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Apple Watch |OT| Apple invents the watch!
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Opus Angelorum
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^ It looks about as cheap/fake as the rest of him.
SuperPac
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Got the Shakes
Member
I wonder what the bug is that they are trying to fix. I've been on the WatchOS 2 GM since last week and it's been solid.
LyleLanley
Banned
It's probably for the best that it's being delayed. Updating the watch is a frustratingly long experience as is, I can just imagine what it'd be like when everyone's upgrading their phones and iPads as well.
SuperPac
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Is there an app that's said they're updating with that? There is no podcast app from Apple on Watch OS 2.
Unless you convert them to MP3's and use them as Music.
SuperPac
Member
That is much more trouble than it's worth.
Yes it is, compared to using the Podcasts iOS app. There may be some that are still downloading podcasts direct from the websites as MP3's though.
JonathanNemo
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Speaking as someone who was pressured to get an iPad because everybody else in [well known publication] got one on launch day, I don't regret being an early adopter of an Apple product. It's kind of neat, seeing how things evolve and how people learn how to adjust with it in their lives. And how products built around it, move with it. The iPad 1 hardware got retired pretty early on, but it still made for a nice hand-me-down for family that just wanted to play some videos on the go.
I just received my Apple Watch in the mail, and it's a nice looking timepiece and it's a neat bit of future fashion.
The apps won't be as fully featured as their iPhone counterparts, they have a built in limit for notifications that keeps it from being a truly professional monitoring device. Nonetheless, I like some of the ideas behind the Watch, and I think it's a more approachable device than the Android Wear watches from a normal person's perspective.
If you're aware of the caveats of being an early adopter, yeah, buy one. But if you'd rather wait and see what happens, see if there's something really useful that comes up, that's perfectly fine too.
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Deleted member 22576
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Dang no os2 today. :'[
Interfectum
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Just snagged a 42mm space gray sport. =)
What are the must have apps (if there are any).
Just snagged a 42mm space gray sport. =)
What are the must have apps (if there are any).
3rd party mostly suck atm due to being non native.
i only use Wunderlist and Nike Running
RedNumberFive
Banned
Just snagged a 42mm space gray sport. =)
What are the must have apps (if there are any).
Dark Sky is awesome.
No 'must have' apps, practically of them suck, but here are the some popular apps to try out
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Interfectum
Member
I did a bunch of housework and cooking yesterday. I had my iphone hooked up to some speakers for an audio book. During that time I used my Watch to pause/unpause the iphone, to give me 10-20 minute timers, send texts to my wife, all via Siri on the Watch.
Was awesome.
I think that's just it, isn't it. The watch is a tough sell - it's like all those people that resisted getting a smart phone, or getting a cell phone at all before that, claiming "what can it do for me?" Or "I done need it".... The arguments come off as anecdotal.
I dunno, I really want one and I'm sure I will find utility of my own, but it's Kind of a hard convince...
For me it's as simple as having notifications on my wrist; that's about all I use my smart watches for. It's important to me due to my job and how important phone calls and texts can be.. contractual obligations and the like. Can quickly ignore personal messages without whipping my phone out at work, which is a plus. I work around many older IT people and they see a cell phone out they give you a dirty look (then go back to wasting time pretending to work.)
That doesn't require the Apple Watch though.
That doesn't require the Apple Watch though.
Interfectum
Member
Yeah it's a hard sell for sure... I think everyone will find different uses for it and some might find it a colossal waste of money.
Personally I got it for the notifications and running but I'm slowly finding a lot of different uses for it. Even when running, now I can completely tuck away my phone and simply use my wrist for changing songs on my phone, checking heart rate, mileage, etc. I even made a phone call with it the other day while in the car and the person on the other end had no idea I was using my watch. To them it sounded as clear as a phone. Pretty crazy imo.
Nothing about a smart watch - for most people - is about need.
It's about convenience. If that's enough for you, try it out. But your expectations should be in check. I like my Apple Watch and appreciate some parts of it quite a bit (notifications, timers, weather forecasts easier to access) but I know that it's just an easier way to access stuff from my phone or laptop.
If you can buy it local and return it easily, I say go for it. If a refund would be a pain, then maybe hold off until you find some use case where you'd find It more useful.
infiniteloop
Member
Are you using it for fitness stuff? That's my main interest.
