Posted on 04/09/2015 4:26:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Everything I’ve read of these pre release reviews, was that it would last about 18hrs. A day. Yea you have to charge every night, but it will make it through the day.
Ditto
What kind of watch are you wearing? and please don’t tell me it’s a Smartphone.
Now that's important. Somebody tell Obama!
Yes, I’ve been wondering what the iWatch does that is not available in an Android watch? It feels like Apple is playing catch up here, but the media acts like it is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
I just don’t thinks it’s a watch at all, actually. I mean ... my computer has a watch face program on it and it’s NOT “a watch with a computer attached” ... I wouldn’t call it a watch at all, because of all that it does, even though it keeps good time.
My iPad has several fancy watch faces on it, but I don’t consider it a watch (or “not just a watch, but a watch with a lot of other programs on it’”).
My iPhone has a watch face program, but it’s not a “watch with a phone on it” ... LOL ...
SO, the so-called APPLE WATCH is not a watch, but is a WRIST COMPUTER that has many different programs on it, and one of those programs happens to be a “watch-face program”!
Apple just called it a “watch” because it sounds better for marketing than WRIST COMPUTER! ... :-) ...
Perhaps I should say that APPLE WATCH is NOT a watch but a WRIST COMPUTER with hundreds of apps for it (soon to be thousands) and “ONE” do those apps happens to be a watch-face!
You haven’t seen all the variations that you can get. There are hundreds of combinations for the look of it. You can make the “looks” of the hardware and band to be anything that fits what you’re doing and according to your dress at the time, and you can switch things around, too ... :-) ... and have a different looking combination according to your activities.
It’s actually designed to not be distracting and give you indicators apart from looking at it. That’s the kind of design quality Apple has put into it.
For a comparison ... for you ... on another Apple product, the iPhone has been able to do several “bullet-point items” like other smartphones on the market, and yet, Apple has 93% of the profits for the smartphone market, as compared to ALL the other manufacturers put together. That’s because it’s not about the “bullet-point list” but about ... “how you do it”. That’s why Apple has 93% of the smartphone market profits!
With Apple, it’s about “how you do it” for the consumer ... see Post #29 ...
I don’t like MacOS/iOS and I don’t wear a watch. Guess that counts me out.
From the number of selfies around, apparently a lot of other people think so ... LOL ...
As for me, I’ve never taken a “selfie” once ... and I got the first iPhone model when it came out (even though they didn’t do it then).
Apple has never been first at the game, but simply the best at the game. That’s where Apple makes its money, by being the BEST for the consumer mass market!
the VERY FIRST iPad (although you said iPod) will not take iOS 7 either. And that’s because Apple is FIVE GENERATIONS into future iPad models right now, which are much more powerful and have more RAM and run systems that require more computing power and have apps that require more power.
The reason why customers buy NEW MODELS “today” is for that “more power” and more capability and more advanced apps.
You would have the ENTIRE MARKET held back, even FIVE GENERATIONS later, just so that all the apps and the system can run just as slow as it originally did with no additional power to it ... LOL ...
When Apple was first designing the Apple Watch, they worked on it with a smartphone strapped to their wrists ... LOL ...
I cannot believe that if a device is “gently tapping” someone’s wrist to call attention to “something important”, the vast majority of drivers will not look at the thing. There are enough distracted morons on the road already, and Apple’s wonderful design quality isn’t going to help.
Well ... as far as I can tell, my iMac, iPhone and iPad are rather AGNOSTIC when it comes to sex. In fact, they don’t seem to care about sex at all or even think about it! ... LOL ...
It’s like looking at your speedometer on your car, or looking at the radio station readout (the FM number or whatever). It’s a glance.
When you drive, you do glances all the time, all around you, inside and outside the car. The key is not having the glance turn into a “preoccupation” ... :-) ...
The Apple Watch avoids it turning into a preoccupation, as would be the case with an iPhone or an iPad.
I have an iPad with me and use Maps with it because the larger screen is great for that. But I have to be careful about looking at that Map when driving. I’ll do a longer glance at it, at red lights, while waiting for the green to come around. In fact in that situation, I’ve actually told my passengers to “tell me when it’s green” ... :-) ...
But the point with an Apple Watch is to make these things unobtrusive, even when you’re in a meeting with people around the table. You can’t make it unobtrusive with an iPhone or an iPad in that situation.
From what I’ve experienced, not the BEST but certainly the best at hype and overpriced blingy devices. On the other hand, their software tends to be the WORST, next to malware in many cases.
With their pricing, the consumer mass market is not going to throw their pocketbooks at Apple just to get their devices. If they did, Apple would have already prevailed in all arenas which they have not.
They’ve never gotten over losing their 80s predominance in the computer market.
And at the very least, the publishers could keep their previous iOS5 and 6 versions also available on the app store for users of the older devices. But Apple has an obvious incentive not to allow that, and they don't.
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