New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Schill Filler

the measles detector on this apple watch is going to be useful in california

within 50ms of UTC time? not good enough!

right, i don't live in UTC

after dealing with timestamps last week I am pretty cool with switching everyone to UTC

local sidereal time for all imo

Lot of videos to distract us from the simple fact that none of the interactions on the device seem compelling, especially when you have an iPhone in your pocket!

Unix time or bust.

Lot of videos to distract us from the simple fact that none of the interactions on the device seem compelling, especially when you have an iPhone in your pocket!

Yep. :/

looks like the kind of watch every day carry dudes will love

Base model watch costs as much as the first iPod and yet comes with a rubber strap to make you feel cheap? FU Apple.

$79 for an adapter http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1K2AM/A/usb-c-digital-av-multiport-adapter

With built-in speaker and microphone, you can receive calls on your watch. I've been wanting to do this since I was five years old! The day is finally here!

-Time Cook

Macbooks have "Turbo Boost"? Did we timewarp back to the '90s?

Cmon, the watch tells time! I think that's actually pretty cool. I've been wanting a watch.

all intel processors have turbo boost, and yes, intel lives very much in the 90s

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?