As someone who uses the NikeFuel, I've gotta say this watch is COMPLICATED.
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#32Ugly. It looks like something from the 1980s. What happened to the beautiful minimilistic design?
I can imagine Roger Moore and Christopher Walken wearing one in "A View To A Kill".
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#33News overload: TC Disrupt, Hacker News, Product Hunt, Apple Event!!!
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#34$350? That's fairly pricey!
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#35I think there are two things Apple did wrong here 1. They have customized size and band, while not the shape. I for one love round shape and hate the square shape, and I believe I'm not the only one with this preference. 2. They emphasized too much on the interaction with watch. IMO, watch is supposed to notify you new things, have you glance over it and do some quick responding. That's it. User should not use watch…
>> "IMO, watch is supposed to notify you new things, have you glance over it and do some quick responding. That's it. User should not use watch in the same way they use phone." Not enough people will pay several hundred dollars for that. I'm a geek and heavy smartphone user and I wouldn't pay $50 just to get notifications on my wrist. It needs to do more or there's only a small market.
yup. I keep my phone on vibrate in my pocket; the fundamental question they have to answer is why the hell do I need to pay $400 just to get notifications on my wrist? I presume the answer is look at all this cool stuff too! fitness / ui tracking, quick interactions, etc
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#36No talk of water resistance or battery life is pretty disappointing. Those two things are key for something I would like to keep on my wrist for as long as possible.
For real. Will this last a week or a day? I like that my Pebble isn't another smartphone that I have to charge on the daily.
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#37Left handed people are kinda screwed with this thing.
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#38I rather prefer the Garmin Fit. Battery life is almost a year. It does only 2 things: whether I am active enough and sleeping enough. Do we really need to have notifications on the watch. Not sure. May be i am too old.
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#39$350 and not out until "early 2015" Dead in the water. That's insanely expensive and too late in the smartwatch market in my mind.
There is no mass smartwatch market at the moment. There are some smartwatches that sells in very small amount to niche audience but there is no mass market and I doubt one will exist until the end of the year. It's like 2005 for smartphones - there were some smartphones in the market but they were pretty bad and definitely not for everyone.
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#40I just don't think the watch market is really there. I feel like its shrinking steadily among younger people as the need for a time teller is replaced by the modern cell phone. I believe people have convinced themselves into convincing companies that they actually want a high tech wrist watch when, in reality, the market isn't that big and it is shrinking. I believe this whole craze started with the pebble. People se…
That's because all a watch did up to now was tell time, was wasn't enough to justify hanging one off your wrist unless you wished to signal your fashion sense/wealth. This watch does an awful lot more and appears to do it very very well. They'll sell by the truckload.