What you need to know about the new Apple Watch

www.vox.com ^ | September 9, 2014, 2:23 p.m. ET | Updated by Danielle Kurtzleben

[WayneS]

I’m wearing an old Luminox - a prototype of their Navy SEAL watch that was manufactured somewhere around 1992 or 93.

[kevkrom]

You realize this is the same hyperbolic negativity that came with the iPad launch, don’t you? Remind me how that went?

[CARDINALRULES]

I can see where this might be a good idea but I won’t get one.

No money, no other Apple products but mostly I can’t wear watches anymore.

I have eczema on my left wrist/hand and wearing anything leads to breakouts. Might also have a nickle allergy that triggers a reaction. This started happening in 1995 and I stopped wearing a watch probably in 96 when I figured it out and tried different types of bands and nothing helped.

Still look at my wrist like I have a watch on sometimes. lol

I just use my old stupid phone I got in Dec 2007 to see the time and set alarms.

[Solson]

Everything my Samnsung gear has, except for payment, emoji's and drawing. And mine was only $169.

[laplata]

Cool.

[WayneS]

I recommend trying a pocket watch. Some of them are pretty cool.

[AustinBill]

In its first generation the Apple Watch is clearly a fashion accessory designed for in-town use. While they haven't stated anything about battery life yet, the implication of yesterday's presentation is that you're going to be charging this thing (along with your iPhone) nightly, so not something you'd take camping for a week. Two of the three models do use sapphire crystal. All other features (and lots more) are provided by apps, not the watch itself. The initial built-in apps look reasonably comprehensive, but as with the iPhone, it will be 3rd party apps that make this a must-have device a few years down the road.

As a general policy, it's best not to buy the first generation of any new technology. This is a very good debut, but it's still a first generation model.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Apple doesn't get your data. It's stored directly on your phone, encrypted, and you have complete control over who or what accesses it."

[kevkrom]

You kind of make my point. If Lawrence’s data had been encrypted and kept on her device, she never would have been “hacked”. It was the network upload and poor password security (apparently) that led to the “hack”.

[Mad Dawgg]

Ahh the NSA has been hacked and I guarantee their encryption is better than iGadget encryption...

There is no privacy in the digital world, end of story.

[ReignOfError]

Why ‘text’ when it’s easier to just TALK................

It isn't. I can send a text message and communicate the information I need to in less time than it takes a phone call to connect. If the person at the other end is busy, he can read a text message later. It's more efficient and less intrusive.

[ReignOfError]

offers an iPhone compatible watch that does almost all of the functionality of the Apple Watch

Aside from payments, Siri, the heart monitor, and the color screen, sure.

and is a third of the price.

$250 x 3 = $350? Must be that Common Core math I've been hearing about.

[ReignOfError]

You realize this is the same hyperbolic negativity that came with the iPad launch, don’t you? Remind me how that went?

"No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."

--Slashdot on the original iPod

"What Apple risks here is its reputation as a hot company that can do no wrong. If it's smart it will call the iPhone a "reference design" and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else's marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures."

-- John C. Dvorak, who has turned being wrong about Apple into a cottage industry

"Billions of Asians are going buy HP’s TouchPad due to him [Manny Pacquiao]. Apple will lose 98% of their Asian sales. ... They have torn part hundreds of iPads and know what makes them tick. They know how to make it all work better and the result is the HP TouchPad ... The HP TouchPad is something like the iPad v. 6.0"

-- dennisw, Free Republic, 7/15/2011

[ReignOfError]

Correction: The lowest-price Pebble is $150. That price isn’t advertised on their home page. That still doesn’t come out to 1/3, but yes, you can spend almost half as much for a watch with a non-touch monochrome e-paper screen, 4 megs — not gigs, megs — of storage, no heart monitor, no payments system, and a four-push-button interface and tell yourself it “does almost all of the functionality of the Apple Watch.”

[Marie]

Did you miss ‘The Fappening’?

[Marie]

The Fappening...

[Marie]

lol! You beat me to it. :)

[cynwoody]

Apple, like Google, will track you and now will disclose your heart rate to the US Gov for Obamacare purposes.

Such efficiency! Now the Social Security Administration won't need undertakers' reports!

[gunn]

Looks pretty impressive but I have no interest in buying one.