Many faces of the Apple Watch apps - What do the apps look like?

What do the Apple Watch apps look like?

Here are some fresh screenshots from the Apple live event today showcasing new apps designed for Apple Watch. 

The many faces of Apple Watch

A visual overview of the Apple Watch apps

Apple website displaying a mosaic of Apple Watches

A blooming flower as a newly imagined watch face for Apple Watch

Disney Mickey Mouse as the classical playful design on Apple Watch

The traditional watch face with augmented rich details of tech enabled daily lives. #AppleWatch

Apple Watch as the ultimate fitness device to replace FitBit Fuelband and Jawbone UP delivers heart rate.

Take incoming calls and send text messages with Apple Watch.

Apple Watch's built in mic and speaker allows incoming and outgoing calls on the wrist.

Digital touch records and sends hand drawn mini art.

Digital touch sends recorded animation of personalized emoticons #AppleWatch 

Apple Watch trying to be cute allowing you to send your loved ones a beating heart.

3 Ring data visualization for personal fitness tracking on wearable devices.

WatchKit allows easy development of Watch apps with Apple's Swift programming language.

Apple Pay, photo view, video play, dictation, iTune, Passbook, maps all work on Apple Watch

A day in the life of an apple watch starts with important reminders and notifications.

Apple partners with WeChat appeals to its Chinese customers.

Apple with WeChat allows emoticons.

Apple Watch allows uses of emoticon and emoji in text conversations appeals to its Asian customers.

Apple Watch works with Instagram

Apple Watch can call and get a Uber cat in minutes.

Check in to flights and view flight status with PassBook built in for Apple Watch.

Apple partners with Starwoods hotels and properties to allow on-the-wrist check-in and unlocking rooms. W Hotel

Apple's Brand New ResearchKit Apps for Medical Research

What do the ResearchKit apps look like?

Here are some screenshots freshly picked from the Apple live event showcasing apps built with ResearchKit for medical research for hospitals and universities. Apple wants to utilize the 700 million user data and healthcare partnership to turn Apple devices into futuristic diagnostic tools.

ResearchKit : enables iPhone to be used for Medical Research as a surveying tool and a diagnostic tool.

ResearchKit : enables iPhone to be used for Medical Research as a surveying tool and a diagnostic tool. 

ResearchKit Logo

ResearchKit framework as a diagnostic tool.

ResearchKit partnership landscape.

Parkinson's Disease partnership with University of rochester Xuanwu Hospital Capital Medical University, Sage Bionetworks. 

Finger tapping diagnostic approach to identify patients with Parkinson's disease.

Apple wants to help diagnose Parkinson's Disease right on the iPhone.

Diabetes partnership with Massachusetts General Hospital.

Cardiovascular disease partnership with Stanford Medicine and University of Oxford.

Asthma partnership with Mount Sinai Hospital Well Cornell Medical College.

Breast cancer partnership with UCLA school of public health, penn medicine, sage bionetworks, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Five health apps available today as a featured download in the App Store.

Voice recognition as a diagnostic tool

All you need to know about Apple Watch pictures minxmin recap - [Live Blogging] Apple 3/9/15 event unveiling Apple iWatch

Dilys is live blogging the Apple March 9th iWatch unveiling event.

• Get your full recap on Apple's Apple Watch Announcement today? pictures and minute by minute live blog 
• What are the different designs and availability of Apple Watch? All about Apple Watch iWatch

• Apple Watch Sport Collection

  

  Apple CEO Tim Cook present Apple Watch Sport collection at today's live event.



Molten aluminum for Apple Watch

• premium aluminum: custom design alloy light yet strong

  

  Apple Watch wants you to get excited about material science and the beautiful aluminum alloy it's using for its premium watch.

• Apple wants you to love the material science porn-level new standard manufacturing of Apple Watch Sport

• Apple Watch Collection

• Of course Apple has no ordinary stainless steel Apple Watch #AppleLive
• Mirror finish
• Diamond like carbon extra layer give you the extra premium finish



Apple stainless steel Apple Watch with carbon layer for a black smooth finish.

• Milanese loop

  

  Apple stainless steel Apple Watch with Milanese Loop and carbon black finish



The Apple Watch Watch Collection has the largest number of customizations of styles and fashion designs to choose from.

