So, by your measure, your car is disposable, since you can't maintain it yourself. How about your significant other? How do you manage that? Disposable, I'd guess.
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Apple Watch Estimated to Reach 100 Million Lifetime Shipments Soon Despite Weaker Demand Last Quarter
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“A chubby chubby thing.”
You didn’t put much thought into your post, did you? I can tell you what does have logic, how Apple improved the Apple Watch in terms of adding health features. Not also have they dominated the Apple Watch market, but they proven they don’t have to change the thickness of the watch to make it successful. Consumers Are Looking for health advantages aside from notifications, that’s what proven the Apple Watch successful from when it first started . But I’m guessing you don’t own one, which you wouldn’t understand the technological side of things with the Apple Watch and why it’s so successful.
Do you have the WiFi version or pay for the cellular plan? I will be buying the new one. Need to figure out which way to go.
Cars are easy to maintain by one's self. Bad analogy, as car analogies on tech discussions are 99.9% of the time.
As for analogy 2, last I checked human's don't have batteries, and can be re-fueled easily with food and sleep.
You haven’t been paying much attention over the past 5 years evidently, there have been a ton of very much existent naysayers over that time. I thought the future tense of “nobody will buy it” made it clear I was taking in retrospective terms.I know you're being sarcastic, but honestly- who are you talking to? I know next to nobody who thinks the Apple watch is a failure by any metric, but I see quite a few people attempting to put down non-existent naysayers.
Yeah, I tried duct-taping a Samsung phone to my wrist, but removing it at night tended to remove all the hair on my arm.
Lots of people have had their batteries replaced by apple. There are countless threads talking about it.I know you're being sarcastic, but honestly- who are you talking to? I know next to nobody who thinks the Apple watch is a failure by any metric, but I see quite a few people attempting to put down non-existent naysayers.
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This is great, to be sure, but for how long? My bet is that by the time the battery needs servicing, the watch may be on Apple's vintage or obsolete list, nixing any hardware service. I would hope this isn't the case, but we'll have to wait and see.
Humans eventually wear out and you have to throw them away or recycle them. Lots of non-replaceable parts, and the ones that can be replaced (by either used parts or inferior 3rd party parts), you’d be an insane fool to do at home, rather than sending the human to a trained repair professional.
It's no more clunky then say, a Rolex or Breitling watch.
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Dude, Apple will replace the battery.
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My thought exactly! Round is a waste for digital. There's too much wasted space for information
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The Apple Watch is a wrist computer, not just a watch to show time.
Do you also want a laptop with rounded display? A phone with rounded display? A TV with rounded display?
Don’t. If you’re somebody that does not like to see scratches, the Gold stainless was one of the worst for a few reasons, and you couldn’t remove the scratches with a polishing cloth, due to the PVD coating. Also, I suspect the gold stainless was one of Apples least popular watches Simply due to limited band options that would coordinate with each other.
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I love my series 3 every day. It definitely has made me more active, and those awards are really well thought out and stimulating. Although the battery is showing its age after 2,5 years I am still very much surprised that it lasts as long as it does. My Moto 360 battery lasted about 20 hours and its sport app was nowhere near as good as apple's solution. At first i had to get used to the 'square' design of the AW but it does make much more sense when using it. I saw a guy using his Samsung watch, completely round, and all those notifications were cut in small pieces. Looked horrible.
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Software will make it obsolete faster than battery. Battery is not the problem.
Apple recycles the watch. So it's not like the device is going to the landfill.
In a way, an Apple Watch is basically a shrunk down iPhone from a few generations prior: a touch screen, an Apple CPU, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/LTE/cellular, various sensors such as a gyroscope, a battery, etc. The iPhone has a few things the Watch doesn't, but conversely, the Watch also has sensors the iPhone doesn't. So from that point of view, I actually find it remarkable just how much Apple has managed to shrink those internals. Look at an iPhone logic board and think about how much of it exists in miniature form on the Watch.
I do think the Watch is a bit chubby, but you also don't really notice as soon as you wear it; much of it just disappears into your skin. I'm sure Apple would like to make it thinner — but clearly, they have prioritized other things for now: adding more sensors (such as for ECG), increasing battery life, improving performance, etc. Once those are at a level they're happy with, they'll make it thinner.
For all the flak Apple gets for prioritizing thinness too much in recent designs, I think they deserve applause for not doing it on the Watch.
I've tried an AW, various fitbits and some garmin wearable devices. Of them all the garmin device has been the absolute best for fitness tracking. The AW was cool as an extension to my iPhone but I prefer the fitness and performance stats from the garmin.
Apple watch really is the only smart watch worth buying...hard to improve each year as it is so great.
The problem with Garmin, their software is terrible and their support is extremely limited. They make great quality hardware and I agree that they have extensive tracking over the Apple Watch, [as they’ve been around longer]. But in terms of longevity, I would never invest in a Garmin for what they charge and simply because their software is not nearly as fluid as WatchOS.