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Apple Watch sales up over 50% since last year

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Re: Apple Watch sales up over 50% since last year

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Post by reitanqild »

Someone wrote: post #166
reitanqild wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At the time, music devices were using serial connections if you can believe that, and FireWire was the fastest thing on the market, only available with iPods. Can't remember that. Mine had usb, was available before iPod and the speed never bothered me.

Nitpick: I don't think the OP meant USB when he said "serial connection", but USB _is_ a serial connection (as is FireWire)

Ok, fair point. When I hear serial I think something along the lines of rs232 and I guess so do others.

Re: Apple Watch sales up over 50% since last year

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dsacco wrote: post #145
Steko wrote: post #83

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The jobs the watch will do aren't as clear cut as it was for the iPod. The iPod let you listen to music and carried lots of (or all of) your music and had software that made it easy to convert and manage your digital music and buy more over the internet. Those were things basically everyone wanted and it did that better than competitors. The watch? Well yeah it tells time, but it's worse at that then most watches and…

I have a few points for you in response: 1. I'm what you'd call a "watch guy." In the time I have had the Apple Watch Series 2, I have barely used my mechanicals (including a Lange & Sohne and a Nomos Glashutte). The Apple Watch comes with me on all but the most formal/elegant occasions, and I now hate changing straps on my mechanical watches in comparison. The Apple Watch may not be as beautiful, but it is far more…

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Re: Apple Watch sales up over 50% since last year

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Post by tjudi »

dsacco wrote: post #145
Steko wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The jobs the watch will do aren't as clear cut as it was for the iPod. The iPod let you listen to music and carried lots of (or all of) your music and had software that made it easy to convert and manage your digital music and buy more over the internet. Those were things basically everyone wanted and it did that better than competitors. The watch? Well yeah it tells time, but it's worse at that then most watches and…

I have a few points for you in response: 1. I'm what you'd call a "watch guy." In the time I have had the Apple Watch Series 2, I have barely used my mechanicals (including a Lange & Sohne and a Nomos Glashutte). The Apple Watch comes with me on all but the most formal/elegant occasions, and I now hate changing straps on my mechanical watches in comparison. The Apple Watch may not be as beautiful, but it is far more…

You make some interesting points. I am curious, where do you live and what do you Do?

Re: Apple Watch sales up over 50% since last year

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Post by brlewis »

mirsadm wrote: post #182
dsacco wrote: post #145

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I have a few points for you in response: 1. I'm what you'd call a "watch guy." In the time I have had the Apple Watch Series 2, I have barely used my mechanicals (including a Lange & Sohne and a Nomos Glashutte). The Apple Watch comes with me on all but the most formal/elegant occasions, and I now hate changing straps on my mechanical watches in comparison. The Apple Watch may not be as beautiful, but it is far more…

I think in a couple more iterations the Apple Watch will be the best fitness tracker out there. At the moment the poor battery life doesn't lend itself well to things like sleep tracking or longer activities.

Only if the current best fitness trackers don't also iterate.

Re: Apple Watch sales up over 50% since last year

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Post by throwaway123355 »

dsacco wrote: post #145
Steko wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The jobs the watch will do aren't as clear cut as it was for the iPod. The iPod let you listen to music and carried lots of (or all of) your music and had software that made it easy to convert and manage your digital music and buy more over the internet. Those were things basically everyone wanted and it did that better than competitors. The watch? Well yeah it tells time, but it's worse at that then most watches and…

I have a few points for you in response: 1. I'm what you'd call a "watch guy." In the time I have had the Apple Watch Series 2, I have barely used my mechanicals (including a Lange & Sohne and a Nomos Glashutte). The Apple Watch comes with me on all but the most formal/elegant occasions, and I now hate changing straps on my mechanical watches in comparison. The Apple Watch may not be as beautiful, but it is far more…

Which Nomos? If you don't wear it are you looking to sell it?

