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Re: Huawei Watch

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Post by mcphage »

fpgeek wrote: post #78
nostrademons wrote: post #63

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To be fair, basically every major corporation and most people do this. I can think of a half dozen Google examples just from my time there, and more than a few Facebook ones too.

I think what's unusual about Apple here is: 1. How vehement their condemnation is (especially since, in retrospect, they're already busy working on exactly what they're condeming), 2. How quickly and comprehensively they flip the story when their version is ready and 3. How predictable this pattern is for them. Given past experience, I almost expect Apple to be working on actual toaster-fridges in a skunkworks projec…

What's the alternative, though? They don't want other companies to know what they're working on, so they say "no" to something until they have it ready, and then they say "yes".

Re: Huawei Watch

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Post by oliv__ »

bequanna wrote: post #89
foxylad wrote: post #88

I'm surprised that anyone (apart from Apple) is bothering to make smart watches. I stopped wearing a watch years ago, because the extra information I got from looking at my smartphone covered the overhead of pulling it out of my pocket. I've enjoyed not having something strapped to my wrist, so any of these horribly thick smart watches are going to have to provide a compelling benefit to get anywhere near my arm. Bec…

>My pick for the next real user interface revolution? Smart hearing aids, using speech as the UI. Inconspicuous, and simple to use - particularly for our affluent ageing population, many of whom need the hearing aid part anyway. I like this idea. The best part? The elderly are already used to spending a few grand on these and the current functionality is limited to amplifying/filtering sound.

I don't think anyone wants to be talking to their device constantly to get anything done. Google glass comes to mind...

Re: Huawei Watch

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Post by underwater »

Osmium wrote: post #37

From the recent New Yorker profile of Jonny Ive: > The shape of the body, meanwhile, barely changed: a rectangle with rounded corners. “When a huge part of the function is lists ”—of names, or appointments—“a circle doesn’t make any sense,” Ive said. Its final form resembles one of Newson’s watches, and the Cartier Santos, from 1904. I think circular watches, in principle, look a lot nicer (certainly in ads), but tha…

There's a decent amount of spin behind that statement. For one thing, none of the interfaces Apple have shown us actually have lists.

I wouldn't be surprised if version 2 or 3 of the Apple Watch changes to a round design.

Re: Huawei Watch

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Post by [deleted] »

Osmium wrote: post #37

From the recent New Yorker profile of Jonny Ive: > The shape of the body, meanwhile, barely changed: a rectangle with rounded corners. “When a huge part of the function is lists ”—of names, or appointments—“a circle doesn’t make any sense,” Ive said. Its final form resembles one of Newson’s watches, and the Cartier Santos, from 1904. I think circular watches, in principle, look a lot nicer (certainly in ads), but tha…

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Re: Huawei Watch

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Post by jdonaldson »

I'm kind of annoyed by Ive's glib dismissal of a circular form factor for watches. There's going to be a whole design language based on circles that make much more sense for watches. For instance, it's pretty easy to imagine a minimalist daily calendar overlay on top of standard hour/minute hands that give you just as much information as the vertical list orientation commonly used in calendar apps. Is it going to be able to show as much information that way? No. Will it still be very useful? Yes.

Re: Huawei Watch

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Post by Eridrus »

oliv__ wrote: post #92
bequanna wrote: post #89

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>My pick for the next real user interface revolution? Smart hearing aids, using speech as the UI. Inconspicuous, and simple to use - particularly for our affluent ageing population, many of whom need the hearing aid part anyway. I like this idea. The best part? The elderly are already used to spending a few grand on these and the current functionality is limited to amplifying/filtering sound.

I don't think anyone wants to be talking to their device constantly to get anything done. Google glass comes to mind...

Google glass suffered heavily because it having a video camera that people felt invaded their privacy and it had a highly visible form factor.

A solution similar to a hearing implant/headset doesn't have either of these issues.

Re: Huawei Watch

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Post by gnarbarian »

jdonaldson wrote: post #95

I'm kind of annoyed by Ive's glib dismissal of a circular form factor for watches. There's going to be a whole design language based on circles that make much more sense for watches. For instance, it's pretty easy to imagine a minimalist daily calendar overlay on top of standard hour/minute hands that give you just as much information as the vertical list orientation commonly used in calendar apps. Is it going to be…

I think some really cool stuff can be done with a circular display combined with a watchface. What if weather forecast icons were used in place of the hour marks showing you at a glance the type of weather to expect throughout the next 12 hours. There are tons of other things like this which would make for really slick, intuitive and futuristic feeling interfaces. Say you have various appointments throughout the next 12 hours. the edges of the watchface could be color coded to different things on your schedule. touching a section and swiping toward the center of the watch could open up details about that particular item on your itinerary. I've got more ideas too :P

Re: Huawei Watch

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Post by gnarbarian »

leaveyou wrote: post #40
suyash wrote: post #20

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That is correct. This company is notorious and known to put spyware software on it's phones.

Notorious ? Known ? Do you have any references (if possible from other sources than US gov. agencies) to back those words ? Did anyone come forward with some concrete proof/source code? I'm really curious.

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Former-CIA-chief-has-seen-har...

Re: Huawei Watch

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Post by gcdgcd2 »

Huawei is the main Supplier of the GFW of China. The Golden Shield Project (Chinese: 金盾工程; pinyin: jīndùn gōngchéng), colloquially referred to as the Great Firewall of China [1] (Chinese: 防火长城; pinyin: fánghuǒ chángchéng) is a censorship and surveillance project operated by the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) division of the government of China.

Re: Huawei Watch

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Post by scep12 »

jkubicek wrote: post #12
engendered wrote: post #10

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Given that it's an intentional, purposeful design element of Android Wear, why in the world would they "hide" it?

Because it looks terrible? http://i.glui.me/1EetEHO Why emphasize a major failing of your product?

> major failing of your product

I don't view truncation as a major product fail. Would you also categorize iOS and/or Android notifications as fails because they truncate the important parts of notifications?

Besides, in the screenshot you linked to -- you can pull the card up a bit to reveal the rest of the text if you're interested.

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