{"id":40619,"date":"2023-09-12T16:46:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T20:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40619"},"modified":"2023-10-25T10:02:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T14:02:31","slug":"apple-watch-series-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/12\/apple-watch-series-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Watch Series 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple<\/a> (ArsTechnica<\/a>, MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Apple Watch Series 9 is powered by custom Apple silicon in the all-new S9 SiP. Apple’s most powerful watch chip yet delivers systemwide improvements and brand-new features, including a new double tap gesture and on-device Siri with the ability to access and log health data privately and securely. Apple Watch Series 9 also has a new 4-core Neural Engine that can process machine learning tasks up to twice as fast, when compared with Apple Watch Series 8. The power efficiency of the S9 SiP allows Apple Watch Series 9 to maintain all-day 18-hour battery life.<\/p>\n

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Users can tap the index finger and thumb of their watch hand together twice to quickly and conveniently perform many of the most common actions on Apple Watch Series 9.<\/p>\n

Double tap controls the primary button in an app so it can be used to stop a timer, play and pause music, or snooze an alarm. The gesture can be used to answer and end a phone call, and even to take a photo with the Camera Remote on Apple Watch.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It starts at the same $399. Unfortunately, I have not seen anything suggesting that on-device Siri can create reminders.<\/p>\n\n

Apple<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Each carbon neutral Apple Watch model meets the following strict criteria: 100 percent clean electricity for manufacturing and product use, 30 percent recycled or renewable material by weight, and 50 percent of shipping without the use of air transportation. These combined efforts result in at least a 75 percent reduction in product emissions for each model. The company will use high-quality carbon credits to address the small amount of remaining emissions, resulting in a carbon neutral product footprint.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n