iPhone 6 and Apple Watch Thoughts

[Thomas Henry]

Jason,

I’m kind of excited about the Apple Watch. Expected price point begins at $350, and I worry about battery life and syncing with an iPhone to use the phone part. I’ll also be interested to see what apps will work.

And of course, the HA features. I just want it to work with XTension too.

The iPhone isn’t uber-exciting to me, but I need to upgrade anyhow…

Tom

On Sep 9, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Jason C. Young <jasony at me.com> wrote:

> iPhone/Apple Watch thoughts:
> 
> iPhones:
> super-sized one is too big.
> fantastic price point (though I'm not sure how much the total buy-in is after contract?)
> Glad they upped the mid-level to 64gb
> fer crying out loud.... go thicker (or keep the same thickness) for better battery!
> I like ApplePay features but I'd need to live with it to see if I like it enough. 
> Not sure of security or changing habits to stop with the physical cards.
> 
> Apple Watch
> want. Seriously. I just worry about durability. My $35 Ironman is trashed
> LOVE the ability to control thermostat. More home automation stuff soon?
> can't wait to see it three or four generations from now
> really can't wait to see what developers come up with (one of the Twit hosts said "a whooole lot of millionaire developers just got made". Yup
> Think the u.i. is probably as good as can be expected from a Gen1 device considering the realestate they have to work with (and the fact that R&D was probably, what, 50 million dollars?)
> TAP is really cool.
> Offloading all that nifty info to your wrist is way cool. Also a theft magnet. They really need to lock it somehow (to a phone? Biometric?) to make it less appealing to thieves.
> Interesting that the current young generation that has gotten used to not wearing watches is suddenly going to start wearing (much more functional versions) again.
> 
> Thoughts?
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