9/9/14 12:39 PM

How long will it take for Sandy to pick up the new Apple watch :)





http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/personal/2014/09/09/apple-live-coverage/15314611/

9/9/14 12:51 PM

Haha!

I'll bite:

He already had the order in!

Seriously, it's exactly what I thought should be happening as the logical next step, and has been wondering why Apple hasn't gone there...

9/9/14 12:55 PM

To old, I will not be able to read it.

9/9/14 1:01 PM

Might be useful on the bike but unfortunately you might not even notice during D2R2 LOL

9/9/14 1:23 PM

I'm contemplating the Moto360 ;)

9/9/14 1:36 PM

Didn't Sandi get on the Beta test team for that ? ;)

9/9/14 2:29 PM

Yeah, right.

9/9/14 5:51 PM

well awe shit....

I am sold. Too friggen' Cool!!!

http://www.apple.com/watch/films/#film-design

9/9/14 6:21 PM

Sandiway is probably wearing the third generation as a beta tester...

9/9/14 7:26 PM

So I spend a couple of years getting used to not needing a watch, glancing at my iPhome to tell the time and now I have to get a watch to read my e-mail, get the weather, send a text....

Think I'll skip this phase...

9/9/14 7:45 PM

Android has has a SAT remote wrist controller for a while now, no?

I have enough trouble seeing the phone screen size/data.

But funny... When I posted my 1st post on this forum it was so long ago I would have chuckled if I had read that in a post... A lot less tech then, I was a CNE back then.. see how knows what that was...

9/10/14 5:35 AM

It strikes me as a singularly unneeded and unnecessary item. An amusing article here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/05/jony_ive_iwatch/

9/10/14 7:06 AM

It strikes me as a singularly unneeded and unnecessary item.

So they said about the iPhone and then about the iPad.

9/10/14 7:07 AM

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9/10/14 7:14 AM

My first reaction is also to agree, but then I also saw no need for a sixth cog in the freewheel, and every other subsequent change in bike equipment.

Again, initially it seems to me you could accomplish the same thing by getting a cheap watch with "I am a geek" inscribed on it, but I will withhold judgment.

9/10/14 8:40 AM

always better mousetraps...

9/10/14 9:39 AM

Not entirely sure if I'm ready for a smartwatch. I like the geek factor but the more I think about it the more I have to look at what value it adds to my experience. I don't have any problems doing anything on my phone and I really don't need to be able to see who texted me when I'm riding my bike. I was thinking about a Moto360 but the more I think about it the more I'm starting to think I won't.

The thing I see no need for- electronic shifting. I think it's adding massive amounts of unnecessary complexity and potential breakdowns where they can be easily avoided. I know I haven't put the lifetime miles in a lot of you have but I've put in a fair few. Never had a shifter cable break. Nor a brake cable for that matter.

9/10/14 9:53 AM

Agree, I like analog bike and planes. ;)

9/10/14 11:03 AM

I hate wearing a watch or any jewelry at all for that matter. Since I don't have any interest in it I suspect it will sell well. it seems to duplicate what I use mu phone for.

I like the 6 plus "phablet" sized phone as I don't hane a notebook or ipad.

9/10/14 11:12 AM

"hate wearing a watch or any jewelry at all"

+100

Don't wear a wedding ring even. Elaine put a gold chain and small cross on me 4/9/83. She has a ring, that is what she wanted being very traditional. Should have been her first red flag, probably was.

2014-1983=maybe we got it right. I know I did! ;)

9/10/14 1:08 PM

Ha, ha. I'm further behind the curve than what you guys think!

Not many details are emerging but it seems like a nice watch for running. It has a HR sensor built-in (Mio, perhaps?).
It has an internal accelerometer.

BUT it has no GPS. WTF. No GPS. So it'll need to connect with an iPhone to get that.
So you have to run with an iPhone as well. FAIL.

Well, I'll probably still buy one (or not...) :)

Sandiway

9/11/14 7:55 AM

The watch requires the iPhone, whether the phone & watch must be used concurrently, it's not clear to me. Other companies have similar HR setups, but they are not nearly as accurate as using a chest strap to collect HR data.

9/11/14 10:22 AM

So what is new about this? I remember seeing an android device that was a remote wrist controller to the phone a while ago.

Apple, MEH! LOL So when they say and do something that is not even first the fools and their money all line up. I was born in the wrong body. ;)

If I still had the Fat Mac I bought in 1980somthing I would go kick it. ;)

9/11/14 12:39 PM

I'm betting that metal circle on the inside of the strap is the heart rate sensor, so better than the Mio, which you have to touch with the fingers on your other hand to take a pulse.

9/11/14 1:30 PM

Parkin, Mio HR is also on the back of the watch nowadays... see
http://www.mioglobal.com/Shop/MIO-Alpha/Product.aspx?ProductID=1&DeptID=1