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Apple Watch Sees Best Quarter Ever With Series 3 Sales Up More Than 100% Compared to Series 2 Sales Last Year
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I never understood this argument. Like saying, iPhone X is what 6 should have been. iPad pro is what iPad air should have been. iPad mini 4 is what original mini should have been. Smart phones is what dump phones should have been. Electric cars are what combustion engine ones should have been? Apple Watch series 6 maybe would be what series 3 should be? Where does it stop? There are always technology hurdles and limitations at the present that get sorted with the time to make room for improvements.
Nope. The first Apple Watch has struggled from the start to load apps. It’s clearly not ready for prime time.
Just like the first iPad. See how fast it is discontinued as compared to the iPad 2.
Nothing new or shocking here! All first generation products do have their limitations on performance and features compare to the ones that follow.
It could’ve been due to battery wear then. But even when I brought it to the Apple store, they said the battery was fine. I guess the battery health wasn’t low enough to qualify for a replacement.
I think the point is whether you take the highlighted part at face value; or whether you believe customers are being strung along with self-restrained steps to milk more money out of customers.
Not what I asked for. Show me NUMBERS that back up Apple's assertion that the Apple Watch is up 100% YoY. I'll wait.
Precisely. Which goes back to my original post that Apple can claim all they want that the Watch is up X-percent but until numbers are released (and not hidden behind the "Other" category) that claim is like me claiming I'm a billionaire - it holds no water.
This is a fantastically absurd argument. Ask any first generation adopter if they were unhappy with their purchase. Of course not. That would be like asking the first model T owners if they were unhappy with their purchases. They all know that they are on the cutting edge of technology and they accept the downfalls that come with that - the most obvious one being that they’ll be supersized with the very next generation. It is an accepted risk and certainty of being first.
Guy since last update my apple watch series 3 is USELESS. It keeps restarting each time i receive a notification or try to open a app. I been to apple forums and lots of people have this issue. I see apple keeps flexing their muscles that they are doing this and that but don't resolve the issues of the people who paid big buxx for their products. And i am pretty sure this is not hardware issue as my watch was perfect till last update.
The real question is: why does this matter to you? Does it upset you that the Apple Watch 3 is selling so well?
Keep waiting. I have no stake in the game. If you’re so obsessed with the assertion, do the research yourself.
Yea, I had the 0 and got it on launch day. I would take it off at bedtime and put it on the charger until morning. Now, I wear it all the time just taking it off for an hour or so to let it charge and grab it after I shower.
Siri is another thing people don't mention much. Siri is so fast now it is usable. It "worked" before as in it took the commands and did something but the wait was too long to really use it much. Now however, its instant. Nice when you use it for lights and messages and things you don't want to wait all day on.
Same here - I don't need LTE, and don't want to pay an extra $10 plus taxes and fees per month when I'm never away from my phone unless I'm on wifi anyway. I've looked at the Series 3 aluminum, but it feels like such a step down asthetically from my SS Series 0, so I'll wait another round and hope they do it next time.
That being said, my series 0 is really showing its age, so if there is no non-LTE SS next update, I'll have to decide between LTE without activating the LTE (don't love the added price and the red crown though) and aluminum.
I tend to look at the competitions offer at the time, technology available etc. I personally believe that the technology on the current apple watch services to work as well as it does now was not possible to realistically implement on the first series and mas produce at the same price.
I would never go fo aluminium.... however I think the price difference over here between aluminium LTE and aluminium non-LTE is like £70. I'd rather have an option on the SS model with no-LTE at £70 less than the current version....
Not really, except that there are many posts on this forum and others where users of older watches have been impressed with the advancements of watchOS from a feature, performance and battery perspective. "My watch feels like a new watch" was a phrase I recall reading often. My point was that you don't need a new watch to gain improvements, as many of those come with the OS
I think I was one of those people. WatchOS 3 was leaps and bounds faster and more responsive than WatchOS 2 on a Series 0. Apple said they had been too conservative with CPU and memory usage in prior versions and left a lot of performance on the table. Whatever the reason, it let me use my s0 for another year very happily.
Edit: there’s a second hand source here https://sixcolors.com/post/2016/06/with-watchos-3-apple-watch-gets-a-do-over/ citing Federighi and how Apple improved performance.
To an extent, but the first generation Apple Watch is an example of where it lacks in power regardless, which still frustratingly can take away from the OS experience. Thus, having increased performance even from the Series 1 (For example) made the functionality of the Watch that much better. If the performance is limited and lags, the WatchOS experience is moot in some cases.
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WatchOS 3 was the best version for the first generation Apple Watch in my opinion. The performance was faster than ever and battery life was 'Increased' as well. I feel watchOS 4 is likely the last version for the first generation Apple Watch. But we will know more at WWDC 2018.
It might well be the case that OS 4 is the last version for S0 and I don’t think there’s much grounds for complaint if it is - it definitely improved continuously throughput its life cycle. My gut, and Apple’s update track record, says it might well see a 5th major version though, perhaps missing a few features. I have the S3 now and it is leaps and bounds faster, and there is a “drag factor” in supporting older hardware though. Could go either way.