What's wrong with round watches? You clearly don't work in any type of professional setting.
What a nonsensical statement. Have you ever seen the Cartier Tank?
What's wrong with round watches? You clearly don't work in any type of professional setting.
There are just too many inherent problems with a round computer interface/display from all sides... design, manufacture, development, and use.
Perhaps, but I also disagree with your assessment.I disagree. If you just "give the people what they want", either products don't improve or nothing new/thoughtful ever comes to market, because consumers are generally not visionaries and can't see past what's in the display case at Target.
Because people like round watches better? If Google can make a functional round smart watch, then they have an advantage that apple does not
I'm sure Apple are easily competent enough to make short work of those and any other minor issues and if they do their round design would enjoy the same success as the current rectangular offering.There are just too many inherent problems with a round computer interface/display from all sides... design, manufacture, development, and use.
And yet, Android devices seem to have no problem with any of this, and selling similar quality round smartwatches for half of what Apple does.
The advantage is that people like the look of them, over the square watches. While they are computers on the wrist, they are also a fashion statement as well and people are very conscience of how a watch looks on their wrist as much as the features it includesDon't understand this point at all. "Round" is an advantage for a smartwatch?
Don't understand this point at all. "Round" is an advantage for a smartwatch? How so? Your mistake is thinking that a smartwatch is the same product as a conventional watch. They're completely different. Analog watches have ONE FUNCTION, so a round screen works in their case. How someone at a tech blog can look at a Moto 360, with it's cut corners and flat tire and say that it has some sort of "advantage" over Apple is really beyond me.
I can't believe anybody is still using this idiotic meme to argue against a round smart watch.
Way to cherry pick your examples. Try comparing it to the latest Huawei 42mm watch. Not a first generation effort that made poor design choices, as limited by current technology. I'd love for someone to explain to me why Apple has limited its display to one of the smaller in the industry rather than going edge to edge. Or why Apple put form over function to achieve a particular look, rather than maximize the way data can be viewed on the display.
The advantage is that people like the look of them, over the square watches. While they are computers on the wrist, they are also a fashion statement as well and people are very conscience of how a watch looks on their wrist as much as the features it includes
Yes it is, and I'm also a happy Apple watch owner. I'm only offering my opinion that I think round watches have an advantage. People seem to be coming out of the woodwork to attach that thesis with a ferocity that is a bit baffling. Its my opinion, based on my life experience. I think Google may be on to something with their design and like the iPhone, we may see an erosion of sales to competitors - who knows, that's the future. I for one like the look of the google watch, regardless if that position is attacked as antiquated and short sited.nd yet the Apple Watch is outselling it's round counterparts at a 12 to 1 rate.
Yes it is, and I'm also a happy Apple watch owner. I'm only offering my opinion that I think round watches have an advantage. People seem to be coming out of the woodwork to attach that thesis with a ferocity that is a bit baffling. Its my opinion, based on my life experience. I think Google may be on to something with their design and like the iPhone, we may see an erosion of sales to competitors - who knows, that's the future. I for one like the look of the google watch, regardless if that position is attacked as antiquated and short sited.
Round watches are the norm (though not exclusively, there have always been a few rectangular watches for design aesthetic reasons) because the vast majority of watches display the time by turning hands to point them in the general direction of numbers, which, for a long time was the only method available. Round is an efficient shape if the watch needs to point fixed-length mechanical hands from a central spindle. It's inefficient for any display of information other than a single radial analog gauge, as evidenced by all the rectangular screens around us.FWIW, round watches are the norm, and the square watch that apple employs is the exception.
If you're presented with display cases showing hundreds of round watches, and two or three mixed in somewhere that aren't round... you will tend to pick whichever of the round watches appeals to you the most, likely not even aware that there are any non-round choices. This is exactly where the watch market is now. No average consumer goes to a watch store saying, "show me watches but I only want to see round ones - don't show me any that aren't round." They're choosing from what they perceive to be the only available choices.Some designs are inherently better, and it doesn't matter if the innards are mechanical or electronic. The round watch face, is something that consumers like and want. If Google can provide functionality on par with the square apple watch, I'd call that innovation.
Playing devils advocate, I'd be pretty sure there is some fairly savvy Apple marketing behind many of those Apple Watch fashion spreads. Apple has collected some people who are quite accomplished at courting various specific markets, like fashion, music, etc.And yet the Apple Watch is outselling it's round counterparts at a 12 to 1 rate. Who has the advantage again? Speaking of fashion statements...the Apple Watch has been featured in spreads for pretty much every legit fashion publication in the industry, so there's also that.
FWIW, round watches are the norm, and the square watch that apple employs is the exception.
The Apple Watch's design isn't encouraging me at the moment.This is not an accident. The worst thing for smart watches is to blend in. They need to be tastefully different to encourage adoption.
Should be interesting, not sure why the Apple watch shape is getting a lot of hate, o.k it's not round like a traditional watch normally is - but the shape is negated once you are not using it as a watch. Messages, fitness functions etc are much better on a square watch.
My opinion of course, I expect to be told I'm wrong.
I miss Steve Jobs to bury round smartwatches forever with a single sentence.
The Apple Watch's design isn't encouraging me at the moment.![]()
And then for him to change his mind and build a round smartwatch.
The Samsung Gear S2 3g blows the apple watch out of the water. Yeah it may run tizen and not have all the apps that Apple Watch has
but the one killer feature is being able to forward calls, texts and emails right to my watch no matter where my phone is and works seamlessly.
I miss Steve Jobs to bury round smartwatches forever with a single sentence.
I can't believe anybody is still using this idiotic meme to argue against a round smart watch.
There is absolutely no connection between how a television monitor is used and a watch display. Will you be watching TV shows on your watch?