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Apple Expanding Made for Apple Watch Program to Include Stands With Integrated Chargers
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1) Your taste. I dislike hat the Apple Watch looks like. So I could say it's horrendously ugly and it would have as much weight as your claim. Do you need 600dpi on your watch screen ?
2) It has integration with every platforms. Much, much better for a lot of people.
3) Where was it said a smartwatch had to be an activity tracker ? Having an activity tracker that uploads data in your watch makes it a smartwatch. But every smartwatch does not have one.
Then, I agree the AW is the best smartwatch out there right no. If you have an iPhone, the money for it, etc.
But a longer than day battery life could be useful for many other reasons. It's only useful for sleep tracking if you never go out and are sure you're always home at the end of the day. A few :
- I often have to move around for a few days, be it for work or personnal reasons : if I happen to forget my charger (another proprietary one), i'm screwed. If it had a better battery life, that wouldn't be so much of a problem.
- I wake up at 6-7am, I often go out with friends after work or in the week end. I can't always charge it. It happened a few times to have it stop around 3-4am. The kind of time you're happy to have a quick way to receive/read notifications when you're in the middle of a group, or use GPS to go home.
- Staying at someone's place.
In short, whenever you have to move or have a bit longer day than usual, you have to plan to bring a charger and charge it at some point.
Then, issues in general :
- Slow third party apps performance,
- Requires to be tethered,
- Some miss with the skin sensor,
- Drains the phone battery quite quick in my experience. Not so much of a problem since it sync with the watch, but see above why a better battery life would help,
- And finally, maybe my biggest complaint compared to other smartwatches : it has great hardware but you can't develop whatever you wish on it, as Apple restricts so much everything.
I am just glad my company knows how to grab money and is very good at it. People please just keep buying those gadgets you love and Apple please just keep on grabbing their money. It is a beautiful symbiosis... AAPL for the win!
The recent earnings dip makes this a great time to really buy in everyone. If you can't beat em join em!
im not sure how the stand is useful its not on my wrist so I'm not looking at it but then again to each his own
No. It's more clutter because it's an additional object that's physically present on your nightstand. But it might use less real-estate - I'll give you that.
But how does this new "Nightstand Mode" in watch OS2 figure into it? The watch needs to be on it's side and quite stable so you can, bleary-eyed, and with impaired fine motor skill, whack the crown straight DOWN to see the time at 4 AM.
To all the aesthetic gurus - that cable would look so much better if it were black.
To my knowledge, nothing that Apple makes is a must have device, almost by definition. For everything Apple makes there are cheaper implementations out there. And even then in most cases nothing here is a must have. Everything is pretty much a nice or really nice to have. I certainly did not need to buy my watch and in this situation I think that this was glaring to most. I suspect this is why Apple went out of its way to make it really really nice to have. I love my watch, get nice use out of it, and it looks great on my wrist (SS with Link band). It really was only about did I want to spend money on this or something else. This won.
No one said apple invented the term. But the watch you mentioned earlier doesn't fit the term, and it's own manufacturer doesn't use it. It's funny how the apple watch naysayers make battery life into a big issue when in reality it's not. Is it that difficult to put your watch on the stand before bed to charge? Its not that laborious and it's not as big of a deal as people attempt to make it. And it charges VERY fast. As for the pebble, yes it's battery last about a week. But it's not without a lot of sacrifice. E-ink screen? Blegh.
Considering the amount of negative feedback you got, don't you think there was at least some merit to what we said in that your comment didn't add anything in this particular thread? You could have posted that comment in the Apple Watch introduction thread where it would sit nicely with the others.
The forum is for opinions, that is true. But for opinions that are on-topic and yours wasn't. It is not that difficult really.
Quoting myself from a few post above :
Then I'll repeat, I already have many devices that need to be charged, one more is a hassle I'd happily skip.
That's fine, skip it. But don't pretend that you have all the same functionality in a device that only charges every 6 months, or even the one that charges every 6 days. It's not even in the same league. It's like comparing an iPhone to a flip phone. :
"A phone that you need to charge every single day? That's crazy! I only need to charge my flip phone once every few days! And it makes phone calls too so it's exactly the same as an iPhone."
Because some random dude on the internet who signed up for an exclusively Apple related news website says so. What more do you need?
Out of curiosity, how many devices do you have that need to be charged often? I have one, my iPhone.
Actually, you don't have to spread the straps out flat. Close them as if the watch is on your wrist, then rest the watch on the side without buttons. Attach charger.
I charge mine like this every night. Although I'm not arguing about the need for the stand. I'd like one, but I don't want a crappy one. I had actually ordered the Nomad, but they are taking so long to get them ready for delivery that I decided to cancel.
But how does this new "Nightstand Mode" in watch OS2 figure into it? The watch needs to be on it's side and quite stable so you can, bleary-eyed, and with impaired fine motor skill, whack the crown straight DOWN to see the time at 4 AM.
don't you just say? - hey siri what time is it
So, if not a troll, it may be option BWatch is already a joy to use, at least in my experience.
Oh, I don't doubt the power of apples ability to make me lust after things I didn't know I needed. They've done it before. Hello iPad. I'm just not a watch guy. I've fooled around with them at the Apple Store to see if the apple bug would bite....it didn't. If somebody offered to give me one for free, sure, I'd take it. But at the moment, I can't see myself parting with $$ to get one. The need or lust isn't there. But I'm glad you're enjoying yours.
No . . . they are making a valid point: your comment is wholly irrelevant to the thread at hand. You are the over sensitive one by responding to the comments on your, once again, wholly irrelevant post.
No. It's more clutter because it's an additional object that's physically present on your nightstand. But it might use less real-estate - I'll give you that.
But how does this new "Nightstand Mode" in watch OS2 figure into it? The watch needs to be on it's side and quite stable so you can, bleary-eyed, and with impaired fine motor skill, whack the crown straight DOWN to see the time at 4 AM.
I, for one, won't use the "Nightstand Mode" with my Apple Watch. I use my iPad Mini r for my nightstand clock. I don't like having to struggle to read the time with my glasses off.
I never said other smartwatches had the asme functionalities. I just said it didn't have to have that many functionalities to be called a smartwatch. Big difference here.
Two phones (three if you count the one I'm not using at that time), tablet, iPod Touch, laptop.
One of the phone daily, the other either daily or every two days, laptop daily, iPod and tablet every 2 days usually.
Haha, you just simply do not need any more devices.
I have a phone, two laptops, a couple of iPods, and an iPad, but I don't use them all enough to need to charge them all that much. Granted, my main laptop stays plugged in at my desk, but my other devices never need daily charging other than my phone. I can't imagine how you use that many devices that much in one day to warrant charging them all daily.And we used synchronized web storage for decades and nobody called it "cloud". Words and terms become popular, doesn't change what they are.