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Apple Watch May Be DOA As Cook Admits Battery Life As Low As 3 Hours
The Apple Watch may be pretty... but you are going to need up to 8 of them to make it through a full day. While Tim Cook proclaimed 18 hours of "all-day battery-life" - itself not particularly impressive compared to competing products, hidden deep in Apple Watch's product page is a little admission that battery life (in use) could be as low as 3 hours...
The admissions are significantly less than the 18 hours that Apple chief executive Tim Cook announced in the glitzy launch on Monday.
They could prove a major problem for users who will have to charge up multiple times in a day using the magnetic clip-on charger.
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He claimed it would be "revolutionary", but now it seems that the battery might be what one tech website described as its "Achilles Heel".
On its website, Apple gave figures for battery life based on the smaller 38mm (1.4 inch) version. The 42mm (1.7 inch) version will last longer, though no figures were given.
Leaving it in reserve mode will last up to 72 hours, and leaving it in "Watch Test" mode will last up to 48 hours.
But should you use any of the features Mr Cook talked about in his press conference, it will last significantly less.
Apple tried to make the figures more impressive by giving an example of a typical user chewing up their 18 hours of battery life as follows: 90 time checks (five per hour), 90 notifications, 45 minutes of app use, and a 30-minute workout with music playback via Bluetooth.
But on the product page of the watch website, it also gave the lower figures for talking or using it to workout.
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Remember Google Glass?
Battery life had been an issue with Google’s Glass eyewear - now discontinued - and when connected to the Internet it lasted just 30 minutes.
And here's Bloomberg to explain the problems with the $10,000 edition...
There has been no mention yet at all of the biggest elephant in the room: what do you do with a solid gold watch when it becomes obsolete? One would hope for some kind of trade-in or recycling program that prevents all that gold from sitting unused in a drawer, but it will likely be a while before we know of anything real. (Many $10,000 mechanical watches actually rise in value after you purchase as the years go by.)
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Everything Apple is built around planned obsolescence
The next version of the iWatch will suck power directly from your life force.
Its won't need recharging but after wearing/using it for three weeks you shrivel up and turn into a mindless zombie... (wait on - maybe they are already doing that??)
Human psychology is amazing.
apple is a great 100% usa company /SARCASM
Maybe apple is going the way of Spock, spooking apple stock.
Bobbing for ...
Apple is a corporation that deals with sociopathic crackpot fascistic governments like the CCP to use their slave resources to gouge enslaved idiots in the west of their debt based money.
don't worry Apple will take that pile of cash and buy the watches throw them in a landfilll....issue more debt...their revenue will still fall and their stock will go up on stock buybacks.
Seasonal adjustment of hours in a day might make i-watch somewhat usefull.
Apple could slap the name i-Turd on a piece of dogshit and millions of drones would line up to pay $500 for it.
I wonder how many caught Tim Cook’s punchline during the Apple Watch launch presentation:
“It’s not with you, it’s on you”.
I take that to mean "on you" as in on you all the time. Presumably that’s some kind of advantage, but, for whom?
Here’s what I predict is coming in the next generations of Apple Watch (besides a longer battery life):
“It’s not just on you, it’s inside you”, followed by, “It’s not just inside you, it’s monitoring and controlling you.”
Yes, one day the Apple Watch will be an implant device designed to watch over you. You won’t even need to bother downloading apps, they will pick the ones you need and handle that for you too.
Domo arigato Mr. Roboto, and by the way, your name is now Robby.
>“It’s not just on you, it’s inside you”, followed by, “It’s not just inside you, it’s monitoring and controlling you.”
Just until it's fully grown and bursts out of your chest cavity...
I-wontbebuying
iCan't believe it.
iCan't believe it's not iButter
Bring back the shit-and-piss Bitcoin stories.
I'm getting sick to death of the inane Apple stories.
They had a guy on Bloomberg today saying that people who use Apple are smarter than people who use Android....lol....I am cool and smarter than you...seemy watch....lol.....
