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Apple Watch Launches
An anonymous reader writes: The Apple Watch's release date has arrived: retailers around the world have quietly begun putting them on their shelves, and customers are beginning to receive their shipments. Reviews have been out for a while, including thoughtful ones from John Gruber and Nilay Patel. Apple has published a full user guide for the software, and iFixit has put up a full teardown to take a look at the hardware. They give it a repairability score of 5 out of 10, saying that the screen and battery are easily replaced, but not much else is. Though Apple designated the watch "water-resistant" rather than "waterproof", early tests show it's able to withstand a shower and a swim in the pool without failing. Ars has an article about the difficulty of making games for the Apple Watch, and Wired has a piece detailing its creation.
Later in life, some time after you leave your parents' basement, you'll find that free-time comes at a premium. Everybody deals with it in different ways. That's why we have a broad range of computing products from desktop computers to laptops to smartphones to tablets to the gaming card you have in your computer, even Arduino.
'Laziness' is a poor way to describe any given technology and indicates that you do not understand the purpose of it.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
So constantly communicating wirelessly with a device on my wrist is more battery efficient than turning the screen on once in a while?
The OCCASIONAL communication the watch does over BTLE (it's not continuous unless needed by an app) is in fact WAY lower power than turning on a very large high DPI screen and backlight that most smartphones have now.
Except that you can't wear it all the time because it's not waterproof. You even have to take it off in the shower.
Didn't even bother to read the article summary all the way through, did you.
No it's not waterproof. But it's got a pretty standard level of water resistance, which means you COULD wear it in a shower, and I plan to wear it for visits to the pool (since most of my pool time is technically more "standing in water" than swimming).
Also, it only gets around 18 hours of use on the battery
Hint: That's around as much "battery" as most PEOPLE have also. :-)
which means it can't track your sleep like a lot of other fitness devices.
Then you can switch to a device that doesn't suck at monitoring sleep the way something on your wrist meant to mostly measure heart-rate does.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I wear my watch all the time, including in the shower. I like it because it does one thing well, tell me the time and date.
Because if there's one activity in my life that I cannot do without knowing the time and date while doing it, it's showering!
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.