It is going to be interesting to see the comments on here after people get their hands on the watch. Think about what happens when you acquire a new device you spend every minute on it learning about its features and trying different things and generally playing. When you discover the battery is dead after 2.5 hours of constant use some might start having buyers remorse.
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Tim Cook: Our Objective With Apple Watch Is to Change the Way People Live Their Lives
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True However, I do believe I will survive or "live" longer by monitoring my blood sugar more effectively than I have been.
Wearing a dorky watch will definitely change my life.
I can flash right back to the 70s and those really nifty calculator watches!
I can flash right back to the 70s and those really nifty calculator watches!
I don't actually believe that $349 is a big ask for this device. People routinely pay thousands of dollars for watches that do nothing but tell time, and not even that accurately. Even fashion watches routinely cost hundreds of dollars.
This is basically a computer with retina display on your wrist, so the fact it is only $349 is amazing.
I'll be happy to pay more for the stainless steel model.
I agree that we have all "thought about" these use cases, but applying them to your real life is the key. Take it out of the brainspace realm and put it to reality. Apple Watch will (possibly) make it easier and more likely for you to apply these supposed boring and non novel use cases. That's what I think.
For example, you may have heard of the "Couch to 5K program" - well, there are probably a dozen apps out there that help a person to use the "couch to 5K program". I had heard about it and poo-poo'd the program as something that was "obvious". Well, one day I started doing the couch to 5K program and in hindsight I can say that it changed my life. I never realized I could run, and this simple program on an iPhone made it happen. There is a simple app for "100 sit-ups" etc etc. If you apply those, they work too.
Having an Apple Watch is different than thinking about what you can do with a Raspberry Pi and Arduino in our worlds of imagination - Apple watch will be off the shelf and onto your wrist easy to implement. The best tech is the tech that disappears
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Well he has to be optimistic I guess as he's not a salesman. But you never know, maybe it will change peoples lives..... But 19 hours battery life won't!
So, Tim Cook's vision of the future is to make humans even more useless and dumb than we already are, making us dependent on machines to guide our lives.
Didn't I see this in the latter half of Wall-E?
Didn't I see this in the latter half of Wall-E?
And yet millions of people own smartphones, tablets and laptops that don't get 19 hours battery life. Somehow we're all surviving.
My sister has gestational diabetes, and monitors her blood sugar two hours after eating (most of the time). My brother, who is a physician, says that such monitoring not very useful unless the patient is consistently compliant, and most patients are not. So I agree with you that the Apple watch, combined with a small implant, could lead to better control of diabetes for people who suffer from it.
You currently own an iPhone 6 plus, an iPad Mini 3 and a MBP (also acknowledging all of your past Apple devices) and somehow manage to complain about the $349 entry level price of the Watch? Weird.
All I know is the Watch is going to sell like crazy. What it can and can not do out of the box is 100% irrelevant. All Apple product launches come with a built-in audience (in the tens of millions) ready to pounce on the latest, greatest Apple product. Apple knows this. Apple likes this. Apple uses this (as they should). I continue to grin at all the pre launch nay sayers who seem to forget every Apple product launch since the iPod - where it is widely predicted that [insert product name here] will be huge flop, that no one wants it, that I have no use for it. Yet every time, records are shattered and the before mentioned nay sayers all fall right in line with the rest of us. It's pretty comical. The success of the Watch will be no different than any past launch: sold out preorders followed by several months of backorders and eventual quarterly earnings that impress Wall Street.
Just... Watch...
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And just how many of those millions own watches that last several months, years, forever on batterys or automatic movements then. Replace your watch with a device that mimcs your smartphone and lasts less then a day.
Smartwatches are going backwards in technology, not forwards.
Almost 1000 people with PhD's wrote to Marylin Vos Savant to tell her she was wrong about the Monty Hall problem. However she was not wrong. Just sayin'.
There is equipemnt already for this. You don't need the iWatch. Unless the small implant will now have a bluetooth transmitter in it, you are still going to need the rest of the equipment that patients already carry.
I would argue that the first iPod worth getting was the third or fourth generation. Until then, they were expensive and too proprietary to be worthwhile.
I would also argue the same holds true for most Apple hardware - they really get it right around the 3rd or 4th revision. Think 4th gen iPod nano, iPhone 4, iPad Air, 2011 Macbook Air, iMac G5, etc.
I don't expect this will be different with the Apple Watch.
I would also argue the same holds true for most Apple hardware - they really get it right around the 3rd or 4th revision. Think 4th gen iPod nano, iPhone 4, iPad Air, 2011 Macbook Air, iMac G5, etc.
I don't expect this will be different with the Apple Watch.
You must have forgotten the prices that the iPhone started out. Anyway, *if* it in fact does turn out to be the game changer that Cook is suggesting then 350+ is not that big a deal.
GPS is out of the question for the foreseeable future due to its power consumption.
But I wonder: what about dead reckoning based on all the motion sensors it has? That is, it would calculate where you whet and how fast based on your movements. If your phone was nearby when you started your run it would all be relative to your starting position, so could even map your progress (or without a starting point it would still plot your relative progress, speed and distance).
I have no idea if that could possibly be accurate enough to be useful.
More likely solution: someone creates a small GPS unit that you put in your pocket that is controlled by the watch and feeds it data via bluetooth. Of course, by that time you migh as well buy a different watch that does include GPS.
A $349-$1000 watch that lets you see things on the iPhone in your pocket changes everything. Plus, you can do this for like 2-4 hours a day before needing a charge.The other 20 hours or so you'll be forced to reach again into your pockets to stare at a huge 1080p screen. It will be like living in the dark ages.
Yeah and all those things are doing is telling you the time. If all Watch did was tell time it's battery would last months/years too.
If you want to wear a device in your wrist just to tell time (and a few other simple function) then, yes, there are much better devices for that than an Apple Watch, and there have been for a long time.
Obviously the Apple Watch is for something else.
