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Slo Mo Guys created a great video of the Apple Watch water-ejection system
- _bxg1 6y agoEvery once in a while something like this comes up that reminds me how incredible Apple can be at engineering, and how much attention they can give to the details, when they really try. It's so strange to contrast this with, say, the egregious regressions that so commonly happen in their OSes.
- meesterdude 6y agoWell said. It really is baffling how apple has become a tale of two cities
- praiseDang 6y agoCredit goes to the Engineers, not the company. Engineers are told what to do, they execute. Regressions in the OS is something you can blame the company for. Management decisions are not done by Engineers, they are executed by Engineers.
- saagarjha 6y agoI’m not really sure where you’re drawing a distinction here.
- _bxg1 6y agoThere's a trope that management always prioritizes new features over mitigating tech debt. I'm sure that happens on some teams, but without inside information it's a bit of a leap to assume that's what's responsible for this specific set of problems at this specific company.
- product50 6y agoWow. You really need to find a better place to work if you are in an environment which makes you feel like this.
- joezydeco 6y agoThis also works with AirPods, there are YouTube videos that will play the frequency sweeps for you.
- needle0 6y agoI wonder if the audio are actual slowed-down recordings or re-creations? They sounded awfully sloshy for how little amounts of water there are.
- mds 6y agoAll of the slow mo sounds are recreations. In fact I’m pretty sure they use that same sloshy sound clip in about half their videos.
- therealdrag0 6y agoSmarter Every Day did a video about this. I think it’s this one: https://youtu.be/aO7yzmc3ykw https://youtu.be/aO7yzmc3ykw
- ponker 6y agoThey're all recreations. Look up Foley if you want to be disappointed in almost everything you've heard on a TV show or movie. For example, elephants don't make loud thudding noises when they walk -- that's all made up.
- chrismorgan 6y agoI can’t quite cope with the missing w from “The Slow Mo Guys”.
- chris_engel 6y agoI wonder why my Samsung Gear S3 has nothing like this. Its water proof and has speakers as well but there is no "you cant use your watch because its wet". Until now, I didnt even think about this might be an issue. The watch just... works. No matter if wet or not.
- calciphus 6y agoThere are two ways to waterproof something. Actually make it water proof, or go through elaborate games to trick the test. It's sort of like the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal. If you actually meet the requirements of the test you don't need to be clever.
- Gracana 6y agoThe device is waterproof regardless of whether or not you use the water mode feature.
- wackget 6y agoMust be a similar reason to why you can't use an iPhone/iPad/Macbook for about 10 minutes after the battery runs out. When you plug it in to power, it will refuse to boot until the battery is at least slightly charged. This is unlike, say, an Android or Windows machine which will allow you to use it immediately as soon as you plug it in. I think Apple just simply does not care about user convenience.
- crtasm 6y agoThe two android phones and one tablet I've had all do that.
- nexuist 6y agoIt used to not be like this, back when I had an iPhone 4 it would boot immediately. But then it would die as soon as it got to the locksreen, halfway through me putting my passcode in, or as soon as I unlocked the phone. Having to wait a little bit tops the frustration from getting your routine interrupted by the phone dying at random points. I usually waited a few minutes anyways to avoid the random shutdowns.
- thenoblesunfish 6y agoI'm the most impressed that he didn't horrible injure himself with that jump into the bathtub.