Will The Future Of Credit Cards, Room Keys, And Boarding Passes Be Found In A Watch?

Apple really impressed today. I am excited too.

Finally now all android users will realize their past mistakes and catch on to the awesomeness of everything apple. I’m just glad that I’m a trailblazer!!!

Did apple pay you for this? Talk about fanboy talk if i ever saw it. you can make a smartphone the size of a watch, but its just a smaller screen. if you can do it on a watch, you can do it on a phone better.

You need to have an IPhone for the watch to work does that mean you will be getting rid of the galaxy?

Old stuff that never got picked up. Available for Android users for a few years now.
Don’t fall for Apple BS.
I agree that if someone will make the first picked-up watch it will be Apple but not for checking in or paying.

@Anonymous:
iPhone can’t do half the stuff my Android can do, so no, I have zero plans to switch.

I just liked the possibilities and hope that Samsung will leapfrog over Apple as they usually do once Apple trailblazes a new product category.

@howmuch:
Lol, I’m the last person on earth you’d call an Apple fanboy.

I hate how locked down the iPhone is and the last Apple product I bought was probably a decade ago.

But there’s something to be said to paying for something or walking into a hotel room without reaching into your pocket.

@Shmulie:
No.

Besides first generation products are for suckers.

@Jeff:
I don’t think it’ll happen now.
But this is the real start of the wearable era. And I’m excited to see Samsung’s response.

Dan,

Your another fruit worshipper….that’s ok, there’s worse…;)

Meh..

I wouldn’t compare it to the S5. S5 is still way ahead.

Apple has just proved what galaxy lovers have been saying for a couple of yrs. now. Apple is way behind on phone tech.

Apple lovers beware. Apple is exploiting you all. They give you technology from 2 years ago wrapped in in a fancy casing, and charge you more than the latest phones on the market. How could you guys fall for that???

I personally don’t wear watches, and I’m still thinking that the watches have a long way to go until someone like me would wear them. but good luck to all the apple lovers that will buy whatever crap Apple makes.

Concept great. For now until the price goes much lower, I’ll save the $350 and use my Credit Card.

@tony c:
See comment 6.

@Rotten Apple:
No argument there.

@Mark:
Exactly.

But I appreciate all the people that will beta test it and make it really cool in a few years from now.

The possibilities are exciting but given the huge surge in hacking attacks a part of me feels very fearful of this trend toward wireless everything. Everything just becomes so vulnerable.

I personally would rather not wear a watch. I’d like to do all those things (hotel room keys, airline check-ins, etc) just on my cell.

What if someone loses their watch? That would be horrible!

Is iWatch going to be able to work with Andorid is the real question. Prob not.

Can you imagine?
One place to get all your personal information stolen from.

The question remains if this will forever stay a propritery Apple only feature, or that SPG, and eventually other hotels and businesses, will start integrating NFC across the board. What really needed here is a great unifier, a global entity such as the IEEE, or USB, that unified manufacturers and businesses across the board, so they can all speak to each other somehow and shouldn’t be restricted to specific hardware or software.

I don’t see why any NFC enabled phone with the SPG app shouldn’t be able to do the job if the doors in the hotel have NFC built in already.

@Sam:
It won’t.

But I’m more excited about the potential then this particular device.

@Lou:
And that’s different that your phone because?

@Deal Lover:
I think we’ll see more and more NFC uses.
Google’s going to have to show more initiative though.

@Dan: Although you are technically correct that android has some more features (“can’t do half” is a major overstatement – no offense I’ve owned both an iphone and a galaxy so I know), apples flawless hardware is light years ahead of the pack. Additionally, although Samsung may be ahead of apple somewhat when it comes to software, when apple updates their software or adds on a feature, they release a flawless, beautiful product that is also way ahead of many Samsung features. And this goes for all apple products. In short, apple rules and will always rule.

Whenever you mention Apple it brings back memories of the CTownBochur days where you made a post bashing them and they canceled your affiliate account.

