Apple Watch

[Silock]

For me, it would have to do more than that. I'd like it to be able to let me start my car, unlock my house, turn on lights, do the payment thing, airplane tickets, gym entrance, etc.

It would have to do a LOT.

[DaveNull]

Originally Posted by Silock

For me, it would have to do more than that. I'd like it to be able to let me start my car, unlock my house, turn on lights, do the payment thing, airplane tickets, gym entrance, etc.

It would have to do a LOT.

You'll probably see stuff for Hue, Nest and the other home automation stuff pretty quickly. Granted, home automation comes with its own set of overhead but I think the connections should be there soon.

[AustinChief]

Originally Posted by Silock

For me, it would have to do more than that. I'd like it to be able to let me start my car, unlock my house, turn on lights, do the payment thing, airplane tickets, gym entrance, etc.

It would have to do a LOT.

I wholeheartedly agree but I simply assumed all of those(plus health monitoring, etc) since those exist as iOS/Android apps now it should be a breeze to get those integrated. The NFC stuff exists in theory now(and has for 3 years on Android) but I am thinking that Apple can drive the adoption rates to make it actually useful.

I think Apple screwed up big time in not pushing ApplePay LAST YEAR then by the time the Apple Watch was ready this year, the NFC infrastructure for all of this would be in place.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by AustinChief

I wholeheartedly agree but I simply assumed all of those(plus health monitoring, etc) since those exist as iOS/Android apps now it should be a breeze to get those integrated. The NFC stuff exists in theory now(and has for 3 years on Android) but I am thinking that Apple can drive the adoption rates to make it actually useful.

I think Apple screwed up big time in not pushing ApplePay LAST YEAR then by the time the Apple Watch was ready this year, the NFC infrastructure for all of this would be in place.

Why in the hell are you not a marketing strategist for any of these companies?

[Silock]

Originally Posted by AustinChief

I think Apple screwed up big time in not pushing ApplePay LAST YEAR then by the time the Apple Watch was ready this year, the NFC infrastructure for all of this would be in place.

I think they wanted to, which is why that useless Passbook app is in iOS7.

[DaveNull]

Originally Posted by AustinChief

I think Apple screwed up big time in not pushing ApplePay LAST YEAR then by the time the Apple Watch was ready this year, the NFC infrastructure for all of this would be in place.

I wouldn't discount the amount of work it took to get the banks, retailers and credit card companies on board. Google took an "if they build it they will come" attitude and it didn't work out.