Not seeing it on my watch. Just a fairly uninteresting solar graph. Maybe it's not available on my watch - but shows a real problem in modern UI design. The "shadowban" school of UI. The problem with that is discoverability. You'll never know if you're looking in the right place.
The Eerie Beauty of the Apple Watch Solar Face, and the Anatomy of Nightfall
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Re: The Eerie Beauty of the Apple Watch Solar Face, and the Anatomy of Nightfall
#82There is still no apple watch face that does not display the time. I filed a radar about this when the watch first launched. I don't like being a clock slave, but do rather like the idea of complications to display data and getting notifications on my wrist. The amounts of spyware in the app store have caused me to massively scale back my use of apps now, so I almost never wear my apple watch anymore.
>The amounts of spyware in the app store have caused me to massively scale back my use of apps now, so I almost never wear my apple watch anymore. Why not just use it without the third-party apps you're concerned about? It has a ton of functionality out of the box.
The main functionality I want is notifications. If I don't install apps on my phone, I'm not getting notifications on my phone, and thus can't get them on my wrist.
Additionally, keeping health tracking turned off on the watch means that, in addition to not taking your pulse dozens of times per day, you can't engage in the normal workouts either. Each time I work out it's four steps: enable health tracking, start workout, end workout, end health tracking.
Re: The Eerie Beauty of the Apple Watch Solar Face, and the Anatomy of Nightfall
#83In 2000 we launched our first watch collection with this eerie, intuitive and deeper understanding of time. It took Apple 20 years to catch up. I am happy to see the understanding of time is expanding. Check out our watches at: https://www.yeswatch.com/wrist-watch/worldwatch/index.html#
Thanks for showing faces with the digital time numerals turned off. Seems like the perfect watch for a week at the beach, where you want to know about the sun but not be a slave to the minutes.
Some questions...
Why is it so thick? (Guessing the double stacked batteries plus a movement?) Any plans for lower profile V8?
I see some models are two batteries, one for analog hand and one for digital, one with 5 year run time, one with 1 year run time. Why two? What’s the battery situation with this V7?
How waterproof is it? Nautical time demands nautical proof packaging. See all the kits parts and lug sizes, etc., but not waterproofness.
Fascinating concept, feels like what would have been a ‘maker’ project on Kickstarter if it existed circa Y2K. Back then, though, you’d find these kinds of “who thought of that things you didn’t know you needed” in Sharper Image, which suckered me into more than a couple off beat watches. As a collector of both analog and novelty time pieces, I’d pick this up but feels more like $45 to $295 (depending on materials) rather than $695, even in “today’s dollars”.
TY for creating an account and sharing!
Re: The Eerie Beauty of the Apple Watch Solar Face, and the Anatomy of Nightfall
#84A timely read, as I just got a Fitbit Versa as a gift and have been exploring the watch faces. The Fitbit store has tons of them, mostly just crap IMO - the Hallmark card of watch faces as it were, with a lot of variations of "cute kitty background". But there are a few gems, including one I found that's based on a Tokyo Flash design.
If you like abstract watchfaces for the Versa, you might want to checkout TTMM: https://ttmm.is/
Check out this developers stuff...
https://gallery.fitbit.com/developer/a1e68576-08c1-40bd-a1c2...
The developer (Nev Rawlins) used to design for Tokyo Flash apparently. Also, free.
Re: The Eerie Beauty of the Apple Watch Solar Face, and the Anatomy of Nightfall
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's trivial to specify location manually. Only partially related, but I get irrationally annoyed by websites repeatedly asking me to have my phone provide access to my location. In almost all cases, I'd much rather type in a 5 digit zip code and be done with it.
Hmmm but I think people using this feature will be extremely sensitive to it reporting it exactly for their current location. Forgetting to change your zip code and it silently telling you a light time off by five minutes could be a massive problem.
With how reliable I've seen location tracking anyway, I wouldn't bet my life on the device getting it right. I'd rather know that it is up to me, and be accustomed to updating accordingly.