Weekend Open Forum: What do you think of the new Apple Watch?

All I see is a useless piece of junk. I haven't used a watch in about 15 years, and if I was going to wear one again it would be a watch of quality and class. I'm sure that many people will buy this and think it makes them happy or something.
 
I'm as skeptical as everyone else. However I can help but feel this is one step further away from using phones as they are know today. Phones are often stolen or damaged because they are not worn.

I'm waiting for the day we wear a HUD (heads up display) and strap a pointing device to our wrist. A combination that will allow us to evolve everything we currently use. That wouldn't be that difficult, if we would stop putting large screens on our phones, and use a compact screenless device as the main processing unit.
 
Most people in this forum seem very negative, but maybe it will get seniors back to using computers. It measures medical data like a tricorder, and my mother wastes money on diabetes test strips and is always messuring her blood pressure.. I don't really know what it measures, but cheaper medicine is always desired as medicare is broke being $45 trillion in debt.
 
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tonylukac said:
Most people in this forum seem very negative, but maybe it will get seniors back to using computers. It measures medical data like a tricorder, and my mother wastes money on diabetes test strips and is always messuring her blood pressure.. I don't really know what it measures, but cheaper medicine is always desired as medicare is broke being $45 trillion in debt.
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Now *that* is visionary.
 
tonylukac said:
Most people in this forum seem very negative, but maybe it will get seniors back to using computers. It measures medical data like a tricorder, and my mother wastes money on diabetes test strips and is always messuring her blood pressure.. I don't really know what it measures, but cheaper medicine is always desired as medicare is broke being $45 trillion in debt.
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I believe sports watches measure pulse rate already. As far as diabetes goes, I doubt Apple's watch is advanced enough to deal with that. To the best of my knowledge, you still have to stick yourself to draw blood for the blood glucose test, and hold a test strip in your urine stream to test for sugar and /or ketoacidosis.

So, unless this watch shoots spikes into your finger, or you need to hold it under you while you pee, it isn't going to do squat to monitor diabetes.

As far as saving money in medical expenses, just don't take all the tests they prescribe for you, for the sake of pleasing your doctor, avoid any tendencies toward hypochondria, and tell every other crap hole on medicare to do the same.

Oh, before I forget, save the $350.00 price of the watch, and use it toward your co-pays.

And no, the iWatch isn't anything like the imaginary "tricorder".

I have CBC, chem panels, INR, and PT tests done on a regular basis. They require 4 or 5 full vials of blood to be drawn. The iWatch won't do any of that either. It's a toy.

And BTW, Walmart sells Novalin "N", for less than $25.00 a vial.

A bit about blood pressure:

Blood pressure varies by time and activity. If someone's BP is controlled, either by medication or by nature, it really is a waste of time to keep checking it too frequently. Hypochondria, plain and simple. You drink a cup of coffee, it goes up, take some Valium, it goes down. Salty pizza, put +20 on the diastolic column. Exercise? Then the diastolic goes up dramatically, while the systolic falls quite a bit. (vasodialation at work here kids).

In the case of someone with valvular heart disease, taking BP at the arm, is virtually pointless. So, unless the iWatch is capable of cardiac catheterization, that's another huge fail.
 
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cliffordcooley said:
That's a thought! Has anyone seen a bumper sticker on that topic? It would read, "Check your health today, piss on Apple's iWatch".
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OK, let me be the first to say, "Eew"!

Then let me point out, with the camera improvements in the new iPhone 6, it might prove useful as a self colonoscopy probe.
 
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Personally I'm not interested in any hi tech wearable gadget irrespective of who makes it, it's still too early to buy into something that is so expensive and will be outdated in a few months making it practically valueless.
A smartwatch that works across all platforms would make spending money on it a lot more justifiable.
 
I'm interested in tech watches in general, but I'd want one with a very long battery life, and in general paying $350 for a watch is more than I'm willing to pay.
 
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The design is just way too ugly. It's a product that people will ignore. Only super die hard apple fans will buy it. And what's with the super short battery life?
 
An Apple/android Watch: Yes.
this watch: No
Allthough already well designed I miss:
-good battery
-camera
-no audio output (e.g. pod nano)
-longer distance between iphone/watch
 
I think most people here(Including myself) prefer android devices to iphone items So you will not get many, if any, positive remarks about this watch. First, apple will not make a device that will be supported on other devices besides theirs since it would go against their philosophy of keeping their customers in their camp.
I also think the price is too high, not something I would want to wear, and I do not know enough about it yet to even consider one. I also don't think I need another gadget that I have to worry about getting broken, stolen at gunpoint, or becoming obsolete in a year and needing another one. That goes for any smart watch. But if someone else wants a smartwatch, that is their business.
 
Outlaw88 said:
I think most people here(Including myself) prefer android devices to iphone items So you will not get many, if any, positive remarks about this watch. First, apple will not make a device that will be supported on other devices besides theirs since it would go against their philosophy of keeping their customers in their camp.
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This watch is virtually useless without an iPhone. It is still possible for Apple to produce a smart watch that still is within their eco-system but can operate independently of an iPhone. What is not mentioned which versions of the iPhone that will work with this watch?
 
The only one will benefit is the robbers, they will know you have an iphone since your wearing an iwatch.
 
cliffordcooley said:
Only iRobbers will be interested. lol What percentage of robbers are actually iRobbers?
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Did you ever hear Loreena McKennitt sing the Alfred Noyes poem, "The Highwayman"? He was a robber.

Anyway, in Cockney English, this guy would be "the iWayman"
This is pretty much what this thread needed, some, "iCulture".
 
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I feel like the first successful "smart watches" will focus on the experience apart from a phone. I am a big Apple fan but this product just doesn't appeal to me at all. It's no challenge to pull out my iPhone to do a lot of these tasks. However, talking to Siri by talking to my wrist does have a sort of Secret Service appeal :)
 
thegroveman said:
However, talking to Siri by talking to my wrist does have a sort of Secret Service appeal :)
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Oh, I don't know, it's all so 1950's.......*nerd*
 
Great new way for your body to absorb radio frequency carcinogenics and radiation damage given it's constant and close proximity.
 
Huh, funny how Apple wants to spread the smart watch fad to those who don't even wear ordinary watches and end up buying one of these crap and goes , "Oh, I should have worn one many years ago. Boy, is this friggin awesome!"

This is stupid straight up.
 
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