{"id":3469,"date":"2014-09-11T16:51:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T06:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2014-09-11T16:52:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T06:52:19","slug":"apple-watch-probably-going-to-need-charging-nightly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/apple-watch-probably-going-to-need-charging-nightly\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Watch Probably Going To Need Charging Nightly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Paczkowski at Re\/code:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Reached for comment, Apple spokeswoman Nat Kerris declined to provide an estimate on expected battery life, but said the company expects users will charge their Apple Watches once daily. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of new technology packed into Apple Watch and we think people will love using it throughout the day,\u201d Kerris said. \u201cWe anticipate that people will charge nightly which is why we designed an innovative charging solution that combines our MagSafe technology and inductive charging.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;d be a bit of a deal-breaker for me, except then I read this from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/apple-watch-update-more-details-and-hands-on-97091024129.html\">David Pogue&#8217;s hands-on article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The fanciest model, the gold Apple Phone Edition, comes in a gorgeous jewelry box \u2014 which doubles as a charger. The back of the box has a Lightning connector, and the inside of the box has the watch\u2019s magnetic round charger pad, standing vertically. So as you retire each night, you can just lay your gold watch into its case and let it charge.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I can buy a nice-looking charging box separately, I could probably live with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Paczkowski at Re\/code: Reached for comment, Apple spokeswoman Nat Kerris declined to provide an estimate on expected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[13,771,1005],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}