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Re: Pixel Watch 3

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Post by intothemild » Thu, Aug 15, 2024, 12:14 PM UTC

entropie wrote: post #185

paradox460 wrote: post #182

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Even then, the no apps claim is false. You can make apps for Garmin stuff. They're written in monkey c, and are quite nice I've got one for my smoker, a fireboard app. Useful to see the temp on my wrist when I've got a brisket finishing

I see it pretty much the same way; there are no apps and the appstore is very underwhelming. There is no quality control and one is not even able to purchase anything without credit card.

I think people who want apps on a fitness watch, ultimately want different things. Personally, apps on a tiny screen is not a good experience to me. So I never use them.

All the smart features i want on a watch is, Notifications, to know when someone is calling me, payments, and to find my phone.

Everything else is something I do on my phone.

Re: Pixel Watch 3

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Post by kevincox » Thu, Aug 15, 2024, 12:25 PM UTC

tomComb wrote: post #50

mattnewton wrote: post #36

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When I worked at Google I got re-orged into the same division as pixel / android. My director wore an Apple Watch and had an iPhone for personal use, and I am pretty sure I saw an Apple Watch on my VP too. Nobody was expected to eat the dog food and so few did. This was crazy to me coming from Apple- I remember several internal sites would ask you to file a radar (bug report) on why you switched to chrome from safari…

Interacting with Googler's in the past I noticed the same thing but took it a different way. Clearly there was no pressure to use the Google product so they used a wide diversity of devices and services, and I saw this as a healthy thing.

There is always nuance.

I think if you work on a team for some product, it would be good to be a user of that product. Especially if you are at a high level driving product decisions.

I think if you don't work on a specific product it is good to have diversity. For example GMail developers should probably use a mix of OSes and web browsers. But most Android GMail app developers should probably be using Android GMail.

But of course you don't want to be blind to other players, copying good ideas is good. So you do want to regularly interact with the other options as well. But I don't think only using the third-party option is a good idea either. If you only use an Apple Watch you don't know how the Pixel Watch works and how it has different interaction patterns (which on its own is probably a good thing). Maybe the product leads of the Pixel watch should regularly alternate between their own product and other competitors.

Re: Pixel Watch 3

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Post by Pyrodogg » Thu, Aug 15, 2024, 2:10 PM UTC

modeless wrote: post #14

My Pixel Watch sucks and it's not because the screen isn't big or bright enough. The implementation of notifications is awful. It's actually faster and easier in many cases to whip out my phone to see a notification than to see it on the watch. Why? Because notifications are not shown by default. The watch vibrates but nothing is there on the screen but the watch face. To trigger a notification to actually show, you…

I had one a while ago and notifications, specifically google calendar notications were terrible. While they would appear on the watch they were completely absent from my phone.

So if I didn't specifically look at and flip through the watch, and instead looked at my phone there would be zero indication I had a appointment coming up.

I'm happy with my Withings Scan watch now. I'm largely passed active-smart watch territory and only passively check the stats on it.