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Report: Apple Watch Preorders Almost 1 Million On First Day In the US
An anonymous reader writes The launch of the Apple Watch has got off to a good start, with an estimated 1 million pre-orders in the U.S. on Friday. "According to Slice's Sunday report, which is based on e-receipt data obtained directly from consumers, 957,000 people preordered the Watch on Friday, with 62% purchasing the cheapest variant, the Apple Watch Sport. On average, each buyer ordered 1.3 watches and spent $503.83 per watch."
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Guys, the joke is over! 800,000 fake Apple Watch orders wasn't funny the first time!
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Anyone buying this watch is an idiot. It's like buying a flat bed trailer and a car. And using the flat bed trailer to transport the car everywhere.
You already have a damned smartphone. All the functionality is there without the extra $350 expendature.
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I'll admit i was originally apprehensive of getting out of bed at all today until i remembered, with the help of my scheduling butler, the arrival of apples newest wristwatch. Perusing my collection of rare finds from Rolex this morning in the yachts liesure room, as I certainly couldnt bare the shame of being seen in public without a standard timepiece, I chose to dress down as I'd be among the city folk today. Stepping off my yacht and into my helicopter, I could hardly contain my anticipation and as soon as I arrived and my driver was upon the tarmac, I made haste toward the perignon and reclined albeit only subtly in the hand stitched leater seating of the Bentley (im told the city people mostly confine themselves to Bentley and i shouldnt wish to casue a stir.) Finally, after what seemed an eternity of film and caviar I arrived at the Apple store, gazed longingly at the line, and tool delivery of my very own Apple watch from my travel liason. And wouldnt you know, theyre quite a steal at only ten thousand dollars.
now ive heard tell of people saying theyre quite a bit more after "tax" but I assure you ive no concept of what that may be in relation to the product. Perhaps some unsavoury orientals have swindled you good folk, and purloined your earned cash for the song of this "tax."
Good people go to bed earlier.
are fancy gadgets, and letting people know they are wearing the latest.
I haven't worn a (wrist) watch for decades When you have to do frequent hand washing (in the last 35 years I have been employed in the meat industry, food industry, childcare and elder care) its not worth the hassle. Of course I gave up Apple in 1988
I kept forgetting my cell phone so I decided to stop wearing a wrist watch and started to use the phone to keep track of time. Between chencking the time, receiving e-mails, SMS'es and phone calls, browsing the net, playing games or reading e-books when I'm bored it's been years since I left the house without me noticing I had forgotten the damn cellphone within a few minutes.
It still has to be proven to me that the watch does something valuable. I stopped wearing watches over a decade ago.
Remember kids, if you're not paying for the service, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT THAT IS BEING SOLD.
I wear a cheap, waterproof, digital, rubberised, lasts-forever watch that costs an absolute pittance. It shows time and date on the front screen, which is my biggest buying point of them.
It gets in the way whenever I'm digging into a PC, so I take it off.
My ex and my girlfriend tried, when they first met me, to buy me "nice" watches as expensive presents. I never wore either, but I did at least explain why.
Sorry, a fancy watch is an old status-symbol. And whenever I do forget my watch, I just use my phone. I'd be a million times more lost without my phone than without my watch. Why I'd want my watch to talk to my phone, I can't fathom.
I can think of several applications I'd have for a smart watch, but I don't think any of the current offerings meet my needs in terms of build quality or battery life. But if millions of people start wearing apple watches, investments into the technology will be made and in a few years there'll be a cheap, high-quality Android watch for me to buy.
So, thank you early adopters.
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News flash..... Digital watches have existed for decades, Hipsters have been cringing for a long time now about them and lamenting about how the mechanical movements are far superior and make their records sound better.
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Yes, because the mechanical wind-up machines carried on people's wrists are certainly not the anachronisms in this case... Wait, what?
I wear a watch daily. Sometimes I like to know what time it is. Not everyone carries a phone with them everywhere they go. Not everyone works in the meat, food or child industries. I have no desire for an Apple watch (especially since they don't make a left-handed one) - or even a digitial watch (I wear a Seiko Big Boss, https://watchpage.wordpress.co...), but I see no denigrate those who do. Hell, I have AAPL stock. I'll be happy if everyone on the planet buys an Apple watch.
I haven't worn a (wrist) watch for decades When you have to do frequent hand washing (in the last 35 years I have been employed in the meat industry, food industry, childcare and elder care) its not worth the hassle. Of course I gave up Apple in 1988
You likely represent the minority in your age bracket.
The younger generation that never knew life without a smartphone, never understood the value of wearing a wristwatch.
What will really blow your mind is that is now the same individual lining up to pay someone else $500 for the luxury of wearing one.
Talk about brand power.
