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Tim Cook on Apple Watch: 'You're Going to Wind Up Charging It Daily'
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I'm with you, and not planning to buy the 1st generation Apple watch. I just don't see the value for the money (yet). I own an iPhone 6, an iPad Air, and a 2013 Macbook Pro. I even have an Apple TV that I never use. Needless to say, I love Apple stuff. I just don't see the value here, however. If it were $99, I might pick one up. $349? For something that adds very little new functionality, that's just nuts. Like most of you, I make decent money, but I'm no millionaire.
Why would you say that? From a design standpoint it doesn't look like the mini changed much at all. All the changes were internal. Wouldn't those decisions be made by hardware engineering?
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No you said you must have missed it in the reviews and I said there weren't any reviews. There's not been a lot of discussion on anything watch related since no one has been able to use the device yet. As far as battery life if I did say that then I was wrong obviously. Though I still think Cook might be low balling estimates to make the true battery life look better.
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Are there any Android Wear watches selling for $99?
I've read the thread. And this one too. Nobody said that "one day is great". Actually there has been a lot of complaints about a battery not lasting longer than one day in exactly this thread.
Can't say I am surprised about the (low) battery life. When you look at recent developments in the mobile sector, one could not expect Apple to pull out a magical device which lasts significantly longer than the competition. Otherwise we would see a much better battery life on devices like the iPhone 6.
Looking at the relative thickness of this thing, one could see that there were trying already relatively hard to cramp in as much battery as they possibly could. Compared to the skinny iPhones and iPads (front area vs. thickness), this thing must cause Sir Ive almost sleepless nights. Too bad he can't track his nightmares with his
Watch without charging it in the evening 
Ha Ha Ha, great find!
I'm also not surprised, but still laughing nevertheless how Rogifan flipped and changed his opinion about the battery life. Brilliant stuff
But then again, he also said about the iPhone 6 leaks that:
Looking at the relative thickness of this thing, one could see that there were trying already relatively hard to cramp in as much battery as they possibly could. Compared to the skinny iPhones and iPads (front area vs. thickness), this thing must cause Sir Ive almost sleepless nights. Too bad he can't track his nightmares with his
Watch without charging it in the evening Ha Ha Ha, great find!
I'm also not surprised, but still laughing nevertheless how Rogifan flipped and changed his opinion about the battery life. Brilliant stuff
But then again, he also said about the iPhone 6 leaks that:
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I think the main issue is that certain people are socially challenged by the presence of many different opinions expressed by many different individuals online. I have a hard time respecting them but I'll avoid the term "troll"
I don't think anything Samsung does goes down really well on this forum. Still think it's a handy feature to have though. Not great when your iPhone battery dies and your train ticket is on there. It's a pain to carry backup battery charger everywhere.
never seen anyone asking Apple dangerous questions in public. It's always a one-way relationship
This is going to be a hard sell to their mass market, aka the sport watch/activity tracker enthusiasts. With non-GPS sport watches/activity trackers lasting much longer and many designed to be worn while you sleep, the non-apple options are looking better.
That's not true. There are Casio watches with tons of functions from calendar schedule to multiple sensors like temperature, barometer and more, or analog watches with multiple independent motors for each hand, radio connection to atomic timekeeping and they work forever (they literally don't stop) just with light. They will keep working for several months even in the dark.
Hey thats an idea, add this functionality to the apple watch
http://www.iflscience.com/technology/jewelry-harvests-energy-wearers
you're comparing the chip inside Casios to the one found in the Apple Watch?
Really?
Also I have several such solar-charged Casio G-shocks.
Even those turn off their screens and will go off after a few months of being in the drawer... and that's with barely doing anything except keeping time.
Can you imagine that chip running any kind of code like the Apple Watch will be asked to?
How about... keep it running while it's charging?
How will it keep track of your body movements with it's gyroscopes and accelerometer while it is sitting motionless on your nightstand?
I'm not comparing anything, I've just corrected you and I said that some of the models are more sophisticated than the g-shocks (and much more expensive than the g-shocks). They don't simply just tell time. Barometers and other sensors can use a lot of power.
These are still small power requirements compared to a color screen....
Apple watch is packing real computing power.
Perhaps no one specifically uttered the words, "one day is great", but many have implied it. Given that the current info we have on the aWatch is that it needs to be charged daily that hasn't stopped people from responding with, "shut up and take my money" and "wish I could pre-order it now!" and other comments of eager anticipation.
If they are that enthusiastic about a device that has to be charged daily then it is safe to say that at the very least that it is a non-issue.
All that to say, yeah... there's hyperbole on both sides of the argument.
I have to chuckle at the day when an Apple fan uses "but is has more power, obviously it has lower battery life" as a line of reasoning. It just screams irony.
Are they really ALL 50% bigger in volume?
There doesn't appear to be anything the S1 can do that the SD400 (and probably OMAP3) can't do as far as I can tell (feature wise). Power wise, the screen uses the most power followed by the radio.
As far as I can tell, the Moto360 should now last all day (~16 hours) under heavy use*, with light use a day and a half is doable.
*ambient mode == off; with it on it is possible to kill the battery much faster.
Besides hasn't Apple already confirmed that we won't get ambient mode on the Apple Watch? so right off the bat the use case will be different (since most Android Wear devices have Ambient Mode on by default).
I think you have to compare apples to apples, no pun intended.
Comparing the Apple Watch to the Samsung Gear or even the Microsoft Band is somewhat of a fair comparison but comparing the Apple watch to either an automatic watch that lasts as long as the rotors and gears turn or a monochrome display watch like any Casio is not fair.