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No 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.
When showing the inductive charger, he mentioned charging it at night ...
Me personally, I don't see myself ever wearing a watch, but if I was, I would be annoyed about that crown thing being on the right side of the watch. As a more or less leftie, wearing a purely non interactive element on the left hand as it is custom for watches is ok, but having to interact with that crown thing using my right hand feels wrong. I could probably get used to it, but then, I can doost things with both h…
With all the compromises in size and battery life, this is what you would gain in return for it. Instead, it was sold as a "me too", complementary device, just with Apple magic thrown in there.
So now in the end, I don't need a mini-iphone on my wrist or do I want one. I can just as easily pull the phone out of my pocket as it takes the same amount of time.
Such a shame really, because it's obvious that Apple had their brightest engineers work long hours on it.
The high-end customers you desire will never abandon their shiny Swiss watches for this.
The low-end customers will (once again) be claimed by Samsung.
I didn't really like him, but Jobs was indeed a visionary. Apple is losing ground (alarmingly rapidly, I might add) after him. May he rest in peace.
$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.
NFC payments are awesome. Can't wait to try it.
I am liking the idea of using the crown to help navigate around the interface. Glad they thought about it a lot more vs just compressing the phone down into a smaller UI (similar to the small iPod was). Also, how smoothly did those icons on the home screen move around? For some reason I found that really impressive, now to find out what the battery life is like (nice use of MagSafe as well for charging, IMO) Not a fa…
Two ways to navigate the interface (wheel for zooming, to avoid touching the screen, and panning by...touching the screen).
Tasteless misfeatures like customisable emoji [1] and drawing your own fail whale on a tiny screen [2], and most inexplicable of all for an expensive watch - very little attention paid to the actual watch face designs, which are not even adapted to the square frame, and some of which have numbering superimposed awkwardly over images like a butterfly or globe, or mickey mouse...ugh [3]
[1] http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/apple024...
[2] http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/apple025...
[3] http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/apple021...
Combining all that stuff with materials like 18 carat gold or brushed steel doesn't really make sense - it's as if they asked a different person about each feature included and then mashed it all together in some frankenstein mess. The fitness features look quite nice in contrast.
I actually think in future we'll all be using wearables like this far more than phones - little status bands or com badges or glasses/contact lenses, but this is not a glimpse of the future so much as a glimpse at the dysfunction in the current Apple design process, post Steve Jobs, and their inability to produce coherent products.
I think this design is much uglier than the Moto 260[1]. [1] https://moto360.motorola.com/
After clicking the link, I stared at a black screen containing nothing but the "Moto 360" logo and a throbber for about 10 seconds before the actual page content started to display.
Scrolling is just completely broken: moving the mouse wheel in any direction will scroll the page down. But there's no at-a-glance summary of product features, so you must scroll through the whole mess just to find out about the product. Animations and videos begin playing as soon as their section of the page is scrolled to, without being triggered by deliberate user action. One of the sections uses some sort of bloom effect on the text that doesn't work properly and makes the text unreadable.
So after wading through all of that, I started reading some of the copy on the page, and while I was doing so, I was spontaneously sent back to the 'loading screen' with the logo and throbber while more content downloaded for another 5-10 seconds.
I'm on a 10 MB/s DSL connection at the moment. The page took a whopping 228.85 seconds (that's three minutes and forty-nine seconds) to load over 13 MB of content.
And, after all of that, I still don't have a clear idea of why I'd be interested in the product. This is just absolutely hellish web design.
I 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…
Repost: I was gifted a Pebble over a year ago and I admit I thought it was a bit of a gimmick at the time. I did however start wear it out of consideration for the person that gave it to me and the novelty of a new toy. :) (note too that I am an old-timer who still wears a watch regularly)
What happened however surprised me. I found the simple change of having notifications pop up on my wrist was saving me from pulling the phone out of its holder over and over during a day every time it chimed with an email or message. I get a ton of communication during the day but 70% of it doesn't require a response from me immediately... the remaining 30% however does. I was now able to filter incoming messages with barely an interruption to what I was doing at the time.
From there I expanded Apps to bringing up my calendar overview, putting navigation directions on my wrist, using silent alarms (wrist vibration) to alert me during meetings, etc. It allows me to be more connected to my phone, without being more connected to my phone, if you know what I mean.
I have since moved to an LG watch and I do like it. No more week long battery life but it will go well over a day easily. Lots more gimmicky applications like remote camera control, etc. but also useful things, like ticking items off my Keep grocery list as I wander the store... without holding my phone.
Is it perfect for everyone? Nothing is. But I will stand corrected for my early mocking of the form factor. I "don't leave home without it" now.
Edit: One other point I missed. I also wander around the house without carrying my phone anymore. The watch stays connected and I can get alerts without needing to have it beside me.
What I think is interesting, however, is what the apple watch will look like 5 years from now.