Neither had I. Until last July, when my wife gave me an Android smartwatch for my birthday (suck it Apple ... you are not an innovator of smart watches).
Since then, I've worn it every day. I know, what's the big deal about taking your phone out of your pocket.
Well ...
When your hands are covered with mortar dust, and your phone rings. it's pretty convenient.
When you are expecting a call but want to go swimming, it's pretty nice to have a watch that's waterproof for swimming.
When you are driving down the highway and want to get a picture of something, it's pretty convenient. (Oh wait .. the iWatch doesn't have a camera). And it's not distracted driving when all you have to do point your hand in the general direction, and say 'shoot'.
When you want to shut off that damn alarm about turning off the pool equipment, and your phone is in the house.(Pool timer broke, so I direct wired it until I order another one.)
When you don't have to carry your phone around the house all day in your pocket because if someone calls you, you can answer using your watch.
When you need to set a timer to remind you to check the water boiling for tea, it's pretty convenient to not take the phone out of your pocket.
When you can't find your phone and your watch can set off the ring tone.
Oh .. and it tells the time too.
Notice I didn't say anything about the fitness apps. I used them for awhile, then noticed that they really sucked down the battery. Then I realized that I don't need a watch to tell me how far I've walked today BECAUSE IT JUST ISN'T THAT FREAKIN IMPORTANT! My scale tells me every morning if I'm not exercising enough or eating too much.
Is it worth $300? Depends on how much $300 is worth to you. I didn't think it was worth that much, but my wife felt it would make a great birthday present since I was always looking at it but refused to spend the money. Now that I've used it for 9 months, I'd say it was worth every dime. I've learned to discount anyone that says something isn't worth the money, because they only know whether or not it's worth it to them. And since they have never had one, they have no idea what they are talking about.
If I had an Apple phone, I might buy the iWatch. It's definitely not enough to get me to switch from Android. (Has Apple innovated two windows on their iPads yet??? How about multiple users.) Mine has definitely been worth the $300. Isn't. that's cheaper than the iWatch? And it has a camera. And can use standard watch bands.
But I won't be buying the latest Samsung phone either. Why would I buy a phone that I can't swap out the battery or use an SSD card.
If I wanted that, I'd spend more money and buy an iPhone.
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
Smartwatches were the #1 most returned tech item of 2014. Some models were as much as 60% returned! They're absolutely despised by anyone who has used one. I'm one of newegg's product testers and I tested the 2nd generation of Samsung smartwatches. I and everyone gave it a horrible review then I sold it. But this time around, it's Apple fans buying the product. So who will win in this epic battle of Apple false superiority and arrogant smugness versus the strong urge to return their useless, annoying product.
I think that's kind of the whole point. I mean we are here talking about it after all. I think there is an economic term for the practice, anyone care to enlighten?
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I wear a cheap, waterproof, digital, rubberised, lasts-forever watch that costs an absolute pittance. It shows time and date on the front screen, which is my biggest buying point of them.
Which is NOT why anyone would buy a smartwatch. If all you want is a simple chronometer then buy a simple chronometer. Odds are you have one already. The various new smartwatches are something different. Think of them as a small sensor package combined with a data logger and some basic smartphone features. The use cases are different and the target audience is different. It's like comparing a smartphone to an old basic cell phone. The smartphone is a computer that happens to make phone calls. The old phone is phone and little else. Different devices with overlapping but different use cases.
I have no use at all for Apple's watch but I can see some people who might find it fits their life. I also have no use for a simple watch since there are almost always at least 2-3 clocks within eye shot or easily accessible in my daily life. I honestly cannot fathom why most people would ever need or want to wear a simple wristwatch unless they are doing something like running.
Take a look at the Apple Watch listings on eBay, because that's more than you'll ever see on people's wrists for the rest of your life.
Competing against Apple isn't just about the product but it's the entire experience. So far Samsung has tried but so far is not making money.
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The comments in this thread, I mean.
Seriously - we are talking about new technology - a new gadget to play with. We could be talking about the interface, comparing it to other smart watches, discussing possible future apps that would make sense in this context. But no - it's from Apple, so let's all talk about how we don't want a watch.
Personally I think the success of the watch highly depends on the interface. Other smart watches have been hard to navigate, and I am not entirely sure I believe Apple has cracked the code on the. If they have, this could be a really cool device. If not, I don't think we will see too many generations of it.
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Can I make phone calls with the iWatch? Since I can tell time with my phone, it sounds like a logical use for it.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
how many be turned back like the Samsung's Gears were.
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OK, here's my idea:
There's an accelerometer in the Apple Watch, right? So, I write an app that plays a yodeling sound whenever the watch shakes. Then, when you jerk off, it sounds like this:
https://youtu.be/vQhqikWnQCU?t...
