New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

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*

:(

I need to change up stuff because I'm getting IFTTT notifications all the time now and it's embarassing

*save article to read later* get notification
*park car in driveway* get notification

apple watch totally reminds of the ipod nano 6th gen, that thing was a piece of shit

http://www7.pcmag.com/media/images/233917-apple-ipod-nano-6th-gen.jpg

way too small to do anything

oh damn you get even get a wrist band for it
http://image.made-in-china.com/2f0j00fvZEjzqlhKgP/Outdoor-Sports-Running-Jogging-Riding-Climbing-Watchband-Watch-Wrist-Strap-for-iPod-Nano-6th-Gen-.jpg

One thing I am looking forward to is martial arts slapstick comedy scenes where someone catches a punch and then checks their email on the watch or something before counterpunching

Can I buy a case for my Apple Watch?

How about an external plug-in keyboard?

yeah it straps to your face

sorry to derail but backup question: having tons of GBs of baby pictures has convinced me that my backup routine is lacking (time capsule on an external HD whenever I think of it, ie. approx once a month). So I'm tempted to get an Airport Time Capsule just to have an automated backup routine. Is this a good time to buy one? How old is the existing model? Should I wait or get something else entirely?

god i don't back up anything and every time i think about it freaks me out, i need to get on that shit

buy your baby an iWatch

he or she will be famous and E! has good backup

One thing I am looking forward to is martial arts slapstick comedy scenes where someone catches a punch and then checks their email on the watch or something before counterpunching

Haha.

And the notification screen says "Look up!" in time for the hero to dodge and counter another punch.

Will my watch automatically set the time and date via the phone? Will my phone automatically set its time and date via my watch? Can I text my watch with my phone? Can I set my phone's alarm with my watch? If I take a picture of my watch with my phone, will it create a feedback loop that will fold the universe into itself?

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?"

Except the iPhone and iPad didn't require an iPhone.

there's definitely something victory lap-ish about it, and if google wireless takes off i might switch to android anyway.

"steve jobs wouldn't have it let it fly, that's for sure"

xp eh userbase for iPhone is enormous enough now, anyone interested in this brand will have an iPhone to begin with
that said I have no idea if this will take off or not. the veblen good/conspicuous consumption theory makes sense to me though

I was thinking that the massively overpriced options were ways for Apple to cash in on the black market markups that exist for their iPhones

They've gotta pay for that new HQ somehow

There's so little excitement/chatter about this even in the techy places that I'm starting to wonder if it will be a hit or not. Even the hacker news cesspool had 1000 comments on the new MB and 74 on the watch. Apart from some shit gags, Twitter is barely talking about it either.

Some of that's probably because it was talked out after the initial announcement, but then the iPhone was launched the same way and the second announcement of that just whipped things to an even feverier pitch, iirc.

my architect friend who used to work for a structural wall fabricator was all o_O when I sent him the gap tolerances Jobs thought were acceptable between panels in their new building

it's basically the building version of their ridiculous materials/design engineering

it's not really for "techy" people imo, those places didn't give a fuck about the iPod at first, either xp

There's so little excitement/chatter about this even in the techy places that I'm starting to wonder if it will be a hit or not. Even the hacker news cesspool had 1000 comments on the new MB and 74 on the watch. Apart from some shit gags, Twitter is barely talking about it either.

HN reaction is weird. None of the stories are receiving up votes.

it's not really for "techy" people imo, those places didn't give a fuck about the iPod at first, either xp

What? I know everyone talks about the infamous Slashdot post, but people forget he was eaten alive in the comments:

http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ipod

now that I think about it, the apple watch is really just a way for the iPhone to display data beans

where exactly was he eaten alive in the comments?

I think one factor that will lead to this initially being a slow-drip product -- the most recent iPhone had and is having ridiculous sales numbers, not to mention that they're selling at slightly higher price points than the old ones, so someone who just dropped $200 more than usual on a 64GB 6+ might not rush out to buy the watch right away.

But I think whether or not it's a hit boils down to whether you think wearables are going to be a failure or not. If they're going to be a success, this is the product that's going to be the leader. There's really no other contender.