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My father was an early adopter of the Galaxy Note. It really comes down to how big you can make words on the screen for him. Old people don't like having to squint at their phones.
This seems similar to Google Wallet, which has been around for a few years. How does Apple plan to make this a bigger success?
The Ars review talks about the poor battery life:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/moto-360-review-beaut...
Their Series A was $16M at a likely ~$100M valuation. Incredibly successful by any standard and only possible because of crowdfunding.
And if you notice, NFC of course isn't in the 5, 5c, 5s. So it makes me wonder if Apply Pay will work with a watch paired to an iPhone 5 series device. That might be a little nudge to get the Apple watch.
Jack Dorsey just posted on twitter that square will support Apple Pay. https://twitter.com/jack/status/509413534862544896
> the one that would make you look the least like a dork would be the one from Motorola?

The band connection to the very bottom is really too bad, it makes the watch look extremely thick.
Wouldn't GPS be far more accurate for this purpose?
Identifying and pulling relevant information from the customer without leading them is an incredibly important skill. I've done this numerous times while refining the product at hand. I definitely will highlight this skillset. Great advice. Thanks for sharing.
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I was surprised at how bad the watch faces were. Motorola are the only ones to have done well in that area. Remember though that this device is still 4-6 months away so that's probably not the final software.
I went BB Pearl 8100 > Nexus One > Nexus 5. Each upgrade felt stupid big at first, but I got used to them.

N5 is workable particularly if you install a launcher that lets you open notifications other than swiping from top. I also like its keyboard better than N1's - bigger keys do make a difference (though 4.4's keyboard software might also play a role).

You definitely hold and use the bigger phones slightly differently but I've found it's not a huge dealbreaker. And well, N5 screen is beautiful coming from N1.

Don't know about buying an N5 today, though, it's been out for a while. I haven't tracked refresh rumours but I'd expect there to be some.

YMMV of course!
Okay, it sounds like my fears are unfounded, but I still don't really understand it. What is a host in this context?

I know that the plugin API is still in flux, but I really wish it was documented anyway. Actually, I'm not even sure how anyone was even able to start coding something like this without a design doc existing first.
With the right accelerometers and gyros you can actually do this very easily. I've actually done something similar during a basic engineering course (we were detecting earthquakes, but the math is the same).

Edit: Downvote me all you want, but this is not that complicated to calculate.
>> (I won't comment the lack of info on battery life and water resistance)

Did they comment on water resistance? I thought they had a photo of someone pouring water over it...
Macintosh = nicked from Xerox, boxed up.

iMac = TRS-80

Mac OS X = FreeBSD munged with NeXT.

The iPod = Diamond Rio

Original iPhone = every damn windows mobile phone for at least 5 years before hand.

The innovation was the style, the marketing and the packaging, nothing more.
I might get downvoted by fans here, but the most commented change for the new iPhone being the addition of a barometer shows a certain decline in the innovation department from Apple, or at least, lack of ability to surprise.
Any decent smartphone can already get a GPS fix in a second or so.

The main bottleneck to a GPS fix these days is simply downloading the satellite positions. This is done over a 1970s-era protocol that operates at 50bps and takes about 30 seconds to transmit all of the data.

Smartphones bypass this by downloading the positions over their local data connection, which cuts that down to a fraction of a second.

Fixing your altitude to +/- 2000ft doesn't really help the process to any significant degree. If you have the satellite positions or can get them quickly, the rest comes fast. If you don't, you're doomed to be slow.
It brings up a list of contacts that you can customize, to call, message or use the drawing thing with.
I'm guessing they have established relationships with the card issuer and will use your card number only once to establish the link, after which the card info isn't needed.
Why? From what I understand, sapphire is more brittle than Gorilla Glass (although supposedly scratches can contribute to the likelihood of cracks), so what I think for most people the common breakage case is quite possibly not any better. Additionally, sapphire is more reflective than glass which is problematic all in itself.

Apple reserving sapphire screens for watches makes perfect sense to me.
If I understand correctly, OP's comment was not about the web page but on the product listed on that page.
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> You'd think that would be the easiest part of building a super computer that fit on your wrist.

That's exactly why the watch faces aren't fashionable. As with other forms of art, fashion isn't as trivial as many people, including geeks, seem to think it is. I don't believe it's as easy as picking what the default background should be for each OSX release, however I wouldn't be surprised if they were given closely equivalent development times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_%28Palm_OS%29

It's time to bring it back.
http://googleblog.blogspot.nl/2014/01/introducing-our-smart-...

Does Google put a needle in there contact lens? Don't think so... ;)
No you are not. In fact Gruber's podcast yesterday talked about that very thing. They thought it might be called iPhone "pro" because anything else meaning bigger just doesn't sound like Apple.