Come on, you know that would be the all-time Apple Watch killer app. I'm a lazy bastard, so I freely give this idea to any of you app devs who want to run with it. Just give me a shout out in the "about" page.
You are welcome on my lawn.
You missed the post above you where someone claimed all of them were purchased by people planning to resell on eBay for higher prices by restricting availability.
Completely shocking that it was posted anonymously.
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People keep missing the point of these things. These are not practical devices like an iPhone that just happens to also be sleek and fashionable. These are fashion items first and foremost (a universally acceptable jewelry item for both men and women) that also happen to have some clever tech-related features. No one buys an Apple watch so they can tell the time. They're buying it so they can show off something interesting and fashionable on their wrist.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
Yeah, because companies hate it when the press continually talks about how their new product is so successful that they can't keep up with demand for weeks on end, and the notion of "it's so good that hundreds of thousands of people are willing to wait weeks for delivery" absolutely doesn't get other people to take another look at the product and / or get in line themselves.
See: Christmas launches of set-top gaming consoles.
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When you need to set a timer to remind you to check the water boiling for tea, it's pretty convenient to not take the phone out of your pocket.
I say this as an Englishman: er, what? My normal process for making the tea is:
1. put slightly over a mug's worth of water in a kettle.
2. switch on kettle
3. fiddle with phone while kettle boils (about a minute).
4. keep fiddling with phone because I'm only half way through a game of whatever by the time it's boiled.
5. re-boil kettle because it went cold because I was fiddling with my phone for too long because the time to boil is too short.
6. Fiddle with phone while kettle boils.
7. goto 4: note this is generally an asymptotic series and generally converges at t < infinity
8. pour water in cup.
9. pour in the tiniest drop of milk
10. extract tea bag.
11. walk to wherever I was going to drink tea with phone in one hand and tea in the other, still playing the game because I'm not quite finished.
12. spill hot tea on hand.
13. curse.
14. attempt to finish game.
15. get tea on screen.
16. screen doesn't work while wet so this usually ends the process.
I'm not really sure where the reminder comes in, because the time taken to boil is so short. Plus it's obvious when it's done because a 3kw kettle is noisy as hell when it boils.
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When you are expecting a call but want to go swimming, it's pretty nice to have a watch that's waterproof for swimming. ...
When you want to shut off that damn alarm about turning off the pool equipment, and your phone is in the house.(Pool timer broke, so I direct wired it until I order another one.) ...
When you don't have to carry your phone around the house all day in your pocket because if someone calls you, you can answer using your watch. ...
When you can't find your phone and your watch can set off the ring tone.
What smart watch are you using that has enough range to work through multiple walls in your house, or under water with your phone by the pool side? All the ones I have seen are Bluetooth or wifi with tiny antennas and extremely, and thus very low range. They seem to be designed to work over a range of about 1m, i.e. from your pocket to your wrist.
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The younger generation that never knew life without a smartphone, never understood the value of wearing a wristwatch.
Older chronometer watches did nothing but tell time. A useful feature but kind of pointless if you have clocks all around you. Plenty of young people see the value in them, they just don't see the point in wearing one 24/7.
What will really blow your mind is that is now the same individual lining up to pay someone else $500 for the luxury of wearing one. Talk about brand power.
The various smartwatches are NOT the same thing as your old Timex wristwatch. They do a lot more than just tell time. Your argument is akin to comparing a basic flip-phone that just makes phone calls to a modern smartphone. The use cases overlap but they are NOT the same thing and will not be used for the same purposes. These new watches have a sensor package, data logging, pager/smartphone features and more plus of course they can tell time. You may or may not have a use for Apple's watch (I do not) but plenty of people clearly do. Apple's reputation for delivering useful products helps get folks to think about it but if the device isn't actually genuinely useful/interesting and doesn't work well then sales will drop like an anvil.
I think the Apple Watch will sell fairly well if the functionality is there. I don't think it will be as big a blockbuster as the iPad or iPhone but I think enough people will find it interesting/useful enough to be a nice business line for Apple.
Digital watches have existed for decades, Hipsters have been cringing for a long time now about them and lamenting about how the mechanical movements are far superior and make their records sound better.
Depends on the hipsters. The lord-of-the-rings beard, skinny trousers, no socks and a pipe style hipsters which populate East London very much like the fancy versions of the casio terrorist watch, which are basically the same innards in a metal case, possibly gold coated.
Actually not that there's anything wrong with that, it's a rock solid watch, small, light, cheap, near indestrutable and in a case which isn't quite so plasticy.
Even so, it looks more genuine if you where one while on your fixie bike.
