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Re: Meet the Apple Watch

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Post by nokiaman »

femto113 wrote: post #112
51Cards wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"18K Gold developed to be twice as hard as standard gold." Did they really say that? Ha! Who knew my 9K gold stuff was vastly superior to higher grades.

18K just means "75% pure gold", it doesn't say what the other 25% is and there are a lot of different alloys. Most commonly it's mostly copper, which ironically is what gives it the standard "gold" tint (white gold uses metals like silver instead). I assume they mean "we picked an alloy that's harder than most".

Apparently Apple has their own metallurgists now... nauseating...

"crafted from 18-karat gold that our metallurgists have developed to be up to twice as hard as standard gold."

http://www.apple.com/watch/apple-watch-edition/

Re: Meet the Apple Watch

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Post by collyw »

anigbrowl wrote: post #40
crazypyro wrote: post #26

I just don't think the watch market is really there. I feel like its shrinking steadily among younger people as the need for a time teller is replaced by the modern cell phone. I believe people have convinced themselves into convincing companies that they actually want a high tech wrist watch when, in reality, the market isn't that big and it is shrinking. I believe this whole craze started with the pebble. People se…

That's because all a watch did up to now was tell time, was wasn't enough to justify hanging one off your wrist unless you wished to signal your fashion sense/wealth. This watch does an awful lot more and appears to do it very very well. They'll sell by the truckload.

Pulse rate monitors, calculators, altimeters. Watches have done these things for years.

Re: Meet the Apple Watch

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Post by collyw »

mcphage wrote: post #146
matthewmcg wrote: post #104

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Kayaking...if you keep your phone within Bluetooth Low Energy range in a waterproof sack.

> if you keep your phone within Bluetooth Low Energy range 300 ft. > in a waterproof sack Probably the one that contains your wallet and keys as well.

Not much use as a watch then.

Re: Meet the Apple Watch

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Post by slantyyz »

aninhumer wrote: post #144
slantyyz wrote: post #107

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>> there's a reason the wrist watch replaced the pocket watch. The funny thing is that I stopped wearing wrist watches when phones started fitting in my pocket. So my phone, while having extra features, isn't very different from a pocket watch. And if there are a lot of people like me, you can make the argument that the pocket (or purse) watch subsequently replaced the wrist watch.

Well yeah, the smart pocket watch obviously trumps the dumb wrist watch. The point here is that now the wrist watch is smart again, it is likely to take over again for the same reasons it beat the pocket watch the first time. EDIT: To clarify, I'm not saying they'll completely replace smartphones, just that enough features can be moved to the wrist to make it worth wearing.

>> just that enough features can be moved to the wrist to make it worth wearing.

I'm afraid it's not quite so simple as that. It also has to be more than simply worth wearing.

* It has to be worth adding to the pile of devices that you're managing (remembering to charge, remembering to wear, connecting to your phone, security settings, etc).

* It has to be worth taking up another USB port in your charger (since it's not using a lightning or micro USB port)

* It has to be worth taking up more space on your nightstand for charging.

While I see a lot of benefits for sporty/health types and FOMO-afflicted notification addicts, I'm not so sure it's going to eat up the market the same way the iPhone and iPad did.

Re: Meet the Apple Watch

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Post by Gormo »

sg47 wrote: post #136
Gormo wrote: post #98

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Wow, that's probably one of the most unusable, non-responsive product pages I've ever seen on the web. After clicking the link, I stared at a black screen containing nothing but the "Moto 360" logo and a throbber for about 10 seconds before the actual page content started to display. Scrolling is just completely broken: moving the mouse wheel in any direction will scroll the page down . But there's no at-a-glance sum…

If I understand correctly, OP's comment was not about the web page but on the product listed on that page.

I know, but he linked to the web page in order to provide background info on the product he was discussing, and I wanted to point out the extreme difficulty I had in actually obtaining that information from that site. Apologies if my comment was a bit of a rathole (but perhaps it's less of a rathole than actually attempting to visit that site would be).

Re: Meet the Apple Watch

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Post by eevilspock »

collyw wrote: post #150
grecy wrote: post #60

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Think about the tens (hundreds?) of millions of teenagers that already have an iPhone - now they'll be able to "chat" back-and-forward at school, home, etc. etc. extremely easily and fast. I honestly don't think too many people will be using it to tell time, they'll be using it to chat back and forward in a fast, convenient way and to interact with apps they love - twitter, Facebook, etc. When you go to a restaurant…

Chat really fast on a screen that size?

that explains why they came up with that ability to send finger drawings back and forth so easily. You can use Siri to text. And since it dynamically extracts multiple choice buttons from questions with "or", replies are a simple touch.

EDIT: Just found this which says the same: http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/09/apple-watch-digital-touch/

Re: Meet the Apple Watch

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Post by joelberman »

crazypyro wrote: post #26

I just don't think the watch market is really there. I feel like its shrinking steadily among younger people as the need for a time teller is replaced by the modern cell phone. I believe people have convinced themselves into convincing companies that they actually want a high tech wrist watch when, in reality, the market isn't that big and it is shrinking. I believe this whole craze started with the pebble. People se…

You should not define a market by a product. THe value of this is so that you do not have to pull bigger and bigger phones out of your pocket. It is not a watch, it is an easily seen notification device and simple input device. I think that people who are always looking at their phone need something like this. People that do not spend much time looking at texts, and screening calls will not need this.

Re: Meet the Apple Watch

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Post by joelberman »

crazypyro wrote: post #26

I just don't think the watch market is really there. I feel like its shrinking steadily among younger people as the need for a time teller is replaced by the modern cell phone. I believe people have convinced themselves into convincing companies that they actually want a high tech wrist watch when, in reality, the market isn't that big and it is shrinking. I believe this whole craze started with the pebble. People se…

You should not define a market by a product. THe value of this is so that you do not have to pull bigger and bigger phones out of your pocket. It is not a watch, it is an easily seen notification device and simple input device. I think that people who are always looking at their phone need something like this. People that do not spend much time looking at texts, and screening calls will not need this.
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