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Lol it's an extra £2500 to go from rubber strap to leather on the gold model. Luxury market yadda yadda but I really hope they choke on this one

it keeps time within 50 milliseconds of the definitive global time standard

what does this spec even mean? is this true even if you aren't connected to the internet? who cares? it is a digital watch.

Lol it's an extra £2500 to go from rubber strap to leather on the gold model. Luxury market yadda yadda but I really hope they choke on this one

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B_rdwt9UwAAFEdc.jpg

it keeps time within 50 milliseconds of the definitive global time standard

what does this spec even mean? is this true even if you aren't connected to the internet? who cares? it is a digital watch.

― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, March 9, 2015 3:29 PM (35 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

looooooooooooool just came here to post basically this

free radioactive cesium isotope w/ every Apple Watch Edition

Just bear in mind that the market for this is like Russian oligarchs and Chinese developers.

Yeah but there's usually some bullshit to make them feel they're getting some special rich-people-only value. Having the rubber strap version exposes the Veblen emperor's nudity.

It's like if there was a Rolls Royce identical in every way except it had steel wheels instead of alloys and was £45,000 cheaper.

This is interesting, wondering if Apple is explicitly positioning itself for an unequal world:
http://fusion.net/story/53028/does-apples-future-depend-on-income-inequality/

imo them milking the luxury market for all it is worth is admirable

Not when it means the stuff they ship for the rest of us is cheap tat

it's not, though, at least not yet :/

strongly considering one of these new 13" mbp thingers

50ms = we implemented NTP on this watch.

NTP is in OS 9, OS X and iOS and was developed in the 80s.

What's the clock drift if you don't have a network connection?

Still in disbelief that this thing is getting released

This will be added to the Sins of Time Cook

otm

Is anyone going to buy one?

staff of cnet.com

A $1000 disposable watch is what happens when a bubble-laden cul-de-sac in northern California is usurped by a bald maniac in the back seat of a Bentley and his Baby Gap t-shirts cut off bloodflow to his brain.

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-regular-persons-guide-to-the-apple-watch-1690358264/+tcberman

I remember when these things made want to get a new computer, not never buy another one again.

I don't think the watch itself does direct connections to the network, just through the phone, so some of that 50ms is the handshake to the phone

Don't they already make expensive watches that stay in tune with UTC through GPS or something? Not by detouring to second base to check in with a cellphone?

Everything Deadspin and Gizmodo posted about this fills me with so much joy

NTP is used for correction. While iPhone’s ntpd is configured to update every second, it isn’t synchronizing with the iPhone every second.

Is anyone going to buy one?

― stet, Monday, March 9, 2015 4:50 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I might. I decided that "mine" would probably be the 38mm Apple Watch w/ Milanese Loop after the first event (I'm small and have small wrists) but if I try one out and that strap isn't like super duper rad enough I will probably downgrade to the Sport and save $300. Or if it's not fun to touch and wear at all I won't get one at all.

and by "I might" I mean I'm already okay with the idea of spending the money on it, I just have to go try it out now.

and I mean like if it's this or a Pebble I'm probably not gonna try the Pebble?

I could have sworn this came out months ago and literally no one bought one. So I guess it comes out now, and no one will buy one. Or can buy one?

Comes out in April

April +/- 50 ms

I see the watches have sapphire displays. Wonder if they were made by that company they bankrupted.

After digging into the WatchKit frameworks on this, the watch is basically an expensive remote for your phone.

I don't get why people (or, frankly, Apple) are so fixated on that part. It tells time! At 60fps! Is nobody else excited by how it tells time?

I see the watches have sapphire displays. Wonder if they were made by that company they bankrupted.

― five six and (man alive), Monday, March 9, 2015 8:00 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

doubtful, GT Advanced was producing the raw sapphire material that was likely intended for use in iPhone displays, and they had hardly delivered any successful boules of material at the time of their filing. The sapphire crystals on the watches obviously can be smaller, so are likely less challenging to produce the material for and tooled suppliers could be contracted rather than "partnered with".

I will not be getting a watch, but I wouldn't mind having one. It would be great to present the bus tracker times using citymapper. It's always annoying to have to pull my phone out to do that, to just have it on my wrist would be great.

I've actually begun wearing a watch more often for that reason. Tired of taking out the phone, not because it is hard (so hard!) but because it tempts me to check email, play with the web, text, etc. This Apple watch is the dumbest, most poorly defined thing ever. It's like

https://screen.yahoo.com/leevis-3-legged-jeans-000000429.html

i think the watch seems like a p good idea. i wish it looked better and was thinner but it makes sense to me. i dont think ill get one this time around but maybe the next generation

I want them to invent a modem watch. Then I want to walk down the street with people circling me like satellites for the free wifi. It'll be cool. It'll be super social. Everyone will be jealous of my wrist modem.

yeah, I have a pebble somewhere (that I should prob sell) that I used for a little bit, but it was a little too unwieldy. the concept is excellent, though.

tbh I would probably never use the Mickey Mouse watch face they showed, but they almost sold me on the watch there and then. the last time I regularly wore a watch was when I had a mickey watch as a kid

no they won't, Josh, that idea is dumb and impractical

The watch is going to be successful imo. First gen might be a luxury-only kind of thing, but that's no different than the iphone or ipad. Within a generation or two the supposed battery life issues will be improved and the functionality inevitably will be too, and there will be a bunch of shit that people use it for that, if you told them now, they'd say "why would I want to do that on a watch?"

I do kind of wonder about the price/use-life thing though and wonder how they're accounting for that (e.g. maybe they just don't expect to do huge numbers on the higher-end models). The iPhone was helped a lot by phone-plan pricing -- you don't feel the whole cost of the phone, just the $100 or $200 or whatever you have to pay up front.

I think it probably has more of a lifetime than the first gen iPhone

I do remember cackling with glee when some friends were like, wait, they released a whole new version with 3g only a year later?!?

I was one of the guys saying, "How are you going to type on such a tiny keyboard?" I may have made an joke comparing the iPad's name to that of a feminine sanitary napkin before its release. (The iPad's release, I mean, good lord, I should just stop.)

So maybe my record on nay-saying Apple products isn't so great, but I just don't see the Apple Watch flying off the shelves like every single other product they've come up with in the past 15 years.

i don't see any use for this myself but i am admittedly behind the curve w/r/t technology, i just got my first smartphone yesterday ffs. i did have an 5th gen ipod touch though and having an iphone is really cool but it does make me realize how much of a cool device the ipod touch is, it is pretty great and having a ipod touch + cheap-ass flip phone combo was not such a bad thing. it is nice to have everything in one device now though

don't worry, marcos, I am sure you'll be chomping at the bit in no time after you join our world ov ~universal connectivity~

lol

i already feel like having an iphone has degraded my peace of mind, i've spent way too much time thinking "maybe i should've gotten the space gray phone instead of the silver, damn"

get a case to hide your shame imo

also, gold is the acceptable choice

Finding a use for having notifications on a watch assumes I am popular enough to get notifications in the first place

Haha

*My lock screen is always my background picture*

:(