus the rumors suggest Apple is still having battery issues. It only makes sense to start slow. Plus it could simply be the case that the SDK for native apps just isn't ready yet. Perhaps it will be announced at WWDC.
Are you going to have fun downloading the Tesla app on your apple watch when you drive your Honda?
At least he can impress the girls, by telling them his Honda is his "second car".
The main limitation is battery. If Battery density was up to snuff, 5 years would be conservative. Right now, the watch has about the same processor as the A5, that's only 3 years behind the current Iphone!!
Actually putting a super-powerful processor in a watch, especially one that works at a low clock speed is very advantageous. Since, you want the processor to sleep most of the time.
From what I see, in the watch, eventually it won't be the processor that will be the limitation, but the screen and network equipment. If you could have high refresh, high resolution color screens that function on next to no battery, it would be a huge boon.
I know most responded to disagree, but you, sir, are 100% correct
Web apps are the future, many smaller apps have been replaced by links as their web version is now better than app version. Web apps are universal, scalable, and save a lot of development cost. Devices are becoming more powerful too and can handle them
Cloud apps are taking over even in enterprise world; just ask Oracle how Salesforce.com stole their lunch
im with you there and im pretty sure if i had a tesla my first glance app will be that
your keys and your wallet on your wrist. lucky US. Most of my pants have frayed pockets due to my phone. Not to lazy to pull it out, but for little things like texts, stock prices, calendar, etc., a glance at my wrist makes more sense. Removing my phone and unlocking it vs. turning my wrist, makes the watch worth it for me.
You want a minimal footprint on such an embedded and limited form factor product. That means traditional apps, focused and optimized with energy efficiency in mind. Not WebGL, nor Javascript Apps.
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No, but you'll be spending, baseline, $1000 to work together.
Agreed...If the simple iOS apps were web apps the iPhone could be so much cooler. I'm not this ultra die hard, blindly accept anything Jobs said, type of person; but he was right to try and limit the iPhone to web apps...unfortunately the bandwidth just wasn't (and probably still isn't) there.
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The question of hour is: will gen1 support the second SDK?
How is that the question of the hour? The article clearly states the second SKD is coming with the watch release
Yeah good point - I'm not sure if it has wifi or just bluetooth? We could work out the distance based on this really.
Am I reading that right? The car's 89% charged and still 2 hours 24 minutes left till full charge? Ugh... For $70k+ I'd demand better Elon.
the Elio autocycle for $6800 (89mpg) sounds like the way to go
Also, if you check out Nintendo's developer page, they tell you to either use Unity, or to make your game in HTML5/WebGL/asm.js (and the former has the later as a possible build target).
I can see this living or dying on the battery life. It's one thing to charge your iPhone part way through the day but I wouldn't want to have to do that with a watch. The battery has to last from breakfast to bed time which means at least 16 hours.
My own conjecture is that the Apple Watch is using a custom network protocol (likely a modified version of either Wi-Fi or Bluetooth), at least for 3rd party apps that rely on the iPhone to run. I am thinking that it's akin to the Nintendo Wii U GamePad, which decodes H.264 video that's actually generated on the Wii U system as opposed to on the GamePad itself. Such a setup would allow the Apple Watch to offload the CPU- and GPU-intensive tasks (aka battery-consuming operations) to the iPhone as the Apple Watch then only has to decompress video and handle some basic touch gestures. The Wii U GamePad has very low latency in my opinion--you can play games entirely from the GamePad rather than on a TV--so Apple Watch apps should conceivably have a fast and responsive UI despite technically running on the iPhone.
Regarding range, the recommendation is 24 to 27.5 feet for the Wii U GamePad, but some people have seen up to 40 to 60 feet (http://www.ign.com/wikis/wii-u/Increase_Wii_U_and_Gamepad_Range). While the Apple Watch hardware is surely different, I would be surprised to see that wide of a range. The range also likely varies greatly depending on the environment, indoors versus outdoors and open space versus lots of walls and floors.
I'm thinking that supercapacitors are the thing. Charge in 30-90 seconds, last all day or longer. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised to see the chargers in bathroom stalls.
