Apple Waits as App Developers Study Who’s Buying Its Watch
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#2I have one that I didn't pay for. I thought I wouldn't like it and at first I didn't think I had much use for it. After a week I changed my mind and I love it. It gets out of my way and it keeps my phone in my pocket. I have been leveraging its fitness tracking features quite a bit as I am somewhat sedentary, and the feedback has been quite helpful -- and motivating.
One thing I noticed today is that now when I consider any app for purchase, I check for wether it has support for the watch and wether this support makes sense (e.g. today I was looking for a pomodoro timer app).
None of what I write above I would have guessed from the product description and the advertisements. Whether it is useful to you or not will depend on the apps that exist and your lifestyle. It's hard to predict and expensive to test. YMMV
Re: Apple Waits as App Developers Study Who’s Buying Its Watch
#3Kind of a weird article. Sure, many companies are waiting because they're not sure how to make a compelling experience for their app on the Watch. But that seems kind of obvious. The article said that 5 of the top 20 apps (by popularity) have Watch apps. It suggests this is a bad sign. My reaction is, really, that many? Just because an app is popular on iOS does not mean it lends itself to the watch form factor.
On a related note, a quote from the article:
> The lack of support from Facebook — and from other popular app makers like Snapchat and Google, which also do not have apps for Apple Watch — [...]
I get why it would make some sense to have a Watch app for Facebook, although it's still a challenge to design a great UX on such a tiny space, but Snapchat and Google? I can't even imagine how that would work on the watch. You certainly can't take photos on the watch, and I wouldn't want to try and view an ephemeral photo on the watch because it's so small. And similarly, what would Google offer? The article mentioned Google Mail, but you can already get your Google Mail on your watch by using the built-in Mail app.
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#4I think Facebook have misunderstood the niche of smartwatches. Saying that they're trying to deliver a "good Facebook experience" on such a small screen shows that they thinks it's just a smaller smartphone. But the strength of smartwatches is in notifications, not detailed content delivery. Instead of trying to deliver entire feeds they should be trying to deliver notifications and summaries with just enough information to let the user decide whether to pull out their phone and use the full facebook app.
Re: Apple Waits as App Developers Study Who’s Buying Its Watch
#5I have one that I didn't pay for. I thought I wouldn't like it and at first I didn't think I had much use for it. After a week I changed my mind and I love it. It gets out of my way and it keeps my phone in my pocket. I have been leveraging its fitness tracking features quite a bit as I am somewhat sedentary, and the feedback has been quite helpful -- and motivating. One thing I noticed today is that now when I consi…
I haven't tried it yet but this isn't surprising to me at all. Every recent Apple product has had a slow burn until mainstream adoption except for the iPad which exploded out of the gate. I think the Mac might have had the slowest burn of them all without really penetrating the mainstream until the early 2000s with the Intel switch and the iPod acting as a gateway drug.
Heck the Mac is still growing long after the PC market matured and even while it's declining. That is what the end game for iPhone will be in my opinion. When the global smartphone market finally becomes saturated, the iPhone can still grow at the expense of Android from switchers (that's when being the highly differentiated product will help the most).
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#6I have one that I didn't pay for. I thought I wouldn't like it and at first I didn't think I had much use for it. After a week I changed my mind and I love it. It gets out of my way and it keeps my phone in my pocket. I have been leveraging its fitness tracking features quite a bit as I am somewhat sedentary, and the feedback has been quite helpful -- and motivating. One thing I noticed today is that now when I consi…
I feel the same way about my Pebble. It does a few things well and causes me to take my phone out of my pocket a lot less often. It's handy (no pun intended) and useful for what it is.
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#7I think Facebook have misunderstood the niche of smartwatches. Saying that they're trying to deliver a "good Facebook experience" on such a small screen shows that they thinks it's just a smaller smartphone. But the strength of smartwatches is in notifications, not detailed content delivery. Instead of trying to deliver entire feeds they should be trying to deliver notifications and summaries with just enough informa…
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Re: Apple Waits as App Developers Study Who’s Buying Its Watch
#8I have one that I didn't pay for. I thought I wouldn't like it and at first I didn't think I had much use for it. After a week I changed my mind and I love it. It gets out of my way and it keeps my phone in my pocket. I have been leveraging its fitness tracking features quite a bit as I am somewhat sedentary, and the feedback has been quite helpful -- and motivating. One thing I noticed today is that now when I consi…
I haven't tried it yet but this isn't surprising to me at all. Every recent Apple product has had a slow burn until mainstream adoption except for the iPad which exploded out of the gate. I think the Mac might have had the slowest burn of them all without really penetrating the mainstream until the early 2000s with the Intel switch and the iPod acting as a gateway drug. Heck the Mac is still growing long after the PC…
>> that's when being the highly differentiated product will help the most
But the iPhone does seem to lose differentiation. Android apps have recently become well designed using material design, there's an app saturation, and 90% of the time people spend in phones is inside apps anyway,so it's harder to differentiate on the OS.
Re: Apple Waits as App Developers Study Who’s Buying Its Watch
#9I have one that I didn't pay for. I thought I wouldn't like it and at first I didn't think I had much use for it. After a week I changed my mind and I love it. It gets out of my way and it keeps my phone in my pocket. I have been leveraging its fitness tracking features quite a bit as I am somewhat sedentary, and the feedback has been quite helpful -- and motivating. One thing I noticed today is that now when I consi…
I haven't tried it yet but this isn't surprising to me at all. Every recent Apple product has had a slow burn until mainstream adoption except for the iPad which exploded out of the gate. I think the Mac might have had the slowest burn of them all without really penetrating the mainstream until the early 2000s with the Intel switch and the iPod acting as a gateway drug. Heck the Mac is still growing long after the PC…
Macs were top sellers before their recent success in the personal computing market. Their share only dropped in the 90s, but if you are around earlier, they are clearly on a nice roller coaster ride. And who doesn't remember the Mac SE, the Mac II, the first PowerBook?
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#10I think Facebook have misunderstood the niche of smartwatches. Saying that they're trying to deliver a "good Facebook experience" on such a small screen shows that they thinks it's just a smaller smartphone. But the strength of smartwatches is in notifications, not detailed content delivery. Instead of trying to deliver entire feeds they should be trying to deliver notifications and summaries with just enough informa…
That is all part of what makes a watch app a "good experience." I guarantee the notifications handling would be the main focus of it.