Overall this whole event was odd. It was more Apple reacting to trends rather than setting them...
I highly, highly doubt that s what is holding Apple back. There are tons of on market products for insulin testing and heart rate emergency response calls.

All Apple has to do is announce that it works, and that it will come on a country by country basis as they work with various governmental agencies. It will get green lit by political pressure.
Hopefully this means stores will actually install the NFC readers or whatever.
As the first step in watch market, Apple is in the right direction. Is this watch the ideal one we expect? Maybe not. Unlike others, they have found a path in design, but the logistics weighs more currently. So they are not able to go far at this moment. And the segment has attracted more and more competitors. It is not difficult to see they are struggling to balance the time to enter and their ability to offer an ideal product now. It's just the beginning.
If you have to say that it's not a troll, it's probably a troll.
Gruber is going to have to set aside about a month's worth of updates to get through all the claim chowder from the people who gave the Galaxy Note shit for being 'hilariously' or 'ridiculously' or 'stupidly' large.
I'm assuming it's part of the iOS SDK like GameKit, MapKit etc. So developer.apple.com/ios
By Insulin sensor, do you mean a blood glucose monitor?
Remember that music on on iTunes isn't DRMed anymore.

With movies you're SOL, but Google Play literally let me just upload my iTunes music folder, and aside from a couple of metadata glitches, it just worked.
They said it 'opens a view of friends that you can click on'. They only showed it briefly.
Well, but screen size is an issue with "wrist phone". People like being able to watch videos, and reading stuff on their :
"pocket phones". If anything, phone screens have been getting bigger.
As a new parent I went through 64gb like it was nothing taking pictures and videos.
I have to admit, I'm an apple hater but... this actually changes everything. Maybe time to buy the new iphone.
great work. something like this already exists, but it's intended for amazon searches and supports npm too. http://www.yasiv.com/npm#view/dat

it's also not very googleable and it's poorly advertised, but it's also cool.
I will definitely try it just to be sure, but even the move from 3.5" to 4" started to stretch it when reaching for the top left corner of the screen for me.

And then there's this ad from the original iPhone 5 release:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY4c2mh15Yk

No iPhone 6 option at 4" is in direct contradiction to what they said before. It's a reason the Apple Watch is released in two different faces, people are different!
That license only applies to the software. What happens when you have the license revoked? You can't use the software anymore.
I am critical of your arguments for many reasons. They are not well reasoned, poorly communicated, and predicated on an "anti-fetish" as you so eloquently put it.

1) False. Go look it up.
2) The site doesn't include a year of work post graduation. This is a bad comparison.
3) False. I believe their placement rate is ~98% or so, check their website. Also, never cite "I know a friend...", anecdotal evidence is almost worse than no evidence.
4) False. Rankings are a bad metric to assess research prominence, as research quality varies markedly across departments. Additionally, research prowess is likely diametrically opposed to the goals of a student seeking an undergrad education in a co-op focused program.
5) Yup. Still a deal for internationals though.
6) Wholesomeness of research ideals aside, industry funding is key for applied research. The government is certainly not going to fund compiler research, or work on applied group theory. I suggest you reconsider this idealism. We have rules that all donations and research grants need to be reported, so you can look this up. All large universities in north america with good research programs in engineering typically have strong funding from large corporations.

That being said, I am in no way affiliated with UW, other than being an academic, and knowing well about their excellent reputation in research and in placement rates for their math/cs/eng undergrads. Many large firms recruit from the Woo that do not in fact recruit from pretentious British schools.

Why? Simple:
It is well known that the 'elite' universities suffer from drastic grade inflation. Strong co-op programs provide employers with significant extra data about potential employees. What kind of projects did they work on? What are their work reviews like? Grades and university ranking/brand are nearly meaningless these days -- see pg's excellent essay on this topic.
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See here: http://clover-developers.blogspot.com/2014/09/apple-pay.html
Brilliant book. Every detail about the expedition that was known at the time is very accurately depicted. The parts that were not known are woven into a fantastical, supernatural horror story. I felt cold just reading about the cold.
Bloodless glucometry via spectroscopy: http://www.groveinstruments.com/
"Maybe if we don't mention lefties, everyone will forget they exist"

Righty watches aren't a big deal for us to use because you only use the crown to set them, and you only set them twice a year. On the Apple Watch, you're going to use it all the time.

It's not even that I couldn't use my right hand, it's that I don't want a bulky $350 gadget permanently strapped to my left hand, which I frequently use for doing things. Great recipe for (best case) being irritating, or (worst case) getting smashed into stuff.

Maybe it can be rotated 180° to go on a right arm? It'd mean the button and crown positions are backward, but it'd be better than nothing. I see no mention of that option anywhere, so for now I assume you can't.

