It's not a matter of being fumble-fingered. Rather, the iPhine is small-enough that it usually drops below the top of my shirt pocket, and if you aren't really careful, it is all-too-easy to snag the top of the phone (my phone has a graphite-fiber case that adds about 2mm to the overall thickness of the phone, which doesn't help), or the shirt sort of "bunches-up" and "envelopes" the phone. Being in a rush, trying to answer the phone doesn't help, either.

As for Bluetooth headsets, not only do I find them universally fugly, but I'm not at all sanguine with having a source of microwave energy situated that close to my brain, sorry.

I am NOT apologizing for Apple; just trying to understand why this happened.

And it is obviously the fault of whoever Apple HIRED to handle the "broadcast". Because I doubt that even a company the size of Apple maintains a "Video Truck".

THOSE are the people who deserve to burn; because there really is no denying it, it sure seemed to be amateur-hour in the "video truck".

Using the six degrees of separation, does anyone here know who handled the "broadcast"/streaming duties? Anyone in CA remember SEEING that video truck, or know anything about all this?

Wow! Do you fucking kiss your fucking mother with that fucking mouth? (J/k)

To be perfectly honest, I didn't see your link; but after you mentioned "arm-movement", I do have enough common-sense, intelligence and knowledge of physics to realize you are correct, even without consulting the linked-site.

In short, you win. I know no one ever actually apologizes on /. , but I offer mine to you for not thinking the issue through (and for not seeing your link). Chalk it up to "Hm, I never thought about that!"

Wait! I thought she was the judge who is blatantly an Apple-Hater, right?

I can't help it if your watch makers lie. I expect WR to 30ft (10m) to mean just that.

Or are scuba-divers/watersports enthusiasts (sorry, I just chuckled a little at that) just used to subtracting an order-of-magnitude from all their equipment's "water-resistant" specs, due to rampant fraud by equipment vendors?

Oh, the (mostly) unrealized glory of Altivec...

But anyway, I would say that, with the fairly-precise alignment afforded by the magnetic "clasping", that this particular arrangement actually stands a fighting-chance of attaining decent field-coupling.

And, as I said before; this is a Watch battery. I would expect this thing to charge in well under an hour. And Apple simply could not afford to mess around with the stuff (and the space!) necessary to have a real, physical connection that was also reasonably waterproof.

And people in Hell want Ice Water, too.

just HOW thick do you want the Apple Watch to be? Or, conversely, just HOW many SECONDS of battery life do you want?

Until we get a serious breakthrough in battery technology (or power-consumption figures), this is about where we are, sorry.

So please tell me: Is there another "Wallet" system that has hardware integration, creating what amounts to a "Double-Blind" transaction that is essentially immune from hacking?

If Google cared about your privacy (which Eric Schmidt has publicly stated is a dead issue), and cared about selling hardware (which they clearly don't), then they could have made Google Wallet be as secure, or perhaps even more secure, than Apple's Wallet.

But they don't, so they didn't, so now Apple does their usual bit of swooping in from behind and blindsiding the competition with a system that in one fell swoop, overcomes the limitations and objections that NFC-based payment systems have.

Nope, it's called competition; something that Slashdot readers prize beyond many other things...

In what ways is Apple Pay not an advance over other smartphones? That alone is a huge feature for a huge percentage of phone users.

Also, you have a short memory: Apple released iTunes for Windows in October, 2003, just about as fast as they could port it from OS X, after introducing the iTunes Store. And, IIRC, the first iPods worked with Windows, too. I suppose you will now claim that iTunes was originally withheld from OS X, because Apple wanted to keep users on MacOS 9, too... (rolls eyes)

They were "late" to the Music Player and Phone markets, too. And look how that turned out.

Yeah.

Ask Microsoft how well that panned-out for them.

Let's take that down to one advantage (batter life).

I heard that the Apple Watch will withstand underwater pressure to 30ft, which is about as far as most casual divers go, due to nitrogen issues ("the Bends").

This.

I wonder how many iPhone users, including me, would be more likely to use a Passcode on their phones if they didn't have to mess with "unlocking" for every little thing?

Because you don't have to fumble-fuck around with your phone, pulling it out of your pocket.

I was the first to say "Why?" about a Watch; but as usual, Apple has pretty much nailed the UI, and when they make it so you can answer calls from your Phone on the iWatch, then the idea will really make sense.

I can't tell you how many calls I have missed, or nearly missed, because I was trying to fish my phone out of a shirt pocket, let alone a pants pocket. Being able to answer calls on a wrist-mounted (and therefore instantly accessible) device, would be a huge.

Did I miss it, or is that possible with the Apple Watch already. I know you can do Messaging (which is cool, too); but I'd really like to be able to at least answer, if not place, a voice call, too.

While I had some problems with the stream for about the first 1/2 hour or so, they eventually got it stable.

You do realize, of course, that that was likely hands-down, the most amount of streaming viewers of any single internet broadcast, right?

But I am pretty sure there are meetings going on right now at Apple, and some streaming "experts" are seeing another side of Tim Cook...