If you are going to complain about redundancy then all apps on the apple watch are redundant.
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Not for nothing but the only apps I use on my apple watch is the fitness app. It may be a "smart" watch, but for what ever reason, I've felt no need to use any apps. Don't get me wrong, I do like my AW, and its very useful to get texts or notifications when my phone is not handy but as a smart watch, its really doing much more then a fitbit for me.
Same. By the time it loads anything it might already rain or missed my bus lol
Steve literally wouldnt have allowed such a user experience
That's the reason why I didn't bite, I've been wearing a jawbone up2 for a year now, it's a fitness and sleep tracker, and that's all I want from a wearable technology
For time, I stick to my old school regular watches
I believe swimming provides the most benefits when compared to running.
The lesson here is that just because something can have an app doesn't mean it should. This happened in the early to side days of iPhone apps where every damn company had to have an app even if it was just to take them to a mobile web site. It did nothing but created clutter. Thankfully app development got too expensive for companies to make a dump shell app and those are now thinning out.
My favorite -- most useful -- AW apps are the ones that notify me rather than me calling it up. I love getting to the Airport and my Delta app tells me what gate I'm at and when boarding has started. I love team stream updating me on scores. This use of apps is positive. But some AW like Starbucks that really do nothing are just landfill waste. So hell yes if companies start backing away from those just to say they have an AW app. Make it useful or don't make it. No shame in not having an AW app.
My favorite -- most useful -- AW apps are the ones that notify me rather than me calling it up. I love getting to the Airport and my Delta app tells me what gate I'm at and when boarding has started. I love team stream updating me on scores. This use of apps is positive. But some AW like Starbucks that really do nothing are just landfill waste. So hell yes if companies start backing away from those just to say they have an AW app. Make it useful or don't make it. No shame in not having an AW app.
Completely agree. I use my watch mainly for fitness –an area in which it excels IMO– and light notifications. Other than that, most apps are rubbish.
Then again, a calculator app + complication would spare me some seconds, and a voice memos app would be nice.
I'm an avid Ebayer and though the watch app had its faults I was very disappointed when I saw that it had been pulled from my watch without so much as an explanation. I believe my my app disapeared with watch 3.0. I created a post on MR asking if anyone else had experienced it when it happened. Thought it was in poor taste and intrusive to just pull it off my device. I guess this is the times we live in now.
As for google products, I've migrated away from all of them so that doesn't matter to me. Wasn't even aware they offered at apple watch app lol
As for google products, I've migrated away from all of them so that doesn't matter to me. Wasn't even aware they offered at apple watch app lol
I thought I was just going crazy, since my first few days with the watch I had seen the Google Maps app, then suddenly when I wanted to use it it had disappeared. Is there still a way to get (Google Maps) direction notifications on the watch? I was riding a bke in an unfamiliar area and would have loved wrist access to directions at relevant moments.
The only app missing is the one I'd use frequently: Podcast.
There are 3rd party podcast app but I like the Apple one and I'd like to be able to play a podcast either stored on the Watch or on the iPhone. Now I only have the possibility to play/pause and fast forward 15seconds.
Watch is great for notifications and quick glances, I'd much rather have a watch face store than an app store. Some apps are useful, but most of the time I take a look at the face and not use a specific app
There are 3rd party podcast app but I like the Apple one and I'd like to be able to play a podcast either stored on the Watch or on the iPhone. Now I only have the possibility to play/pause and fast forward 15seconds.
Watch is great for notifications and quick glances, I'd much rather have a watch face store than an app store. Some apps are useful, but most of the time I take a look at the face and not use a specific app
I LOVE my AW. But even being a fairly geeky power user, all I use it for is:
1) fitness / health (MyfitnessPal just updated their AW app, I also use Fit Weightlifting and Apple's activity which are all very good for me)
2) notifications
3) Siri (messages, reminders (a ton), adding calendar entries, etc)
4) radarscope
5) music (all the time)
6) homekit
7) just press record
8) tracking flights/travel
So that's a lot. But otherwise for ebay etc I always just went to phone after I got notification. It's a useful device. But not a phone.
1) fitness / health (MyfitnessPal just updated their AW app, I also use Fit Weightlifting and Apple's activity which are all very good for me)
2) notifications
3) Siri (messages, reminders (a ton), adding calendar entries, etc)
4) radarscope
5) music (all the time)
6) homekit
7) just press record
8) tracking flights/travel
So that's a lot. But otherwise for ebay etc I always just went to phone after I got notification. It's a useful device. But not a phone.
