It's ironic or a bit disingenuous that a device putting constant notifications on your wrist is advertised for stress relief. Not unique to PW2, quite common in tech, but regardless...
Google Pixel Watch 2
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#13I really wanna like Google products but so many abandoned Google projects, inconsistent ecosystem, Google privacy nightmares, poor aftermarket experience, and lack of attention to UI and UX (remember the jump from Android 11 to 12?) have made me settle on iphone and Apple’s ecosystem.
I’ll never forgive them for how they butchered Nest. And yes I do think of that when I contemplate anything from Google like this watch.
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#14I had no idea the battery life on most smart watches is so bad that "24 hours of screen on battery life" is something to brag about. The apple watch is no better.
My Garmin Forerunner 945 (a running focused smart watch), more than two years old at this point, gets nearly two weeks of battery life on a single charge, and it's got an always-on screen as well.
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Quick edit:
Even the latest Forerunner 965, which has an AMOLED touch screen, gets 7 days of battery life in display-always-on mode, and 3 weeks in default mode (display turns off)^1
[1]: https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=FEjONGCI270wlBlREC7Uw8...
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#15How can people tolerate a watch that's half an inch thick? That's like twice the thickness of my phone.
I dont really understand how you could possibly care about thickness of a watch at the inch level
Any watch case over 12mm thick is considered "thick". Thin is typically under 8mm. (25.4mm=1 inch)
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#16How can people tolerate a watch that's half an inch thick? That's like twice the thickness of my phone.
How can people tolerate charging a watch each night? I can't get behind this idea of having a basket of electronics you need to babysit all the time so they don't run out of battery. Especially when we already have really battery efficient tech, like hybrid watches with e-ink display.
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#17How can people tolerate a watch that's half an inch thick? That's like twice the thickness of my phone.
My Garmin Descent Mk2 smartwatch is even thicker at 17.8mm. Not ideal, but the functionality is so good that I'm willing to sacrifice a bit of comfort.
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#18I really wanna like Google products but so many abandoned Google projects, inconsistent ecosystem, Google privacy nightmares, poor aftermarket experience, and lack of attention to UI and UX (remember the jump from Android 11 to 12?) have made me settle on iphone and Apple’s ecosystem.
While I don't think Google will abandon Pixel phone, yeah I'd be wary of buying pixel watch for sure.
For better or worse, Apple's rectangular form factor is something people have gotten used to and frankly it's more space efficient than a circle.
To really make a dent in the market place, they should build a product that has a Wow factor that is good enough to lure even Apple Watch users away.
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#19I really wanna like Google products but so many abandoned Google projects, inconsistent ecosystem, Google privacy nightmares, poor aftermarket experience, and lack of attention to UI and UX (remember the jump from Android 11 to 12?) have made me settle on iphone and Apple’s ecosystem.
Same. I have various "accounts" with google to manage various services and I can never find the right place to login for the set of services I am looking for.
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#20Does everyone else assume it'll be a joke/junk/horrible before clicking the link, or is it just me?
Eh, at least the bands won't be made out of "finewoven".
Well, it’s not fine.. : https://store.google.com/us/product/watch_band_woven?hl=en-U...