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Apple Watch Users Discover Another Way to Go ‘Hands Free’
A few weeks after purchasing an Apple Watch, Wil Forrest smelled a problem. Mr. Forrest, a manager at Freebirds World Burrito in Thousand Oaks, Calif., was cutting meat when the timer on his watch started buzzing and beeping. With his hands covered in meat juices, Mr. Forrest sniffed out a solution: He silenced the alarm with his nose.
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Apple II Watch
CUPERTINO, California—September 9, 1984—Apple Computer Inc.® today unveiled Apple // watch™—its most personal device ever. Apple // watch introduces a revolutionary design and A BASIC USER INTERFACE created specifically for a smaller device. Apple // watch features A KNOB, an innovative way to SCROLL, without obstructing the display. The KNOB also serves as the RETURN button and a convenient way to PRESS RETURN.
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Apple warns iPhone sales set to fall for first time
Apple reports the slowest growth in iPhone sales since the product's 2007 launch and warns sales will decline for the first time later this year.
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So I installed Windows 95 on my Apple Watch
With a 520 MHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, and 8GB of internal storage, the Apple Watch packs a lot of computing horsepower into a very small package. On paper, its processor alone is about twenty-five times faster than the average 386, and 512 MB was the size of a hard drive in the mid nineties, not memory. As a result, I was feeling confident that the Apple Watch had the ability to run one of the most revered desktop operating systems Redmond has ever produced.
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Why I have finally taken off the Apple Watch for the last time
It took me nine months to realise it, but the only useful thing about Apple’s £479 smartwatch was the weather notifications. Towards the end of May, I took off the Apple Watch I’d been wearing for nine months. I’ll never put it on again. I’d been wearing the £479 38mm Apple Watch with a sapphire screen, stainless steel shell and white sport band – something I genuinely appreciated as an article of jewellery – since we bought it at the launch in April last year.
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Apple Watch sales are down 55%
A new report from market intelligence firm IDC shows Apple Watch sales have dropped 55% since the product was launched in early 2015. The watch debuted to a backlog of orders and 3.6 million units were shipped in its first three months on the market. But sales plummeted to just 1.6 million in the latest quarter, according to IDC. That's in spite of a price discount. Apple it set to deliver an updated operating system for its smartwatch this fall -- called watchOS 3 -- which promises new features and improved performance. It's widely expected to also introduce a redesigned "Apple Watch 2" in the autumn.
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Apple’s Safari Browser Will Soon Kill Autoplaying Videos by Default
Time for some peace and quiet.
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Apple Plans to Release a Cellular-Capable Watch to Break iPhone Ties
Apple Inc. is planning to release a version of its smartwatch later this year that can connect directly to cellular networks, a move designed to reduce the device’s reliance on the iPhone, people familiar with the matter said.
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Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE review: missed connections
How much are you willing to pay for a gadget that offers intermittent convenience? How much are you willing to pay for what feels like a little bit of insurance, just in case you need cellular connectivity and your phone isn’t nearby or charged?
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Apple Watch is a Powerful Tool to Detect Sleep Apnea
While insomnia gets most of the attention when it comes to widespread sleep issues, sleep apnea is just as serious a problem and can have serious medical side effects. Sleep apnea affects one in 15 Americans, or about 18 million people in the U.S. alone. Sleep apnea can cause a wide range of unwanted health problems including headaches, depression, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke, or or even heart attacks or heart failure.
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FDA clears first medical accessory for the Apple Watch—an EKG sensor
KardiaBand uses a neural network and the Apple Watch to detect abnormal heart rate.
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The Vikings-Saints game was so crazy, Apple Watches told fans they might be having heart attacks
The ending to yesterday’s Vikings and Saints game was beyond thrilling and nothing short of an emotional roller coaster.
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The Apple Watch can detect diabetes with an 85% accuracy, Cardiogram study says
According to Cardiogram founder Brandon Ballinger’s latest clinical study, the Apple Watch can detect diabetes in those previously diagnosed with the disease with an 85 percent accuracy. The study is part of the larger DeepHeart study with Cardiogram and UCSF. This particular study used data from 14,000 Apple Watch users and was able to detect that 462 of them had diabetes by using the Watch’s heart rate sensor, the same type of sensor other fitness bands using Android Wear also integrate into their systems.
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Here’s the new Apple Watch Pride face that will become available next Monday
We have posted before about Apple’s new pride face for the Apple Watch, with strings found on a beta version of iOS 11.3. After that release, Apple removed all assets related to the new face …
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‘A cellphone taped to someone’s wrist:’ Woman looking at Apple Watch found guilty of distracted driving
A driver looking at an Apple Watch while stopped at a traffic light is still guilty of breaking Ontario’s distracted driving law, despite the trendy device’s new technology and her claim she was only checking the time. Even with its miniaturization and trendy technology, an Apple Watch is no safer “than a cellphone taped to someone’s wrist,” said a justice of the peace, while convicting a Guelph woman this month of holding or using a hand-held wireless communication device while driving.
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The $17,000 Apple Watch is already obsolete
The gold smartwatches caused controversy and confusion when they were first released.
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The Apple Watch will get touch-sensitive, solid-state buttons
The Apple Watch will be getting solid state buttons that don’t move up and down but rather sense the touch of a finger, a source with direct knowledge of Apple’s plans tells Fast Company. Apple will stick with the Watch’s current button configuration, with a button and a digital crown situated on one side of the device, but neither will physically click as before. Rather than reacting to the user’s touch by physically moving back and forth, the new buttons will vibrate slightly under the fingertip, using the haptic effect Apple calls the Taptic Engine. (The digital crown will still physically rotate to navigate through content.)
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New lawsuit takes issue with Apple’s ‘brilliantly scratch-resistant’ Apple Watch marketing
Apple is facing a lawsuit over its marketing for the Apple Watch. While the company markets the device as “brilliantly scratch-resistant,” an Ontario man is taking issue with that as he claims the device is actually very susceptible to scratches and tarnishes.
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RIP Time Travel - A seldom-used Apple Watch feature set to disappear with watchOS 5
One of Apple Watch's under-used features -- Time Travel -- will be going away when watchOS 5 lands this fall. This is AppleInsider's in memoriam of another Apple Watch experimental feature.
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Apple adds heart monitoring to Apple Watch
Apple just announced a new Watch called Apple Watch Series 4. The new Apple Watch comes with a larger, edge-to-edge screen, giving it the biggest facelift since its launch in 2014. The screen is 30 percent larger than the previous version, while the device itself has become thinner.
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