As an engineer, I know and that's the problem with existing smart watches. They all look like they were designed by an engineer. A circle is aesthetically more pleasing. I'm hoping Apple will think outside the "box". Like the new Mac Pro.
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As an engineer, I know and that's the problem with existing smart watches. They all look like they were designed by an engineer. A circle is aesthetically more pleasing. I'm hoping Apple will think outside the "box". Like the new Mac Pro.
But if it can't contain a readable text message excerpt without being huge, who would want it? I'm all for being original but it has to have some amount of usefulness, too, and there's a reason rectangles and squares are used when you want to have as much useful display area as possible. Try to Google an example of someone trying to put likely smart watch info on a circle and you get:
still a rectangle, just in a circular screen with a lot of empty space. With the rectangle, you can see two day's temps in this example.
or icons crammed together:
Doesn't show what you get when you tap an icon.
What you CAN get is this, but it just gives generic notifications; you have to check your phone to see what the alert is about so it's not that useful:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/jYgDAQVZLQo
If you can find any decent example of a round truly smart watch, I'd love to see it. Draw a circle on a piece of paper and see how much text you can get inside it and how small the type needs to be to get a simple sentence on it.
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