Apple Event 2020 • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple Event 2020

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Post by skibble » Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 5:30 PM UTC

reillyse wrote: post #24

JaakkoP wrote: post #7

They came up with a new Apple Watch (Series 6) that measures blood oxygen content! If that actually works as advertised, this feels like enough of a reason to upgrade. My wife has Series 3 and I have Series 5, but I haven't seen a major difference between the two. Series 5 is slightly sleeker and smaller, but the updates didn't feel important enough for her to upgrade.

They've got to fix the battery life. I tried the apple watch earlier this year and returned it a couple of days later. After using a whoop (where I get 5 days of battery) the less than one day charge makes the product pointless.

My S4 easily lasts the best part of two days. Perhaps you had a software glitch?

Re: Apple Event 2020

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Post by ilikehurdles » Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 5:30 PM UTC

jpxw wrote: post #37

ilikehurdles wrote: post #4

Cool, a blood oxygen sensor. What a revolutionary new sensor that Garmin watches have had for only 3 years now.

At least when you buy an Apple Watch you know your watch isn’t going to stop working because the company you bought it from let themselves get infected by ransomware

Garmin's watches are meant to be used offline primarily, so they didn't really break.

Re: Apple Event 2020

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Post by cycrutchfield » Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 5:30 PM UTC

apazzolini wrote: post #49

The real question the lady should have asked about what the watch can do is play songs from Spotify without your iPhone near you, like when you're running. Spoiler alert: You can't.

Pretty sure that's Spotify's fault, not Apple.

Re: Apple Event 2020

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Post by RulerOf » Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 5:31 PM UTC

ganoushoreilly wrote: post #42

removing power adapter.. to save the environment. Also you have to buy it as an accessory for $30+ ....

Yeah. That presenter did a pretty good job of saying it with a straight face, too.

Re: Apple Event 2020

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Post by Thaxll » Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 5:31 PM UTC

So will they talk about the feud with Epic and the app store?

Re: Apple Event 2020

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Post by apazzolini » Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 5:31 PM UTC

cycrutchfield wrote: post #53

apazzolini wrote: post #49

The real question the lady should have asked about what the watch can do is play songs from Spotify without your iPhone near you, like when you're running. Spoiler alert: You can't.

Pretty sure that's Spotify's fault, not Apple.

Pretty sure Apple doesn't expose the correct APIs to allow this on the GPS model of the watch - at least that was the case when I last researched this.

Re: Apple Event 2020

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Post by mercer » Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 5:32 PM UTC

apazzolini wrote: post #49

The real question the lady should have asked about what the watch can do is play songs from Spotify without your iPhone near you, like when you're running. Spoiler alert: You can't.

Ugh. Bad commercial. Apple deviating from their dystopian earnestness rarely works out. Federighi sort of pulls it off, and I suppose the old "I'm a mac" commercials managed.

Re: Apple Event 2020

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Post by mrkstu » Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 5:32 PM UTC

ganoushoreilly wrote: post #42

removing power adapter.. to save the environment. Also you have to buy it as an accessory for $30+ ....

Basically a stealth price increase

Re: Apple Event 2020

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Post by innagadadavida » Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 5:32 PM UTC

GiorgioG wrote: post #18

Apple Watch Series 6...totally uninspired update. I was hoping we might get a glucose monitor/sensor, instead we get a blood oxygen sensor. Apple's just coasting at this point. I was considering getting the iPhone 12, but at this point I'm expecting a similar dud launch next month from Apple, so I'd rather give my money to Nvidia for an RTX 3080. Stop mailing it in Apple.

At this time at least, measuring blood oxygen has more consumer demand and impact than measuring glucose.

Re: Apple Event 2020

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Post by dfischer » Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 5:32 PM UTC

canadianwriter wrote: post #6

ilikehurdles wrote: post #4

Cool, a blood oxygen sensor. What a revolutionary new sensor that Garmin watches have had for only 3 years now.

Basically none of the technology Apple showed off in the original iPhone release was 100% brand new that no one else had, they just put it all together in a way that had never been done before. Garmin has that, but does it integrate the same way?

Apple rarely introduces breaking tech. They release optimized tech that makes good products. Rarely first to market - they experiment, learn, adapt, and go in when confident.