Re: Apple Watch sales up over 50% since last year

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Post by brlewis »

spike021 wrote: post #125
brlewis wrote: post #119

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It's helpful socially to be able to check the time subtly. A tap or large wrist motion makes it look like you're trying to tell whoever you're with that they should be paying attention to the time.

I understand what you're saying. However, I don't see how that's much different from glancing at any number of clocks: for instance at the office when I glance at the time in the corner of my computer screen, when I'm in a meeting room and glance at the clock on the wall, etc. People notice that motion all the time. I notice when people do this to me as well. Either way you'd need to glance at your watch, which means…

Eye movement is more subtle than wrist movement. In the course of a normal conversation one breaks eye contact numerous times anyway.

Re: Apple Watch sales up over 50% since last year

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Post by twoodfin »

spike021 wrote: post #110
Steko wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The jobs the watch will do aren't as clear cut as it was for the iPod. The iPod let you listen to music and carried lots of (or all of) your music and had software that made it easy to convert and manage your digital music and buy more over the internet. Those were things basically everyone wanted and it did that better than competitors. The watch? Well yeah it tells time, but it's worse at that then most watches and…

>The watch? Well yeah it tells time, but it's worse at that then most watches and everyone already carries a device that tells time which the watch can't replace. Yeah, it gives you slightly faster access to notifications but not everyone needs that. How is it worse at telling time than most watches? It works fine for me except when the battery is dead. Is that what you mean? Bad battery life? I don't use the watch t…

Every time I take my Watch off during the day and my phone starts buzzing in my pocket it annoys the hell out of me.

And Apple has done a great job improving performance and user experience even in the Series 0. The only reason I'll want a new one in the Fall is a battery that's starting to lose efficiency after two+ years of heavy use & the potential for better phone-free use with AirPods, which as someone mentioned up thread is a killer combination.

Re: Apple Watch sales up over 50% since last year

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Post by brlewis »

theGimp wrote: post #123
criddell wrote: post #96

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I like to wear a watch, so I kind of wish I could get a fitness tracker (with heart rate monitor) that doesn't have a clock on it. I sometimes wear a watch and a fitbit and that just looks stupid.

If you don't mind wearing a big fitness tracker, the Fitbit Blaze has been great in my experience. It's a bit old now, and the new bigger fitbits are the Surge and the Charge 2, but I still love my Blaze.

Blaze is actually newer than Surge and has more features than Charge 2. It's the Fitbit that most competes with Apple Watch at present.

Re: Apple Watch sales up over 50% since last year

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Post by twoodfin »

calvinbhai wrote: post #195

the Series 0 (first gen) watch was my first watch ever (never felt the need for a watch until then) Been using it for over 2 years and I'm super happy with it. Watch OS 3 made a huge difference in terms of usability for the watch. The background updates and swiping to change watch faces means I have my most used watch Complications in the 3 watchfaces I use. Weather, podcast, music and timer apps (from complications)…

FWIW Siri on the Watch (even my Series 0) has gotten at least an order of magnitude better, both in what it understands and how quickly and reliably it executes commands and queries.

Still a lot of room for improvement, but not the dumpster fire it was with watchOS 1.0.

Re: Apple Watch sales up over 50% since last year

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Post by Pxtl »

mortenjorck wrote: post #28

I’ve been saying it all along: to understand the Apple Watch, look to the iPod. The first three years of iPod sales were minuscule compared to the following ten: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ipod_sales_per_qua... The two products occupy a very similar space of affordable luxury; they are not world-changing like the Mac or iPhone, but category-defining. Through gradual iteration and segmentation, Apple sl…

Imho the Pebble style makes the most sense to me. Focus on notifications and directions to the wrist as the core feature. Everhthing else is heavy and I should only be implemnted as low-hanging fruit.

Then watches are a fun little accessory like a Bluetooth headset but it's just not that big of a deal like the iWatch. Simple non-illuminated LCD screen and low power processor means it can run for a week and is smaller than the heavier competitors.

It's a shame Pebble folded. I hope we'll see Garmin and FitBit provide successor devices.

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