The Apple Watch Is Neat, But That Is All

Business Day Live ^ | April 23 2015, 12:42 UTC | Jeffrey Joslin

[Up Yours Marxists]

PEOPLE have been raving about the Apple Watch, so it is probably time for a rant from a devil’s advocate.

For starters, Apple’s smartwatch is neat, but that might be the only thing it has going for it. If the product’s intended function is providing you with around-the-clock health information, then there are a lot of roadblocks that need to be addressed.

Here are five: (...) 1. Battery life is as terrible as you would expect. 2. Too little screen for too much information. 3. It is too big. 4. Even the positive reviews are negative. 5. The Apple Watch could still fail. (...)

[Swordmaker]

Here is the Apple website for Spain. I was able to find iPad manuals very quickly but not for the Apple watch.

Apple Store España

And here is the Apple Store Website for Spain. . . notice something missing? The ability to order the Apple Watch. Apple has yet to offer the Apple Watch for sale in Spain. You cannot order the Apple Watch on the Apple Store in Spain. You can only get "Más Información" about the Apple Watch.

They won't be posting the Apple Watch Manual in España for quite some time. Sorry. Good try.

You keep dancing, DennisW, but you are getting there, slowly but surely. You've discovered there are foreign language Apple Websites, with Foreign Language manuals.

You might want to look at this:

欢迎 查看主题、资源和联系选项。

[Swordmaker]

How is that crappy watch going to read blood O2 levels? Where are the sensors in it? The watch can prolly function as a dumb display for an external pulse oximter. But due to the anality at Apple I doubt there are any places to plug in things. So the next step is an external pulse oximeter that blue tooth connects to the CRApple watch

Not worthy of a response.

[dennisw]

https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1708/zh_CN/apple_watch_user_guide_ch.pdf

Finally!!! The crappy watch manual in Chinese hidden where the average Chinaman will never find it

[dragnet2]

I have no idea what you’re talking about. But you seem excited. It’s just a product, so relax. And if you want to keep pinging me, feel free to use my quotes.

Thanks.

[Swordmaker]

Finally!!! The crappy watch manual in Chinese hidden where the average Chinaman will never find it

I had no trouble finding. It was in the same place that Apple has one for the English manual.

[dennisw]

So where are the Spanish and French versions (user guides) for this crappy watch?

[Swordmaker]

So where are the Spanish and French versions (user guides) for this crappy watch?

Do your own research for what you want. I'm done with responding to your idiotic snarky questions.

[dennisw]

There are none for this boytoy watch.

[Swordmaker]

The watch is on a strap that's going to have a permit a varying range of contact depending on how tight the user wears it, and over an area that's not nearly as vascular and might or might not be covered with hair.

No, the plethysmograph on the Apple Watch is what it uses for getting the pulse. It is reading the data clearly enough. Most likely it just has not been FDA cleared for accuracy. There are some reports of calibration problems with differing skin tones. . . but i doubt that is a problem. It is the same plethysmograph that is in the finger tip sensors used in doctor's offices. I think it is just waiting for a software application and FDA approval of the combination. It is not the sensor itself that gets approved but the combination of sensor and software.

[Sir_Ed]

Wow!!

That guy is SERIOUSLY unhinged!

Thanks, TF!

By the way, the aunts have moved out here from Bensonhurst, so we’ve made our last visit to B’klyn, DANG, I’m gonna miss NY!

See ya’, take care!

Ed

[Sir_Ed]

I’m buying one the moment they make it waterproof, and I’m as conservative as they come.

I’ll buy it for the convenience of keeping track of my heart rate (I have a serious heart problem) and my exercise/laps/steps and I’ll buy it so I’m not constantly having to pull my iPhone out of my pocket to see which client is emailing me, and I’ll buy it for the convenience of the GPS and Apple Pay.

And, again...I am one of the most conservative guys you will EVER meet, and I don’t give a damn about status symbols, never have, never will, especially living in rural, redneck Oregon!

Ed

[tacticalogic]

It is reading the data clearly enough.

Doing it "clearly enough" doesn't preclude the fingertip meter from doing it better.

[manc]

\happy you are doing well with your businesses

[dennisw]

Dittos on that. There are fingertip blood oximeters that communicate w your smart phone via blue tooth

[A CA Guy]

That isn’t saying much. The average exploitation costs $200 in pay a month. Once you get out of the city they live often in places smaller than one of our closets.

[dennisw]

**********superior to the crappy Apple watch*********

Earlier this week Asus announced its VivoWatch, the first Asus wearable designed for fitness tracking.

It has built-in heart-rate monitoring, sleep tracking, and a Happiness Index that shows a person’s overall mood.