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I'm not really sure where the reminder comes in, because the time taken to boil is so short. Plus it's obvious when it's done because a 3kw kettle is noisy as hell when it boils.
Between 9 and 10, apparently, as the boffins claim you have to steep for like, 4 mins or something, I forget, should be an app for that.
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Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
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Tea bag?
Your Britishness permit is hereby revoked.
Personally, I don't really need one - it doesn't have enough sports-functions and all the rest (notifications, messages) isn't important to me as I don't sync my work-email, work-calendar with my iPhone.
And my iPhone is too old to be paired with one. But it's an intersting device, nevertheless.
I don't understand the hate towards people who buy one.
"I don't have any music, so I don't need an iPod (or the music-playing capabilites of the iPhone) - so I can't see how anybody else would need such functionality."
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You don't know very much about Britain if you think the use of tea bags is unusual here. It's not Downton fucking Abbey you know.
Why in the world would anyone want more than one Apple Watch? I'm fairly certain people aren't buying them for their significant others. Well, most aren't.
Given how many people buy other major electronics to resell on ebay and other sites, how many of these 1 million plus pre-orders do you think are just buying the iWatches to create artificial scarcity and resell at a higher price? And who can't wait a month to get a damn smartwatch? Who pays the marked up reseller price?
Help me understand! I just don't get it!
As an expat living in the 'States, the only times that I miss 240V is boiling water and the fact that the flymo will never seem to exist over here. Mainly boiling water.
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!
Well, the Apple watch will happily chat to your phone anywhere its on the same wifi network, to bring the conversation back around to the subject at hand, so there's at least one (or 1 million) right there...
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!
Like... the smartphone that's in my pocket.
Except more portable and weatherproof. There are plenty of times when a smartphone is too cumbersome or would be damaged. While some people do carry them, exercising with a large smartphone is awkward at best. Good luck swimming with your smartphone. Plenty of other times a watch would be a preferable form factor. A very compact portable sensor package is a useful thing. Most people will be served just fine with a smartphone (I'm one of them) but I can see plenty of use cases for something like a smartwatch.
I kept forgetting my cell phone so I decided to stop wearing a wrist watch and started to use the phone to keep track of time. Between chencking the time, receiving e-mails, SMS'es and phone calls, browsing the net, playing games or reading e-books when I'm bored it's been years since I left the house without me noticing I had forgotten the damn cellphone within a few minutes.
If your smartwatch has a feature that makes it beep when it's too far from your phone, you will never forget it again and you can resume wearing a watch.
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As an expat living in the 'States, the only times that I miss 240V is boiling water and the fact that the flymo will never seem to exist over here. Mainly boiling water.
You get batter high powered vacuum cleaners on 240V as well. That's about it, since there aren't many things which need more than 1600W from a wall socket.
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Given the state of the American Education system, I fully expect 5 million to drop green on this crap within the first week. It still won't be a good representation of the majority of the American Market. It's not lemmings. It's consumerism by the lowest common denominator. People with more money than sense. Don't think...buy. Keeps the economy going, stupid.
Apple Watch Preorders Almost 1 Million On First Day In the US
957,000 people preordered the Watch on Friday
On average, each buyer ordered 1.3 watches
So did they actually sell 957,000 x 1.3 = 1, 244,100 watches? Because "more than 1 Million watches" would have been a better headline.
Pretty sure they are going to flip the things.
And this is what people are looking for
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-...
The 1st gen firewire ipods in mint are worth at least 3k GBP and up.
Don't think for a second hipsters give a shit about digital wrist watches. This isn't the 1980's and the vogons aren't about to attack
I wear a watch daily. Sometimes I like to know what time it is.
I do not wear a watch daily and I almost always know what time it is. As I type this I have 3 clocks within eyesight (computer monitor, phone on my desk and wall clock) and another 6 within 50 feet of where I stand. I have two in my car, one in most rooms I enter, one on most computers, my thermostat and of course my phone. I don't have a problem with anyone wearing a watch but I personally find them uncomfortable and highly redundant. Why would I want to wear a slightly bulky uni-tasking redundant device?
Not everyone carries a phone with them everywhere they go.
True but even when I don't have mine with me I almost always have a clock nearby. Again, nothing against watches but for most people they are a bit anachronistic.
Smartwatches were the #1 most returned tech item of 2014.
If true all that means is that those particular smartwatches were absolute rubbish. And I don't doubt that many of them were bad. Being first to market isn't necessarily an advantage because everyone else gets to learn from your mistakes. There were smartphones before Apple introduced the iPhone but pretty much every meaningful smartphone afterwards is clearly influenced by the iPhone. Just because other companies produced a junk product doesn't mean Apple's will automatically suck. Apple's got a pretty good track record but they have had their share of dud products too. Only time will tell on this one.
