Posted on 05/14/2015 10:55:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Anyone who steals an Apple Watch can -- in about 20 seconds -- simply reset it and make it their own.
That's because the way Apple designed the Apple Watch makes it surprisingly easy to override your passcode and completely wipe it clean. You can set up a passcode on the Apple Watch. But -- get ready for this -- anyone can just hold down the "Power Off" button, then select and erase all the data on the Watch.
By contrast, the iPhone has certain features that make it less desirable for criminals. If you set it up just right, the iPhone can be remotely erased -- or it can require a passcode to do anything.
It's widely recognized by law enforcement that these measures reduce the incentive for theft. In fact, San Francisco saw a 40% drop in iPhone robberies in 2014 compared to the previous year. The city's top prosecutor attributed it all to "kill-switch" technology that allowed deactivation of stolen phones.
Apple didn't add a kill-switch to the Apple Watch. One reason could be that the Apple Watch doesn't connect independently to cellular networks or Wi-Fi, so sending it a self-destruct messages from afar is a tricky task.
Still unclear, however, is why it's so easy for a stranger to simply erase all the data on your Apple Watch without so much as a password.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
This watch is a flop except among gadget crazed East Asians
When I was growing up, there was an older than God Swiss Watchmaker at the end of our block. . . he looked just like you would expect a Swiss Watchmaker would look like, fringe of white hair, apple cheeks, and a little smile, but somehow he missed the lederhosen. He said that there were really only 19 bearing points on a standard watch that really needed a jewel. Everything else would be superfluous. If you added complications, then you might need a few more. . . but never as many as you might think.
Thanks for the heads up, Neidermeyer.
It isn't. The Apple Watch is a miniature computer on your wrist where the watch application is just one app among many. . . just as the iPhone is a complete miniature computer that also happens to make phone calls.
A true wrist watch merely tells various forms of time, including those that show phases of the moon, have a day and date feature, or help you calculate speed as a function of time over a measured distance.
Our resident Apple Thread serial liar pipes up with another episode of his recurring themed lie. . .
That's the standard line when someone compares it to a conventional watch.
Now, someone questions why it doesn't have features normally found on other mobile computing devices, it's suddenly not fair that they aren't asking the same questions about conventional watches.
Now, tacticalogic, just who is it that is asking that question about their Timex™ watch?
I didn't think we had permission to ask about those:
Of course, one should be asking what protection do Rolex and Patek Philippe watches have from being stolen?
Except for you, who always wears a propeller beanie. . . except for when you are wearing your dress deellie-boppers.
Then of course, there's your standard default daily cap:
These days? Americans?
The earliest lock was found in the ruins of Nineveh and is estimated to be 4,000 years old.
Hey Swordmaker, if I want a set, do I have to trash Apple, or can I just sorta hang out with Dennis for a while and maybe he'll lend them to me?
Per the second pic, I already have a tin-foil hat (actually, it's an "Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie"), don't need another, as I only have one head.
“You obviously don’t know how big Manny Pacquiao is across Asia. Billions of Asians are going buy HP’s TouchPad due to him. Apple will lose 98% of their Asian sales. HP is in very very close cooperation with the Taiwanese geniuses producing a superior product. 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, July 15, 2011
We who are regaled by his tales of "Imminent Apple Collapse" (IAC) (that's my description, not his, but you get the idea) really should stand in appreciation of such forthright single-mindedness.
I'm going to put on my Thinking Cap (which looks surprisingly like an Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie) and try to come up with something that will go nicely with the Deelie-Boppers.
I do trust you are taking our light-hearted kidding in the FRiendly and appreciative way in which it is offered. :-)
(In all seriousness, if you are in any way hurt or offended by my joking around, please say so and I'll back it off.)
But I prefer to think you'll instead rise to the challenge and give as good as you get.
Those deelie boppers///never seen these before.....
look as gay as the crappy Apple watch
You wouldn’t catch me dead or alive wearing an Apple watch. Once the Asians stop buying it Apple will go down the tubes. Thank God!!! We will be rid of this annoying company
Sword needs a group hug but count me out
Hey, Dayglored, nope, no bashing Apple required. But DennisW does seem to have two heads, so he’d probably let you try-on his deelie-boppers while he’s wearing his propeller beanie and his tin-foil hat. . . but you gotta catch him in a good mood while he’s posting a lie on an Apple thread. He doesn’t wear a deelie-bopper for those events. They are too close to the truth about him. . .
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