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Apple Watch will replace your car keys, says Tim Cook
The Telegraph ^ | 02/27/2015 | Allister Heath

Posted on 02/27/2015 9:03:54 PM PST by fireman15

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To: fireman15

Steal a person’s watch and get their car too....


21 posted on 02/27/2015 10:04:09 PM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: fireman15

Very thoughtful of your wife


22 posted on 02/27/2015 10:15:06 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: steve86

I don’t know much about the CEOs of Apple or Samsung. I have never owned an Apple product. Our cars both came from our state’s surplus vehicle auction and do have keyless entry. This article is the first that I have read that indicated that the watch will start a car.

I have some experience with the Samsung Gear 2 and it has been a surprisingly pleasant experience. Both it and the phone came from eBay and combined they cost around $250 with shipping. I have just been trying to figure out what the iWatch will do that has got people clamoring to buy one. There are some Apple experts here and I figured they would know something about it.


23 posted on 02/27/2015 10:16:01 PM PST by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: GraceG

If the car feature has the same security level as the Apple Pay feature, it will be disabled when the watch is removed and must be enabled each time you put on the watch via a passcode or Touch ID in the phone.


24 posted on 02/27/2015 10:16:05 PM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: doorgunner69
Refusal to follow fashion trends is a badge of honor, and a great way to laugh at the lemmings, rushing off to the next great new thing!

Grumpy Old Man: I'm oooooold! And I'm not happy! And I don't like things now compared to the way they used to be. All this progress -- phooey! In my day, we didn't have these cash machines that would give you money when you needed it. There was only one bank in each state -- it was open only one hour a year. And you'd get in line, seventeen miles long, and the line became an angry mob of people -- fornicators and thieves, mutant children and circus freaks -- and you waited for years and by the time you got to the teller, you were senile and arthritic and you couldn't remember your own name. You were born, got in line, and ya died! And that's the way it was and we liked it!

Life was simpler then. There wasn't all this concern about hy-giene! It my days, we didn't have Kleenex. When you turned seventeen, you were given the family handkerchief. ... It hadn't been washed in generations and it stood on its own ... filled with diseases and swarmin' with flies. ... If you tried to blow your nose, you'd get an infection and your head would swell up and turn green and children would burst into tears at the sight o' ya! And that's the way it was and we liked it!

Life was a carnival! We entertained ourselves! We didn't need moooovin' pitchurrrres. In my day, there was only one show in town -- it was called "Stare at the sun!" ... That's right! You'd sit in the middle of an open field and stare up at the sun till your eyeballs burst into flames! And you thought, "Oh, no! Maybe I shouldn't've stared directly into the burning sun with my eyes wide open." But it was too late! Your head was on fire and people were roastin' chickens over it. ... And that's the way it was and we liked it!

Progress?! Flobble-de-flee! In my day, when we were angry and frustrated, we just said, "Flobble-de-flee!" 'cause we were idiots and we didn't know what else to say! Just a bunch o' illiterate Cro-Magnons, blowin' on crusty handkerchiefs, waitin' in lines for our head to burst into flame and that's the way it was and we liked it!

25 posted on 02/27/2015 10:17:10 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: fireman15

I have some more “next big thing” ideas for Apple to add to the iWatch accessory line:

1. The iCuffLink.

2. The iSuspenders.

3. The iWingTipBrogans.

4. The iFedoraSnapBrimHat.

5. The iBuggyWhip.

6. The iRotaryTelephone.

7. The i33RPMVinylRecord.

8. The i8TrackTape.

9. The iTieTack.

10. The iBlackAndWhiteTV.

11. The iConsoleRadio.

12. The iCassetteTape.


26 posted on 02/27/2015 10:17:34 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Vendome
Very thoughtful of your wife

She is very good at finding things for my birthday or Christmas. I think she spent a little time researching this one. We buy and sell stuff on eBay so even if it turns out to be a bust we usually get our money back.

27 posted on 02/27/2015 10:20:29 PM PST by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: catnipman

iLove it!