But this time around, it's Apple fans buying the product. So who will win in this epic battle of Apple false superiority and arrogant smugness versus the strong urge to return their useless, annoying product.
So you think that the product is crap despite the fact that you've never laid a finger on one and thus couldn't possibly know. Curious argument you have there. Personally I prefer to actually try a device before declaring it to be crap. Maybe it is crap but you sure as hell don't know.
i usually skip #10 - but instead of spilling tea on the screen my #15 is: forget to extract tea bag. 16. remember to extract tea bag after 10-15 minutes 17. get a taste of tea that has definitely gotten too strong 18. goto 1
I've got to admit that initially, I was *not* excited by the Apple watch announcement at all. Like a lot of people, I was thinking, "Stupid! Most people don't wear watches anymore. The smartphone is what KILLED them for many of us!" I thought the prices were insanely high for the fancier models, and it's little more than a "remote display/control for the phone" anyway.
I'm also aware of the Android watches that came first, and one of my best friends uses one. It has its good points, but I never felt it was anything I'd use myself.
But as it turns out, Apple's online ordering for the new watch went live on the day of our anniversary, so my wife offered to get me one as a gift. (Frankly, I wasn't willing to stay awake until 3AM to place an order, but the "hype machine" did at least convince me to browse Apple's site before I went to bed, just to see what configurations they had. I mentioned to my wife that if I was going to get one, I'd probably do the space grey with a black sport band -- as it was the only one I thought looked any good without spending crazy prices for the upscale editions.) Turns out she DID stay up until 3AM and ordered that one for me.
So now, as I wait my 4-6 weeks for delivery, I've been doing more research to find out exactly what this thing will and won't be able to do for me. And as the long-term reviews come out from people who got to use one for a week or more, it sounds promising. Unlike the initial reports that the Apple Watch would basically "do nothing but tell the time" when it wasn't paired up with your phone in your pocket? I'm finding out that's not quite so. For starters, it apparently has 2GB of storage in it for music. So you can use it as a music player with a pair of bluetooth earbuds without your phone anywhere around. It's also smart enough to pair to your phone via your wi-fi network, as well as via low power bluetooth. So you can walk around your house or office and the watch will be fully functional, even though your phone was left on your desk or nightstand.
Additionally, reports are coming out that as long as the watch is on a wi-fi network, you can send and receive iMessages on it without the need of a paired phone.
Then there's the fitness tracker aspect of it. My workplace just started a program where everyone gets a free FitBit and there's a website you can log into to compete with co-workers for who walked the most in a day or a week, etc. etc. It's part of the overall "wellness program". Great, but I really dislike my new FitBit. Because it lacks any GPS functionality, it's too "brain dead" to realize when I'm in a car, on the metro, in a plane, etc. etc. -- so any vibrations that happen get counted as steps taken. It can literally be 50% off on counting your steps! The Apple Watch and iPhone combo makes a far more powerful fitness tracker than FitBit.
So yeah, the Apple Watch is definitely not a "need", but simply a "want". And many people may not want it at all. That's fine. But I think I'm forced to rethink my original opinion that this was generally going to be a bad idea for Apple. What it may do is re-kindle the interest in wearing a watch around, because it finally gives people some reasons why they should consider doing so, EVEN THOUGH they carry a smartphone already.
I'm a runner and I just got a Garmin "vivoactive" GPS watch, to replace my Garmin 910. It's a definitely focused on sport and fitness tracking, which is why I got it, but the smartwatch features are fun and I actually wear it daily because it's fun. It's got widgets and apps and stuff too; I'm sure it'll never have as many developers targeting it as the Apple watch, but if I want to do some hobby stuff I can.
I wouldn't compare it directly with the Apple watch for several major reasons: ... however it looks pretty good and it gets a lot better battery life. I've only had it a couple weeks but I can easily go most of week between charges, depending how much running I do as GPS is the biggest drain. Garmin claims 3 weeks of battery if you aren't using GPS but that's probably a stretch.
1) The screen is a backlit color LCD. It's never going to be as pretty as the Apple watch
2) This has GPS built in, so I don't have to carry my phone with me when I run. This is a big deal for me, but probably not for everyone.
And it only costs $250 which is really good for GPS watches for the features it has. I recommend it if you're interested in any combination of smartwatch / GPS watch / fitness tracker.
I've swum with my last two smartphones.
Umm, why? Seriously why? Unless you get thrown out of a boat I really cannot think of any reason why I would ever consider swimming with my smartphone even if it were waterproof. I'm open minded about reasons but I seriously cannot think of any sensible reason to do this.
