Huawei Watch

Post by ejdyksen » Wed, Mar 04, 2015, 4:29 AM UTC

gnarbarian wrote: post #97

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…

Post by seanmcdirmid » Wed, Mar 04, 2015, 4:45 AM UTC

tw04 wrote: post #110

gcdgcd2 wrote: post #99

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.

Main? I believe that title goes to Cisco. Not sure what it has to do with a smart watch though. http://blog.thomsonreuters.com/index.php/suit-over-ciscos-ro...

Post by fineline » Wed, Mar 04, 2015, 4:53 AM UTC

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…

Post by sjwright » Wed, Mar 04, 2015, 5:10 AM UTC

cromwellian wrote: post #51

acqq wrote: post #11

And this picture which is actually on huawei site as the part of the promo (!) illustrates the best why Jony Ive said (1) that "a circle doesn't make any sense" for a smartwatch: http://consumer.huawei.com/minisite/worldwide/huawei-watch/a... ---- 1) http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/23/shape-things-co...

Ive also blasted the Moto X for offering so many customization choices and shipped a watch predicated on massive customization. Let's get one thing straight. Apple lambasts everyone else's designs until they adopt them. Recall that: 1) Mini-tablets are too small to be usable, you'd have to "file down your fingers to use them" 2) Large screen phones are a) things people don't want and b) don't fit your hand properly.…

Post by sjwright » Wed, Mar 04, 2015, 5:16 AM UTC

nl wrote: post #103

acqq wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you think Apple is not capable of making the round watch? It's obvious that they really evaluated the possibilities, saw exactly the effect nicely illustrated on the picture, and decided to sacrifice the "roundness" this time. The same people that insisted on rounded corners at the times when it was costly (1) to make them. A concious decision, not something that competition does better. I fully understand you tho…

Of course! All of that is completely correct. The point is that Apple often attacks other companies who make different trade-off decisions. Remember how they rubbished the idea of larger phones and said what a terrible idea that was? Turns out that it wasn't a terrible idea - there's a whole set of people it is better for.