Thanks, but I meant the double-length Hermes band, which wraps around the wrist twice instead of just splitting down the middle. I don't think there are any imitations.
none yet. Just get the aluminum model, whatever color is preferred and then get a double tour band later. there will be chinese homages for sure, but i have not seen any now.
You can always get a decent saddle leather brown band and lug adapters for under 50. buuuut, the adapters out now don’t yet match the two anodized aluminum gold options - just in case that was what you had planned to get.
your budget of 500 is, sadly, a bit low for fancy apple watch gear (see all stainless steel model pricing…
. apple is charging a lot for their bands. so i say just get one of the (nice, imo) gold coloured aluminum models now and wait for matching lug and band options down the line.
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I have a collection of swatch sport watches with the double length band. Those bands are awesome. That Hermes one is equally off the hook.
I want double length sport bands to emulate the look of my old swatches.
everthustodeadbeats
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Got my black leather loop band today, shipped from China. Looks good. Feels good. Cost 35 bucks and not 150 bucks.
Got it from a recommendation in a Reddit Apple Watch pinned thread. Turned out to be from here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/251993979977
Love it.
Have the Apple brand Milanese loop and the sports band it came with it.
Got it from a recommendation in a Reddit Apple Watch pinned thread. Turned out to be from here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/251993979977
Love it.
Have the Apple brand Milanese loop and the sports band it came with it.
I'd get aluminum rose gold. Thanks for the advice.
infiniteloop
Member
we're probably 6 months or so away from gen 2 reveal so you could wait for that.... or they could push it back to sept 2016, who knows.
A Humble Proposition: How to Fix the Apple Watch
That Rebecca Minkoff is the same style I think. Here are more pictures:
I'm guessing Pogue only uses an AppleWatch...David Pogue said:Problem 1: A strange mental map
Problem 2: Mismatched emphasis
Problem 3: The hidden Home screen
So heres the fix
Thanks, but I meant the double-length Hermes band, which wraps around the wrist twice instead of just splitting down the middle. I don't think there are any imitations.
That Rebecca Minkoff is the same style I think. Here are more pictures:
Lifting no (between using chalk and heavier weights I don't wanna smash it) but I always use it for running.
Chittagong
Gold Member
I use it while lifting, although it won't get the heart rate. But I get a record of doing exercise.
cjp
Junior Member
I've got iOS 9 running on my iPhone 5 and 1.0.1 on my Watch. I've just looked in my Activity app on the phone and noticed that past workouts (pre iOS 9) are no longer listed.
It still shows the correct calorie, exercise and stand data (so the workout data must still be there somewhere + they're listed in the Health app) but I can no longer click on the actual workout record itself for detailed info.
I had a short bike ride yesterday which is displayed and, curiously enough, also displayed in KM instead of miles which must be new as it's usually always been miles and I haven't altered anything myself.
I did a straight OTA update to iOS 9 so I shouldn't have lost any data in the process, and like I said, it still shows the correct calorie and exercise levels so the data hasn't been completely lost.
Any ideas? Anyone else's like this?
Is it maybe because the phone is now on 9 and the Watch on 1 but it needs 2?
It still shows the correct calorie, exercise and stand data (so the workout data must still be there somewhere + they're listed in the Health app) but I can no longer click on the actual workout record itself for detailed info.
I had a short bike ride yesterday which is displayed and, curiously enough, also displayed in KM instead of miles which must be new as it's usually always been miles and I haven't altered anything myself.
I did a straight OTA update to iOS 9 so I shouldn't have lost any data in the process, and like I said, it still shows the correct calorie and exercise levels so the data hasn't been completely lost.
Any ideas? Anyone else's like this?
Is it maybe because the phone is now on 9 and the Watch on 1 but it needs 2?
In the M/L config it should fit up to 200mm.
Of course you can swap bands easily. No need to use the default.
http://www.apple.com/shop/watch/sizing-guide
can you post some pictures?
Thanks. For some reason the pictures I saw did not look like this. I'll look into that one.
Yeah I tried a print out of M/L and it was just fitting on what would be the last clip. Doesn't seem comfortable. And a lot of the other bands don't fit up to 190mm either. Think better safe than sorry. Not really a fan of the default midnight blue band so I'll have to buy another one anyway...