What is Apple's warranty policy for water damage?

In terms of warranty support, the iPhone is not meant to be at all water resistant. Thus the sensors, and sometimes refusing to service if it's be obviously compromised (though Apple is sometimes lenient if you have Applecare).

The watch though is a different story. Although they may have water sensors inside, the expectation and warranty promise is that it can take significant contact with water. Rain is absolutely fine, immersion down to one meter up to 30 minutes long is also fine.

So if you bring in a water damaged Watch, it's a lot harder to say if it was because you exceeded allowed parameters. Perhaps it measures any duration under-water?

That said, AppleCare for the watch gives you up to two body replacements, so if you get AppleCare and swim for a day which wrecks the watch, you can probably just get a new body.

All I know is that I enjoy going home the same time every day and that I don't have to deal with panicky situations that arise from not getting the memo.

I apologize, I thought I was talking to somebody who has used a GPS before. Would you like me to go in-depth describing what that's like so you can understand enough about this topic to have an informed discussion about it?

These watches do not connect you 24 hours a day, they merely reflect what your phone is doing. These devices don't create the problem you describe, instead they reduce impact of it.

Yeah yeah, I wish everybody'd do things my way, too. So where is that line in relation to debating that with people on Slashdot?

So constantly communicating wirelessly with a device on my wrist is more battery efficient than turning the screen on once in a while?

The OCCASIONAL communication the watch does over BTLE (it's not continuous unless needed by an app) is in fact WAY lower power than turning on a very large high DPI screen and backlight that most smartphones have now.

Except that you can't wear it all the time because it's not waterproof. You even have to take it off in the shower.

Didn't even bother to read the article summary all the way through, did you.

No it's not waterproof. But it's got a pretty standard level of water resistance, which means you COULD wear it in a shower, and I plan to wear it for visits to the pool (since most of my pool time is technically more "standing in water" than swimming).

Also, it only gets around 18 hours of use on the battery

Hint: That's around as much "battery" as most PEOPLE have also. :-)

which means it can't track your sleep like a lot of other fitness devices.

Then you can switch to a device that doesn't suck at monitoring sleep the way something on your wrist meant to mostly measure heart-rate does.

The selection screen appears to operate below 60 fps, it looks a bit jumpy to a gamer trained eye.

In theory the Apple Watch is supposed to update at 60FPS (that is what developers are targeting for animated sequences).

I could be in that case something uses a framerate drop... although aren't the video links posted here all below 60FPS, which which case how could you tell?

You can't zoom in on photos with pinch, which I felt was a MUST for such a small screen.

And Apple has said (rightfully I think) that pinch is a bad idea on a small screen, because too much is obscured. The crown works very well for that (although third party apps will not be able to use it in that way for a while yet).

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

Come on, we all know anyone buying a $10-$17k version of the Apple watch is going to be in debt from the purchase, or even care it costs that much. Same with a car that costs over $100k.

I mostly agree. Games where you are just doing things on a smart watch, make no sense to me either. The phone you have really would make more sense.

MAYBE a game where you were just responding to notifications every now and then and response time matters, would work.

Also odd is that it's not like you can have a standalone Apple Watch app. You have to have a phone app also. So what does that do? Have a version of the game with a watch sized screen?

I guess if you consider a Tamagotchi (sp?) a game, that might work also, since you could "feed" it easily.

So there are some edge cases where games might work, but not the games that are being delivered currently.

I ordered one and it will be delivered in mid-may (even though I placed the order 3 mins after midnight -_-)

Enjoy your Space Black watch, I know I will (sometime in mid May also). Pretty sure every other model is shipping earlier than stated.

Too bad they couldn't be ordered without a band that takes 100 man years of effort per link to create.

Later in life, some time after you leave your parents' basement, you'll find that free-time comes at a premium. Everybody deals with it in different ways. That's why we have a broad range of computing products from desktop computers to laptops to smartphones to tablets to the gaming card you have in your computer, even Arduino.

'Laziness' is a poor way to describe any given technology and indicates that you do not understand the purpose of it.

It extends the battery life of your phone because you are not powering it on as often.

It allows you to filter notifications more than the phone does, so you can know quicker if you should pay attention to an alert.

It allows you to silence a call without even reaching into your pocket doing the Vibration Reaction Dance.

It gives you status on important things happening currently with fewer actions than a phone.

It's like a fitness band you wear all the time but without the single minded pointlessness.

And yes, it also tells the time without having to reach into a pocket...

If you aren't clear what it can do for you, then you may not need or want a smart watch. And that is fine. But there are many small uses which aggregate to form a model, different for each person, of how a smart watch can be useful to them.

At least a million people.

So... all you want is a desktop computer and everybody else in the world should, too. You know what's funny is I remember this reaction to tablets, smartphones, and cameras with cell phones. Nerd hipsterism is strange.

The watch conforms to the standard IPX7, which states "withstand immersion in water up to 1 meter for up to 30 minutes"

The video only tests fifteen minutes... I would have liked to see a half hour test, then see if it works, then back in for an hour and see what happened.

Apple recommends that you not swim with the watch, but if you're hardly going under water or not swimming very long it seems like it would be fine.

As for wearing the watch in the shower, it seems like it would be fine but it sounds creepy to me (yes I know Tim Cook says he does that). Even when I had fully waterproof watches I never wore one in the shower, it's like taping over parts you don't want to actually clean... defeats the point.