Good point youngman. Every time I try explain to my iHerd co-workers that my Android phone is rooted because I want to choose which apps are installed on it I get this blank stare...
The gay apple watch.....for metrosexuals who need to be tracked by the NSA at all times.
Should come with a fanny pack and some lip gloss.
As good as a Pulp Fiction watch.
ROLEX
No batteries. No fuss. And highly liquid.
Rolex = (nearly) money. Better than paper fiat in many locations.
i have an $11,900 Rolex Deep Blue (2014)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/arieladams/2014/08/05/james-cameron-gets-a-s...
They are now selling for $14K on ebay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ROLEX-NIB-116660-DEEP-SEA-DWELLER-JAMES-CAMERON-...
Try that with a faggot-apple-iwatch-1 when the i-watch-6 comes out.
No problem. Throw one of these...
http://www.dcbattery.com/optima_red.html
inside one of these...
http://www.amazon.com/Sanrio-Hello-Kitty-Toddler-Backpack/dp/B0030F8NG0
and the ifags will beat down the door to buy 'em and accessorise at the same time.
Personally I have not worn a watch of any type for at least 15 years now.
And if I was to start wearing one again this Apple watch certainly wouldn't be it.
.....turlingron endorsement failed.......
Instead appl should have a video of mick jagger
Wearing his iwatch as a cock-ring and singing
"Apple makes a dead man come,
Apple makes a dead man come!"
Can't wait to have my iPhone, iPad, Macbook air in my Apple backpack and the Apple watch on my wrist so i can check my Twitter and Facebook account, while riding my Segway.
if only the could perfect the Narcissus Apps and meet the same end result!
The funny thing is that it's just so utterly pointless and useless. Need to check the time? I have a phone for that. It feels GREAT to not have a watch around your wrist anymore. And when I am checking the time, I can do other things with my damned phone. Bluetooth drains the shit out of battery life.
Tiny little screen that will push notifications. Well, you can't use the damn thing to respond to them, so you're still digging out the phone. Listening to music? Um, my headphones work just fine for that, they even have a nice little control on them.
For workouts? There are already dozens of solutions out there, the best one probably being xiaomi's... as it sucks virtually no battery to do what it does, and it's CHEAP. You can get all that vibrating for notifications, alarms, whatever else you want to configure in the app for it... and it costs like $13.
The ifags are talking about "health" apps and whatnot, but it doesn't do shit. It can guess when you are moving and monitor a heartbeat, that's it. This isn't some diagnosis or health tool, it's a bunch of decade old tech slapped into an oversized wrist package and sold to morons.
Ahhh, the iWatch !
The equivalent of a GPS ankle bracelet, but for the wrist !
It doesn't matter, Apple makes EVERYTHING cool. Even a dead watch.
Timmy Cook is a gay iDiot
No wonder this thing will be popular with the fitness junkies....since you have to run from one charging location to another.
oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please
I hope this thing bombs like a US President and sends the entire hedge fund hotel that is AAPL crashing, on fire, into a swamp.
You could wear Apple solar panels on your head.
her you go
http://www.gizmag.com/solar-powered-ski-helmet-communications/21727/
Battery dies fast because of having to run all the NSA backdoors.
iThink Apple is loosing the plot... off with the pixies in La La Land, this is hilarious.
it reminds me of the story of
The Emperor's New Watch...Can't they build a small nuclear power plant for the watch? Whazz up wid dat?...
should have included a battery like this...
http://www.esendex.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/retrophone.jpg
to be honest ... apple watch hardly look pretty ...
Good, the more sticks get shoved up Apple's proprietary ass, the better.
What you are going to see is rampant channel stuffing by Apple and major promos on the AAPL Watch. Buy an iPhone6 and get an AAPL Watch for $199 with 2 year contract at Verizon.
What I am fucking pissed about is Apple is calling the product Watch, like there has never been anything called a watch before and Apple has invented something truly revolutionary. Jony Ive is the most overrated designer of all time and Apple is the most overvalued company of all time.