Either way, doesn't support the 4S, costs more than I'm willing to spend, and will hopefully get thinner in future releases. I'll jump on the smartwatch train eventually, but not with this one.
Hopefully it won't require the iPhone to be present all the time. Perhaps there's a sync function to send the running/sports metrics to the iPhone. Today's presentation left a lot to speculation.
The iPhone only seems affordable because it is tied to a 2-year contract. Otherwise it would be $800 and Apple wouldn't sell anywhere near as many as they do.

At $350, I don't see how Apple Watch is going to crack the volume markets. Think 15yo girls.
if by similar you mean actually the same, yes they are similar
Do they have watches, sub 250, that can be used for swimming OR running?

Even just the swimming would be great, cause the price point and being forced to carry an iPhone around kind of defeated the purpose of buying the Apple Watch for me.
The Verge (among others) is reporting that the antenna is located along the top edge of the phone [1]. Photos of the Apple Pay gesture in action on the slides seems to corroborate this.

And my gut tells me that this is a secondary reason for why they moved the power button over to the right side of the phone (primary reason being to accommodate smaller hands with the larger screen sizes).

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/9/6107091/apple-watch-iphone-...
Snapchat seems like the best suited form of communication for a device like this. I wonder why Apple didn't fit a camera into that huge black bevel..
I'd estimate at least 50% of all the times I look at my smartphone throughout the day are non-interactive uses--I'm checking on a notification, the time, or just the weather. I've been seriously looking into smartwatches lately as a way to eliminate this friction. It's not just an inconvenience -- it's awkward to pull out your phone repeatedly during dinner, for instance, just to see if it vibrated due to a critical work email or a BS Snapchat message that you don't care about.

It's the same reason the wristwatch itself was invented. It was preceded by detached timepieces that were stored in coat pockets. The pocket-to-wrist chasm was enough to merit creating wristwatches, and I think it's enough to merit smartwatches.
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For me it's now official: Apple has ceded its position as an industry leader/innovator, and become a follower.

This is a really, really lame product.
Sure it might not be for serious runners but about half the people I see running have a phone strapped to their arm. If they also have the watch it means they can see the display while running and get more accurate data. For those people it's not a big deal. If you're the sort of person who buys a GPS watch of course it won't be for you. When has Apple ever catered to niche markets?
Even though the plugins communicate over msgpack-rpc, there needs to be integration to support the best way of finding and executing them. There's a lot of debate in the discussion between a process-per-plugin approach like you assumed (and like the proposed go plugin interface implements) and a plugin-host approach where a single process runs all of a given language's plugins (like the python plugin interface implements).
There is a difference between submerging and just a sprinkle of water. I don't think the Apple Watch is submergible/usable for swimming.
Low end customers and Samsung?

The Gear S smart watch is stand-alone (or tether), has 3G cellular, wifi and looks far better than the Apple watch. It will probably cost about the same as the Apple watch too.
it is just so, square.

I guess my problem is that they kept it like a watch instead of a new device and it likely constrained their innovation.

I had seen some band designs, even the MOTO 360 did "if it has to look like a watch" better. Don't get me started on Apple's bling look that started with that Gold iPhone. Its as bad as gold emblems on low end cars, all we need now is gothic/roman lettering
> Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.

http://discerninghistory.com/2013/05/shackletons-ad-men-want...
I assume once they register your credit card number with the card provider, they have no longer any use for it. The connection between your card number and your apple id can be stored on the card provider side.
Lots of quick-release iPhone mounts for bikes out there. At the same time, constantly squinting at a watch is distracting. I wouldn't be inclined to use it for cycling, it's definitely not useful for water sports, and many runners will also object to the need to carry a large(r) iPhone somewhere on their person.

So if it's a sports/fitness accessory, it's primarily for use in the gym.

Really, this feels more like the Newton of smart watches, rather than the iPhone 1 of smart watches. A good start that will become indispensable to a very small number of people.
https://support.stripe.com/questions/apple-and-stripe-tos-an...

I assume this would apply to Apple Pay, too.
I am confused by this as well. I thought apple did not allow people to make credit card purchases within an app, am I wrong or will these rules change? Where is the line drawn for using an IAP vs Apple Pay (where I presume Apple takes no cut)
You're not the only one; they look terrible. If they wanted to eschew the traditional watch function and show other detail on there that would be understandable, but to have half-hearted attempts at clock design like this as a central feature is inexplicable in an expensive accessory branded as a watch. Worst of all are the faces with an image (presumably user supplied) with the time carelessly plonked over the top right.

What I find most telling of the abdication of design here though is that they offer so many options and seem to expect you to choose what goes on your home and mash up lots of different features in some sort of customised design - sounds great, but in practice you'll have just enough choice to do something mediocre, and not enough flexibility to do something you love, unless you're a developer and can make an app.

