Apple: OMG It’s totally brand new!! Shows same product with new price. It can go under water….deeper.
Anyone else find it creepy that they keep shooting these videos on a massive beautiful campus….. that has no active employees using any background facilities? ߑ리t;/div>
It’s pretty comical now. They’re using the same b-roll footage as the AR backdrop; clearly these were shot during the height of the pandemic when the campus was closed.
Worse the landscape foliage is clearly vernal, not the parched reality of drought ravaged California in early September 2022. The footage was probably shot in spring 2021.
I spend at least half of the time watching these canned “keynotes” laughing at the incongruities. Slickly produced but still blatantly fake. They’re a little better now that Apple has been doing these for 2.5+ years.
I know they can do things post filming/production to make an advanced Keynote but I wish they'd just go back to using the Steve Jobs theatre in a live setting.
I just read on Oceanic's website that the Oceanic app is subscription only. That news alone may have me rethinking this watch. At least with my Suunto D6i watch (with Air Integration) I never have to deal with a stupid subscription in order to actually use it.
That just took all the air out of my sails. If Oceanic does not offer a one-time fee for lifetime purchase, I most likely not get one.
Nice... but is it still useless if a drop of water gets on the display? Using my Apple Watch in the pool, or running and sweat gets on it, renders it unusable.
Are you using Series 1? Or was this your attempt at sarcasm?
Series 4.
Ending a pool swim is all but impossible. I can get the water to eject, but can't tap "End workout" because... watch is wet? I have to wait to get out of pool and dry it off. By that time maybe 30 seconds to a minute at least has passed, so my swim workouts are never accurate.
And this thing is geared toward extreme workouts, so hopefully it can handle some water, or snow, on the watch face without it being unusable.
Well if you watched the keynote you would have seen that these are very much waterproof, even in the most extreme situations. I also shower with my watch all the time and never have had any issues.
But for me, the biggest "Holy Crap" moment was that they went ahead and built a proper dive computer watch. As someone who has been scuba diving for 25 years and my wife and teenage daughter also dive, this is a game changer. I've been looking to buy a new dive computer to replace one I've been carrying for two decades. I think I finally have the one I want. But there are some questions I have. Will it account for Nitrox or Tri-ox diving? Can you attach a radio control to determine the amount of air in your tanks (some of the better dive computers have this)?
Since most divers don’t use Nitrox or Tri-ox, I don’t think Apple is thinking about that. I haven’t dived for years, but this should serve for most divers.
In the keynote video while they were showing the watch during a dive, the display showed "Dive - Air" which to me implies that alternate O2 selections are available which I would think includes different O2 variations. If it didn't, then there would be no need to display "Dive - Air" if "air" was the only option.
I'm a scuba instructor (20+ years) and if this has the option of wireless air integration then many of us divers will go the Apple route. As Oceanic was involved, their official response on that subject in their support forum was "not at the moment". I think Oceanic has a transmitter that is compatible with the Ultra and is just waiting for the right time to drop that bomb.
On Oceanic's website they have lots of FAQ info and some nice tutorial videos. They confirm that they offer Nitrox modes. There is also a setting to adjust the units for air pressure (PSI or BAR) so I'd say that @sflocal is probably right in that they will have a sensor available sometime in the future. They are touting a new Smart housing (~$500) that will convert your iPhone into a dive camera and uses the same App to add dive computer functionality. On that page they list their wireless transmitter as a related accessory. I'd bet the functionality for tank pressure will come with an App update and separately purchased sensor sometime next year.
I just read on Oceanic's website that the Oceanic app is subscription only. That news alone may have me rethinking this watch. At least with my Suunto D6i watch (with Air Integration) I never have to deal with a stupid subscription in order to actually use it.
That just took all the air out of my sails. If Oceanic does not offer a one-time fee for lifetime purchase, I most likely not get one.
I kind of had the same thought at first. This is the pricing info from their website: If you only dive one or two months a year than you are only out $10-20. That is less than you would pay for your annual battery change on a normal dive computer. A one time purchase would be good for those that go diving more often than I can, but for better or for worse the whole App industry has moved on to subscription models.
Instead of trying to justify the whole $800 cost of the watch vs a new computer, consider that if you are going to buy a watch anyway the Series 8 is $749 for the SS version in 45mm. Really you are only paying $50 extra for a Titanium case and and you are getting the convenience of not having to take two watches on dive vacations. Purchasing the subscription ad hoc saves the upfront cost of a separate computer and annual service costs of same.
I ordered the Ultra watch, but already it’s at October 20th earliest. I had some odd problem with Apple Pay, which wanted to buy it with Apple Cash, which I don’t have since I buy with my Amex card, which wasn’t enabled oddly. I had to go and fill in the security code. But it still did t recognize it, so I had to buy it without Apple Pay directly through the Amex card, which Apple does have on file. That wasted several minutes. Darn! When I first tried to order it was early October. I lost almost two weeks because of that snafu.
I really could have used the when I was scuba diving. My Omega was nice for the time, but it did t tell you much.
I ordered Ultra at least an hour+ after store accepted preorders and my receipt says 9/23 delivery, so maybe watch band option is delaying yours? (I ordered midnight “Ocean.”)
The watch band made the difference for the delivery dates. I ordered mine 2 hours after the keynote and I was trying to decide between two bands. One had a mid-October date and the other had Sept 23rd. Made my choice easy.
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I kind of had the same thought at first. This is the pricing info from their website:
If you only dive one or two months a year than you are only out $10-20. That is less than you would pay for your annual battery change on a normal dive computer. A one time purchase would be good for those that go diving more often than I can, but for better or for worse the whole App industry has moved on to subscription models.
Instead of trying to justify the whole $800 cost of the watch vs a new computer, consider that if you are going to buy a watch anyway the Series 8 is $749 for the SS version in 45mm. Really you are only paying $50 extra for a Titanium case and and you are getting the convenience of not having to take two watches on dive vacations. Purchasing the subscription ad hoc saves the upfront cost of a separate computer and annual service costs of same.