Amplifiers that go up to 11?
they don't make 'tube transistors' anymore, but I could probably find some resistifiers and capacitators inside the usual china-made electronics gear of today.
maybe the occasional transistorators, as well, even though they are starting to become rare as chen's teeth.
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When I moved to Britain a few years ago that was the thing that surprised me most. I think it must be a common misconception that Americans have about Brits. I always thought it was just us uncultured Americans that used tea bags and that you guys knew better. It was a similar situation with butter and margarine.
Yes, but if they flip 1 million watches, Apple has still sold 1 million watches.
Damn - I was stock piling bottled water and Spam for nothing!
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Watches are for slaves.
iWatches are for iSlaves.
I decide where I need to be and when, thank you very much.
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I have a better chance than you of surviving if I stick a couple of forks in outlet. (Disclaimer: survival of fork-related electric shock is not guaranteed.)
And don't give me that "we mandated safety shutters in 1947 and therefore cannot insert forks into outlets to repeat the experiment" crap. Or that "why the hell are you going around sticking forks in outlets, you moron" crap.
OK, but seriously why the hell ARE you sticking forks in the outlets?
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Just wait until Apple comes out with a digital towel.
Let the latest round of wanking begin
If I were a watch maker, let alone a person who repaired watches, I'd be cringing.
Then again, based on the number of almost completely destroyed iPhone screens I see, the Apple Watch could be a huge boon to companies that sell insurance and do screen repairs.
Much like a nice pair of off-the-rack-yet-properly-fitted slacks, a shirt correctly sized, and a decent pair of clean shoes, a modest watch says a lot about you as a grown man both professionally and personally. It's telling to me that several women have tried to steer you towards this, and yet you've disregarded them because for you it's part of some "status symbol" thing. No dude, it just means you're a grown man who knows how to take care of himself and takes a degree of pride in himself and appearance.
When you have to do frequent hand washing (in the last 35 years I have been employed in the meat industry, food industry, childcare and elder care
Good point. Clearly, this device isn't suitable for anyone in any of those professions, so it should probably not be allowed to exist.
Wait, so you put your clean hand in your dirty pocket and then touch meat with that now-filthy hand? Or do you touch meat and then put your filthy hand in your pocket? Either way, ewwww.
People who say "sheeple" have about as much sophistication as an AOL user, and in fact are probably actually AOL users.
Neither had I. Until last July, when my wife gave me an Android smartwatch for my birthday (suck it Apple ... you are not an innovator of smart watches).
It's actually very funny when a Fandroid accuses Apple of not inventing something; because, since they ripped-off the entire concept of the original iPhone, ya know...
I trust everyone around here remembers that; or do I have to whip out the citations, Google internal memos, and the before and after pictures (yet again)?
Come on, most of these are being snapped up by ebay traders, hoping to restrict the supply to make a profit from the new product.
A million eBay traders; riiiiiiiight.
How could they release this thing without a technology like Witricity or whole room charging?? It should be able to charge in a room or when you are sitting on the couch and also in the car without having to deliberately place your hand/watch in a specific location.
I mean we have the technology for whole room charging, so why not use it? They have like 100 billion dollars in cash couldn't they have spent a few million and figured out how to put Witricity into the watch? Now even Samsung won't do it until they have Apple does it .. so we have to wait for Apple to get this idea.
Well I know they are reading slashdot cause thats where they got the downfacing IR sensor and vibration messaging idea .. http://ask.slashdot.org/commen... so maybe they will grab this one too.
8. pour water in cup.
9. pour in the tiniest drop of milk
10. extract tea bag.
You're not an Englishman, you're an animal.
Those steps should read:
pour water in cup.
wait for 4 minutes.
extract tea bag.
add milk.
Only an animal lets the milk and the teabag meet. And an Englishman lets the tea brew. What you have there is slightly milky water with a bit of brown dye in it.
My Pebble works throughout my house. It's a 2400 square foot two-story, and when I'm cleaning the car, working on a bike, or gardening - I tend to leave the phone on the fireplace mantle (near the middle of the house). My Pebble maintains connection with it, no problem. When a call comes in, I know if I need to clean up and go call back, or can just ignore it for later.
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
According to Wikipedia, the widely-known 1.0 SPM constant was first proposed sometime in the mid-late 1800s, usually attributed to PT Barnum, but apparently falsely. Perhaps the murky origins of the constant explain why it has been forgotten by physics, or perhaps it's just that modern commerce has made it much easier to measure with accuracy.
To make it more SI, I propose we switch to Suckers Per Second, and that SPS should be updated from 60 (in the Barnum era) to a lower bound of 395 (ref: Apple Watch, "sport" edition) and upper bound of SBP=17,000.
