Am I the only one who doesn't wear a watch (even if I wanted to) because I don't like the way it scratches against my MacBook Pro?
I'm sure the iWatch will have a MacBook friendly strap.
Moto 360
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#52So I'm only seeing white male hands
It's easier to photoshop it onto one arm than many.
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#53Cool, a male only product.
I know more women that wear watches than men, but let's go with something that is gigantic and only men would wear. Seems to be a sound strategy.
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#54This has to be the smoothest scrolling image transition on that scale I've seen. Anybody care to enlighten an amateur how they did it?
Looks like it's mostly jquery. You can check out the scrolling stuff here: http://moto360.motorola.com/js/functions.js
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#55Very cool - hopefully '360' is not a reference to how many minutes of battery life it will have. I hope for one that it uses an OLED screen, so the black-background watches will use very little battery. Also, I found it interesting that each of the pictures were of vascular men-forearms. I guess they don't expect this to be well adopted by the female population.
If you look at the difference in surface area between traditional men's/women's models of the same watch [1] there's a pretty massive difference in what you'd be able to do with the space. However, you do see more women wearing men's watches now, so I could see it catching on.
I think they will need to hit a pretty big number for battery life. A "40-hour power reserve" (what most mechanical automatics have) would be a big step towards being taken seriously as a watch instead of a gadget.
[1] http://www.omegawatches.com/collection/seamaster/aqua-terra-...
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#56I'm very impressed. When I saw the Google video, I thought the round watch was a photoshopped concept we may see in the future, but it's actually shipping in a few months. Also, is this the first mass-market device with a round screen? I'd be interested to see how the layouts work from a developer perspective. Whether relative or fixed, desktop, mobile or web, we're all so used to rectangular, grid based layouts.
A round screen both worries and excites me. I can't think of a nice way to present a website on a circular screen but it would also bother me to waste all that space putting everything into a box.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Traditionally, female watches are small, and male ones are larger. I don't see this changing any time soon. Try a Nike Fuelband however, it's very thin. It's not always on, but it sure is fancy when you click the button in public.
Smartwatches are somehow male?
As a matter of fashion, male watches tend to be larger than female ones. As a matter of practicality, current smartwatches are all large. So yes, yes they are.
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#59Cool, a male only product. I know more women that wear watches than men, but let's go with something that is gigantic and only men would wear. Seems to be a sound strategy.
Fairly sure it's always the same model arm to make the image transitions be more fluid. I'm sure after all of this they'll show just a female model's arm. I imagine too they picked a male model because in general men have bigger forearms, and so it will make the watch look less bulky.
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#60That stem is interesting. The Pebble has 4 buttons, which are generally mapped to up, down, select, and back. That strikes me as the minimum for useful app interface.
With the Moto 360's stem I can see getting up down and select, but now how they'd do back. Maybe a long-press?