Here's your summary: If you watched the keynote for the watch (and who didn't?), the only new pieces of information were the release date: April 24, pre-orders starting April 10 and the top-end pricing ($10k+). Read more
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Here's your summary: If you watched the keynote for the watch (and who didn't?), the only new pieces of information were the release date: April 24, pre-orders starting April 10 and the top-end pricing ($10k+). Read more
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Still, basically nothing new about the watch yet. It looks like Tim Cook is winding up for the concluding sales pitch. Read more
Looking at Uber's execution on the Apple Watch, it really looks like the user interfaces are going to be stripped way, way down. When you open the Uber app on the watch, it opens straight to a request car screen, no map, no cruft. Apps will have to be small or they'll have to be very smart to infer what you want to do… Read more
"I've got my credit cards right inside my watch." This is not something I expected to hear when I was growing up. Read more
Are they gonna show us anything new about the watch? This feels like a rehash of the watch announcement event. Read more
Here's Tim Cook describing the "Digital Touch" communication features of the watch: "Sketch on your watch and that sketch will be animated on your friends watch exactly as you drew it. You can also tap your watch to get your friend’s attention. And you can even send your heartbeat. This is an incredibly intimate way… Read more
Terraced battery patent: https://www.google.com/patents/WO2014062693A1. They've been working on this technology for packing in more batteries into a thinner shell for a few years at least. Read more
I wonder if this is the patent for the new "butterfly" mechanism that's sitting underneath the new Macbook keys? Read more
Hey, somebody is excited about the ResearchKit! Read more
For context: Samsung's medical partner at UCSF was very, very skeptical that the outputs from the current generation of phones could be used clinically: "It's real basic stuff to get started. You can't overstate the importance of getting the validation right and the depth of the validation." Read more
Hey, somebody is excited about the ResearchKit! Read more
"Perhaps the most profound change and positive impact that iPhone will make is on our health," Tim Cook says. Somehow, I don't think that's been fact-checked by the FDA. Read more
"Apple Pay has forever changed the way we pay for things," says Tim Cook. It's a little early for that kind of triumphalism, no? Read more
HBO announces standalone streaming service HBO Now. "We couldn't be prouder that Apple is our exclusive partner at launch." Coming in April for $14.99 a month. Read more