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iWatch Prototypes Could Be Ready, Apple Hires Fitness Physiologists For Tests

Posted by samzenpus on from the here-it-comes dept.

SmartAboutThings writes "Recently, Apple has been on a hiring spree, allegedly adding to its 100+ team of members of the iWatch team a sleep expert, a former expert in pulse oximetry and many others. Now, according to a recent job listing on Apple's own website, it seems that Cupertino is looking for physiologists for fitness and energy tests. In my opinion, this can only mean that the iWatch is nearing its final stage and that experts are required to assess how it fares."

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  1. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    F' beta.

    1. Re:first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      F' beta.

      Why in Odin's name would a company buy a site whose user base was historically so anti M$ and expect that they could make money from it by changing it to a M$/advertising oriented site. It reeks of affluenza enhanced megalomania. Someone's gonna buy this site for pennies in a few months.

      And have you noticed the polls? 1 out of 4 has something to do your employment status or conditions. Can you spell market research? I'll bet your resumes' IP, writing style and any other identifying data is being matched to slashdot accounts so this employment company can give the employer a little bit of extra info about you. As they teach their kids in that part of Ohio where I had to live in exile for 15 years, (said with a Dutch/Amish accent) "Expect the worst from anybody friendly, you won't be disappointed."

      I wish I could be happy. I haven't seen this much backlash against the establishment since the 60's. But you should be targeting NASA! vaca louca!

    2. Re:first post by Nitage · · Score: 3, Insightful

      WE HEAR YOU We did tell you we wanted feedback. Here's our response.

      Your response shows that you didn't hear. The beta is an experiment that has failed. Accept that and move on.

  2. We Are Not Your Audience by Osgeld · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Considering the news is days to weeks old the only value here is the COMMUNITY. We do not clap for your poorly worded couple paragraph news scrapes like a bunch of mindless buffoons, we are here to debate, and find a common ground on topics that we find interesting.

    There is plenty of things to fix on slashdot, beta does not address a single one of them and makes the site pointless to visit. Your move...

  3. Are you not entertained! by Nightbrood · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Try us Slashdot.... if you want to proceed with Beta then let's do the following test:

    1.) Disable comments for a day
    2.) Post stories that are "more accessible" for your "wider audience" to consume
    3.) Watch your stats (we know you are obsessing over them.)
    4.) Tell us how you like your numbers

    Don't screw this up DICE... I've enjoyed Slashdot as a community for 16 years but I am not afraid to move and it sounds like much of the community feels the same way.

    #IamSlashdot

    1. Re:Are you not entertained! by clonehappy · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I agree. However, while it wouldn't be hard to replicate the system and start over anew, we would lose the years of discussions that slashdot has archived. Don't overlook the value of over a decade and a half of the discussions that have made this site what it is lo these many years.
       
      And the value, for what it's worth, of someone with a 3-4 digit ID coming into the discussion to smack someone with his/her cane. We know what that low UID means, not that the person is speaking the gospel, but maybe we should stop and think about what he or she is saying a little further.
       
      While I agree, whole heartedly mind you, that Slashdot Beta is fully broken, there are aspects of this place that are just impossible to be replicated. Dice isn't just going to hand over the database to the community. We need to preserve and fight for what we have left rather than try and start over anew. It would never be the same.

  4. Re:They've responded! by ColdWetDog · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let's give them a chance, folks.

    We did. BozoBeta has been around for quite some time. Aside from a few minor cosmetic changes and a few (very few) functional improvements, it's been the same pile of fail. There have been precious few positive comments about it. When Slashdot started pushing the Beta design, the negative comments became more numerous, more strident and more detailed.

    So what we get from Timothy is a bit of marketing babble liberally sloshed on to a smidgen of comprehension.

    The ball is in your court, Slashdot. Figure it out, it's not really all that hard.

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  5. No, we MUST keep the pressure on. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, we need to keep the pressure on.

    I learnt a important lesson about a decade ago. Here in the UK there were fuel price protests which _really_ scared the government of the day.

    However, the protesters let the momentum disappear after some promises were made and by the time they realised their mistake and organised another protest, the new protest display turned out to be only a shadow of the original protests and nothing really got changed.

    I've never forgotten that lesson.

  6. Re:They've responded! by plasticsquirrel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's a perfectly valid alternate design for Slashdot already:

    http://web.archive.org/web/20000305021033/http://slashdot.org/

    Still looks great -- I prefer it to this design and to Beta. Admins, please bring back the design used around 2000. There is little whitespace, so little wasted space, larger clearer fonts, and still a lot on each page, and little or no JavaScript cruft. Besides those significant improvements, it looks warmer and more classic.

    BETA SUCKS. FUCK BETA.

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