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Tim Cook in London to Talk Apple Watch and Visit Covent Garden Retail Store

technopimp said:
Is there any way to hide any front page article tagged with #timcook? Sheesh. I don't care where he is or what he's doing at any given moment. Or ever really.
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Given that he is CEO of Apple, it's not unreasonable that MacRumors will post about what he does.

If you'd had that filter on, would you know the Apple Watch was waterproof?
 
garnerx said:
Ah, the curious open handshake.
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Gimme a break. It was obviously the best take for most likely facial expression, which coincided with the hand about to close. Picking at straws are we?

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aaronhead14 said:
I'm seriously so BOTHERED by the fact that Apple cares so much about making a WATCH and a CAR but can't even get WiFi to work in Yosemite!

Has Apple just lost the care they used to have for their customers? :mad:
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WiFi works fine in Yosemite. It's YOUR problem, not Apple's.
 
Aaah whaaaat...I'd love to have met Tim Cook...in an Apple Store. So jealous of those people who just happened to be there today.
 
Damn, I was in the Covent Garden store today, missed him. Shame, I'm sure he would have been seduced by me. Apple CEO husband- imagine, "Good morning, here's a little Apple Watch with your breakfast beautiful";)
 
Call to the AAA/AA - "my iwatches 30 second battery has run out, can you come and start my car pls?"

I'd have like to have spent 20mins with him giving him the reality of the apple products vs the marketing spin. Shame i wasn't in london today.
 
Question:

Question:

As I understand it you need to use iWatch with an Iphone. But dont you think Apple sooner or later will cut the "chain" so iWatch will work alone? If so, and if Apple pay will come to the iWatch as well, then i believe it will be a huge succes "going out" and other stuff only with your watch on the wrist - no wallet (especially for girls).
 
AFEPPL said:
Call to the AAA/AA - "my iwatches 30 second battery has run out, can you come and start my car pls?"

I'd have like to have spent 20mins with him giving him the reality of the apple products vs the marketing spin. Shame i wasn't in london today.
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What are/is iwatches? Is it an Apple product?
Anyway, I suppose Tim missed you too......
 
I wonder if programming Apple Watch to work as a car key fob will require cooperation of the car manufacturers. I don't think they will cooperate. can a random fob be programmed by a user to work with their car?
 
Edsel said:
You can't print from iPods and iPhones unless you buy a proprietary printer. Apple has become infatuated over iBling. This is not the direction Steve Jobs would have wanted.
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That is factually incorrect regarding the printer.

I like the idea of replacing the fob but my fob contains a spare key as back up so I am not sure I can abandon the fob completely.
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
Something I keep wondering...

How well will the :apple:Watch possibly do in colder climates? When I'm outside in winter here, I have several layers on over my arms, plus gloves. The watch itself won't be warm, so I wouldn't want it to be the only layer between my wrist and the elements. If it's under layers, it's useless (plus it'll make taking those layers off and putting them on more difficult). If it's on top of the layers, it's tacky, I'd worry about it being stolen, and it may as well just be a tiny iPod touch strapped to my wrist for all it's able to do - it won't be able to monitor any health information an iPod Touch couldn't. Plus its pulse feedback wouldn't work.

I just feel like the :apple:Watch will only work for people who live in warmer climates.
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Where do you live? I'm sure you're not wearing 5 layers throughout the whole day.
 
some1uDNTknow said:
Where do you live? I'm sure you're not wearing 5 layers throughout the whole day.
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Boston.

It's not that you're wearing five layers all day - it's that taking off/putting on additional layers becomes more complicated when you're wearing a watch. I tend not to wear a watch at all from October - April.
 
thekeyring said:
Given that he is CEO of Apple, it's not unreasonable that MacRumors will post about what he does.

If you'd had that filter on, would you know the Apple Watch was waterproof?
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No watch is "waterproof" and that is not an allowed marketing term. Watches can ve water resistant to a specified depth. If he's marketing it as waterproof, then he is lying.
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
Something I keep wondering...

