Following last week’s launch of the Apple Watch, some tattooed users of the device complained that their new smartwatches weren’t working properly when worn on heavily inked wrists. Apple has now updated its website to explain that there is indeed the chance that a user’s tattoo may interfere with the sensors on the Apple Watch. [More]
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Report: Apple Watch Customers May Face Longer Waits After Faulty Component Delays Shipments
By 4.30.15
Because it wouldn’t be an Apple product without some kind of hubbub over a wait or delay involved, a new report says some shipments of the Apple Watch will take a while after one of two suppliers made a faulty component. [More]
Wrist Tattoos May Be Messing With Apple Watches
By 4.29.15
Do you have a tattoo on your wrist? If so, you might want to think twice about splashing out a few hundred dollars on a new Apple Watch — or at least try one at the store to see if your ink might interfere with some of the device’s functionalities. [More]
Apple Bans Time-Telling Apps From Apple Watch
By 4.29.15
When it comes to telling the time with an Apple Watch, there’s only one king of the roost so far as the company is concerned, which means any other developers trying to enter the App Store with watch apps for the Apple Watch will get roundly rejected. [More]
Your New Apple Watch Might Look Nice, But Will It Get Scratched?
By 4.27.15
How many of us are toting around smartphones with cracked and scratched screens? No need to raise your hand; we can’t actually see you. Now imagine that your phone screen was continuous exposed to the elements in a position on your body where it can easily get scratched, and you’ve imagined the life of an Apple Watch. So can the pricey accessory take a licking and keep on… well, not ticking exactly, but you get the idea. [More]
AmEx, Jawbone Partnership Allows Customers To Buy Things Using Fitness Trackers
By 4.15.15
Using your phone to pay for things at the register is so 2014. With the soon-to-be released Apple Watch allowing payments to be made with a flick of the wrist, other wearable companies are jumping on the bandwagon. Case in point: a new joint venture from Jawbone and American Express. [More]
Apple Retail Chief: The Days Of Waiting In Line At The Store Are Over
By 4.7.15
Camping out in line days in advance of the newest Apple product is so 2014, y’all, to the point where the company’s retail chief is reportedly pushing workers to nudge customers seeking out the Apple Watch or new MacBook to order online instead of waiting it out at physical stores. [More]
Apple Continues To Surprise No One, Officially Removes Rival Fitness Trackers From Stores
By 3.12.15
In a signal that the Apple Watch’s arrival is nigh, Apple’s retail stores across the country are apparently ditching other fitness and health wearables. [More]
Luxury Watch Makers Out To Stop Lookalike Faces For Smart Watches
By 11.25.14
Just like some street vendors make a living selling lookalike Cartier and Omega watches for cheap, some folks are selling — or even giving away — knock-off digital watch faces for Android-powered smartphones. And the watch companies are going after these people with the same zeal as they chase the “Cantier” and “Omego” sellers from sidewalks. [More]
Don’t Worry, Lefties: There’s A Southpaw Mode Of The Apple Watch
By 9.10.14
By now you may have seen photos or videos of the Apple Watch unleashed on the world yesterday during the company’s big to-do announcing it and two new iPhones. And if you noticed that all the people (or set of hands) demonstrating the timepiece were wearing it on their left hand, to enable ease of use for righties. “But what about us lefties?” many people of that set grumbled — the “digital crown” is on the right, making it not so easy to use when the watch is placed on the right hand. [More]
