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Tim Cook Talks Apple Watch Water Resistance and European Apple Pay Expansion
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IMHO: Nobody needs a 30m water proof Apple watch. 5m is good enough that if accidentally dropped in a swimming pool is recoverable and working. I would never go swimming an Apple watch but would want it survive an accident.
I want to wear my clothes/glasses/phone all day and don't want to have to remember specific situations where I have to them off.
Hey, my glasses are waterproof and I still take them off when I take a shower, I even take them off when I sleep.
still useless until I can get either 30min charging time or at least 48hr battery life. I use my watch as an alarm for its vibration. I can't give that up to leave it charging all night.
I can't see practical use for wearing clothing in the shower.
I can see a practical use for wearing the Apple watch in the shower / bath.
there's a difference. Just unfortunate you can't see it.
As for glasses, I know a few people who have no choice but to wear theirs in the shower, just so they can see!
You can always buy two Apple watches, one you were at night and one you wear during the day.
What watch do you currently use for a vibrating alarm?
I like how you think. I have about 90 mins from when I wake up to when I leave the house - plenty of time to charge the watch in the morning for me.
Hopefully Tim Cook was referring to a Europe-wide launch for
Pay, and this doesn't preclude an earlier launch specifically for the U.K.Well, some people wear their bathing trunks in the showers of public swimming pools (even though they are not supposed to). But mainly I was joking, as conceptually for me taking a shower or bath means taking everything off. I have a watch that is waterproof until 30 m of depth and I nevertheless take it off during the shower or in swimming pools.
You don't need to see anything when taking a shower, you can easily take a shower in complete darkness, it is not as if there are great distances to cover, everything (shower head, faucet, soap, towel) is essentially within reaching distance.
last time i took a shower in the dark without being able to see though,, I slipped and bashed my head of the tub giving myself a major concussion
(my friends and I commonly refer to the incident jokingly as the Rubber Ducky incident)so I wouldn't recommend that
Couldn't you clean yourself while controlling your music? Isn't a stretch of multitasking.
I agree. People moaning about battery life when nothing very concrete has been announced is madness.
I've said this before and been shot down for it: if the Watch lasts 15 hours of mixed use, and you put it on at 6am, it won't run out of power until 9pm.
To think the Apple Watch will be able to compete with a Rolex that lasts 50 years on one battery is unreasonable... Yet people still scoff at a watch you charge every day.
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This is the best response ive seen to the battery life issue.
Does Rolex make battery operated watches? I'd always assumed they only made mechanical watches.
Let's say you're only using it for notifications like I do with my Pebble. Would that improve battery life? I'm assuming it would, but always make the final judgement once it's out in the wild and being used after a month. If I can squeeze 2 days out of it with what I'm using my Pebble that wouldn't be so bad.
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OR you can get a portable battery and charge the watch once it's low.
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OR you can get a portable battery and charge the watch once it's low.
You don't like to read your messages in the shower like everyone else?
Haha, true. Whenever I'm showering and I see the screen light up on my iPhone, I'm tempted to read what it is.
There are those, like my wife, who's exercise of choice is swimming and would like to be able to track said activity.
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Now if they add the home lighting control so you can make the bathroom lights strobe on and off. Then you'll have a full dance club in the shower.
Maybe someone will even make a disco ball with apple watch integration.
For me the only reason to wear a watch is for exercise tracking and triathlon training/races. I was hoping the Apple watch would be able to meet those demands but it looks like it won't. The Garmin 920xt does though but doesn't sync as fluid with iOS features/apps that might be on my phone. The 920xt does have some App capabilities but they are Garmin specific as well as text message alerts, etc and is very similar to a Pebble watch with more advanced tracking of my exercises.
It comes down to, do I spend $449 on Garmin 920xt which meets my needs for exercise but doesn't have all the bells and whistles that Apple Watch would provide or $400+ on the Apple Watch which doesn't meet all my needs but has a lot of cool other stuff.
Instead of buying either though I'm just forgoing and waiting for next year to see what it brings and will continue using a Garmin run watch, Garmin swim watch, and Garmin bike cpu that I've bought through the years instead of having everything built into one watch that does so much more.
