Best designed based on what criteria? The ugly black bar at the bottom of the display? Circular watch faces are great if you're just telling time. But who needs a "smart" watch to tell time?
Notice in some cases the UI is slightly cut off or goes right up to the edge of the watch face. I don't know if I'd consider that best designed.
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Best designed based on what criteria? The ugly black bar at the bottom of the display? Circular watch faces are great if you're just telling time. But who needs a "smart" watch to tell time?
Notice in some cases the UI is slightly cut off or goes right up to the edge of the watch face. I don't know if I'd consider that best designed.
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Absolutely, I'll be announced next month. It's going to be an iPhone accessory, not an iPad one. Therefore, it would make much more sense to be released at the iPhone event in September, not at the iPad/Mac event in October. However, as said, I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't shop until late October/Early November.
That "stupid flat-tire display shape" happens to look real good. I like watches, and I like to wear watches. The ones I own are round. It simply looks better.
Absolutely, I'll be announced next month. It's going to be an iPhone accessory, not an iPad one. Therefore, it would make much more sense to be released at the iPhone event in September, not at the iPad/Mac event in October. However, as said, I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't shop until late October/Early November.
Yeah, lol, I agree.
Also, let's be objective here. Many, many people have said that the Moto 360 is the best looking smart watch seen thus far. Gruber's comments now have me hoping that the Apple watch has a similar design.
I'm not a watch person so it won't make a difference to me, but even with the bottom blacked out it is still better looking than those hideous huge rectangle designs/concepts going around.
Round watches have been in style for 100 years. Pretty good criteria in my book. Many of the current regular digital watches are round for this reason even though there's no functional justification for it.
Except the Moto360 isn't round. That's where Gruber's flat tire comment comes from. It really is shaped more like a flat tire than a circle. They should have called it a Moto270.
"Announce" and "Ship" are not always the same with Apple these days as demonstrated by the Mac Pro launch. Even if they do announce it next month I would expect a long wait to actually get one.
That "stupid flat-tire display shape" happens to look real good. I like watches, and I like to wear watches. The ones I own are round. It simply looks better.
Which is precisely why it won't be round.
Gruber is making fun of the fact that the display isn't truly 360 degrees round. There's a small black lip at the bottom. And his post is making fun of Motorola for designing a charging indicator screen that runs along the perimeter of the display, but magically disappears and reappears where that dead space is at the bottom.
And he's not wrong. That's just poor design. I understand the need for the dead space, but moto is DRAWING your attention to it rather than away from it with the charging screen. It looks rather silly.
Maybe it's just me, but besides the cheap looking band, the Moto 360 looks nice.
I don't regard Gruber as a journalism as he is far to partisan. He is pro Apple above being fair in what be writes. The reason he gets scoops from Apple is that Apple, and he, know that he is not a journalism. If he got a scoop would Gruber publish it if he know that Apple would be furious at him for doing so?He had been given scoops in the past, both officially and unofficially. And unlike some sites he never pretends to know something without actually knowing.
When he is guessing (which is often!) he makes that clear.
If finding new information and passing it on the public doesn't count as a journalism, what does?
Well, the Mac Pro (and Apple TV before it) is an outlier. Generally Apple announces things close to their release. However, I wouldn't be surprised to see a month or two wait between announcement and release as Apple won't be killing any of their own sales by waiting.
It's an iOS device, not an accessory, it has important functionality as it's own device. If you think this is an accessory then you are way off. Yes, it will compliment other iOS devices well , just like they all do now with their interconnectivity, but it was not designed as an accessory. Apple would. Not. Do. That. Period. Hence why it has taken so long for them to perfect it. They could have released a piece of trash accessory like the Andriod smart watches, years ago.
John Gruber a Journalist? an Apple fan boy? yes. Blogger? Yes, but a Journalist? .....