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Does anyone know if AirPods work with the Apple Watch without an iPhone? As in, if I leave my phone at home, will I be able to stream music and calls from my watch to my AirPods while I go for a run? Or does it have to route through the phone?
When will we get a watch that can be fully de-coupled from your phone? I’d love to make that trade right now.
Also, audio-first apps for watches will be huge, and already a great niche to experiment with (although ability to code apps is still limited)
Voice control has recently improved to Barely Useful, but still certainly Not Usable. I now listen to audiobooks, podcasts for ~2 hours daily, while walking my dog. If there's a way to control apps, navigate options, perform useful dictation, I haven't found it. I can barely get Siri to reliably start and stop audio playback. I'm now curious how blind people manage these things. Also, I dimly recall Marvin Minsky or…
google assistant is getting close
Does anyone know if AirPods work with the Apple Watch without an iPhone? As in, if I leave my phone at home, will I be able to stream music and calls from my watch to my AirPods while I go for a run? Or does it have to route through the phone?
My first thought was it's a bit ironic this was a medium post (especially one with obnoxious visuals as someone else pointed out). Why not post an audio file?
Does anyone know if AirPods work with the Apple Watch without an iPhone? As in, if I leave my phone at home, will I be able to stream music and calls from my watch to my AirPods while I go for a run? Or does it have to route through the phone?
If you have the cellular version, yes. However, I have found that the handoff from WiFi to Cellular is terrible. It takes a few minutes for the watch to realize it's not going to reconnect to WiFi soon, and in the meantime you're just sort of left waiting for when it decides to switch over to cellular. This is especially annoying if you're listening to streaming radio (like NPR) and going for a walk. It will just dro…
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No kidding, it's hard to focus on the text because there's so many irrelevant animations firing all the time.
I'm curious if this is an age thing? I'm in my early 40s, and I cant stand animated gifs, I find that I have to close my eyes if they are in a presentation, or move them off the page in a website like the OP. But I see younger people making presentations at work that are littered with animations. To me it looks extremely unprofessional (both from the distraction and the usual childish nature of the images themselves)…
taking up visual info is much faster, than audio info. Plus you have control over the flow and much more flexible UX. going into audio mode is a completely different attention pattern, and definitely not casual.
Laptops are far better for visual since you can focus on longer-form content and are less distracted.
Voice control has recently improved to Barely Useful, but still certainly Not Usable. I now listen to audiobooks, podcasts for ~2 hours daily, while walking my dog. If there's a way to control apps, navigate options, perform useful dictation, I haven't found it. I can barely get Siri to reliably start and stop audio playback. I'm now curious how blind people manage these things. Also, I dimly recall Marvin Minsky or…
The key ingredients that make iOS an excellent computing platform for those hard of sight are
* enforcement of UI guidelines that enable the screen-reading to work well
* a collection of accessibility gestures meant for no-screen operation.
NOT Siri.