Posted on 04/29/2015 3:52:39 PM PDT by Swordmaker
A key component of the Apple Watch made by one of two suppliers was found to be defective, prompting Apple Inc. to limit the availability of the highly anticipated new product, according to people familiar with the matter.
The part involved is the so-called taptic engine, designed by Apple AAPL, -0.61% to produce the sensation of being tapped on the wrist. After mass production began in February, reliability testing revealed that some taptic engines supplied by AAC Technologies Holdings Inc., of Shenzhen, China, started to break down over time, the people familiar with the matter said. One of those people said Apple scrapped some completed watches as a result.
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So now you copy and paste Apples home page?
An epic piece of mindless fluff that Apple’s prime demographic (gays ^ trannys) wants nothing to do with. Blame Kook Tim for this. And Yonny Ives.
It would be real difficult for that group to be Apple’s prime demographic since they are just 3.8% of the entire population in the U.S. ... LOL ...
According to Dennis (post 18) the gays are rejecting it.
Which means he’s buying one?
Gays have tons of discretionary income and they like blowing it on the overpriced stuff Apple is known for. That 3.8 percent spends like they are 25% when it comes to Apple. Why do you think Tim Cook was put in charge? He's a gay icon like Liza Minelli. You might as well have Judy Garland or Liza Mimelli running Apple. Who else do the trannys like to imitate? Cher?
Anyhow the Tim Kook strategy failed because gays are not buying the Apple watch
Apple’s Newest Product: Gay iCon
Apple might have made history, if its CEO chooses to confirm it.
BY Lucas Grindley
October 19 2011
Soon after Apple named Tim Cook, Steve Jobs’s handpicked successor, CEO of one the world’s most popular technology companies, journalists began arguing bitterly over whether it matters if Cook is gay.
The first reports on Cook’s selection ignored the issue, even though Cook had been outed in January as it became clear he could one day replace Apple’s visionary leader, who died in October. Valleywag (now part of Gawker Media) cited anonymous sources who said Cook’s orientation was a topic of discussion at Apple, claiming executives would support Cook if he chose to be open.
But if Apple planned for this moment, then it watched from the sidelines while a furor unfolded online, with tech reporters sniping back and forth via blog posts, videos, and tweets. Cook, meanwhile, declined to speak to The Advocate.
“Tim Cook is now the most powerful gay man in the world. This is newsworthy, no?” wrote Reuters tech blogger Felix Salmon in a post titled “Don’t Ignore Tim Cook’s Sexuality.”
LOL ... you’re pretty funny ... saying that the 3.8% spend like they’re 25% — so if they were buying Apple Watches, they would be buying 7 of them to use ... :-) ...
BUT, of course, according to you, they’re not buying, so that means all the non-gays are buying those several million Apple watches. And this is a terrible failure that so many Apple Watches are being sold to non-gays.
I guess according to you, Apple will have to work harder to sell to that 3.8% gay demographic, and quit selling to the other 96.2% of the population who are straight ... in order to be the real success that they originally intended!
NOW ... if this actually makes sense to you and is what you think ... you’re definitely in need of that psychiatric couch ... LOL ...
As you know, it doesn’t make a bit of difference to me, because I buy Apple products and not Tim Cook ... LOL ...
Typing to you on an iPad right now, using an iPhone, watching Apple TV and computing on an iMac ... :-) ... and having a great time using all those Apple products.
Forget gays for the Apple watch, Its prime demographic is Asians
You’re the one concentrating on the gays, not me ... LOL ...
Translation: The Asians are bailing out Apple (the current situation) You put a gay Korean or Chinese version of Tim Kook on top and Asian sales would quintuple
I saw a fairly dark skinned woman trying one on in the Apple Store today. It worked. The key is not the melanin in your skin, it's whether whether your skin is opaque to the infrared sensor the Apple Watch uses to sense your pulse. SpO2 sensors work fine on black people and they use the same infrared sensors so I think he Apple Watch should work fine on anyone. I think that most tattoos would be no problem as well unless they were done with infrared opaque ink.
The only reason would be if the ink used in the tattoo were infrared opaque.
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