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Apple Posts Guided Tours of the Features and Functions of the Apple Watch
MojoKid writes Wondering if Apple Watch is going to be worth the money? Well, that depends on several factors, including price, features, and how eager you are to jump into the smartwatch category at this point. To help tackle the latter two, Apple has posted a handful of videos that demonstrate what an Apple Watch can do. They play out like tutorial videos and are labeled "Guided Tour," followed by what specifically the video is showcasing. Currently, there are four Guided Tour videos available, one of which is a general introduction to Apple Watch labeled "Guided Tour: Welcome." It's the longest video of the bunch at 4 minutes and 45 seconds.
Wow, the size of those home button icons look cluttered and hard to be precise.
This is blog spam. Link directly to the videos: http://www.apple.com/watch/guided-tours/
It can track and tell time! I can't believe someone has finally taken the sundial and made it both portable, and small enough to fit on your wrist. Only Apple.
Yeah, whatever.
Is this really tech news? To me it sounds more like a fashion advert; I'm ok with people falling in a swoon over something 'cool', although I can't see what is cool about it myself, but I'd much rather hear about what engineers have to say about something difficult and technical, or even political, for that matter. I mean just imagine that we started flooding Hello magazine with loads of opinions about the merits of this GPU over that - it wouldn't go down well with the usual readers, I suspect. Hmm, now that's a thought ...
They should also make a video ... cash profit ... wages ... Steve Jobs driving ... I don't like Apple
It's also possible that other people don't like you. Therefore you should have someone follow you around and make a video of everything you do, every tip you leave, how you handle your choice of vegetable purchases, and a picture of your bank statement, overlayed with images of starving people so the rest of the world can see that you are an evil horder who keeps cash on hand when you could be giving it to the 99% of the rest of the world who don't have as much as you.
Or, you could just get a new hobby besides hate blogging about something you claim you aren't interested in anyway. No, I'm not going to buy an Apple watch. But I'm also definitely not going to hire you, either.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
I lost it at "The Apple Watch crown is a revolutionary new interface."
IT'S A FUCKING SCROLL WHEEL.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
It can tell everybody around you that you don't know fashion, you don't know tech, you like charging things every night, and you have too much money.
It's a big neon sign for the people who don't like Apple to come in and talk about how they are SO OVER Apple, and Jobs was a deushbag anyway. Samsung has their own marketing fluff - hell they just came out with new Galaxies - but that's not linked here, because people don't make a point of saying they are SO OVER Samsung.
Over and over and over again.
I hope you got paid for selling out. I have seen people complain about the outright advertisement stories before, but this "story" is the most blatant advertisement I have ever seen on slashdot. I miss the old slashdot.
How many times have you been in a meeting and someone's smartphone went off? Even if on vibrate? That person reacts to the phone. How much of a distraction is it to the members of the meeting?
So while you are taking care of the distraction, what have you missed of the meeting? Regardless of how many, or boring, the meetings that you attend. What if you had an opinion of what you missed that would have save hundreds of hours of work by not going down the wrong path, the harder path or just another view point on the problem that everyone missed? No they, and you, have missed the opportunity for "good".
Well, then don't allow distractions such as phones, tablets, laptops, and smartwatches to the meeting.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
Apple is the only computer supplier to attempt to give better wages, to issue constant reports on the conditions in the factory.
It's fine that you don't like Apple, I can understand how people want different things from hardware they use. What is not fine is to imply Apple is even as bad as any other computer provider as far as treating workers in factories - because it is a lie.
You are inherently a hypocrite; because whatever you are typing your messages of hate on was made under substantially worse conditions than any Apple product.