• Watch Edition

• Limited availability, limited edition
• Retails for $10K = $10,000
• Available in limited retail stores

The Apple Watch Watch Edition is the premium collection with a price tag of $10,000 available only at limited stores. It's a collector piece, limited edition.

• #AppleWatch comes in 3 collections find out here Aluminum Steel and Gold 
• Pre order on April 10 Apple Watch #AppleLive ultimate fitting experience choose the one that's right for you. Available April 24th.

• How does the Apple Watch charger work?



The back of an Apple Watch, where the magnetic charger snaps into place.

• Apple watch comes with a magnetic charger that will snap into place automatically.

  

  Apple Watch comes with a magnetic charger that snaps into place.

  
  

• Wow holy crap Apple all out for Chinese clients Wechat with stickers now available immediately on Apple Watch

A day in life of an Apple Watch - Apple appeals to Chinese customers with WeChat app. 

A day in life of an Apple Watch - Apple appeals to Chinese customers with emoticons and stickers.

A day in life of an Apple Watch - Apple appeals to Chinese customers with emoticons and stickers including the popular Tsuski

• Apple builds an Apple Watch app store, an iPhone app, to distribute apps built for the watch.

• Wow #Apple designed with #ALLDAY battery life 18 hours! Magnetic charger.
• This however isn't significantly different from the Pebble watch distribution.
• #Apple builds an app #appstore for #AppleWatch
• "Hey Siri" like "OK Glass" interacting with Siri without tapping #AppleLive #Siri versus #GoogleGlass
• The new Apple Watch wants you to get excited about the material science of aluminum, gold, and 
• 11:09AM Apple Watch in Action 
• Day in Life of an Apple Watch
• Beginning of the day : Events, schedules, stock, sports, twitter, Salesforce
• "Hey Siri" like "OK Glass" interacting with Siri without tapping
• Fitness reminder
• Apple Pay for grocery
• #AppleWatch full integrated with #Uber #GPS enabled
• Passbook boarding pass on your wrist
• Digital touch can draw and track drawing send to friend (snapchat on wrist)
• SPG Starwoods Hotel partnership, check in, unlock the door. Shazam for the music. Remote control of garage door with alarm.com 
• Dictation or as an audio of my voice (like WeChat)
• Instagram on Apple Watch



Use Apple Watch for Instagram

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• You can view photos, pay with #ApplePay on #AppleWatch #Siri #notification #ESPN sports, Social Media
• How Apple Watch helps a marathon: Christy uses #AppleWatch to check for distance, altitude and other course data
• iWatch in action half marathon in Tanzania Africa Christy Turlington
• #Apple iWatch is a full blown fitness tracker #FitBit #NikeFuelBand all watch out
• 3 ring graphic display



Apple iWatch 3 Ring visualization of your physical activities - fitness data visualization example.

• Live coaching, motivation
• Give a fitness tracker to your friend 
• Read full emails
• 10:58 AM receive calls from Apple #iWatch with build in microphone and speaker
• 10:56 AM Apple iWatch express time like it's never being done before, add any rich details

Many faces of Apple Watch, watch face of a blooming flower.

Apple Watch gets playful with watch faces featuring the classical
Mickey Mouse and moving hands design.

• 10:17 AM Apple Health Changing Medical Research



Apple ResearchKit partners with hospitals and university to deliver a new era of medical research. Partnership includes University of Oxford, Stanford Medicine, Penn Medicine, UCLA Public Health, Mass Gen - Massachusetts General. 

• Challenges: 
• Recruiting subjects, small sample sizes
• Subjective Data: e.g. Parkinson patients get arbitrarily rated by physicians,  
• Snapshot data: quarterly trip to office
• One way communication: don't hear back until end of study
• with 700 MM iPhones sold

Apple ResearchKit app shows partnership between Apple, University of Rochester, Qinghua University, Sage Bionetworks on Parkinson's disease.