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Yep... The whole idea of having a timepiece on your wrist, instead of going to the town square to know the time is completely ludicrous.
Next thing you know, people will get rid of their horses (wait! That's for lazy non-walkers) and use those newfangled horseless carriages to go to town.
It's all been downhill since the wheel, lever, and the inclined plane.
I have never seen an Apple product in recent history attract so many people who want to express how much they aren't going to buy the product. Every thread coming out of the front page - irrespective of the subject of the front page article there seems to be a need to come out and state how much you don't want to buy this thing.
I personally don't want to buy a Toyota but I don't post incessantly on Toyota forums about how much I don't want one.
It is astonishing.
It is also amazaing how if someone describes a use case for the watch then people have to deride that use case.
I am looking forward to this and how it develops over the next few years. Much like my iPads and iPhones there will be a trickle down to family as it gets updated. I fully expect to update annually in the first three years and then move to a two-three year cycle - much like I have with the iPad.
One of the great things will be shutting off notifications on the ipad and iPhone - great when giving a presentation to your boss and you get interrupted by notifications of emails from recruiters... Also notifications wont be appearing whilst I am playing a game or watching a movie.
And the best thing is that for people who don't want it - they actually wont be forced to buy it.
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I think it was 89% charged - which ties back to the 500M range on a full charge roughly?
I personally don't want to buy a Toyota but I don't post incessantly on Toyota forums about how much I don't want one.
It is astonishing.
It is also amazaing how if someone describes a use case for the watch then people have to deride that use case.
I am looking forward to this and how it develops over the next few years. Much like my iPads and iPhones there will be a trickle down to family as it gets updated. I fully expect to update annually in the first three years and then move to a two-three year cycle - much like I have with the iPad.
One of the great things will be shutting off notifications on the ipad and iPhone - great when giving a presentation to your boss and you get interrupted by notifications of emails from recruiters... Also notifications wont be appearing whilst I am playing a game or watching a movie.
And the best thing is that for people who don't want it - they actually wont be forced to buy it.
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I think it was 89% charged - which ties back to the 500M range on a full charge roughly?
I have a hard time with the
Watch as a standalone device replacing the iPhone. With the iPhone 6/6+, people are looking for larger screens to do stuff, and the Watch has its purpose, a smartphone replacement doesn't seem to be in the cards.I am willing to be wrong on this one, but I think we'll need a paradigm shift to holographic displays, and better input media. It's bad enough to type on an iPhone (vs. a computer), and I don't think the watch will fill that gap.
We currently have a Ford Fiesta with keyless entry. It senses the key is close and allows you to just walk up, pruss a little button on the door handle while pulling it open, and unlock the car. Once you get in, hit push to start, you are set to go.
If we get something like this implemented safely I would actually buy an Apple watch. These keys alone cost $300. I would happily just buy a watch for that and call it a day. Remote start is even a plus.
Unfortunately I am sure the car companies will add some sort of "programming fee" or something to the mix if/when this becomes a reality.
I don't see this being the norm for some years, though. And realistically this could be achieved with a phone too (which I would actually prefer).
If we get something like this implemented safely I would actually buy an Apple watch. These keys alone cost $300. I would happily just buy a watch for that and call it a day. Remote start is even a plus.
Unfortunately I am sure the car companies will add some sort of "programming fee" or something to the mix if/when this becomes a reality.
I don't see this being the norm for some years, though. And realistically this could be achieved with a phone too (which I would actually prefer).
IT DEPENDS WHAT YOU DO. Seriously!! Can your phone last 16h if your playing a decent game on it? Not at all.
The phone needs to cover all the average usage of 90% of people to be successful.
I agree but why even make the watch so sophisticated in the first place. It's like bragging about a car that can go 200 MPH but the speed limiter is pegged at 65 just to save gas.
Because, just like with the iPhone - once people start using it, they will mind less as functionality increases.
Bad analogy alert: The written experiment of throwing a frog in a hot pot of water and it jumping out. You put it in and slowly start raising the temperature - it's not going to go anywhere.