28 posted on 02/27/2015 10:25:11 PM PST by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: fireman15

29 posted on 02/27/2015 10:31:58 PM PST by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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To: catnipman

Don’t forget the iCondom. It texts your friend list when you finally gort some.


30 posted on 02/27/2015 10:36:43 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Vendome
In fact, my pedometer says I’m up to 19,000 steps today.

Wow! I hope you have a good set of shoes.

31 posted on 02/27/2015 10:44:41 PM PST by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: fireman15
I actually posted a picture of the wrong Samsung Gear Watch. Here is what the Gear 2 looks like when the default media player is being used. This is the type of band that I am using, but I is interchangeable.


32 posted on 02/27/2015 11:01:56 PM PST by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: fireman15

It’s kinda hard to know something about an Apple Product before it has been released for sale. Apple keeps most of the details secret beforehand. With this Apple Watch, this is the first time I’ve seen Apple announce as much as they have thus far, without it actually being on sale.

The fact of the matter is that most of what people say about it beforehand is going to be pure speculation, and even what Apple says beforehand can change by the time the product goes on sale.

There’s only ONE RELIABLE TIME to comment on what the watch has, what it can do and/or anything about its functionality ... and that is commenting on it about a week after it’s been on sale!

ALSO ... another thing to keep in mind with a brand new product area which has never been done before ... is what happened with the iPhone. That first iPhone was an amazing product for its time and the touch interface and how it all worked together ... back then. No such thing had existed like that and worked so marvelously for being that first iPhone. BUT ... when we look at what we have RIGHT NOW with the iPhone, 8 years later ... NO ONE today would want that iPhone as introduced. That phone would be a “Model-T” of a phone, as compared to what we have now! BUT ... it was TOTALLY AMAZING for what we had BACK THEN!

It is going to be the same way with the Apple Watch, except that it actually can’t match up to that original iPhone (in terms of consumer amazement) because we’re more familiar with the concept now (in terms of how the iPhone user interface works and functions) and that does lessen the initial impact of the Apple Watch ... in a way that iPhone did not have to contend with back then.

The Apple Watch will be amazing ... but not quite as amazing as that initial iPhone. And about the third year out, for the Apple Watch, will make that first model of Apple Watch seem like a “Model-T”!


33 posted on 02/27/2015 11:19:13 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: fireman15; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; Airwinger; Aliska; ..
The AppleWatch may be your key to your car — PING!


AppleWatch Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

34 posted on 02/27/2015 11:53:09 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: DaxtonBrown

It’s all in the “aftermarket” ... doncha know ... :-) ...


35 posted on 02/27/2015 11:55:33 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: fireman15
I forgot to mention that the Gear 2 has a surprisingly good camera. I am not sure why they included it other than novelty and possibly scanning barcodes.

The better to do selfies?

36 posted on 02/27/2015 11:56:21 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: doc1019
LOL! Great reference. (got my general back in the 60’s and haven’t used code since).

Well, you never know when you might get arrested and have to tap your cell neighbors in code. . .

Of course the chance that any of them would be able to tap back?

37 posted on 02/27/2015 11:57:58 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: GraceG

You know ... on Apple Pay, some people think you can steal a phone and they get to use all the credit cards on Apple Pay. In actuality, no one can even get or see the details and they can’t do purchases either.

And thusly ... one won’t be able to steal an Apple Watch and then take the car.

Apple is pretty darned good at that stuff!


38 posted on 02/28/2015 12:00:01 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: fireman15

used to be you could go and get a duplicate key for about $5 total- maybe $10- then along came ‘smart keys’ with chips in them, and getting a duplicate now costs well over $100- some as high as 3-400 after all the programming is doen to them by the dealers who are the only ones ‘qualified’ to program the keys (unless you go online and find the corre4ct combination of brake taps, door lokcs, and horn blowing to properly program the key)

Now they want ot have a several hundred dollar device as the ‘key’?


39 posted on 02/28/2015 12:00:13 AM PST by Bob434
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To: catnipman

Actually, I’m very nostalgic for the HP-12C. AND I’ve got that on my iPad! I’ve also got the HP-12C in my briefcase! ... :-) ...


40 posted on 02/28/2015 12:02:59 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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