IT'S A F@#&ING KNOB! Just because you're Apple doesn't give you the right to call it a "digital crown".
Apple Watch: Initial Thoughts and Observations
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#12The combination of solid gold and the obsolescence period of wearable electronics is uncharted territory.
For, what is effectively, an iphone accessory...
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought he was pretty clear when he said > If it actually doesn’t do much more, or allow much more, than what they demonstrated on stage last week, I am indeed going to be deeply disappointed, and I’ll be concerned about the entire direction of the company as a whole. But I get the impression that they’ve only shown us the tip of the functional iceberg, simply because they wanted to reveal the hardware — particular…
That's wishful thinking from Gruber so he can withhold judgement/criticism. Apple clearly demonstrated the fundamental functionality of their Watch and the hardware does determine the software — they have a hardware button dedicated to one particular feature ffs. Any additional functionality via WatchKit will at best be supplemental. It'd take a while for iOS developers to get to grips with the new paradigm. Furtherm…
Also wrong about being useless outside of phone range: offline music playback (for bluetooth music playback) and GPS Support.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/09/android-wear-moving-f...
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#14And yet it is still square and ugly because of it.
I actually like some square and rectangle watch designs, but in this case I dislike the particular overall shape of the Apple Watch.
It has something to do with the combination of the thickness, and the specific rounding of the corners and sides, that I find off-putting aesthetically.
I want to wear a watch, not a gadget. So I want the technology to be submissive to the watch. When you look at what is on my wrist, I want you to see a watch, not an iPhone mini-mini posing as a watch. We're still a decade away from this being possible.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought he was pretty clear when he said > If it actually doesn’t do much more, or allow much more, than what they demonstrated on stage last week, I am indeed going to be deeply disappointed, and I’ll be concerned about the entire direction of the company as a whole. But I get the impression that they’ve only shown us the tip of the functional iceberg, simply because they wanted to reveal the hardware — particular…
That's wishful thinking from Gruber so he can withhold judgement/criticism. Apple clearly demonstrated the fundamental functionality of their Watch and the hardware does determine the software — they have a hardware button dedicated to one particular feature ffs. Any additional functionality via WatchKit will at best be supplemental. It'd take a while for iOS developers to get to grips with the new paradigm. Furtherm…
" Android Wear devices are almost useless other than for telling time when out of Bluetooth range from your phone"
Yeah. This is the part that gets me.
Gruber is willing to withhold judgement and assume apple has not shown off everything.
But android wear makers, you see, they've shown everything in their presentation. No android wear manufacturers are planning anything different than what was shown at I/O.
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#16Gruber bends over backwards and twists himself in knots trying to explain why he isn't disappointed after considering the expectations he set before the event. I don't see anything different in the AppleWatch functionality compared to what he criticized Android Wear for earlier this year
I thought he was pretty clear when he said > If it actually doesn’t do much more, or allow much more, than what they demonstrated on stage last week, I am indeed going to be deeply disappointed, and I’ll be concerned about the entire direction of the company as a whole. But I get the impression that they’ve only shown us the tip of the functional iceberg, simply because they wanted to reveal the hardware — particular…
"He thinks Apple is holding some details close to the vest and he has a plausible reason for why. Say what you will about Gruber's Apple partisanship, but he's always been great at reading between the lines of Apple's publicity events."
And he also thinks that no android wear device manufacturer is doing the same, for no plausible reason.
He's basically saying "apple has secret plans, they are awesome" and "Nobody else has secret plans, because they are not Apple. Thus, we can ignore anything they haven't talked about"
That doesn't seem very sane to me.
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#17IT'S A F@#&ING KNOB! Just because you're Apple doesn't give you the right to call it a "digital crown".
As your comment rightfully deserves due to language and general non-contribution, you've been down-voted into oblivion. Nevertheless, educating the uninformed is a public service, so here goes: amongst professionals and connoisseurs in the watch industry, the "knob" is called a "crown", so they have every right to call it that; they didn't just make it up.
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#18Gruber bends over backwards and twists himself in knots trying to explain why he isn't disappointed after considering the expectations he set before the event. I don't see anything different in the AppleWatch functionality compared to what he criticized Android Wear for earlier this year
I really struggled to get through this post. I can usually skim his posts despite the slavish hackishness of most of them, but I really couldn't get through this entire thing. I think it's important to see what Gruber is saying, only if because he tends to aggregate the talking points you'll hear about whatever Apple.
But this...this was really a tough post to get through. I honestly felt like I was reading some long-winded justification article by a cult acolyte who just realized the apocalypse didn't occur last Thursday at 11:23am like he was promised and is vomiting justifications to account for it.
All that being said, it's one of the few Gruber articles I didn't flag because I was interested to see how he was going to eat his words.
The only saving grace of this entire post was this line "but I think Android Wear is simply the result of the rest of the industry trying to get out in front of Apple, out of fear of how far behind they were when the iPhone dropped in 2007." which I agree completely with. But agreeing with Gruber makes me a little angry and dead feeling on the inside.
But then I read this garbage "The digital crown feels amazing. It didn’t actually control anything on-screen on the demo watches I handled last week, but it has the most amazing feel of any analog controller I’ve ever used. Lubricious (in the second sense, if not the first as well) is the word that springs to mind." and I felt a little better. I mean geez, enough. Seriously. Just come out and say you want to make love to it. No Gruber, you really meant in the first sense.
I feel a little bit dirty though after dragging my eyeballs through this post.
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#19IT'S A F@#&ING KNOB! Just because you're Apple doesn't give you the right to call it a "digital crown".
Crown is watch nomenclature. Apple would have been ridiculed by the fashion/watch world if they didn't refer to it as a crown.
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#20The combination of solid gold and the obsolescence period of wearable electronics is uncharted territory.
Agreed, I don't see any decent percentage of even the high end market investing that much in a watch that will be largely obsolete in 2 years tops. You buy a Rolex to have it for years and pass it down. A $5000 watch that no one will want in 2 years is not a wise investment.