I guess Apple thinks that if someone will pay $10k for a watch, they will pay another $3k for a band. I don't think anyone will buy a gold cased watch and leave it with a silicone band. The bands are such a joke, but people pay $35 for a $.15 piece of silicone to protect their iPhone.
Like I have said many times. There is a special kind of stupid that buys Apple products. Sadly throughout history it has been proven many times that a great mass of people can be absolutely stupid.
hubris
I use a watch constantly every day. So do both of my sons. I think the younger generation like an actual watch, not just fixated on checking time on their phones. A good new watch is interesting.
G-Shock makes great watches and I usually use that. Every night it synchs using a built-in receiver so I always have the exact time.
Also own a Citizen "ecodrive" which has a little solar panel on the face which is constantly charging, so there is never a battery to change.
I don't like the iWatch because it's too high maintenance (battery issue). I also ride motorcycles and I doubt iWatch can handle the vibration. I don't think iWatch is tough like G-Shock, probably the electronics will malfunction after getting wet, iWatch will get scratched up and can't "take a beating" like a normal watch.
"Got the time?"
"Come back in a couple of hours when it is charged."
Why even offer something that has only three hours of battery use. You would think They would think more of their reputation.
Yeh it looks like a big fail. Looks like Timmy is gonna take it up the poop chute over this one.
This article is bullsh.. . . .
Above sent from my i watch (after recharge)
This is no big deal. Be honest for chissakes, who here doesn't wear four watches at a time?
Anyway it's good for the (Chinese) economy if people buy four watches instead of one.
The inductive charger is probably very inefficient. Times one it doesn't matter, but multiply by a billlion and it means global warming will cause the return of dinosaurs on main street. Apple Watch is bringing us back to Jurassic times!
I expect Obama to veto the Apple Watch today.
Tim Cook should have been fired a long time ago...
But that would be homophobic.
Battery life is eternal if, instead of buying one and switching it on, you just don't buy one.
20 000 $ for the gold edition looool
Who places a 3 hour call through their watch? When was the last time you talked through your watch for 3 hours? If you knew you were going to be on that long wouldn't you reach for, I dunno ...your phone? Is Reggie running ZH lately? Lots of iHaters- Reggie was VERY wrong on Apple margin compression. Many of you have been wrong betting against Apple. WHy let your emotion get in the way? These are gagets to enable some ease of use but the watch is not a computer nor is it a phone. It's a watch adn is being billed as a watch. You ask alot of your watch if you are gonna use it as a computer or a phone for that 3 hours call. Use a better tool in that case- one designed for that functionality. The Watch is for convenience having something easier to glance at, more discrete than getting out the phone- and better to initiate certain things- This debate reminds me of the ridicule when the ORIGINAL iPhone came out. Or when the iPad came out, or the iPod. iHaters mock the devices because they are not the end all be all device -but were never built to be. Were your predictions wrong on those previous Apple devices too? Ever admit to being wrong? Personally I like seeing innovation from ANY company- bring it on even if it's 1st generation and incremental, it leads to something.
Yep. Like another watch. Which you don't really need even if you are too lazy to pull a phone out of your pocket.
That goes for android watches as well.
This aint a problem with Apple. It's a problem with retarded, pointless bullshit.
Then you wont be buying one- So move on, no big deal.
It's not a matter of lazy not bringing the phone out. When I'm in a sales presentation to a Client or a dinner meeting with Clients -if I bring out my phone to glance at something even if it's just the wife or kids checking in. It's disrespectful to whomever I'm with. I'm also not going to be one of those people constantly checking my phone. Would it me nice to glance at my wrist and see an message/update- Yes, I think so. Could I do that & not be rude to whom I'm with? Yes I think so. I may get one I may not- But all this debate about a "fail" because if you played with it CONSTANTLY it woud only last for 3 hours. It makes me laugh.
