pfisher: anyone who has ever said that something "will make your life easier" (and Apple, incidentally, hasn't said that about the Watch that I've seen) is referring to some specific aspect of your life, not every single component -- nor are they promising that in making one part easier, this will not introduce issues in another area.
While I don't plan on buying an Apple Watch, I can see several areas where it could make my life easier -- in exchange for the horror of carrying my iPhone around (newsflash: everyone already does) and (gasp) having to take it off at night to charge. Oh the humanity.
If that's going to make your life "complex," then I'm curious as to how you even posted on this thread, since you are apparently Amish.
I want a dark theme for every application on OS X, while we’re at it.
Yes it is strange that it is limited to the menu bar and dock.
Also, being Apple and knowing how much is done for those with disabilities, I am surprised there isn't built in color blind correction too. It wouldn't be rocket science to be able to filter the entire GPU output to correct (with user fine tuning) for the various types. I am not suggesting correcting as such, rather making things more easily visible for those with color deficiencies. Ready made profiles could perhaps be added to the Displays control panel.
^ He demoed the card selection in the presentation as well, unless I imagined it.
He did, and it looked a right pain in the arse.
You have to press the Apple Watch twice, which brings up your credit cards. You then have to select which card to use, then tap again. Then your watch is ready to pay. All on a tiny screen. And you need both hands available.
iPhone? Just hold near the terminal with your thumb down. Or use a credit card with Chip and Pin. Both ways much easier than the Apple Watch.
You have to press the Apple Watch twice, which brings up your credit cards. You then have to select which card to use, then tap again. Then your watch is ready to pay. All on a tiny screen. And you need both hands available.
iPhone? Just hold near the terminal with your thumb down. Or use a credit card with Chip and Pin. Both ways much easier than the Apple Watch.
No. Changing the card to pay with may be a little bit fiddly (though difficult to see how it could be made much easier than two clicks and scroll), but you don't need to do that to pay. Just wave the ?Watch in front of the terminal and you'll pay with your default card.
It's actually a simpler process than the iPhone, where you have to use TouchID. The iPhone also has a method for changing cards via Passbook, which is no simpler than the ?Watch, and there is no two click shortcut.
No. Changing the card to pay with may be a little bit fiddly (though difficult to see how it could be made much easier than two clicks and scroll), but you don't need to do that to pay. Just wave the ?Watch in front of the terminal and you'll pay with your default card.
It's actually a simpler process than the iPhone, where you have to use TouchID. The iPhone also has a method for changing cards via Passbook, which is no simpler than the ?Watch, and there is no two click shortcut.
Your bias is clouding your judgement yet again.
It might be less fiddly to change your ?Pay card on ?Watch. With the iPhone you have to touch the other card options to change from the default. This means tapping an area toward the bottom of the display that isn't very large. With ?Watch it might be possible to scroll to other cards with the crown.
PS: I'd love to see ?Pay evolve tremendously this year with iOS 9. Besides the obvious internet-based buying that could use a PayPal or Amazon Payments-like system for ?Pay, I'd also like for certain stores to have default to certain cards. For example, I use a certain card for restaurants, a certain card for pharmacies and gas stations, and a different card for everything else.
^ Would you do that via geofence, or via some identification with the store during the actual payment?
Sounds like a reasonable idea, but it also sounds like it could be complex to administer, and I'm not sure how wide the use case is. I tend to use a single credit card for everything.
I'd quite like for ?Pay to make it to the web, and to the Mac via Continuity with iPhone - i.e. when in range, you can use TouchID to authorise via a secure wi-fi bluetooth or connection.
Although it'd be nice if it were deployed to the UK before that
I can't stand when someone says they don't like technology. What they mean is they don't like technology after a certain point, but even the Amish like technology, they just want it to stay pre-Industrial revolution. Animal husbandry, agriculture, and everything else back to the first time someone used a pointy stick with a chipped piece of flint at the end is technology.
Oh I agree. I backpack and I'm always amused (well, truth be told: annoyed) when people raise their noses at "technology" tainting their "natural" experience whether it be gps, PLB, or a smartphone for reading, maps or whatever.: then I point out they're standing there in a microporous teflon rain jacket (GoreTex) and about to set up a Cuben Fibre laminate tent and holding it erect with carbon fiber trekking poles so they can cook using their compressed gas stove using their titanium pots to boil the water they pumped through their hollow fiber sanitary filter for their vacuum packed freeze-dried meals.
Oh I agree. I backpack and I'm always amused (well, truth be told: annoyed) when people raise their noses at "technology" tainting their "natural" experience whether it be gps, PLB, or a smartphone for reading, maps or whatever.: then I point out they're standing there in a microporous teflon rain jacket (GoreTex) and about to set up a Cuben Fibre laminate tent and holding it erect with carbon fiber trekking poles so they can cook using their compressed gas stove using their titanium pots to boil the water they pumped through their hollow fiber sanitary filter for their vacuum packed freeze-dried meals.
And ELECTRONS are taboo?
