Apple Watch

[Charlie Austin]

[Shane Ross] “Can you edit with FCX on it?”

Duh… of course you can. The taptic engine ticks out the frame rate for you as well… 🙂

————————————————————-

~ My FCPX Babbling blog ~
~”It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”~
~”The function you just attempted is not yet implemented”~

[James Culbertson]

[TImothy Auld] “Anybody out there who is going to buy this? Anybody?”

I’m waiting for the tricorder version.

[Bret Williams]

$349/$399 is a good deal for a product like this especially if you compare it to the competition. But I still question the validity of selling gold versions et al that will be dinosaurs in a couple years. People don’t generally buy high end jewelry and expect it to lose value. My only theory is that selling a few of the gold ones is an attempt to position the $349 model as an affordable way to buy a little piece of what is essentially the same as the $15000 model. Kinda like if Ferrari sold a $100k car that was gold with gold wheels and trim, but you could buy essentially the same car for $20k if you were willing to settle for white or black and basic chrome trim and wheels.

[Erik Lindahl]

The pris is a bit unsettling. It’s more expensive than an iPad for crying out loud. People complain that the iphone is a “premium product for a premium crowd”, well a huge difference there is a think very few buy a 500-700 dollar phone, they buy it with a two year contract which makes any higher end device cost virtually the same and you can motivate that purchase easily.

The Watch… A very hard sell for me. It requires you to charge it every day, the functionally you get compared to your phone for 2X the cost is very slim. I could see the “fancy features” like Apple Pay with the watch being nice but that’s convenience a handful times a day tops. And it shows me the time, if I remember to charge the thing every day.

At say $99, $149 or $199 it’s a steal. At $349 I for one really think about if it’s something I need. I don’t know if I do. Not now at least. If it where to interface with my everyday life more, maybe, but at the moment it’s just an iPhone extension really. For a very high cost.

[John Pale]

In waiting for someone to have three of them on his arm with an app controlling Davinci Resolve color wheels.

[Mark Suszko]

I see I’m too late to make the editing-on-your-wrist joke… But it probably can do alerts about renders completing today.

How does this thing recharge? I rarely take off my cheap Casio knockoff, except to bathe and swim, I sleep with it on my wrist, feel naked without it. Adding a new daily watch maintenance ritual to my life is not something I would want to do. These things should charge wirelessly from a bedside charge unit with a 5-foot range.

[Steve Connor]

Oh the effort of it, having to charge your watch EVERY NIGHT, it’s going to be a DISASTER I tell you.

[Craig Seeman]

[Steve Connor] “Oh the effort of it, having to charge your watch EVERY NIGHT, it’s going to be a DISASTER I tell you.”

The moment you wake up in your hotel on your business trip and realize you don’t have your watch charging device.

[Andrew Kimery]

[Steve Connor] “Oh the effort of it, having to charge your watch EVERY NIGHT, it’s going to be a DISASTER I tell you.”

I think real world usage is going to be a twice a day charge for many people (especially after a couple years and the battery is no longer working at max capacity).

[Mark Suszko]

The disaster is waking up and losing the watch or forgetting to put it on.