You can return it.
Apple Watch – What can you do with it?
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Personal anecdote: I got one and am happy with it so far. I roam around the house / office without really thinking about where my phone is. The health aspects have been the stickiest feature for me -- I actually appreciate the "stand up for a bit" notifications, and enjoy hitting my daily goals.
Phone calls work surprisingly well -- much better than speaker phone IMHO, because you don't have to hold a phone, and you don't really need to hold your watch up to your face either.
Voice recognition is solid.
Glancing at a notification feels a lot less distracting than digging out my phone to see of it's important and then getting sucked in because now my phone is open. (I know, self-discipline...)
The customizable watch faces make me wish the phone had a similar feature -- I find myself trying to "glance" at my phone, expecting it to light up automatically. My face has the weather, calendar, and activity tracker on it, so I get a lot of use out of that.
The build quality is nice (I went steel, and it definitely has a luxury feel to it).
Mostly it has a fun retro-future quality to it. Some apps are a little buggy, but it doesn't really matter -- we're living in the future :)
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Do you have an Apple Watch? Is this review based on your experiences using it for some time? I think in practice some of your guesses about notifications and interruption are proving wrong for most people because of the phenomenology of the Taptic engine.
I haven't used it but I think there are some biases going in that would affect how I feel of it regardless. For example, for my iPhone, I limit notifications to calls and SMS. Except for the occasional marketer, phone calls are normally "important", and I'm not sure, Watch or not, how I could effectively whitelist calls in such a way that would not block the myriad of important calls from first-time numbers. In terms…
I wish more folks took your perspective on notifications. We need to reduce distractions, not make distractions less distracting. Of course for many companies like Facebook this leads to slower growth and less engagement, so I don't see it happening anytime soon—that is unless we all take your perspective with respect to technology and change the default settings to notify us of only important/time sensitive information.
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#64"I’m also not sure if you can submit an app to the store that is only an Apple Watch app, like say a timer or small utility of some sort." Yes, you can: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/toolbox-for-apple-watch/id98... or https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flip-coin-coin-flip-decision... for example. Pretty amazing that apps like those two got the green light from the App Store Review Team.
In the time window just before release apps with WatchKit extensions went from "Waiting For Review" to "Ready for Sale" in less than 24h with the "In Review" time lasting less than an hour. Now we're back to 48 - 72h review times
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You're tattooing it wrong. But seriously, how could Apple not test this?
I have a feeling that the Apple of old would have caught this instantly, when it was largely the boutique brand for creatives. Today's Apple? Not surprising at all.
The Apple of old (and by that I mean Steve Jobs) decided to tell people they were holding their phones wrong rather than launch a device which worked no matter how you held it.
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#66Apparently you can't do a lot of things with it if you have tattoos on your wrist: http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/344b3o/anyone_with_ta...
This kind of reminds me of the 'Better off Ted' episode, where the company's new motion detection system does not detect any of the African Americans in the office.
> This kind of reminds me of the 'Better off Ted' episode, where the company's new motion detection system does not detect any of the African Americans in the office.
Which is itself a reference to real-life results involving motion detection/computer vision/image processing (this was a particularly bad problem in the earlier days of the field, but still persists today to some extent).
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#68I'm going to wait for the Flavor Flav Edition, which will be a iPad on a chain worn around your neck.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a feeling that the Apple of old would have caught this instantly, when it was largely the boutique brand for creatives. Today's Apple? Not surprising at all.
The Apple of old (and by that I mean Steve Jobs) decided to tell people they were holding their phones wrong rather than launch a device which worked no matter how you held it.
No I mean a 80s and 90s hacker culture where weirdos were valued and guys with tats would be testing things. Apple today just seems way too button down, for good or bad.
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#70Apparently you can't do a lot of things with it if you have tattoos on your wrist: http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/344b3o/anyone_with_ta...
No it means you can't use wrist detection to auto-lock because the metallic pigments in some tattoos interferes with passive skin sensing. There's an option to turn it off. How many people have metallic pigment tattoos on their wrists?
a lot?