Pretty sure you can use Apple Pay seeing as everything that happens during a payment is done vendor-side.
It also has 8GB of storage that you can load music onto, which is pretty useful if you're going for a run or something.
Apple smartwatch conference - March 9th
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Pretty sure you can use Apple Pay seeing as everything that happens during a payment is done vendor-side.
It also has 8GB of storage that you can load music onto, which is pretty useful if you're going for a run or something.
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LOL.
I'm taking the third option and backing the Pebble Time kickstarter. I backed the $400 tier for the regular version (to give to my mom for her birthday), and a Steel version (for me). Maybe I'll up my pledge to the next tier up to get two Steels.
LyleLanley
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Probably has something to do with the cable companies.
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I suppose. Something like they get to tout access to GO hoping it'll seem exclusive to uninformed customers who want the on demand services.
Doubt Apple Pay is usable. I think the security model is that the watch is actively paired with your phone which you are logged into. Plus the secure store is on the phone itself, the watch I don't think carries any data like that.
Haha, I was telling a coworker how Apple TV would be exclusive launch of HBO Now and he said, "HBO GO?" I said, "No, HBO Now". He said, "Oh, I thought is was called HBO GO." I said, "There is an HBO GO, but this is HBO Now". Then he said, "WTF is the difference?" ROFL
It does. It's copied during pairing and deleted when removed from your wrist.
Chezzymann
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I'm assuming it has Siri on it, right? I like the idea of talking to your watch like a james bond agent.
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Yep, no Apple Pay unless you've already put the watch on and verified it via the phone as I understand it.
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What a time to be alive.
Wow, that's crazy smart.
Yep. You can either raise the watch and say Hey Siri, or press and hold the digital crown in.
One is for people who subscribe by cable. The other is for cable-cutters like me who still want HBO.
It's pretty simple to me.
So... when you take it off your wrist to charge it (at night), than you'll have to add your credit card data to the watch again?
I think what he and I are thinking: why not just add an extra option in the HBO GO app with "Stand-a-lone HBO subscription". And you're done.
Damn it, double post!
LyleLanley
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S¡mon;155267287 said:
I think the assumption is that this is all done automatically for security reasons.
I have acces to HBO Go and, well, I'm definitely not a U.S. citizen (and I don't live in the United States, either). HBO Go is offered everywhere around the world.
Where I live, it works like this:
- Activate HBO via your cable provider
- Watch HBO via your cable provider or download the HBO Go app
- In the HBO Go app, select your cable provider
- Give up a registration code you get from your cable provider and create an HBO Go account
- Done
Edit I read your comment about Canada and I now realize that it's set up different all around the world. I find that odd.
maquiladora
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Just imagine your iphone is smaller and attached to your wrist via an expensive strap rather than being held in your hand, and you can already do that right now.
SirMossyBloke
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Nope.
Not yet. There will be hoops to jump through first, I'm sure of it.
jts
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iPhone 5 peasants like me are screwed or unlock via pin works just as well?
If the Apple ID password is necessary, at least I hope that it prompts for that every morning after the Watch is slapped back on.
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Alright, passcode is enough. Sweet.
Valkyr Junkie
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Uhh, how can the Apple Watch do anything network related without the iPhone on the user?
jts
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It can't. But Apple Pay relies on the vendor. The terminal reads your card information from the watch/phone and does all the rest.
Nazgul_Hunter
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Extremely high. In fact, someone's already working on adapters so that any watch band will work with the apple watch
Personalization accessories for Apple products? Sorry, no chance of that.
nah, I'm thinking it'll be like an iPhone case in terms of 3rd party straps.
nice..
3rd party apps + 3rd party straps.
LordOfChaos
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I don't get this post. At one stage I was going to buy three one for my wife and daughter also. So no one should buy 1st gen?
However I've calmed myself and I'm going to buy just the one and try it first.
SuperPac
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They did say if you were on a home wifi network you didn't need to be in bluetooth range to receive a call - so you could potentially do that without the iPhone *on you*.
I've asked before but can anyone confirm if u need to run with your phone? That would be horrible and defeat the purpose of having the watch.
Are they effectively saying there's no gyro or accelerometer in the watch?
SuperPac
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There is no GPS in the watch. If it's not near your phone it'll track heart rate and steps - but not distance.
Why not? My phone doesn't need GPS to track distance, it does it based on steps I think.
SuperPac
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I may be wrong. But, the phone doesn't have GPS - so any function that would need it, you're out of luck for at a minimum.
There must be motion tracking in the watch, even for just raising your wrist to check the time
I imagine tracking distance based on steps would be highly inaccurate.
UNLESS any algorthim has a constantly recalibrating measure based on actual distance and steps. Like when you have your phone it records an ACTUAL distance base on GPS, say 10km, and 5000 steps, so when you don't have your phone, and you say, make 2500 steps, it says you've walked 5km. and cosntantly readjusts your steps to distance factor accordignly as it gets more info.
like ACTUAL smartness.
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Hmm. I have jogged exactly the same route for years and years. I'll be sure to test that theory in a few weeks. Like, I jog literally exactly the same route through the city and around the lake and back home. Absolutely no variation. I could do it blind.
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