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Apple Updates Apple Watch 'Guided Tours' Site With Videos on Phone Calls, Siri, Music, and Maps
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Don't have your phone plugged in while watching the Siri video. Twice when she said "Hey Siri", my phone switched to Siri and was waiting for me to talk. I had to close out and go back in. I was so impressed with the fact that audio from the phone activated it itself that the disruption didn't bother me
I'd love if they posted a "Tips & Tricks" video on 5/24 to explain more hidden features. One of the fun aspects of this launch is that there are several really interesting things they did not mention in their keynotes or promote. For instance, the Ping iPhone feature is so handy and more convenient than logging into Find My iPhone and playing a sound or getting somebody to call you.
From where I come from, going from 1.1ghz to 1.2ghz doesn't mean it goes from low end to mid range, it just gets minutely not so slow. Notice how I don't use the word faster, because nothing in this thing is fast.
You can show me all the benchmarks you want, the speed increase is absolutely negligible.
I've enjoyed his new points about referencing language: "our maps reference familiar language about directionality, as though the watch were a dear friend, right there, tapping you on the shoulder as if to say....this way"
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These videos highlight my only complaint about Watch v1 (I've not seen one in person, so this site and apple are all I have to go on). I wish the screen was the whole watch face. It looks inefficient at best, ugly at worst, to have that sudden and sharp border around the maps. And do we really need the "start" button still? I could just do a long press or whatever to get going, or drop my arm without doing anything to cancel.
/minor gripe
along with all the videos of features few will use. If I could draw a cute stick figure or share my heartbeat right now, I would.
Have to admit the Maps functionality is pretty cool, especially the wrist taps to indicate turns, I'm always putting my phone back in my pocket to avoid walking down the street looking at it and don't ever seem to remember exactly which streets to turn down, so inevitably have to pull it back out again and again, sigh.
Do you ever have a positive thing to say, or is this outlook only limited to Apple and Apple products on an Apple fan site? You're not even limiting your cynicism and negativity to the topic being discussed, you're so filled with it. Perhaps I'm just too simple and plain coming as I do from rural Oregon, but those "opinions" you constantly spread around about Apple and their products are worth about an ounce of pretension, or a pound of manure, whichever way you look at it and from wherever it is you happen to come.
Do you ever have a positive thing to say, or is this outlook only limited to Apple and Apple products on an Apple fan site? You're not even limiting your cynicism and negativity to the topic being discussed, you're so filled with it. Perhaps I'm just too simple and plain coming as I do from rural Oregon, but those "opinions" you constantly spread around about Apple and their products are worth about an ounce of pretension, or a pound of manure, whichever way you look at it and from wherever it is you happen to come.
Is it really like they say, one tap for "turn left", two for "turn right"? Or does it just tap you to tell you to look at the watch now to see which way you gotta turn?
I hate they still don't offer public transport directions. SO backwards.
The public transport comment, that was my reaction too, but I thought it might simply be the city map they were showing had no public transport (or not comprehensive enough to be part of Maps??). As for the right/left tap thing, I think it taps and lets you know a turn is coming, and the directions are displayed on the watch screen.
Have to admit the Maps functionality is pretty cool, especially the wrist taps to indicate turns, I'm always putting my phone back in my pocket to avoid walking down the street looking at it and don't ever seem to remember exactly which streets to turn down, so inevitably have to pull it back out again and again, sigh.
Do you ever have a positive thing to say, or is this outlook only limited to Apple and Apple products on an Apple fan site? You're not even limiting your cynicism and negativity to the topic being discussed, you're so filled with it. Perhaps I'm just too simple and plain coming as I do from rural Oregon, but those "opinions" you constantly spread around about Apple and their products are worth about an ounce of pretension, or a pound of manure, whichever way you look at it and from wherever it is you happen to come.
Agree with everything you said. I travel a lot for my business and when I need to find a restaurant or a place to buy Diet Coke (I have an addiction and most hotels and convention centers where I typically work have a Pepsi monopoly in force) I use Maps on my phone and don't like looking like a vulnerable lost tourist. When in Europe, I also use Maps to find my hotel after I get off a plane or train, which is tough because my hands are full pulling my luggage. Plus, I worry about someone snatching it out of my hands or me tripping while looking at it. So this is going to be a big feature for me!