It uses a numeric score, based on the wearer’s activity level and sleep quality to shown a summary of how healthy the wearer’s lifestyle is.

A low score suggest the wearer should adjust their exercise and sleep habits, while a normal or high score provides motivation to maintain their healthy lifestyle.

Asus claims the £119.99 VivoWatch has a 10-day battery life, and the watch case is IP67 water-resistant. It goes on sale in May.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3054158/Samsung-takes-aim-Motorola-ROUND-smartwatch-Firm-teases-circular-device-Gear-range-wearables.html#ixzz3YLM5JACd

[Swordmaker]

That isn’t saying much. The average exploitation costs $200 in pay a month. Once you get out of the city they live often in places smaller than one of our closets.

You really do not know what you are talking about. Out of the city is not in the equation. These factories are in cities with populations of over 13 million or more. Sorry, you are wrong. They aren't away from the city. Many of them do not live in the factory supplied housing, opting to live in apartments in the city, instead. The video's that were shown were often NOT associated with FoxConn, but with other factories where working conditions and pay were considerably lower. Apple has its own employees and staff monitoring working conditions and standards which are written into the contracts. Apple has actually cancelled two billion dollar contracts from companies that have violated those conditions and taken their businesses to companies who would meet those conditions even though it cost Apple more. These are facts, CA Guy.

There are so much mis-information spread about Apple's suppliers such as the myths about the suicides claimed to have happened at Apple factories assembling Apple iPads and iPhones. . . which simply never happened. The suicides, which occurred at a rate far below the Chinese national average, was at a factory assembling Microsoft X-boxes, HP computers, Sony Playstations, and Nokia phones, located over 150 miles away from the nearest factory making Apple products. But putting Apple in the headlines got far more press attention than the having a list of those companies which they reported about six paragraphs down in the articles.

Myths sells advertising much better than truth.

[Swordmaker]

\happy you are doing well with your businesses

Thank you manc. Have a good weekend.

[Swordmaker]

**********superior to the crappy Apple watch*********

Earlier this week Asus announced its VivoWatch, the first Asus wearable designed for fitness tracking.

Uh, no. It's not even a "smartwatch", DennisW. It is merely a fitness tracker that doesn't even transfer any functionality from a smartphone. It may transfer data back to your smartphone. . . but according to reports there is no interactivity,

Vivo Watch from ASUS is designed to monitor physical activity
— SZLifestyle — Nicolas T. — April 15, 2015

During the ‘Design Week 2015″ in Milan, Italy, held from 14 to 19 April was held and Zensation event of Asus, which introduced new smart watch – Vivo Watch.

ASUS Vivo Watch it’s not a typical smart-watch, but rather fitness tracking device. He (sic) not use Android Wear, but own develop operating system from Asus. This OS is mainly for monitoring physical activity and health, and not transferred functions of smartphones on the small screen.

Vivo Watch is equipped with a three-axis accelerometer and heart rate monitor, which monitors physical activity and heart rate at any time of the day. It has a LED screen with a resolution of 128 x 128 pixels, covered with Gorilla Glass 3. (The Apple Watch has a screen resolution of 320 x 390 pixels — Swordmaker)

Connecting with your smartphone is through Bluetooth 4.0 (Low Energy), and synchronization – through special application ASUS HiVivo. HiVivo allows the user to view all data recorded by the fitness device. Asus also embed social opportunities, giving owners of Vivo Watch to monitor the data of your friends or family members.

Other features of this device are the presence of ambient light sensor, which allows the watch to automatically adjust screen brightness depending on the light level in the surrounding environment. There is also a sensor tracking UV index of solar radiation. But one of the most pleasant surprises of Vivo Watch is battery life. According to data from Asus single charge should be able to provide up to 10 days in moderate use.

As you can see, Vivo Watch has a very nice and simple design. The device has clean lines and slim profile. Not least Vivo Watch has IP67 certification for dust and water resistance, which they ensure the sustainability of water immersion in one meter for thirty minutes. The strap is a standard 22 mm size, so customization is very easy and you do not need to buy special chains from Asus.

The only area in which the VivoWatch has an advantage is in battery life, and that is because it doesn't do much and is driving a low resolution screen. There apparently is no way to download any additional apps for the VivoWatch beyond what are already installed on it. Oh, and it has twice the water resistance. It is, for all purposes, a dedicated fitness watch, not a smartwatch. . . and is in now way comparable to the Apple Watch and it is certainly not "superior" to the Apple Watch.

[ctdonath2]

“Where are the [pulse oximeter] sensors in it?”

Uh...that was answered back in #257. You’re going in circles.

BTW: I’ve worked in the blood testing industry (embedded SW engineer). Measuring O2 isn’t hard.

You’re really working hard at making yourself sound like an idiot.