What if...Drop the fitness sensors and make it thinner?

[AleXXXa]

I would like a thinner watch without all the sensors i'll never use anyway.

Serious fitness enthusiasts like myself don't need Apple Watch, we already have state of the art monitoring equipment that links to our computers.

+1.

 

[technosix]

Find another way to assume all people like about Apple is the logo.

The proof is on display with nearly every iPhone case makers photos of their cases. The ones with the big hole on the back so people can show off the Apple logo and be sure that anyone that looks, sees they're using the "cool phone". The very same reason people don't use a case.

I never said all Apple buyers, one couldn't say that about any demographics, but it is a vast number of owners or those case makers wouldn't share that universal hole in the back.

What's especially revealing is no other phone maker focuses so seriously on the logo.

 

[JayLenochiniMac]

They'll make it thinner with the sensors. The original iPhone looks laughably thick compared to the current models with way more features, and the same will happen with the Apple Watch.

 

[twisted-pixel]

They'll make it thinner with the sensors. The original iPhone looks laughably thick compared to the current models with way more features, and the same will happen with the Apple Watch.

I wish they would stop this drive to make things as thin as possible because this is all at the expense of battery life.

The original iphone may have been very thick, but it also felt very comfortable in my hand with the curved back etc.

And now we have the iphone 6...the thinnest one yet...why???

The camera lens sticks out a mm on the back for example. I would have preferred to have a flush back, and in doing so Apple could have given me a bit more juice.

If they hadn't been so focussed in making the phones so thin, bendgate might not have happened.

 

[cmChimera]

The proof is on display with nearly every iPhone case makers photos of their cases. The ones with the big hole on the back so people can show off the Apple logo and be sure that anyone that looks, sees they're using the "cool phone".

They call that a logical leap. Apple logo is exposed. You jump to "because people want to show off that they have a "cool phone" There's no real basis for it besides your terrible assumption.

The very same reason people don't use a case.

I don't use a case because I like the design of the phone without one.

 

[kdarling]

And Apple wouldn't do this, because they are designing the OS around the fitness sensors. It uses them to detect if the user is wearing the watch, if the sensors detect that the watch is no longer against the skin, the watch locks, stops getting notifications, and requires that the paired phone be unlocked to make use of Apple Pay next time it is on a wrist.

All it would take for a substitute, is a simple tiny proximity sensor, like the one on the front of your phone.

 

[Rogifan]

Since when do watches get thinner? I've never heard a luxury watch maker crow about their watch being 30% thinner.

 

[cmChimera]

All it would take for a substitute, is a simple tiny proximity sensor, like the one on the front of your phone.

Pretty sure the Watch uses the heart rate monitor rather than a proximity sensor as a proximity sensor is easily fooled.

 

[kdarling]

Pretty sure the Watch uses the heart rate monitor rather than a proximity sensor as a proximity sensor is easily fooled.

We'd already decided that it doesn't read heart rate 24/7, because that would chew up battery.

It could drop back to checking for a pulse every oh say ten seconds or so, but that would still be kind of a waste of power.

More importantly, if you didn't have the watch on tight, it would lock itself all the time.

So it doesn't make sense to check for a pulse.