My retort is typically shorter and less involved: so you don't use toilet paper?
I'm so going to use that one. Though not on anyone who's helping prepare dinner, I do not want to give one of those nutjobs any ideas..... Gardiasis is slimming, but a little too painfull.
Personally I would rather keep the blue tint on the buttons. The orange feels very Holloween-y to me. Using the jailbreak tweak Eclipse you can achieve this effect in the midnight theme and it looks glorious. If only the iPhone 6 Plus had an AMOLED screen so the blacks blend with the bezel of the phone.
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^ He demoed the card selection in the presentation as well, unless I imagined it.
While I don't plan on buying an Apple Watch, I can see several areas where it could make my life easier -- in exchange for the horror of carrying my iPhone around (newsflash: everyone already does) and (gasp) having to take it off at night to charge. Oh the humanity.
If that's going to make your life "complex," then I'm curious as to how you even posted on this thread, since you are apparently Amish.
I want a dark theme for every application on OS X, while we’re at it.
What about inverse in iOS Accessability Settings? Not a dark theme as such but there are some funky colors.
Yes it is strange that it is limited to the menu bar and dock.
Also, being Apple and knowing how much is done for those with disabilities, I am surprised there isn't built in color blind correction too. It wouldn't be rocket science to be able to filter the entire GPU output to correct (with user fine tuning) for the various types. I am not suggesting correcting as such, rather making things more easily visible for those with color deficiencies. Ready made profiles could perhaps be added to the Displays control panel.
http://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator/
^ He demoed the card selection in the presentation as well, unless I imagined it.
He did, and it looked a right pain in the arse.
You have to press the Apple Watch twice, which brings up your credit cards. You then have to select which card to use, then tap again. Then your watch is ready to pay. All on a tiny screen. And you need both hands available.
iPhone? Just hold near the terminal with your thumb down. Or use a credit card with Chip and Pin. Both ways much easier than the Apple Watch.
I want a dark theme for every application on OS X, while we’re at it.
Try flux in the meantime. Makes the screen darker; very easy on the eyes.
He did, and it looked a right pain in the arse.
You have to press the Apple Watch twice, which brings up your credit cards. You then have to select which card to use, then tap again. Then your watch is ready to pay. All on a tiny screen. And you need both hands available.
iPhone? Just hold near the terminal with your thumb down. Or use a credit card with Chip and Pin. Both ways much easier than the Apple Watch.
No. Changing the card to pay with may be a little bit fiddly (though difficult to see how it could be made much easier than two clicks and scroll), but you don't need to do that to pay. Just wave the ?Watch in front of the terminal and you'll pay with your default card.
It's actually a simpler process than the iPhone, where you have to use TouchID. The iPhone also has a method for changing cards via Passbook, which is no simpler than the ?Watch, and there is no two click shortcut.
Your bias is clouding your judgement yet again.
It might be less fiddly to change your ?Pay card on ?Watch. With the iPhone you have to touch the other card options to change from the default. This means tapping an area toward the bottom of the display that isn't very large. With ?Watch it might be possible to scroll to other cards with the crown.
PS: I'd love to see ?Pay evolve tremendously this year with iOS 9. Besides the obvious internet-based buying that could use a PayPal or Amazon Payments-like system for ?Pay, I'd also like for certain stores to have default to certain cards. For example, I use a certain card for restaurants, a certain card for pharmacies and gas stations, and a different card for everything else.
^ Would you do that via geofence, or via some identification with the store during the actual payment?
Sounds like a reasonable idea, but it also sounds like it could be complex to administer, and I'm not sure how wide the use case is. I tend to use a single credit card for everything.
I'd quite like for ?Pay to make it to the web, and to the Mac via Continuity with iPhone - i.e. when in range, you can use TouchID to authorise via a secure wi-fi bluetooth or connection.
Although it'd be nice if it were deployed to the UK before that
I can't stand when someone says they don't like technology. What they mean is they don't like technology after a certain point, but even the Amish like technology, they just want it to stay pre-Industrial revolution. Animal husbandry, agriculture, and everything else back to the first time someone used a pointy stick with a chipped piece of flint at the end is technology.
Oh I agree. I backpack and I'm always amused (well, truth be told: annoyed) when people raise their noses at "technology" tainting their "natural" experience whether it be gps, PLB, or a smartphone for reading, maps or whatever.: then I point out they're standing there in a microporous teflon rain jacket (GoreTex) and about to set up a Cuben Fibre laminate tent and holding it erect with carbon fiber trekking poles so they can cook using their compressed gas stove using their titanium pots to boil the water they pumped through their hollow fiber sanitary filter for their vacuum packed freeze-dried meals.
And ELECTRONS are taboo?
My retort is typically shorter and less involved: so you don't use toilet paper?
My retort is typically shorter and less involved: so you don't use toilet paper?
I'm so going to use that one. Though not on anyone who's helping prepare dinner, I do not want to give one of those nutjobs any ideas..... Gardiasis is slimming, but a little too painfull.