[Swordmaker]

Opinion piece from 9 to 5 Mac's Jeremy Horowitz on his personal experience with the Apple Watch with reasons to wear it or not wear it. . . with some mis-information about its relative water resistance. — PING!

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[Cyman]

I was just in the Apple Store at Fashion Valley in San Diego and the store was jammed. Could hardly move or sit down. Except at the iWatch display where for the 20 minutes I was there not one person even browsed the watches.

[SES1066]

A report earlier this year said Apple has wavered on adding irregular heart rate reporting and other health functionality to the Apple Watch, fearing additional governmental regulation and/or liability for potentially inaccurate results.

To me, this is the operative statement. Every human being varies from the mythical 'norm' and thus is, in some sense, 'abnormal'! 90%+ of the time, this is an insignificant deviation and normal measurements can be used - HOWEVER, the Tort Lobby & bureaucracy absolutely FASTENS upon the abnormal reactions as reasons to award damages or add regulations. The software to cover and properly adjust reporting for non-normal criteria when the subject can be (sorry) normally non-normal, would be fascinating but nothing that I would care to design.

Regretfully, in our voraciously litigious age, this may be a pipe dream!

[Sir_Ed]

I agree. When they make it waterproof, so I can swim and keep track of my laps like the Garmin Swim, I’m going to buy one...but not until then.

Ed