Apple Watch HATES tattoos: Inky pink sinks rinky-dink sensor The Apple Watch can't figure out if the wearer has a pulse when worn on a tattooed wrist, Register reader Michael Lovell tells us. All is well on his un-inked left wrist, but when he switches to the right, "the wrist detection is playing up," he said, as the watch "keeps asking for the passcode." Michael made the video below …
Whilst tattoos and not my favorite things, what he does with his body is up to him!
The issue here is more around if Apple know / knew about this issue before his purchase and if it was made clear to him (if purchased in person) or stated somewhere (if purchased online...) if it was - his problem - Read The Product Description, If not... i have not seen anything about this before this article but then i have no intention of buying an Apple Watch...
The issue here is more around if Apple know / knew about this issue before his purchase
Putting on my dev hat, this really doesn't count as an "issue". If someone wearing a nose ring gets it tangled up in a towel (yes, really) we wouldn't call on towel manufacturers to sort it out for them, and the same goes here.
On the bright side, mums and dads will finally have an argument to use against sleeve tattoos that their darlings will consider.
>The issue here is more around if Apple know / knew about this issue before his purchase
Big visible tats aren't likely to be an Apple employee thing, are they? Everyone in the ads is super-clean and oh-so-shiny, so I'll bet no one at Cupertino even considered the ink problem.
>I have the body of a god.
>Unfortunately it's Buddha
Pedant Alert - Buddha technically isn't a god (upvoting anyway because it's still funny)
Sadly the only thing I took away from this article was "Apple User buys flakey Product but would rather continue using it because it's so Shiny than actually try and get the MF fixed".
Depressing state of affairs.
>Sadly the only thing I took away from this article was "Consumer buys flakey Product but would rather continue using it because it's so Shiny [rather] than actually try and get the MF fixed".
FTFY
>Depressing state of affairs.
Rational: along the lines of "but I need it nowwwwwwww". All too common behaviour, and childish. Nothing to be done to counter it, I'm afraid.
"Remember your body is a temple."
And only an idiot graffitis the outside of it in non removable paint. Tattoos are just a naff fashion statement for trend sheep and the people who get major body tats (I'm not talking about a small concealed one) are going to be the same idiots who in 20 years time when they've matured and realise what a dick they look, will be complaining that the NHS won't pay for their laser removal. Well tough sh1t.
>>"Tattoos are just a naff fashion statement for trend sheep"
Oddly enough, I have never heard anyone judge a person they don't know for not having tattoos. It seems to be the preserve of a certain sub-set without who get to pontificate on the moral / intellectual / social status of others based on this.
And on principle, I tend to reserve my contempt for those that stereotype and judge others, not those who don't.
My oldest son got a full sleeve of tattoos starting years ago in college. He's now 30 years old with a wife and family.
Told him back then that he should keep them under the confines of a short sleeve shirt, but was told that I didn't know anything and that common misperceptions about tattoos would be gone soon.
Now he regrets not listening to me because there are still people that think less of him and he has not gotten the promotions and respect he deserves.
Now he regrets not listening to mebecause there are still people that
think less of him and he has not
gotten the promotions and respect he
deserves.
It's a shame this shit still happens. promotions should be made based on merit not the boss's opinion of your body art.
Tattoo's are part of traditional European culture. I suspect that if tatoos were a part of a minority culture or religion there'd already be legislation protecting against this sort of discrimination.
Wow, news shocker: older person counsels younger person on the inadvisability of an action, older person told s/he's wrong, out of touch, etc. and then younger person discovers older person was right all along. Well, maybe you can get the attention of the grandkids......
Now he regrets not listening to me because there are still people that think less of him and he has not gotten the promotions and respect he deserves.
Obviously he's not as clever as you think he is then, neither are you if you honestly believe that is the true reason.
"People who waste money on Apple Watch bling: plonkers.
People who abuse their bodies by getting tattoos: plonkers
What a risible bunch of trolls seem to be here lately. Seems that the Reg forums are creeping ever closer to being the natural home of nasty minded trolls.
Thinking perhaps it's time to look elsewhere for my daily bit of IT fluff.
> Seems that the Reg forums are creeping ever closer to being the natural home of nasty minded trolls.
Expressing an opinion you don't agree with doesn't make a someone a troll.
> Thinking perhaps it's time to look elsewhere for my daily bit of IT fluff.
There ya go ... I'm sure you'll fit right in. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
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People who abuse their bodies by getting tattoos: plonkers
How very two generations ago of you. Most people these days have realized that tattoos are not long-term harmful and are a valid form of self expression. Judging someone because they choose a form of self expression you don't happen to agree with? Care to guess what that makes my opinion of you?
Fuck you, AC.
Many servicemen (and ex-servicemen like me) have very large tattoos. Why? Because they are incredibly useful. If you get blown to bits or badly burned, tattoos are an excellent and distinctive way of identifying your corpse. Nobody wants their family left in the dark forever on whether they lived or died.
I agree about the Apple Watch though.
If you want to smear ink all over yourself go ahead, just don't try justifying it with some specious bullshit about it being of any utility. Ever seen a corpse after it's rotted in the (tropical) sun for a while?
Your tattoos aren't going to be worth jack shit, teeth or DNA? that's a different matter.
Good luck scraping DNA out of a hole in Helmand. Most death reports are made by the officer in command and most IDs are done by sight.
And tattoos retain their design after burning.
I know this because I suffered 3rd degree burning to my upper left arm - kerosene fire - but the ink was (and still is) fully recognisable. Further, tattooing is a great way to cover scars.
You don't like tattoos, fine. Don't pretend they're not useful just because they don't reflect your preference (or you're afraid of the pain of tattooing, which seems just as likely).
Good luck scraping DNA out of a hole in Helmand. Most death reports are made by the officer in command and most IDs are done by sight.
And yet there is a murder case working its way through the courts in London at the moment where a man is on trial for murder because his fingerprints where found on a fragments of a roadside IED in Iraq that was next to one that killed a US serviceman. The bomb that killed him was built by someone else, someone not now living in the UK..
The fragments from that bomb were sent to the US and analyzed, and then sent to the UK and analyzed. Did someone have a massive hard-on for that specific bomb, or do they actually take more care?
> So how many recorded cases are there where a corpse has been so blown to bits and their family would have thought their loved one might still be alive but for their tattoo? (I'm presuming all their DNA was destroyed in the process)
Not many but enough to make it worthwhile. Five were reported on the Sir Galahad in the Falklands War. Their faces had been melted. Their tattoos were still intact.
I am not suggesting their family might still think they were alive (but people do hold out irrational hope without an actual confirmation) but I am suggesting they had a lot less waiting to find out whether to plan for a homecoming or a funeral. And I think making people wait in the dark for news of a loved one's death is cruel. But since AC doesn't like tattoos, none of that matters. Families don't matter. Information doesn't matter. Apparently.
None of you guys needs to justify why humans tattoo their bodies. We've been doing it for the whole of recorded history (and beyond - Ötzi the Iceman's tattoos are over 5,000 years old), but suddenly (according to some posters who really ought to stick to the Huffington Post) we're idiots if we have tats and buy Apple Watches?
No doubt if Bluetooth headsets had been found to be affected by certain metals in ear-studs we would have had comments about "plonkers having their ears pierced".
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