And yes, RockSpider's obsession with slamming all things Apple is pretty annoying and pathological. Especially to slam one product in another product's thread, like some sort of whiner inception.
They do offer public transport directions. What made you think that wasn't the case? And unlike with Google Maps you actually have choice.
These days it's nothing to see people walking down the street with their phones in front of them. When the iPhone was newer, I felt more self-conscious about doing that. I would check the map while standing at an intersection in an unfamiliar city to see where I was (and where I wanted to go). Next, I would put the phone in my pocket and walk a quarter block in a random direction. Then I would pull it out and see if I the blue dot had moved closer to my destination, or farther away. No turn by turn, and no easy way to tell which way I was facing.
When Apple added the compass, it helped with false starts. I just had to stand where I was and wave the phone around in a big figure eight to calibrate the compass. When I tell my grandkids about the truly primitive smartphones we used in the first decade of the third millennium, their mouths will hang open in disbelief.
Keep teasing me Apple. I am not scheduled to receive my watch until the end of May. These little teasers keep me drooling in the meantime. What I am really looking forward to is the killer remote app. Seriously, with a watch on my wrist that I won't lose, i should be able to control the ATV or iTunes to play my music in my home. it should also integrate with carplay to remote my car like unlocking as I approach, remote starting, etc.
Just some thoughts, but I have already patented them so please pay me royalties.
Just some thoughts, but I have already patented them so please pay me royalties.
They should really make the apple store employees watch these videos, because when I went for a try-on appointment two of the, uh, geniuses I talked to didn't even know how to customize the watch faces.
I was listening to an Audiobook in the car (the phone was plugged in) and just about every time the performer said, 'she said', Siri would activate and start listening to the book! This was a side effect of how the author spoke. I resorted to skipping back 20 seconds and then talking over that phrase to confuse Siri. (Or course I could have unplugged the phone).
Now when I have an Apple Watch and my iPhone is on the desk charging I will have two Siri's fighting to assist me.
I love these videos. Can't wait to see the last three. Next Friday needs to hurry up and get here.
Just wishing my life away
Just wishing my life away
The more I see of the AppleWatch the more it confirms that I don't see the point of this device. Pretty much every single thing you can do on the watch you can also do on your phone, and the physical difference between raising your arm to look at your wrist vs. raising your arm to look at your hand with a phone in it is no difference at all.
p.s. I'm not saying the AppleWatch is going to fail to sell, I'm simply saying that I see almost no use that it improves, and I definitely don't see any use that improves 350 dollars worth.
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FYI, you don't have to wave your arm around at all, you just have to tip your phone around in your hand in a tiny circle.
p.s. I'm not saying the AppleWatch is going to fail to sell, I'm simply saying that I see almost no use that it improves, and I definitely don't see any use that improves 350 dollars worth.
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FYI, you don't have to wave your arm around at all, you just have to tip your phone around in your hand in a tiny circle.
I don't see anyone else here saying it, so I'm going to:
These Guided Tours videos are great. I think they're just one more thing that's truly setting the Apple Watch apart and ahead of the rest of the pack.
These videos are clean and easy to watch. If people actually need help learning to utilize their new Apple Watch, these videos combined with help from Apple Store employees will pretty much guarantee that new users will be able to do so.
Of course, the hardest part about teaching new users (who aren't able to teach themselves) is to first get them to actually WATCH these videos or TALK to an Apple Store employee. I have no doubts that once that barrier is crossed, however, that new users will be able to use their Watch to fit their needs.
There seems to be a lot of criticism and pessimism around here lately regarding the Watch, but I, for one, am quite bullish on it. I've already pre-ordered and tried-on and I think even the first generation is (going to be) a killer product.
These Guided Tours videos are great. I think they're just one more thing that's truly setting the Apple Watch apart and ahead of the rest of the pack.
These videos are clean and easy to watch. If people actually need help learning to utilize their new Apple Watch, these videos combined with help from Apple Store employees will pretty much guarantee that new users will be able to do so.
Of course, the hardest part about teaching new users (who aren't able to teach themselves) is to first get them to actually WATCH these videos or TALK to an Apple Store employee. I have no doubts that once that barrier is crossed, however, that new users will be able to use their Watch to fit their needs.
There seems to be a lot of criticism and pessimism around here lately regarding the Watch, but I, for one, am quite bullish on it. I've already pre-ordered and tried-on and I think even the first generation is (going to be) a killer product.