Apple Watch Bands, Updates: Apple Event Reveals New Colors, WatchOS 2 Coming
Apple got right to business when their special event began live streaming at 1 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday discussing the Apple Watch. Apple Watch has been extremely successful, and there are updates coming to the smartwatch.
Apple CEO Tim Cook started talking about the success of the Apple Watch, revealing it has a 97 percent customer satisfaction rate. He also shared an email from an Apple Watch owner that detailed his weight loss that he attributed to the Apple Watch's fitness features.
The Apple Watch was just released in April, but there are already 10,000 apps designed for it. Apple Watch owners can pay for items, order rides from car-hailing services like Uber, track their flights and much more. Apple Watch has way more apps available for their smartwatch than Android Wear with 4,000 and Samsung Gear with about 3,000.
The popular chat app for Facebook, Messenger is coming to the Apple Watch. This means that Apple Watch owners will be able to chat with their Facebook friends right from their watch.
The iTranslate app will allow users to speak in one language to their Apple Watch and have it translated to the language of their choice. Ninety languages will be available for iTranslate.
GoPro users will be happy with an app made for the Apple Watch. This app will allow GoPro users to see what their camera is currently capturing, no matter where it is pointed.
A special health app called AirStrip will streamline patient, doctors and assistants communication. Nurses will be able to send messages to their patients, and doctors will be able to receive lab results right to their Apple Watch.
New bands are coming for the Apple Watch. The Hermes watch band will be a coiling leather loop that is expected to cost quite a bit. A rose gold aluminum color is coming, along with a red band, a gold aluminum Apple Watch Sport and brown bands. New finishes are coming for the Apple Watch Sport. These gold and rose in anondized aluminum will cost the same as the other Apple Watch Sport models. The space black will available in stainless, and it will have a black sport band option.
The Apple Watch presentation focused on the current success of the smartwatch and its colors and failed to announce much about WatchOS 2, which was announced for Sept. 16.
After the date announcement of WatchOS 2, Apple moved onto the iPad presentation.
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