Remember Beepers? people carried those around to know who to call as it flashed a number of who called you -yet that was usefull enough to buy and have a monthly service. And people checked them and would leave the conversation if it was an emergency. If you want to be connected- then this might be a good thing for you. If not? then no need to get it-
This fanboy talk- is just the continuation of the Apple Vs PC debate that has been goign on since 1984- Yawn. Hey Buy one if you want it's your money and people should be able to vote with their own money. Seems many like the iGagets. Why does it piss certain people off so much?
Just wear GoogleGlass to all of your "sales presentation"/dinner meetings. Problem solved...
Good one. I did chuckle. Yes I suppose I should. But I wont I guess I'm not "A Glass Hole."
All Mothers Matter dude....
yeah- I'll give you that. The marketing choice there is not the best... But again. It's just a f'ing watch- the vitrol in the debate about it is amazing.
I remember that debate about sliced bread. You are still here and still discussing it, just like the rest of us.
(18 hours battery life? reminds me of life aboard a nuclear submarine. We did 18 hour days. 6 hours on watch, 12 hours off, repeat ad nauseum. By the end of the "mission", your internal clock was so screwed up you didn't care what time it was, just whether the number of times you surfaced equalled the number of times you submerged...)
But just think how "productive" society could be if we all worked 18 hour days... and the iWatch will lead the way...
HERETIC!!! HERETIC!!!!
You like innovation but all the products you mentionned were not innovative when they were release.
Smart watches has been around for years. And they have months of battery life compared to the poor 18 hours of the iWatch. Some even have a bettary solely for the time display that will last years and a second battery for the "smart" part.
Really you should do some reasearch about them and then you might realise why everyone is laughing at this iWatch.
Fuck you fanboys!
it's like antennae gate, they didn't sell any iphones after that, apple nearly went out of business, oh, and also how about that 6 plus bend gate, that really fucked apple up. Apple is doomed. LMMFAO
Now now now young'n apple be DOW certified March 18, 2015...unless either:
1. Apple entirely crashes with the stock market, and WTI.
2. This Inception ends prematurely.
Meh, way behind the curve. This is what's happening today
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/feb/27/microchip-hand-implan...
Tyler's Tweet...part of Daily Mail Christy Turlington Apple Watch article:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2988018/Why-Christy-Turli...
Where are those ladies & Gentlemen, who hold Apple stock?
Do they have some questions for Cook?
nah, cause loyal fanboyz/fangirlz are in the house tonight
Could someone explain to me why I would ever need to place a call (or listen to music) using my watch if I have my phone right in my pocket?
In an attempt to look cool. I mean that's the whole reason for buying it---to look cool.
It's meant to replace your phone...
Oh wait. No. it's not.
One big reason the Google Glass hit the skids was too many wearers got their stupid faces punched in for invading someone's privacy.
(Though Google's black model for the Glass is such a fox! Too bad she had to go get another gig....http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carla-escoda/dances-with-google-glass_b_56...)
Anyway - I digress
As for the Apple Watch, I think the solution to the short battery life is quite easy - just integrate a tiny air-powered electrical generator into the Watch, and then run a plastic tube from the Watch up your arm to your armpit, where you will have a rubber ball.
You simply pump your arm (like when you want to make arm farts) and wonder of wonders! The Watch gets an infinite battery life!
I just know we're soon going to see people everywhere 'doing arm farts' while they check their Watches.
And for those Ladies with thunder-thighs, there will doubtless be a variation to suit them. There will be a bag that goes between their legs, rather than a rubber ball in the armpit. So these Ladies can pump their thunder-thighs together for the charge they need.....
And for Kardashian-type sluts, yet another variation - an air-filled rubber wedge in their enormous ass cracks, so they just need to flex their buns to charge their Watches.....
Glass failed because it is stoopid and ugly. Brin is surrounded by Yes-People who lavished attention upon him when he donned the ridiculous thing. The consequence was that Google spent hundreds of millions developing the insane thing...
