Sébastien Page, writing for iDownloadBlog, flexes his imagination, sharing his take on a day spent with an Apple Watch in hand. A small excerpt:
5.41am: I receive a message on my wrist, a sign that my colleague is here waiting for me outside. I raise my wrist and tell Siri to send him a message saying I’ll be there in a couple minutes. I go kiss the kids goodbye while making sure not to wake them up. I won’t see them again until tomorrow.
5.46am: We’re on our way to the office to pick up some files before flying to San Jose. I receive a tap on my wrist. A quick glance at it and I see this is a Facebook notification. Apparently my mother in law is already up and commenting on photos I uploaded last night.
6.01am: We stop by Starbucks for a much-needed cup of java. With the Passbook app on my watch, I can simply have the barista scan my card barcode. No need for any physical transaction. No need to get iPhone out of my pocket either, obviously.
Apple folks: Might want to send this one to the marketing department. A good read, clever idea, really gives you a sense of what life with an Apple Watch will be like.
[Hat tip to Loop reader Nick Delapio]
Heh. I dunno about anyone else, but I am not going to allow the Facebook app to access the “tap on my wrist” notification interaction on my future Apple Watch. 🙂
I don’t believe that’s even available to be used by 3rd party Watch apps yet, anyway.
Also, Apple Watch has built-in NFC for Apple Pay. No need for scanning any barcodes.
Starbucks has a rewards and payment program that works through Passbook not Apple Pay.
The author made up the whole thing. Hence “flexes his imagination.” So no point in critiquing accuracy.
Seriously. Sounds like a storyboard for a short video that nobody can produce yet.
I don’t see much in there apart from the cheesy heartbeat thing than can’t be done just as easily on the phone. The whole idea that looking at your watch for notifications is somehow less rude to the person you’re with is a non-starter. You might be able to deceive them into thinking you’re paying more attention than if you had your phone in front of your face, but your attention is not on them either way. At least with a phone they know you’re not paying them attention and will either wait until they have your attention again, walk away or punch you in the face. 😉
And I think Apple’s marketing agency have better copy writers than this guy. I don’t know why everyone is gushing about his imagination.