The only app I have installed is Runkeeper. It hasn't been a satisfactory experience for me. Seems to be a lot of issues if you start a workout on my watch but I'm listening to music on my AirPods while carting my phone around. That's on a 6S Plus.
I absolutely agree with that assessment. It echoes my feelings as well but I fell like there is a use case scenario/killer feature that just hasn't been unearthed yet. I wear watches anyway so perhaps next generation I will get one, but I think in the mainstream sense, its not there yet and once this feature is found, it will sell in larger (presumed) numbers.
I could see Amazon coming out with a dash button equivalent app for the AW. Your local cannabis shop could do it too, I guess.
"Yo I'm out, push da button."
"Yo I'm out, push da button."
Yeah I agree I have a Apple problem, gotta get the new shiny things. By distraction I meant for Apple, not the user. I know how to silence my electronics thanks
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Yeah but they they tried to make it a general purpose thing. Remember it being marketed as a fashion accessory? Also the ads promoting turn by turn directions, and tapping your buddies and sending your heart beat and stuff. Apple tried every angle to make people think they would find it useful in day to day life. If they want to change focus and make it a pure fitness device I would understand and support that and I wouldn't have bought any of them.
I mostly use my Series 0 that I picked up crazy cheap last Black Friday as a... wait for it... watch. Pretty sure it was under $200, $189? Something like that, no tax, free shipping. Acknowledging some notifications from it is a nice feature, but primarily it is used to tell time.
My only complaint is that the thing needs the phone to set a timer by voice. Annoying, it is a watch, apple should allow some Siri interaction without needing the phone to go out to the internet and verify what you are asking the the device to do.
But please, yes, bring out a newer device so the Series 2 comes down under $200 and I can justify buying it. I have gotten this Series 0 wet several times, once so wet I was concerned and put in in a bag of rice overnight, and it is still working. It would be nice to not have to worry about it at all with a Series 2.
My only complaint is that the thing needs the phone to set a timer by voice. Annoying, it is a watch, apple should allow some Siri interaction without needing the phone to go out to the internet and verify what you are asking the the device to do.
But please, yes, bring out a newer device so the Series 2 comes down under $200 and I can justify buying it. I have gotten this Series 0 wet several times, once so wet I was concerned and put in in a bag of rice overnight, and it is still working. It would be nice to not have to worry about it at all with a Series 2.
Yeah I agree I have a Apple problem, gotta get the new shiny things. By distraction I meant for Apple, not the user. I know how to silence my electronics thanks
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Yeah but they they tried to make it a general purpose thing. Remember it being marketed as a fashion accessory? Also the ads promoting turn by turn directions, and tapping your buddies and sending your heart beat and stuff. Apple tried every angle to make people think they would find it useful in day to day life. If they want to change focus and make it a pure fitness device I would understand and support that and I wouldn't have bought any of them.
Ah, fair enough. Yes I agree the original introduction was clunky.
In my opinion, it should have been Health and Fitness first, "in a device your can wear on any occasion" not an ugly/bulky fitness tracker, and if that wasn't enough it also shows you the time and other iPhone notifications.
Why are you worried about that? I have the original Watch and I regularly wash it under the tap with soap, never a problem. One of the guys on this forum mentioned that he never takes his off - he showers with it. You're worried about something that probably won't affect you.
My phone does all that and more better than AW. All I need a watch for is to tell time.
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I know a swimming instructor who wears her series 0 Apple Watch in the pool all the time and has never had a problem.
I don't disagree, per-se. But I don't really know b/c I don't own one. I can see the usefulness of the fitness aspect but on that same note, there are other, smaller products that do the same thing.
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Yeah, I haven't gotten one yet due to this fact. I may, for the fitness stuff, someday, maybe, nah, I hate watches.
Ha! Well, if you hate watches, then by all means, don't get one - it turns out it is, in fact, a watch. Some of us like watches. To each his (or her) own.
I guess HATE is a very harsh word. I used to own several and wear them a lot. Once phones started having the time on them, they became one more thing to put on, wear, break (which I did b/c I'm rough on them). So HATE may not be the right word... I just find the inconvenience of them to outweigh the benefit -- even of an Apple watch, at this point in time. Perhaps if my needs or wants change then my exaggerated "hatred" for them will also. Enjoy your watch!
Strapping an iPhone to your wrist gets old really quick, and your iPhone does a lot of things that are redundant - nobody really needs email or web surfing on the phone when you can go to any laptop or desktop computer to do that.
Extrapolating from "I don't need this" to "nobody can need this" rarely works out well. I have one, enjoy using it, and find it useful. I didn't get it by mistake.