The marketing hype is ridiculous and the fanboys are going to be unbearable: Ion strengthened glass. 18K Gold developed to be twice as hard as standard gold.
No idea what "ion strengthened" means.
Meet the Apple Watch
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#122Apple Watch has NFC - now that is something none of the Android watches have. Don't pull your phone or wallet out, pay with your wrist. But by early 2015, Android Wear will catch up.
I'm curious about authentication. How do you make sure only authorized transactions go through without pulling out the phone (which would make having NFC on the watch irrelevant anyhow)?
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#124Three things: 1. No word on battery. This has been a huge problem for other (sometimes larger) watches. Does it have to be charged daily? 2. More expensive than the competition ($350 Vs. $250 and $150, for the Galaxy Gear+Moto 360/Pebble+Sony Smartwatch). 3. They release in "early 2015" so miss this Christmas holiday season which MIGHT negatively impact adoption (or not, dunno). 4. iPhone only. I understand their rea…
Tim Cook said about the magnet connector "so that you can easily charge it at night". So expect to charge it daily.
That's crazy. One of the great things about my Pebble being my alarm is that vibration on your wrist is hard to sleep through. If you have to charge your watch every night...
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
And are incredibly dependent on picking which notifications to push to the wrist, implicitly raising their importance. Unfortunately, ml has not been a strong spot for apple historically, though after the maps debacle they may not underestimate it anymore.
There's value even in unfiltered notifications - at worst I've wasted a glance, as opposed to rooting around my pockets for my phone. I've had a Pebble for the last year, and even its unfiltered notifications has been tremendously preferable over digging out my phone to see what's up.
really -- I had thought it would be annoying. You're the first person I've heard say that. That's really interesting.
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NFC payments are awesome. Can't wait to try it.
That was easily the most important part of the announcement for me as well. Hopefully it's open and other platforms can take part as well. We all knew that we needed a push from someone like Apple to make it happen and take it mainstream.
There was a prominent PayWave logo on the terminal in the demo video - it's definitely using the current NFC standard already supported by Android phones.
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there's a reason the wrist watch replaced the pocket watch.
>> 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.
It's a cyclic evolution. Pocket watch to wrist watch to pocket phone to wrist phone. With technological breakthroughs practicality has to take one step back before catching up again.
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#128Possibly the ugliest of all smartwatches, useless for the majority of people out there, not likely to be on the wrists of most of the target demographic (they already own watches and fitness bands), and incredibly expensive. Not sure how many people need a watch to tell them that their phone is ringing. Good job, Apple. While I'm sure there will be some adherents who will buy whatever you will produce, the Android wa…
> not likely to be on the wrists of most of the target demographic (they already own watches and fitness bands)
You could've said that about phones and PDAs pre-iPhone.
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#129I 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…
I think the watch as a phone accessory is a waste of time. Developed countries are still selling dumbphones like crack, the number of people who want a smartphone with a 2nd, expensive interface to it is probably pretty boring. But these are going somewhere interesting - they could end up replacing phones, 4g sticks / hotspots, usb sticks etc.
Developed countries are still selling dumbphones like crack
But those people don't have any money, or at least don't spend any money, and are consequently of no interest to the larger ecosystem that can be built around smart devices. A cynical view, perhaps, but a realistic one.
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#130This watch looks like it was designed by a committee: Two ways to navigate the interface (wheel for zooming, to avoid touching the screen, and panning by...touching the screen). Tasteless misfeatures like customisable emoji [1] and drawing your own fail whale on a tiny screen [2], and most inexplicable of all for an expensive watch - very little attention paid to the actual watch face designs, which are not even adap…
My friends and I love the stickers on messenger. On a new sticker day, it's like the highlight of the day. They're fun and sometimes terrifying, and it adds some fun to group conversations.
Maybe you're not the target audience.