P.S. Steve Jobs has been dead a while now. If you still obsess over where he parked you may want to seek professional help. I didn't really care that much about him when he was alive; it's pretty freaky you do long after he is dead.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Since there will be more videos over the next week than the article links to, here's the direct link where you can see the full set without a page of ads (well, OK the whole page is one big ad, but you know what I mean):
Apple Watch Guided Tours
The one I'm really interested in seeing is Maps, the other functions I feel like have already been covered to some extent.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
And even then your phone is still going to go off and/or vibrate
Why should it if the watch is already alerting you?
People are still going to look at their watch, be distracted for a half second
I sort of agree with you if the people are looking at who is calling/texting. It will be fractionally quicker to look at the watch.
However if you know you con't care who is calling right now, the watch is really much better, because you can stop the buzzing just by covering the watch face with your hand. That is much less taxing on your attention than fumbling in your pocket to find the power button to dismiss the call. Ironically the ability to dismiss alerts/calls without thought is probably the greatest feature of the watch.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Yawn- so looking through the info, it doesn't really do much more than my Moto 360 can do, yet the Moto 360:
1) Has been available already for 7 months.
2) Has inductive charging and the Apple watch doesn't.
3) Is far less expensive.
4) Is arguably much better looking (for those who want round).
5) Works with many different phones, not just a few iPhone models.
So what is so innovative and impressive? A button on the side? The 360 has a button. It is not a scroll wheel, but despite what Apple's video claims, I have absolutely no problems using the touchscreen to pinch zoom, swipe, or scroll and it doesn't hurt my experience and is far more intuitive.
The ONLY two things I saw of interest were variable touch sensitivity... which is certainly not a new technology, but it novel on a watch. And having a speaker, which I certainly have not missed.
I mean, it looks like a great device, but I fail to understand why people think it is some brilliant new idea or super fantastic breakthrough.
Reminder: This is fashion too.
And you are thinking the Apple Watch cannot meet the standard of "fashion"?
A bonus reminder: This watch costs $230,000. It is named "Space Pirate"
You still think the Apple Watch is too expensive? Considering the utility it doesn't seem like much at all in comparison to the watches most people wear.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Oh, they require *reports*? How innovative, caring and considerate!
Apple is more and more turning into an *ss*h*le company. The Yosemite update sucks
and steals hundreds of millions of user's time for what, new fonts on the menu bar
and new sounds? They invent a new programming
language (Swift) for something that could've more than easily accomodated in an existing one,
forcing a useless learning exercise upon hundreds of thousands of developers. Their
customer service is a bad joke.
They used to be good, but now, *short them*.
I've rarely been to *ANY* meeting that was worth my attention.
I'm a consultant - once you are paid by the hour those meetings (mostly) go away and you just have the ones that have purpose. :-)
Frankly, I think the watch would be a big help in that its occasional "tapping", might keep me from falling asleep in said meeting
Now THAT would be an awesome feature, even for the ones you know you should be paying attention. Sadly the API does not allow access to the Tapper yet, but that should be coming later this year.
I like the idea of a big button on your calendar that marks a meeting as "POTENTIALLY BORING" that would activate the feature. If marathon 90% of the attendees clicked the same box, the meeting would automatically be canceled...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Well, no-one else has brought it up so... I just can't get past the fact that the 360 is not actually round, the screen that is. It's crazy to me they can round the screen at one end and not the other.
Even a secondary separated LCD screen that was program addressable would have, ah, rounded it out as it were and provided an interesting secondary slice of data. Heck, they could have made that eInk so there'd be no extra power drain.
It's not like I'm just into the Apple Watch either; I ordered a Pebble Time to see how well their UI ideas work (and am getting an Apple Watch also).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
You mean someone who left $0 to charity after his death?
I mean someone who keeps donations private so you cannot say how much he left, how much his family continues to give... why do you prefer publicity donations like the ones Gates makes?
Far better to be generous and quiet about it.
Yes, I've given trillions of dollars to charity too. I just don't need to brag about it. In fact I've given a trillion times a trillion more than Steve Jobs, so respect him even less. Even if he did die from a non-reaction to homeopathic treatment.