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Re: The Apple Watch

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Post by untog »

aleem wrote: post #64

I am quite excited about upgrading my watch experience and the next generation of connected devices, however, the biggest surprise for me is that Apple doesn't offer more gesture recognition. I always imagined the primary interface for shortcuts would be gestures such as waving away your arm to dismiss a message or flicking the wrist multiple times (if you try it right now, you can easily flick your wrist 3-4 times p…

(if you try it right now, you can easily flick your wrist 3-4 times per second).

You'll also look very odd while you do it, which might have informed Apple not using it.

Re: The Apple Watch

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Post by untog »

schrodinger wrote: post #69
untog wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many high school kids have iPhones? Isn't it millions? Yes, but cellphones are different - family plans, paid for by parents, will often get a free iPhone 5C or whatever.

You're still paying for the phone when it's "free".

Yes, but you're not paying $400 upfront. Psychology is important.

Re: The Apple Watch

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Post by mathieuh »

sjs382 wrote: post #79
urda wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The digital crown looks like one such mistake. Swipe-to-scroll is so natural, particularly at this point, that moving back to an indirect method of scrolling seems just wrong. That's not the point of the digital crown. It's to free your "swipe to scroll" gesture which blocks a screen of that size, to a physical input. Apple has been very clear on it's existence, and it's taking a classic component of a watch and pr…

> It would have been better to simply detect swipe-to-scroll along the right edge of the bezel (if not along the right side of the frame itself) to effect "scrolling without obscuring".

That's how it basically seems to work, judging by videos. The video reviews I've seen have shown the user using one finger to operate the crown, rather than pinching it between two.

Re: The Apple Watch

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Post by robmcm »

schrodinger wrote: post #69
untog wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How many high school kids have iPhones? Isn't it millions? Yes, but cellphones are different - family plans, paid for by parents, will often get a free iPhone 5C or whatever.

You're still paying for the phone when it's "free".

While this is true, most people don't realise it. I often hear people saying they have a free upgrade to use, but haven't got around to it so may get something for a child. Or even get something free and sell it on Ebay... nuts I know!

Re: The Apple Watch

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Post by q2 »

Honest questions: How people can write such long articles? How many hours they might have spent in writing? Does anyone read it from the top to bottom completely? Is it not possible to express the whole thing in a small article without losing the gist?

EDIT 1: Gruber's articles have lot of useful information,analysis and insights but I feel, current article is too lengthy.

EDIT 2: Anandtech's reviews are also detailed but they are easy to select to go to required part of the review. Hope interface of DF may change in future.

Re: The Apple Watch

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Post by robmcm »

q2 wrote: post #85

Honest questions: How people can write such long articles? How many hours they might have spent in writing? Does anyone read it from the top to bottom completely? Is it not possible to express the whole thing in a small article without losing the gist? EDIT 1: Gruber's articles have lot of useful information,analysis and insights but I feel, current article is too lengthy. EDIT 2: Anandtech's reviews are also detaile…

It's not even complete, see the last reference to the interface.

Oh and don't look up John Siracusa ;)

Re: The Apple Watch

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Post by erispoe »

acqq wrote: post #38

> Apple Watch’s screen remains off until you tap the screen (...) or it detects (...) that you’ve moved your wrist into a “tell the time” position. That's really the one of the biggest problems I can imagine. Pity that the "show the time at least somehow" wasn't engineered as a special feature, something like "e-ink for somehow time" and the OLED (if that's what they're using) for the full color. I know that nobody m…

Android Wear watches have a low power ambient mode, where the screen always diplays the watchface at a low luminosity. [1] Apparently it took quite a bit of tinkering from the manufacturers but even the Moto 360, notorious for its problematic battery life, lasts now a day with ambient mode.

[1] http://developer.android.com/design/wear/index.html

Re: The Apple Watch

#88

Post by kstenerud »

IanCal wrote: post #75
urda wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The digital crown looks like one such mistake. Swipe-to-scroll is so natural, particularly at this point, that moving back to an indirect method of scrolling seems just wrong. That's not the point of the digital crown. It's to free your "swipe to scroll" gesture which blocks a screen of that size, to a physical input. Apple has been very clear on it's existence, and it's taking a classic component of a watch and pr…

> it's taking a classic component of a watch and propelling it into the modern era. That's a spectacularly marketing-y phrase. It's a scroll wheel. There's nothing wrong with that, but we don't need to dress it up as anything else.

Why does it even need to be a dial? Why not a touch-strip along the side that you slide your finger along for scrolling?

The whole idea of a dial seems backwards. I've always hated dials on watches. They catch on everything.

Re: The Apple Watch

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Post by [deleted] »

guelo wrote: post #57

I can barely stand reading Gruber because it feels like reading Apple marketing materials. But he is required reading because he is one of the few ways that Apple releases important industry information. It would be great to have a daringfireball tl;dr service emphasizing his forecasts and "predictions" (which are usually actually Apple leaks).

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Re: The Apple Watch

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Post by robterrell »

untog wrote: post #62
curiouscats wrote: post #53

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How many high school kids have iPhones? Isn't it millions? I would not be surprised that huge numbers will have a $400 (or more) Apple Watch. Now if that happens, it might be a sad commentary on the allocation of resources in our society - globally. But if the Apple Watch is successful, I would be surprised if it isn't common (>20% adoption) in thousands of USA high schools and lots of other high schools around the g…

How many high school kids have iPhones? Isn't it millions? Yes, but cellphones are different - family plans, paid for by parents, will often get a free iPhone 5C or whatever.

Wait a year for Watch 2.0 and see how many kids get the earlier version.
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