How well will the :apple:Watch possibly do in colder climates? When I'm outside in winter here, I have several layers on over my arms, plus gloves. The watch itself won't be warm, so I wouldn't want it to be the only layer between my wrist and the elements. If it's under layers, it's useless (plus it'll make taking those layers off and putting them on more difficult). If it's on top of the layers, it's tacky, I'd worry about it being stolen, and it may as well just be a tiny iPod touch strapped to my wrist for all it's able to do - it won't be able to monitor any health information an iPod Touch couldn't. Plus its pulse feedback wouldn't work.

I just feel like the :apple:Watch will only work for people who live in warmer climates.
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It will work like a regular watch: You'll either make an arm motion that causes your coat sleeve to rid up a bit, revealing the watch or you'll just tug the sleeve of your coat up with your other hand.

To tap I assume you'll need gloves with capacitive tips (same as you would for a phone, so no better, no worse).

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AFEPPL said:
A poorly executed idea...
And the device couldn't not talk to the car without manufactures support regardless.
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People add aftermarket starters to their cars all the time. Dealerships will sell them to you (will cost you more though). I'm sure ones that support the Apple watch will come out soon enough.
 
Would be cool if the watch switches to displaying time only and shutdown everything else if its about to lose all battery power, who wants a dead watch on their wrist until they are home to charge it?
 
iSee said:
People add aftermarket starters to their cars all the time. Dealerships will sell them to you (will cost you more though). I'm sure ones that support the Apple watch will come out soon enough.
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aftermarket starters? vast majority of people won't bother. but it doesn't sound like this is what Cook meant. he seems to be talking about fobs to open car doors only and those come on most cars by default these days. what is unclear to me is how easy/hard it would be to program the watch to function as a key fob. if it requires cooperation of the car manufacturers then it's probably not going anywhere. but perhaps it doesn't require their cooperation?
 
technopimp said:
No watch is "waterproof" and that is not an allowed marketing term. Watches can ve water resistant to a specified depth. If he's marketing it as waterproof, then he is lying.
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This is hearsay from him (not directly from him); not what I would call marketed as waterproof, or legally binding language.
 
Edsel said:
This watch obsession is over the top. Apple should be updating their peripheral technology. The Extreme and Express routers have old technology. Their airplay system sucks. You can't print from iPods and iPhones unless you buy a proprietary printer. Apple has become infatuated over iBling. This is not the direction Steve Jobs would have wanted.
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As far as printing from iPhone goes, I just downloaded Printer Pro today because it is free for limited time. https://appsto.re/us/hVxCx.i

It works like a charm. Airplay has always worked fine for me. Airport Extreme is 802.11ac but express is most likely going to be discontinued soon.
 
AppleScruff1 said:
And the battery in your watch will go dead and you can't get in your car. :eek:
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That would be unfortunate. The battery in my key fob lasts for years.

0xyMoron said:
Would be cool if the watch switches to displaying time only and shutdown everything else if its about to lose all battery power, who wants a dead watch on their wrist until they are home to charge it?
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Perhaps that is the answer to the dead battery issue. When the battery is depleted past a certain level, it switches to a mode where only certain essential functions are available. If my car's key fob can last for years on one battery, couldn't the Apple Watch's battery provide enough power to emulate the key fob for a day or two after it's too low to do all the other stuff?
 
ZCT said:
As a guy who rents a lot of cars for his job, I've often wondered why so many manufacturers are still using keys.

At this point pretty much all cars have a remote unlock system and central locking. So most cars already have the technology to handshake with a key fob, so how hard can it be to add the functionality to start the car using the same security handshake with the key fob?

Surely it would be a lot cheaper than physically building and installing a mechanical lock, having keys made to fit that lock and so on?

Car companies need to stop selling push start as some advanced feature, and just make it standard.

Mercedes charge $550 for a push button start. Other manufacturers often bundle keyless start into some other expensive package with an upgraded stereo or navigation.

Until automakers stop their nonsense like charging $2K for navigation, we're a long way away from using an Apple Watch to start your car. But I like the vision.
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And what if the battery is down?
 
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