Apple will diagnose Parkinson partnership with university hospitals turn Apple into a #ResearchKit #MedicalResearcha

#Apple partners with #MassGeneral on #Diabetes, #Asthma with #MountSinai, #HeartDisease with Stanford #ResearchKit  iPhone = Diagnostic tool

• 40 new models of cars shipping with Apple CarPlay
• Apple iPhones 700 Million sold. Last quarter doubled rate of the industry nearly 50% growth
• iPhone is now the top best selling smart phone on earth
• Apple Pay started with 6 banks now over 2500 institutes



40K Coca Cola vending machines now accept Apple Pay as a form of payment.

• 40K Coca Cola vending machines now takes Apple Pay
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• Apple TV price lowered to $69 
• 10:11AM Game of Throne exclusive trailer debuts during the live event
• 10:07AM Apple TV -  HBO CEO announces exclusive partnership with Apple for HBONow (subscription includes past present future and featured movies requires an Apple device $14.99 per month April premiere Game of Thrones). Famous shows: sopranos, entourage, sex and the city, VEEP, Silicon Valley, game of throne
• 10:00 AM - Apple gives tribute to its Chinese customers by showing videos of popularity of Apple products in China (Hangzhou Xihu - West Lake China new store opening)
• 21 stores so far aiming for 40

Apple puts Chinese customers first opening its live event with video features of the new Xihu West Lake China store opening.

Apple live event video features Chinese customers, one of its most important customer populations.

• 10:00AM watch the live event on safari http://www.apple.com/live

Learn to Code Notes : Udacity iOS Development Nanodegree Q&A

Detailed notes from the Udacity iOS Development iOS Nanodegree Q&A live cast on Google Hangout

Summary: these are my notes from the Udacity iOS Development iOS Nanodegree Q&A today 2/25/15. The Udacity team hosted this live listen-mode Google Hangout to answer a selection of user submitted questions regarding the program. This program is special that it is one of the nanodegrees that Udacity is offering for the very first time. Students will become the meaningful first cohort of this inaugural program. Students will get instructions, and professional help to complete a portfolio of projects, gain a sense of community with peers around the world, able to provide feedback and influence future programs to certain extend.

This program however is not geared towards beginners who are just learning to code. It will require some prior learning experiences and even software engineering experiences (students who completed Udacity courses on Intro to Computer Science, OOP programming, intro to Python, JavaScript Basics, may be able to successfully complete the program).

For complete beginners, learning iOS programming as the first step to full stack development can be difficult. Currently there aren't easy programs to get started (unlike Ruby on Rails which has a great pipeline of learning and teaching tools). If you have any suggestions, please comment below. Would love to know.

Projects, Apps, Assignments

• 5 Apps including an open-ended capstone project in the end
• The apps are deadline driven, the first one is due one month after the program starts
• Projects are the only true requirements of the program
• The instructor's favorite app is the map app, to get a sense of where the students of the current courses are (address --> reverse geocode to longitude and latitude).
• The last app, aka the capstone app, is open ended - determined by the students themselves.
• Projects get "instant" feedback from professional iOS developers with a 24 hr turnaround time (in my opinion this is an amazing value)

Credential of the Nanodegree

On the legitimacy of the credibility and value of the nanodegree, the instructor explains for all developers, the No.1 credential comes from the code portfolio the students will obtain at the end of the course, as a result of their own hard work.  They will gain skills and knowledge regarding the core development components of iOS, which in turn will help them answer to technical questions in the interview. More important than the course content are the apps, projects being built. As the instructor put "the code guarantees the legitimacy", your skills will be "demonstrated by the apps  you build". I would completely agree to prove your development skills: you will need extensive experiences, notable projects, and/or beautiful codes. It's the "street cred" of Silicon Valley. You can have 0 exp, but must have built great things.

You can share on Twitter: 

Prove #code skills w/ experience projects & or beautiful codes the street cred of Silicon Valley. Degrees don't always matter. #learntocode

Partnership

• See below for press coverage

A Smart Way to Skip College in Pursuit of a Job  Udacity-AT&T ‘NanoDegree’ Offers an Entry-Level Approach to College (Source: New York Times)

Prerequisites

• Interactive readiness assessment by Udacity (highly recommended) regarding this iOS Development NanoDegree  (be honest so you can make educated decisions about your time and monetary investment. You will receive feedback)
• Some experiences with software development
• Comfortable with Object Oriented Programming (OOP), object graphs, connect and instantiate objects
• Comfortable with programming loops, control flows, booleans, loops, 
• Read the comprehensive requirement on the Course Page