Pardon me. I believe you have mistaken me for someone who gives a shit.
The answer........http://www.bescor.com/12V-Belt-SLA-Batteries.htm
might get taken for a suicide bomber with timer though
My $11 watch is 7 years old, keeps good time, but I still cant figure out how to recharge its battery.
If you strapped this Turlington broad and her $10k iWatch to the prop of a huge outboard motor, would they take a licking and keep on ticking?
Now this is how to do a watch promo...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgsvnvf6UGA
"I licked it all day but that voids the warranty."
--T. Cook
One of the great ads. Ever notice how many of the 50s adds were focussed on engineering? There were more people who actually understood facts then.
Sippin' On Gin & iWatch Juice: My Mind On My Money . . . http://prestonclive.whotrades.com/blog/43027793034
Hitler weighed in on the iWatch back in September: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uilDiHk0IqU
The iFlop. Bullish.
So the consensus in this peanut gallery of morons is that Apple Watch will fail? Ok great! Never a clearer BUY signal for Apple shares than a chorus of life failures opposing it.
iPass
Too fooking expensive for me, brah!
The Apple watch sounds like an '80ies joke about Soviet watches:
A Polish tourist comes back home after visiting the USSR. He carries two very large and heavy suitcases. On his wrist is a new Soviet-made watch. He tells the customs man: "This is a new Soviet watch. It's a wonder unknown in the capitalist countries. You see, it shows time, the rate of your pulse beats, the phases of the Moon, the weather in Warsaw, Moscow, and New York, and more and more!"
"Yes, it's a wonder," the customs man agrees. "And what is it you have in these big suitcases?"
"Oh, it's just the batteries for that watch."
Just like iSaid in a previous post...
Just add the complication of recharging a dozen times a day...
"This is just another gimmick to pander to the trendies and hipsters.
It is tediously too small, the controls still reek of old tech and you need some other gadget to make it work with the net.
This years coming market crash will drain the trendy/hipster/commies pocket books enough that they will have to choose between eating and the newest narcissist keep-up-with-jonses iDIOCY.
My prediction,
It will flop.
Short apple the day before the watches iNtroduction to the market.
You heard it from me first!
Apples where meant to be eaten. (TM)"
"Apples where meant to be eaten. (TM)"
Bugger me Deathstar - I was just going to post the same line - then I saw your logo stating ownership. Well done:)
Anyone buying one of these moronic devices has shit for brains.
Thank you :)
Clearly the gold watch can be easily recyled. My guess - either a full swap or, they designed the case to allow for removal of the electronics part from the gold part ; so you just pay $1000 for the new part (Apple's cost $102.50) and they swap it in for you.
Tim Cook needs to have a serious heart-to-heart talk with Elon Musk.
C'mon Tim--Dick Tracy never had battery problems.....
anyone willing to bet that this misguided fantasy won't flop??
Told you it was a Switch Swatch.
>Sad Panda<
$182 billion and you make a watch like this.
It's worse than the Senate in 57 BC.
Steve Jobs said "Tim is not a product person, per se". I think SnApple Watch will be a defining moment for Cook and for Jobs' prediction.
Jobs changed the mindset at Apple to that of a luxury brand product. This is something outsiders never got when they called for Apple to go down-market to capture more share. Admittedly, even Jobs made the mistake of not bringing out a bigger iPhone because he thought a bigger phone it wasn't "sexy" in the luxury brand sense. Cook immediately went to make the bigger iPhone when he took over and he dramatically destroyed Samsung in the process. So I am ambivalent about Jobs' prediction...
Personally, I won't be purchasing an Apple Watch. Watches are so 19th century and I already have a time piece - it's called my phone. Watches are also a status symbol kinda thing for the olde guarde (and some nouveau riche) who revel in upping their country club buddies with the most ridiculous, overpriced time keeper. I doubt these types will swarm to the Apple Watch (even at $1000+) to wage their war of envy just so they can monitor their diet and exercise with an Apple Time Piece.