If your phone is dieing while sitting idle all night, there's something wrong with it.
Two words: Backup Battery. If the power goes out (or I forget to plug the phone in, or the charger somehow gets unplugged, etc) that iPhone will likely be dead by the next morning.
My alarm clock's backup battery will go for days if needed.
article said:By notifying me of digital events as soon as they happened, and letting me act on them instantly, without having to fumble for my phone,
Perhaps you should take your own advice. Laptop sales have somewhat levelled out in last half-decade, but tablet sales increased dramatically in that same period (and now have stagnated).
IOW, while laptop sales were impacted by tablet sales, laptop sales remained a huge chunk of the market, but tablet sales represented a whole new complementary product category.
Yes some people only bought tablets but the market pattern is people buying tablets in addition to laptops.
To put it another way, I betcha everyone in this thread with a tablet also has a laptop. Furthermore, while their 5 year-old kids might have tablets now, those kids never had laptops in the past.
I hope that you're joking about the Digital Camera and Scanner part. The new iPhone's image quality is good for a smart phone, but it's not THAT good.
It would also be a cold day in hell before I would trust my iPhone as an alarm clock for daily use.
What does the Apple Watch displace? Nothing. It extends the functionality of the iPhone, but it doesn't replace it. A hard sell for most consumers.
What does the Apple Watch displace? Nothing. It extends the functionality of the iPhone, but it doesn't replace it. A hard sell for most consumers.
The iPhone displaced:
Cell Phones
Digital Cameras
Digital Camcorders
e-Readers
Watches
Blackberrys
GPS Navigation Units
Palm Pilots
iPods and all portable music players
Portable Video Players
Alarm Clocks
Voice Recorders
Scanners
In my view, the Watch helps the iPhone displace those devices more effectively, and adds new capabilities.
The problem I see with this product is it doesn't displace any previous product. The iPad was a phenomenon because it displaced laptops and desktops for millions and millions of consumers. It did everything most people do on computers and put it into book form. Incredibly successful. The iPhone displaced all cell phones and the iPod displaced every form of portable music player.
What does the Apple Watch displace? Nothing. It extends the functionality of the iPhone, but it doesn't replace it. A hard sell for most consumers.
It might displace fitness trackers. I currently have a Fitbit HR if I got an Apple Watch it would replace it.
The Fitbit does have the advantage of 5 days of battery life and when I first read about the Apple Watch I thought one day of battery life would be a show stopper. However, I think it might be okay, the reason why is that I find wearing my Fitbit while sleeping is uncomfortable and I take it off and charge it.
It tells time pretty well.
It tells time pretty well.
I tried a fitbit when it first came out due to curiosity, but ended up not using it that much. I am an active individual and didn't see how it helped me. I know a lot of people liked them initially, but I saw it more as a fad that would die off or become integrated as a bullet point feature in future products, especially for those that don't use them as actual training tools like marathon runners.
I think the Apple Watch could be something big a long time from now. I think it needs to be more worry-free such as kinetically/solar charged, integrated into many facets of life, and ubiquitous commercial support. The day when my car is programmed into my wearable and walking up to it unlocks the doors, sitting in it starts the engine, approaching my house while in the car opens the garage door and unlocks the front door, etc then it will be a nice item to have.
I think it can get there, but right now its a tough sell. It is a mega investment by Apple to try to get to that point and hope everyone jumps on board. However, its not only a big investment from Apple its also a huge investment from the consumer and third parties. It still unsure automation is worth it to the mainstream consumer on such a scale where it does truly become ubiquitous.
In the end, the wearable could displace phones.
I'm sort of surprised by the relative lack of forum chatter about this. Not a single post about receiving or initial impressions. And did I read things right that there is only *ONE* store in the US you can buy one at?
WTF kind of launch is that? 8 months and that's the best you can do?
Online only launch. Cheaper for Apple I'm sure.
I'm sort of surprised by the relative lack of forum chatter about this. Not a single post about receiving or initial impressions. And did I read things right that there is only *ONE* store in the US you can buy one at?
WTF kind of launch is that? 8 months and that's the best you can do?
Online only launch. Cheaper for Apple I'm sure.
I think there is relatively little chatter about this here, simply because for more techy people, smart watches simply don't offer anything compelling. For some normal plebe, it is probably some revelation to be able to get an alert on their watch. For us, we had a Casio Calculator watch in grade school; Apple Watch ain't got nothing on that!
It's just so.....un-Apple. iPhones and iPads were almost always available by the pallet load at retail locations the day of launch. They had 8 months to bring this thing to market after announcement and the best they can do is a couple hour middle of the night web purchase?
It has been a very bizarre product announcement and release so far.
The colored sport ones are kinda tacky, I will confess that in user submitted pictures the space grey with black bands looks sharp.
Im amazed at apples audacity to charge 50 bucks more for the larger watch. Surely aluminium doesnt cost that much more nor does steel. WTF apple?