Apple Watch Coming to SA October 23rd!

[Cassady]

Never heard of Freeletics before - gonna check it out...have tried Gymaholic which is pretty good as well.

Talking about 1Password: does anyone know if there is an app that would allow me to use TouchID on the Iphone to log in to websites on my PC?

PC or Mac?

 

[robdarussian]

PC or Mac?

I mostly use the PC (Bootcamp) side, but Mac would be useful as well.

 

[Cassady]

I mostly use the PC (Bootcamp) side, but Mac would be useful as well.

Sorry. Misread - thought you wanted to log into the Mac, didn't see the "log in to websites" bit. Not that I'm aware of. It's obviously possible on the Mac, doubtful on the PC - but adding the Watch into the mix complicates things.

Using MacID could unlock the Mac from the Watch, but then you'd need some trigger to fire off a KM macro of some sorts. Pretty sure it could be done, but it would be a kludge, not an existing solution.

 

[FiestaST]

 

[robdarussian]

Quite a nice charging dock for the watch/phone on takealot's daily deal for anyone that interested...

 

[phoneJunky]

Quite a nice charging dock for the watch/phone on takealot's daily deal for anyone that interested...

I looked at it, and the picture looks nice. Read some reviews on Amazon about it, charging your iphone isn't really that nice. You have to take your normal charger through and put it in. So it isn't really a charging dock for the iphone. Their is a hole carved out for the apple watch charger though. But for both the iphone and Apple watch you use your normal charger.

 

[phoneJunky]

The takealot deal is sold out in any case as well.

 

[robdarussian]

I looked at it, and the picture looks nice. Read some reviews on Amazon about it, charging your iphone isn't really that nice. You have to take your normal charger through and put it in. So it isn't really a charging dock for the iphone. Their is a hole carved out for the apple watch charger though. But for both the iphone and Apple watch you use your normal charger.

Ja, it's more of a stand for next to your bed I suppose. At the moment mine just lies there, and my 1-year old loves pulling the cable - hopefully this might prevent it!

 

[MiffMeister]

Has anyone that has bought the Apple Watch found it to be a good investment? I'm not much of a watch wearer so trying to see if it would be a waste

 

[adamr]

Has anyone that has bought the Apple Watch found it to be a good investment? I'm not much of a watch wearer so trying to see if it would be a waste

Can tell you from experience that I once bought a tag heuer Monaco chronograph. Paid r40k for it at the time and sold it for R15k in mint condition. Most commercial watches are poor investments. So I highly doubt an apple watch can be seen as an investment at all

 

[MiffMeister]

Can tell you from experience that I once bought a tag heuer Monaco chronograph. Paid r40k for it at the time and sold it for R15k in mint condition. Most commercial watches are poor investments. So I highly doubt an apple watch can be seen as an investment at all

I don't mean an investment in the sense of monetary value. I mean an investment in time (mine the pun )

 

[immortalthabang]

I don't mean an investment in the sense of monetary value. I mean an investment in time (mine the pun )

I got mine through Vitality. I've been very active before so reaching the goals doesn't bother me much.
I'm a big watch person, so wearing it was no stress. The step tracking (I was wearing a fitbit/jawbone plus the watch) it's good as it eliminates one thing off my wrist. To be honest I use it mostly for fitness/exercise/running and for that it serves me well.
For fitness it's great, as a watch also great, reading email, texts, getting reminders, appointments adequate. You need your phone close by at all times, but I have my phone and watch together anyway. (Cool things though, on your home wifi, the watch can connect and receive and respond to messages without the phone, you can put music on the watch and listen using BT headset from watch)
All depends what you want from it, but I'd recommend it.

 

[fruitbat]

I don't mean an investment in the sense of monetary value. I mean an investment in time (mine the pun )

Well - my team at work rag me about it. I find it convenient. One of the best features is that i dont miss phone calls, and i *can* choose to ignore the call vs actually missing the call. Also i dont look at my phone as often in case the au pair or wife or school tries to get hold of me. If they want me, my wrist will give a little buzz and i will look.

I am also enjoying the fitness element of it and HRM (yes i am a vitality points whore). But i got this as a gift and not on the vitality program. So i am motivated to run with it etc etc.

I wondered about the apple sport @ 7grand vs the apple watch @ 10k+... Then i read that the sport is quite a bit lighter, so i am happy with this. If a new one comes out in a year or 2 and its "cooler", i will probably upgrade too (If interest rates dont go up too much more lol).

 

[phoneJunky]

Has anyone that has bought the Apple Watch found it to be a good investment? I'm not much of a watch wearer so trying to see if it would be a waste

I got mine through vitality. Having no problem with getting the points to achieve the rewards. There were a few issues though with syncing in the beginning of the year, and a few people are still complaining.

I actually prefer running with my apple watch rather than my polar, but I got the entry range polar that syncs with vitality, the FT7.