To be honest I thought the very same about the iPhone 6 but when I handled one and looked at it in the flesh I changed my mind. It's actually quite pretty in a simple and subtle way. And that watch is VERY similar to the iPhone 6. It's smoothly rounded, with very little in terms of gaps and ugly details and I'm fairly sure it will look and feel totally fine.
I won't buy one, but I don't really think it is ugly. Of course it's still a matter of taste, but there are things you can call "ugly" with better reasons.
He must be from down south.
Although I can't criticise, I drink coffee..
I'm buying the cheaper one so I can gold plate it myself to upgrade it to $17K version so I can show it off to people who would then believe me to be a vastly superior human being than them. That can be my legacy. Here lies a dude who owned a $17K watch. He is so F'ing cool.
generally out of the price range most people set for watches
What, £42? http://www.watchshop.com/Mecha...
Highly complicated mechanical watches and mechanical chronographs range in price from 'expensive' to 'my lifetime earnings', but basic clockwork is affordable.
I reckon 70%+ of tea-drinking Brits have never had loose leaf tea.
Not transistors, but definitely tubes:
http://www.cathodecorner.com/n...
Note the excellent quote from Slashdot :)
I wear a watch all the time. I don;t want an Appel smart watch, but I do wear an analogue watch made of metal.
I also wash my hands frequently (I work in a lab).
Oh sorry, I forgot that everyone on earth has the same needs as you. My mistake.
Yes, but if they flip 1 million watches, Apple has still sold 1 million watches.
The first million are the lowest profit margin. Just ask Balmer how that works, and He'll tell you all about the Surface Pro...
Its the second through 10th million where the real profits are. If apple builds two million, and never sells the second million, they take a bath, write them off and walk away a billion poorer ( and wiser ).
I'm torn. I can genuinely appreciate Apple's ability to see use cases that I can't / haven't, but I'm curious to see how people plan to use these that will make them that popular. I personally think its more likely to be the scalpers that are trying to make a quick buck on the assumption that the demand will far outstrip the supply (the way it usually does for apple product launches). If that’s the case, I'll have little sympathy for either Apple or the scalpers. If its not, then I will congratulate Apple on its first post Jobs success.
I wish I had a good sig, but all the good ones are copyrighted
Of course I gave up Apple in 1988
Finally! A tech savvy individual on Slashdot who understands the state of the industry and is able to express a knowledgeable opinion. Everyone else commenting on this whole "Apple Watch" thing seems to be too heavily biased by the having used an Apple product in the last 2 decades. It's refreshing to get an unbiased opinion.
- Holy crap, I've got MOD points! Who thought that was a good idea.
No true Englishman would use a teabag.
Barbarians.
XML is a known as a key material required to create SMD: Software of Mass Destruction
"The launch of the Apple Watch has got off to a good start, with an estimated 1 million pre-orders in the U.S. on Friday."
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And yet, the press had already pre-decided it was a failure
And yet every household has a tea strainer just in case the queen comes to visit or something.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Oh got I hate mildly brown water. Actually I barbarically agitate the teabag because I'm impatient. One place I used to work had a good, old fashioned tea urn. They just chucked in bags and water and plugged it into the wall. I think you could use it to degrease engines, though it was fed to engineers. Good stuff!
As another poster deduced, yes, I am indeed from down south.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
The lines for the iTowel will be around the block.
The non stop whining from the Google Towel fans will clog up news feeds for months.
Quietly, a small segment of the population will point out.... the iTowel and the google Towel will not dry you off.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
A million eBay traders; riiiiiiiight.
The people who make moronic comments about flipping hard-to-get gadgets on eBay have clearly never sold on eBay. Very often, the winning bidder turns out to be a non-paying deadbeat or a scammer, and then you're stuck waiting a few days on eBay to refund your end-of-sale & listing fees or arguing with PayPal. Even if you manage a successful sale, eBay takes 10% and PayPal takes somewhere around 2.9%.
As the Apple Watch comes in more combinations than a bag of mixed nuts, I doubt there's as much flipping potential as say, a phone that's only available in 3 different colors.
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
I experimented with it last friday. I thought that it looks and feels quite premium, more so than pictures suggest and more so than other smartwatches I briefly tried. The straps and bracelets are very well thought out. I expect it to inflict real pain on the quartz market, most of the fashion watches you see in malls, also Tissot and quartz Seikos.
For a v1 it is quite impressive but I will wait for v2. Apple is usually interesting in v1 and in v2 they make their products really mature. I do expect extra sensors (they hired people with phds on this subject), like blood sugar sensors. Health will become a killer app in the coming versions, which will drive mass adoption. All in my opinion of course. And there will be interesting competition coming.