This sort of interface needs to be designed, and this is something Apple should have absolutely nailed on something they called the Apple Watch, not left as an afterthought.
I am in the same boat. I never used my full space.
The 16GB model is perfect for me.
The basic Pebble is $150. The premium Pebble Steel is $250. The Apple Watch starts at $350; you can bet that the premium models will be well north of that.
Gayle, there is also the question of whether you are a programmer in the sense that you "can program" or if you are a programmer in the sense that you "program for a living".

Different people will interpret the term differently. Based on your website and your book, you portray yourself as a Recruiting Consultant. So my assumption after seeing all the material you presented is that you are a programmer in the sense that you CAN program (and possibly well given the success of your book) but you are not necessarily a programmer in the sense that you don't do that for a living.

For me, I wouldn't call you a "programmer" unless you did "computer programming" for a living, but that's just how I use the term. I would call you a recruiting consultant, and for me that's no better or worse than "programmer".
To each his own, I think the Moto 360 looks like a hockey puck :)

(I'm not Che or Maradona, so I'm not ditching my analogue watch for a smart watch any time soon, even if I can pay with it..)
This site has the most and best comments on the disaster by Apple. I am a fan of Apple and use many of there products. To my disappointment I was not able to hear or watch any of the broadcast.
I agree with many of the comments...fire the bad guys!
Thanks! That sounds indeed as if they tried to optimize the experience. Watching people try finding the NFC sweetspot by swiping the bottom of their device around on a reader deviceis painful.
I am confused why Standby time for iPhone 6 and iPhone 5S are exactly the same(250 hours) when other comparisons like Talk time are significantly different(14 hours vs 10 hours)?
Don't you know, nobody makes accessories for Android phones.
Which Apple's innovations?
True but considering iOS 8 works right back to the 4S I wouldn't be too worried. Plus most people are on two year contracts and upgrade after that.
The first thing I thought of when I saw the naming was the Macintosh Plus. Maybe next year we'll see the iPhone ][!
I would say that most places that are using XFS at scale are doing so with an external RAID array or SAN that handles all of the individual disks and presents a single logical LUN to the filesystem. ZFS is fairly unique in that it combines lower level disk and RAID management with a filesystem, typically these functions were handled in separate layers (like md), or in hardware.

Usually I hear people complaining about slow file creates/deletes/renames with ZFS or slowness navigating or dealing with large directories. A quick Google confirms that there are lots of people that have seen these behaviours. But I don't use it myself so I don't have any specific data. I was just trying to say that ZFS has a reputation as being a better filesystem, but not a faster one, at least with the people I talk to about storage.

ARC is a technology from IBM. Intent logs go way back. Sure ZFS is doing some interesting things, but it's a bit ironic to talk about innovation given the fact that it was more or less based on Netapp's WAFL filesystem, and all of the lawsuits that followed on from that.
>> For example, if I start lifting 50 lbs in a dumbell bench press it should know that!

Exactly how do you propose this would work?

You are disappointed by diabetic specific monitors, the lack of an app that I'm sure someone will create someday, and something that physics will likely never be able to solve. I think it's safe to say that your expectations started in the realm of fantasy. Innovation can't ignore reality.
1. That appears to still be at the prototype stage (as of that post in Jan?).

2. It goes right on your freakin' eye, and apparently measures your tears.

So.. I guess if you strapped a watch to your eye it might work?
No it's not. There's really not much difference in spec between the two devices other than the status points obtained. And it's about 1/4-1/3 of the cost.

Edit - plus my experience:

Possibly going aganist the grain here, but I've owned TOO MANY Apple products not to explode here. I'm sitting on a 2011 MacBook Pro with a big dark spot on the screen where it is starting to fail for example. Bring on the ThinkPad X230 that is replacing it next week.

Having used iOS extensively and written software for it, I find very few things more objectional, inflexible and tiresome. The OS is totally frustrating and just about everything hangs or crashes randomly (Safari being a fine example of horrible as it won't even render half a PNG image, leaving blank 60% at the bottom). Oh plus deleting every damn email in my exchange box on several occasions. Apple have a policy of silence and mysticism on all issues as well.

The build quality of Apple's mobile products is awful. Design over substance, completely irrepairable, poor engineering and materials decisions. Nickel alloys used everywhere resulting in dermatitis, glass on the edges (impact points) and terribly difficult to use connectors (lightning). As for repair, glue and proprietary screws. Enough said. I can still repair a Nokia with a T4 Torx and no heat gun.

The app ecosystem is horrible as well, consisting of vast swathes of mainly pay-per-addon traps for children, popularist crap and hyped overpriced junk.

Then there's the opaqueness of the devices. For example, it took me 5 fucking hours to get my wife's bookmarks off her iPad resulting in me having to write a script to convert the SQLite database (which was a bastard to get off the thing) into an HTML file so she could import it into Chrome. And why can't I just download an mp3 file onto the device like I can with Android, Windows Phone, Windows, MacOS etc.

So no; just experience.