How do you get the tactile feel of a spinning grooved digital crown from your static surface?
I don’t even get it now. When I scroll, it’s like I’m just rubbing my finger on the edge of the bezel, or lift and place, but no real sense that the crown is spinning. That’s why it’s kind of a pointless, stylistic throwback to analogue watches.
Raise to wake is quite reliable IMO. Probably less than 1% failure rate.
Moving it around would just make the burn-in area larger and slightly fuzzy. Phones with always-on displays have a much larger display to move the graphics around on; not really any such luxury on a watch, or at least not with an analog watchface.
You seem to forget that the camera is bigger than its lens, and also that part of the bezel of an apple watch rests on the casing of the watch. You have to physically be able to fit the devices INSIDE the watch case.
Notching the display is going to be like going to failtown. Pretty much no matter where you put the notch it will interfere with some part of a watchface or widgets or app layouts.
Also like I said, very small cameras with very small lenses have bad image quality, particularly in low light, and sticking a camera on your wrist is always going to be a very bumpy ride. As soon as you move your arm (which doesn't have the same fine motor control as your hands/fingers) the image will shake like crazy. It would be a terrible experience for facetime for example, and unergonomic for the watch wearer as well. Try holding up your arm aiming your watch level with the ground at your face for any length of time. It's not going to be comfortable.
You unlock your watch just once when you put it on, and then it stays unlocked (unless the strap is too loose...) Not much point in face recognition then.
Forget cameras. It's a dead-end idea, shown by the general lack of cameras in pretty much all other wrist wearables as well.
Raise to wake is not always an option. Try slight twist to wake and it’s almost a 98% fail rate.
I agree moving the screen around would defeat the whole point we want it, and wouldn’t necessarily solve the problem as you speculate. New technology is needed.
I didn’t forget the camera has a bigger mechanism than the lens and even stated as much, in that the bigger concern was whether there was room for it INSIDE the watch case, it whether there was room on the watch face.
Notching the display is no more going to be “failtown” than it was on the iPhone X. The interface guidelines will just be designed to incorporate it just like on the iPhone. And it will be inconsequential if Apple actually enlarges the display as rumored — users will still have more space than they do now.
Again I don’t agree with your assumption of what’s possible with cameras. I’ve actually done video chats with people who had android watches and it worked fine. As for the quality, well it’s a convenience isn’t it? There will be trade offs as there have been in all Apple products. The connection can ruin a good quality camera image too. Again, I don’t agree with you having both experienced video chats with those who have watch cameras. Add to that FaceTime is simply a fatiguing activity whether one has to hold up and iPad or an iPhone. I rest those devices on a surface, just like I probably would with a watch for a lengthy conversation, so I don’t know why this objection keeps coming up. Again it’s a convenience, so just like the Apple Watch has been able to take phone calls since S0 and drain the battery incredibly fast, so people just don’t do it. The same would be true for FaceTime.
Facial recognition can be used for more than ID purposes, it can also be used for eye detection — is a user still looking at the watch to know whether to keep the display backlight on or turn it off quicker. It also solves part of the problem with raise to wake when that’s not a reliable situation. And I’d rather not have to poke my code in whenever I take the watch on and off which is several times throughout the day. It makes the experience less convenient.
Finally, while I appreciate your concern, I’m not going to “forget cameras” as I see too many benefits to having it. But you’re entitled to your opinion. We’ll see how it ultimately turns out. I remember chatting with people who made similar passionate arguments about not needing a cellular radio in the watch, despite Android wear having them, and now look.
If I had to guess, the Apple Watch will eventually replace the iPhone, and as such it will do most of the things we expect from it too, including a camera.