Agreed. As much as Cook and Ives go on and on about how beautiful and personal the apple watch is, it looks like a nerdy sci-fi brick on most people's wrist. That jump from hand-held device to something you wear is a tricky thing. I think a lot of folks, though they might love the iPhone, are not quite ready to slap the Apple brand on their body. Me included, and I've loved Apple stuff since their inception.
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Apple Watch Loses Market Share as Android Wear Grows in Popularity
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Agreed. As much as Cook and Ives go on and on about how beautiful and personal the apple watch is, it looks like a nerdy sci-fi brick on most people's wrist. That jump from hand-held device to something you wear is a tricky thing. I think a lot of folks, though they might love the iPhone, are not quite ready to slap the Apple brand on their body. Me included, and I've loved Apple stuff since their inception.
I'd buy a lot more bands if they weren't so astronomically over priced.
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And open up and let people create more watch faces.
If Apple could make an iPhone that small wouldn't they have already released it?
In my opinion, they released the watch prematurely. I don't always agree with the imperative to make things smaller but in the case of the watch it's absolutely essential. Recent trends are for larger timepieces but the design is inelegant to say the least - it looks more like an ankle bracelet worn in some state run dystopia. It should have gone back to the lab with a try harder reproach. When I imagine the mechanical intricacies of a self winding watch -the marvel of all those weights and gears arranged in a 30mm round case and compare it to what they released it's like, no, Time out - this isn't ready yet.
Is $10 too much? That's what I paid for good knockoff sport bands on Amazon. Bought several.
Specifically for me to buy it will be:
-Longer battery life
-Less dependance with iPhone
-Some type of upgrade program where I won't be spending £599 every year or two for the new device
I still see much more value in a £229 Casio radio controlled solar powered watch.
-Longer battery life
-Less dependance with iPhone
-Some type of upgrade program where I won't be spending £599 every year or two for the new device
I still see much more value in a £229 Casio radio controlled solar powered watch.
I'm looking forward to a new watch with at least increased speed and power. Battery life is fine for me. I need to charge it once per day and if I forget to take it off at night, I've got a charger at work. Alternatively, if I forget on the weekend, it can be thrown on the charger at home for half an hour and then it generally will have enough charge to get through the rest of the day.
It needs more speed. And it needs clearer and better uses for the crown and side button. Those as currently mapped are nearly useless.
It needs more speed. And it needs clearer and better uses for the crown and side button. Those as currently mapped are nearly useless.
I think apple is smart in relying on the fashionable aspects of the watch because it's hard to be in a high margin watch business. but, there' sno killer feature yet.
Yeah, but at that point, people will complain about the cost and size, and want it to be smaller. And also with those features, you basically have an iPhone...
TIL ankle bracelets from state run dystopia are my thing.
You're comparing mechanical clocks to computers you can wear on your wrist.
Computers. On your wrist. With lights, and Bluetooth. And stuff I don't even understand so complicated.
How quickly things become normal.
I'm not saying anyone here is wrong in not wanting one because of size, shape, perceived lack of functionality or features.
I'm just saying it's not failing or bad because of those things.
For me it's a notification extension, uncomplicated information provider and the main reason I'm using my iPhone 20 to 30% less.
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while all other vendors shipped a combined 1.4 million units in the quarter.
The analysis rings dishonest. Total sales volume for the entire market is "down" because you're comparing dissimilar quarters. Q4 is always a boom quarter for consumer electronics, and look how Samsung is down same proportion too.
If you're going to show Q4 then at least add in Q2 and Q3.
That, and somehow Apple sells more than half of all the smart watches, but a supposed Apple blog is harping on a manufactured doom instead of the fact that it owns the market.
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Apple isn't the wow maker with their first gen products ANYMORE. I remember saying wow when Job's lifted up is PowerBook and walked around with it and was still on line using an Aircard. I said wow when the first iPod came out and had 5gbs and fit in your pocket and when the first iPhone came out. All were wow first gen products. Since then they haven't made any new wow products in general imho.
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10 years ago no one would have thought most people would walk around staring at a screen in their palms. 5 years ago no one thought most people would access the internet on a cellphone rather than a desktop computer.
Wearables will be improved and seen as needed just like cell phones are now. I love the things my AW does but I waited til recently to get a used one for half price. Frees me from my phone quite a bit. I don't like Ive trying to price and sell Apple Watch to compete with collectible watches, stupid.
Wearables will be improved and seen as needed just like cell phones are now. I love the things my AW does but I waited til recently to get a used one for half price. Frees me from my phone quite a bit. I don't like Ive trying to price and sell Apple Watch to compete with collectible watches, stupid.
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What they really need to do is a "Apple Watch Edition Pro" for an additional $10,000.-......
True, true. Then again clocks used to look like this:
I don't say that the technology in the watch isn't impressive, just that it isn't the platonic realization of the 'watch' which has been refined over however many centuries. I don't think its an instant classic -and sadly for me that's the difference between this company with Steve Jobs and the company without Steve Jobs. Who is there insisting on timeless perfection? NOBODY
yeah! and global warming isn't real either --it was cold yesterday
He would have never gone for that. It's simply not something you can improve on.True, true. Then again clocks used to look like this:
I don't say that the technology in the watch isn't impressive, just that it isn't the platonic realization of the 'watch' which has been refined over however many centuries. I don't think its an instant classic -and sadly for me that's the difference between this company with Steve Jobs and the company without Steve Jobs. Who is there insisting on timeless perfection? NOBODY
I don't even think of my watch as a watch. It's not a watch at all.