Logistics

• Course Page
• $200/Month
• Enrollment opens on March 4, lasts for a week. 
• Expect a minimum of 10 hr/week in terms of workload
• Expect to spend 6-9 months to finish (est. cost $1200 - $1800)
• Minimum enrollment of 2 months to graduate (i.e. $400 dollars+), i.e. the fastest students can be enrolled for 2 months and claim completion upon finishing the projects
• Projects are the only true requirements of the program
• Read more about NanoDegrees on the Udacity blog
• Learn about other Nanodegrees by Udacity

Technical Requirements / Notes

• No need for an iPhone / iPad device (if available phone constraints of layouts can be more interesting compared to iPads)
• The Apple development program has a simulator
• Need a newer operating system OS 10 Mavericks or above
• No need for the latest Mac
• More granular requirements

Daily Economics Stock Market Digest Last Day Week of Feb 23 - Apple

Important news that you should be reading and forming your own opinion this week : Apple, Impax Laboratories, 

Disclaimer: I am not a financial advisor, you should never take my advice. These are my notes, my personal understanding as a part of daily / weekly stock investment researching. Feel free to get feel of what may be important or notable, but I am not making any recommendation here...

tags: Apple, AAPL, Impax, IPXL, stock, dividend, aptiom, JNJ, johnson and johnson, mariott, MAR, Alaska airlines, ALK, NIKE, nke, cheesecake factory, cake, hershey chocolate, hershey, HSY, estee lauder, nordstrom, herman miller, MLHR,  

Apple (AAPL) Car - What we know from CNN Money

Apple (AAPL)'s Jonathan Ive is obsessed with cars.  Apple's sensor filled car has been sighted in Hawaii.

Japan Display may open new plant for Apple (AAPL)

Impax Laboratory (IMPAX) to Report Earnings on Feb 24th (Tuesday)

How would Aptiom do in the Wall Street Stock Market

Treato patient reviews seems to indicate more negative opinions than positives. But these are individual reviews, not verified, not rigorous scientific studies. Can only be used as a second, third, even fourth opinion. Treato indicated that PCYC's Imbruvica had more positive reviews, but the sample size is still small just 24.

APTIOM is recently approved by FDA. Its actual performance is still a mystery. It's taken for seizers, epilepsy, complex partial seizers among adults.

Dividend Calendar

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ:NYSE) dividend ex-date 2/20/2015

Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation (MAR:NASDAQ) dividend ex-date 2/25/2015

P/E Ratio is high right now 32.3, though earnings are good EPS = 2.57

Note and comment: Starwoods and other competitors may not be doing well this year... need more research.

Alaska Air (ALK:NYSE) Group, Inc.  dividend ex-date 2/20/2015

EPS = 4.44, P/E = 14.4, dividend $0.20 - QRTR

Nike Inc (NKE:NYSE)   dividend ex-date 2/26/2015

EPS = 3.36, P/E = 28.3, dividend $0.28 QRTR

Cheesecake Factory Inc (CAKE:NASDAQ) dividend ex-date 2/23/2015

EPS=1.96, P/E=25.1, dividend $0.165

Hershey Co (HSY:NYSE) dividend ex-date 2/23/2015

EPS=3.76, P/E=28.5, dividend $0.535

Estee Lauder (EL:NYSE) dividend ex-date 2/25/2015

EPS=2.92, P/E=28, dividend $0.24

Nordstrom Inc (JWN:NYSE) dividend ex-date 2/25/2015

EPS = 3.77, P/E=21.7, dividend $0.37, Nordstrom earnings actually fell short 2/19, but price still hiked for many dollars. Not a buy at this time.

Herman Miller (MLHR:NASDAQ) dividend ex-date 2/25/2015

EPS =  1.49, P/E = 21.1, dividend $0.14. May be Herman Miller will find its market among the newly rich engineers and having filled up startup and venture capital offices.

Time Warner Inc (TWX:NYSE) dividend ex-date 2/25/2015

EPS=4.40, P/E=19.2,  dividend $0.35. Huge hike in Feb, already very expensive.