Meet the Apple Watch

I 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 in the same way they use phone.

In Apple watch's demo, they have too much interaction showing there and the information on one screen is sometimes crowded. That's not a good sign.

I do like the new interaction pattern they introduced there though. Quite innovative IMO.

I think this design is much uglier than the Moto 260[1].

[1] https://moto360.motorola.com/

I'm skeptical about a few things - mostly regarding the dial. They are trying to replace pinch-to-zoom, but how does it know where to zoom? Also, the main UI screen with all of the apps looks ridiculous. They don't want you touching the watch, unless it's to click on a tiny app icon?

I need to see this in person.

This is an Apple watch so they'll make billions of dollars out of it, no doubt. It looks like a good product too. But it doesn't have anything special compared to android based smartwatches, not even a round shaped one, plus I prefer google now for smart alerts. Still, of course it'll sell well and you'll still be able to install google now on it I guess.

It's still a little geeky looking - but much, much less geeky looking than the competitors. I would personally prefer a round face but I can understand how that make it harder to do such a useful/interactive UI. Round face is fine for notifications but not as good if you're interacting.