While I expect it to kill most but the cheapest quartz watches, I also do expect the apple watch to increase interest in pure mechanical watches. Many young people do not wear a watch. I can see ever more powerful smartwatches to become popular with them, and because of that it wouldn't surprise me it becoming a gateway for mechanical watches to wear during dressed moments for example.
Again all in my opinion.
All in all I found it quite tempting.
When playing with the powered K'nex as a kid, I held the metal bits on the side to guide plugs into sockets b/c you don't have fine motor skills as a kid...and lo and behold I got jolted. While once is an accident, the stupider part was doing it again to confirm what happend and how...twice more. My IQ test around that time was in the 160's, so I don't think it was for lack of brains. Lack of common sense or lacking respect of authority, maybe.
Moral of the story: kids are stupid and will stick stuff in sockets or touch stuff stuck into sockets because they can. Also related: "Don't do it/don't touch it" doesn't work on many a child.
It's not a timer for the boil. It's a timer to help me to remember I put the damn pot on to boil so I don't run it dry.
And it's not a cup. It's a quart. I'm making iced tea. If I make hot tea, I nuke it.
And I use loose leaf tea, it's so much better than bagged tea.
And all it takes is to tap my watch once to select the timer, and once again to start it, since it's almost always set to 4.5 minutes. My wife and I drink a pitcher of tea a day on the weekends when doing yard work, and another pitcher or two the rest of the week. (I live in Phoenix, it's really dry here. And I'm probably outside doing something all year round. What can I say, I enjoy doing yard work on the weekend.)
Then exactly 4.5 minutes to steep. Another timer, but this is more important as too long makes the tea bitter. And it's the same as the timer I just used to boil water.
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
I have a Samsung 4 watch and a Samsung Gear 2. My phone is usually in the living room if I'm just running around the house, so it has to pass through one wall if I'm out back, 2 if I'm out front. There are windows, I don't know how much that makes a difference And it's stated to be waterproof for 30 minutes. I'm rarely in the pool for more than 10 (do yard work, get hot, jump in the pool, relax, get out, repeat), but between the hot tub and pool, I'd say the claim is pretty good.
I've found the range to be about 40ft. through the house, I have no idea line-of-sight.
But, if I know I'm going to be outside for awhile, I take the phone out with me and the range easily covers the back yard. It's a Phoenix back yard, so it's not too big.
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
Apple didn't invent the smartphone, they added a slick case and a few additional features that existing phones already had. At most, it was an incremental improvement in functionality wrapped up in a slick marketing campaign. Then they locked their customer base to their store, which was fine with all the iSheeple. Things like the pinch-to-zoom were already developed and in use by other tools before Apple used it and people went gah-gah over it. Apple simply took existing ideas, wrapped then in a phone, and make the world think they invented the concepts.
To be clear, I didn't suggest Samsung invent the smart watch either. I only mentioned all of the things existing smart watches can do because some pooh-pooh the idea, and that Apple is very late to the game. Because Apple's commercials make it sound like they invented the damn thing. And so does much of the media coverage.
Just as Apple didn't invent the desktop computer, or the portable music player, or a host of other things they act like they were the first company to actually create.
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
I haven't worn a (wrist) watch for decades When you have to do frequent hand washing (in the last 35 years I have been employed in the meat industry, food industry, childcare and elder care) its not worth the hassle.
So you work in any of those industries and pull out your phone when you want to check the time as is always claimed?
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
I have a better chance than you of surviving if I stick a couple of forks in outlet. (Disclaimer: survival of fork-related electric shock is not guaranteed.)
And don't give me that "we mandated safety shutters in 1947 and therefore cannot insert forks into outlets to repeat the experiment" crap. Or that "why the hell are you going around sticking forks in outlets, you moron" crap.
OK, but seriously why the hell ARE you sticking forks in the outlets?
Because as a Free American he fucking can. No government nor common sense can stop him.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
Apple didn't invent the smartphone, they added a slick case and a few additional features that existing phones already had. At most, it was an incremental improvement in functionality wrapped up in a slick marketing campaign.
They removed all those "necessary" buttons everybody all of a sudden can live without. You're welcome Fandroidcheaple.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
News flash..... Digital watches have existed for decades, Hipsters have been cringing for a long time now about them and lamenting about how the mechanical movements are far superior and make their records sound better.
That's why all hipsters have a Rolex and a Samsung phone. No Apple products, that's not for hipsters.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
generally out of the price range most people set for watches
What, £42? http://www.watchshop.com/Mecha...
Highly complicated mechanical watches and mechanical chronographs range in price from 'expensive' to 'my lifetime earnings', but basic clockwork is affordable.
If you don't mind your watch being off half a minute or so per week.
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.
To be fair, if you do you should probably just go quartz :)
And a set of best china too. And gloves for the laydeez.