@howmuch:

Search around. Dan is not such a blind fan of Apple. Nor is Apple a fan of Dan.

I’ll buy one is I can get 50X the points on my Chase Sapphire. Otherwise, I’ll be waiting.

While I agree it would be nice to be able to do all of those things with my watch…I’d rather just be able to do them with the phone I already have to have in order to use the watch. Less is more. The wearable era is here to stay, but I’ll be waiting to adopt until there are wearables that replace or enhance rather than duplicate.

It just means fewer hotels for Shabbos. Once they go fully electronic the doors will likely not have similar mechanisms. Today the electronic doors still have moving parts, but going forward it will be completely electronic (tape on the door won’t help).

No room upgrades with this watch…

Dan, where’s that link where you described what your Android can do that iOS can’t?

ISIS Wallet is not available on Iphone.
Any comment?

Just imagine removing it to go through airport security and then either 1)forgetting to pick it up at the other side of the band or 2)not finding it with your other stuff when the box comes through!(things have been known to disappear with the TSA!!)

So what are your thoughts on all the Android wear enabled smart watches. You sound as if you’re saying that Apple is bringing in the smart watch Era with this new watch, but I disagree. Smart watches have existed for years and I think android wear is the real future of this technology. Apple may make this more mainstream, but there’s nothing truly new here. I was expecting this watch to be more similar in design to the just-released Moto 360. There are a couple of alternatives to this watch which I believe are more worth my money.

plus, I understand this “watch” will amazingly allow some of us to know if we’re late for davening by giving us THE TIME !

what r we going to do on shabbos ?

I’m a apple fan. Don’t like android at all way to messy.
iPhone by far the most advanced mobile os!
But I’ll pass on the watch not for me.

The idea of not having to reach into your pocket is already in place with many cars, including Fords, Nissans, and I’m sure others. You just reach for the handle and open it, (same for starting the car).
That is easily transferable technology for hotels to use on their locks, whereas you would simply turn the handle to open your room door. Technically, they should have implemented it before being guided with Apple through other technologies.
Your thoughts?

@Dan: Allthough the things you mention are cool, there is absolutely nothing propriety about them. I am sure in the near future Starwoods and American will be developing apps for Android as well. ITs all about the apps.

Proprietary*

Google Glass more reasonable to integrate than a watch–much better integration and can tie into eye movements as tech advances. Why need a watch for the same thing a phone can do if you have your phone? sensors…sure. otherwise, the interface on wrist is limited substantially.

Apple’s iPhones may LOOK like they’re playing catch-up. But the technology goes far beyond what you can see.

For instance, the integration of the iPhone w the rest of Apple’s products is way ahead of anything anyone else is doing. Change your contact on your iPhone, it’s changed on your iPad. Start browsing on the Mac, pick up where you left off on your iPad mini.

As well, I often take my iPhone overseas, and no matter where I am, there are NO settings that need to be changed in order for the iPhone to work with this SIM card or that one. It just works.

For those of us that use their phone ALL of the time for everything they do, nothing beats the iPhone. Moving from an Apple product to another platform makes one think, ‘Oh, I didn’t realize that Apple did for me already.’

But if you don’t use it, you’ll never know. It’s the subtle things that the superficial onlooker would never notice.

It only LOOKS like catch-up. A bigger phone. That’s a Galaxy? Nope. Never was, never will be. You’re only looking at the outside. Try the insides. Really try it. You’ll never believe what was underneath that you didn’t notice.

@alacarte:
Agreed, but that argument should go both ways to rise above the cacophony of the fanboys.
Apple and Samsung are both corporations out to make as much money off of us. But they cater to different kinds of end-users. Apple products are for people who use tech for utility/convenience and just want to move on with their lives. Samsung and their ilk make products for people who want to save money at the expense of user experience and are sometimes inclined to tinkering/customizing.
Where Apple differentiates from the others is at maintaining a very high standard of user experience.