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Dorian Gray
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2014-09-09, 18:38

One thing you can do with it is listen to music without an iPhone. So it must have at the very least a fair bit of local storage and Bluetooth A2DP.

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Originally Posted by addison View Post
And most of those sales will be to men. Can't see a lot of women considering this device. It's still a pretty big device with features that aren't must have.
Perhaps it will sell more to men – the jury’s out on market acceptance here (by the way, it’s great to see Apple taking a big risk like this) – but you shouldn’t pretend to know what women want. For a start, they don’t all want the same thing. For example, several women I know wear larger watches than I do. And all but one of my girlfriend’s watches are larger than mine.

Second, I think it already does many things that will become must-have features to people who get used to them (a bit like Touch ID on the iPhone 5S). But the better question is not whether it has a must-have feature, but will anyone want one? And my gut instinct says it will appeal to many people.

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I think it's absolutely beautiful. It doesn't feel like they just took their iPhone design language — chamfered edges, Helvetica and whitespace, &c. — and just shoved it on a watch. It looks like something really and truly new from Apple
I agree completely. It feels new and important. And scroll down this page. It feels a million miles from the stack-’em-high and sell-’em-cheap world of plastic electronics. It feels like significant design and desirable materials. It’s exciting to see Apple doing this, and that’s before you even consider the technology and usability.

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Pogue says Apple told him water resistant, not waterproof.
I doubt that means anything. Nothing is truly waterproof. Watches are water resistant to a specified depth (i.e. pressure), and you can bet your last dollar the Apple Watch will be waterproof in any practical non-scuba-diving sense.

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That's so funny, because as soon as I saw the word WATCH in bold on the screen behind Tim, I said to myself, "Well that's not right. wtf is up with that C?"
Fonts all look the same to me in caps. But I could tell the lowercase letters were pretty big, presumably to improve legibility at small sizes.

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