Apple Watch

[blessingx]

Might as well start a separate thread for this. 

 

Edited September 9, 2014 by blessingx

[TMoney]

Color me amazed that they were able to keep the design of this a secret all the way until the keynote.

[Grahame]

A thought for Carl (and others)

 

Journalists, now your editors will require you to write content that can be consumed on a Watch. Godspeed!

[blessingx]

You can watch the first video at:

http://www.apple.com/live/2014-sept-event/c42d94ee-7dea-40a8-98ba-dbd2da60c965?cid=tw-us-c42d94ee-7dea-40a8-98ba-dbd2da60c965-vi

[blessingx]

Available "Early 2015".

[grawk]

so it boils down to battery life for me.  I'm interested in it to replace my suunto.

[blessingx]

Interestingly battery life wasn't mentioned in the keynote.

[tyrion]

I was impressed by the watch, compared to the Gear 2.  I am not getting an iPhone to get a watch but it does look like a cool device assuming it last more than a day on a charge.  

[shellylh]

Are these going to be waterproof?

[Tyll Hertsens]

A thought for Carl (and others)

 

Journalists, now your editors will require you to write content that can be consumed on a Watch. Godspeed!

 

I've already been told my paragraphs are too long. 

[Dusty Chalk]

I wonder if it will work with the iPod Touch or any other iOS device.

[Aura]

I seriously want this to be the end-all solution for running outdoors but I've got a few essential questions that weren't explicit on apple's site... the watch will have to use cellular, right? I don't see how else it will be able to utilize something like GPS unless tethering off your phone, which completely defeats the purpose of using it to run. Also, it's got no headphone input. So once again, are you still tied to your phone for music? Bluetooth seems to be lagging desperately on the headphone front.

Edited September 9, 2014 by Aura

[Grahame]

Apple sued for wearables prior art?

[tkam]

Starting at $350 - iPhone required.  So as expected it's a phone accessory.  Outside of the payment stuff, I saw nothing interesting that Android Wear can't do.  I'm clearly not the market for this sort of thing so I'll bow out of this thread now.

[acidbasement]

The features list seems pretty silly to me - mostly things that aren't made all that much more awesome by being done on a watch.  The walkie-talkie thing is kinda neat, but I suspect you can only do it with other Apple users, which is much less neat.

 

Maybe there'll be some good third-party apps, what do I know?

 

 

 I'm clearly not the market for this sort of thing so I'll bow out of this thread now.

 

 

Yeah, me too.

Edited September 9, 2014 by acidbasement

[Dusty Chalk]

Yeah, it said that it utilizes the phone's GPS and carrier for things like calls and GPS, so yes, you have to bring the phone when you run, and yes, that defeats the purpose.

 

Alas.

 

I'll wait 'til they figure out how to decouple it from the iPhone.  For the applications I'm thinking of (musical, e.g. theremin-like controller based on distance and orientation from an iPad), don't mind it being tethered to an iOS device, just sorry it has to be only the iPhone.

 

I will wait for it to be hacked...in 3...2...1...

[Aura]

Yeah, it said that it utilizes the phone's GPS and carrier for things like calls and GPS, so yes, you have to bring the phone when you run, and yes, that defeats the purpose.

 

Thanks Dusty - yeah I just read that excerpt as well. Definitely not for me then.

Edited September 9, 2014 by Aura

[Dusty Chalk]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/Oatmeal/status/509409983583113216/photo/1[/tweet]

 

"Hey bro, you got the time?" "Yeah, it's ... hang on. Just a sec. God fucking damnit. " http://twitter.com/Oatmeal/status/509409983583113216/photo/1pic.twitter.com/2R4MXIVIcY 

https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/BxHJrhmCYAAw4Ro.mp4

Sorry, can't be arsed to embed.

 

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[morphsci]

You can still run with it, you just need to hire a phone bearer.

[blessingx]

I just like saying "high-performance fluoroelastomer."

[blessingx]

Apple Watch: Much ado about nothing

[Dusty Chalk]

Also, does anyone remember my quest for an ana-digi watch a long time ago (got over it) (basically, a watch face with hands and pips presented digitially) -- this is basically that.

 

So kinda wouldn't mind a standalone version.  An iPod Touch-lette, as it were.

[Dusty Chalk]

I kinda got the impression from what I read that it's not intended to work without an iPhone ever.  (As opposed to just "without an iPhone...once in a while".)  As in, maybe one's required to activate the watch, etc.

 

But no, don't know that for a fact.

[grawk]

there aren't any details about that.  I fully expect it to work without a phone in range, just many features won't work, like the phone and gps stuff.

[robm321]

I miss Steve Jobs.