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Will there be a watch 2 this fall?
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It would be great to have a more accurate fitness set of apps. Nicer gui for the interfaces there as well. Less tethering to the iPhone. I love the weather apps on my phone, the fact that I can make up a timer if I like and when I like, yes it tells time, and mostly I can receive phone calls like Dick Tracy (though most of them are salesmen and garbage calls, once in a blue moon I get a real one from friends). The message app rocks.
Agreed, but I totally can understand why they didn't.
I have a Fitbit surge, and that battery is rated for a week usage, however running the GPS, it will drain in hours, not days (7 hours I think). Can you imagine how quickly the Apple watch will drain if it had a GPS.
And yet Apple chose to include the ability to take/make phone calls and listen to music.
Both of those activities if used continuously reduce battery life to 3 & 6.5 hours respectively. Continuous monitoring of the heart rate will reduce battery life to 6.5 hours as well. With that in mind it makes absolutely no sense to withhold GPS merely because it might consume too much battery when used.
There's likely another reason, and we will likely see it resolved and introduced in the next gen watch whether battery life is increased or not.
You and I both know that nobody here has the answer to that. No matter what anybody here says. The choice is yours 
Really hoping for an earlier release.
But most likely it will be announced alongside the iPhone 7...
But most likely it will be announced alongside the iPhone 7...
I'm hoping they announce it but I doubt it. They have to test watchOS 3 like they will with the Mac and iOS betas.
Exactly, this is what I'm confused about too! I suppose the main problem is that because this is the first gen, there is no standard set for the next version
But still, I was surprised that there was nothing in April either!
I vaguely remember Apple stating the Apple Watch wouldn't get new iteration too frequently like the iPhone and iPads. My guess is April next year which would put it on a 2 year cycle.
I don't think Apple has ever stated such a thing, although some forum members predicted this when the AW was first released.
Probably because it will be released on the iPhone cadence, and perhaps not every year. A September release is 18 months, which gives Apple time to move to the more efficient 14nm processors (from the 28nm in the current Watch), which should be significantly faster and enable more features to be added.