When it gets closer to launch. This is a prototype, things are always subject to change at this stage.
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Hands-On First Impressions of the New Apple Watch
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When it gets closer to launch. This is a prototype, things are always subject to change at this stage.
Apple should have waited a few more years until the technology made this kind of product workable.
It needs...
To work independently from other devices.
To charge wirelessly and have a long battery life.
To not go to sleep after 10 seconds... It's a WATCH!
To be slimmer.
To be cheaper.
It needs...
To work independently from other devices.
To charge wirelessly and have a long battery life.
To not go to sleep after 10 seconds... It's a WATCH!
To be slimmer.
To be cheaper.
1. So you don't have to take the phone out of your pocket. That's a large point of the watch.
2. So you don't have to be carrying all that extra equipment around and also don't have to look like a tool with a bluetooth earpiece on.
3. Not very cool. But that's no different than trying to look at a phone in the sun. E-Paper is probably the only thing that looks good in the sun.
4. The Moto 360 looks good. But, yes, overall I would say that the Apple Watch looks better. Though, I do need to see/feel both in person to say 100%. However, based on pictures, alone, I would say, "yes."
I meant the crown. It's on the right side. I wear my watch on my right hand.
Edit: I get what you mean.
I think they needed to wait a bit more to polish the UI further. Then release it, still half baked, but then add things later on. I'm more concerned with the UI than the lack of more tech inside.
Ok. Ok. It does not look like a faster horse, or a carriage, or even a 1930's era Bugatti, which rich people with taste still collect. But what does that have to do with buying modern auto, such as a Tesla?
Never-mind, their kids might humor them buy attending an occasion concours for old collectors. But that has very little to do with what the kids will buy for their first luxury car.
Oh, the luddites here are talking about round watches instead of classic cars?
Same diff...
Never-mind, their kids might humor them buy attending an occasion concours for old collectors. But that has very little to do with what the kids will buy for their first luxury car.
Oh, the luddites here are talking about round watches instead of classic cars?
Same diff...
To be fair, it's hard to make a UI work on such a small screen, they have done an OK job considering.
Nice summary!
My dev friends and I are already brainstorming a few ideas, but obviously need the SDK/tools to really get an understanding of the potential. Plus, this device is still 5+ months out. Lots of time for retirement, improvements, new features, etc.
Also, I just noticed that Apple Watch apps can be built to have their processing done by the iPhone. Great way to deliver functionality that would be too much of a burden on a tiny battery!
And another example of why Apple's hardware/OS integration is so important. Can Samsung decide they want to make a watch that runs apps which start background processes on the phone? (Probably, somehow, yes.) Would that still work with the next OS update from Google? (Hmmmmm....) Or: can Google develop such a feature from the OS end? (Sure.) Would it then be widely adopted by hardware makers--so that developers can actually have a market worth supporting such a capability? (Hmmmmm....)
Oh dear that's not what I was hoping for at all. It doesn't look any better than the Samsung devices we've all been criticising. It's too chunky and what's with the large black border around the screen? They really needed to put an edge to edge screen. It just doesn't look good at all. Reminds me of the iPod nano they scrapped a few years ago. I'd love an Apple Watch but sadly this is not it.
My feeling is that this AppleWatch will sell very well but it will only be what most people want maybe at generation 3.
Thinner, waterproof?, circular face option?, without the need of an iPhone. etc.
I think the tech is very impressive and the UI looks very interesting. So IMO they are going into the right path but it will take a bit of time to really hit the home run.
Thinner, waterproof?, circular face option?, without the need of an iPhone. etc.
I think the tech is very impressive and the UI looks very interesting. So IMO they are going into the right path but it will take a bit of time to really hit the home run.
It LOOKS cheap. Of course it's solidly built, no one would doubt that. But... it looks like the iPhone 5C... a d@mn toy.
Well, I don't like the idea of using manual dial on the side to control an even newer device than the iPhone. It feels backwards to me. All control should have been gesture based. Maybe even 3D gesture based with a camera in front. Just move your fingers on top of the screen like you are rotating a dial in different axises and the phone would get it, etc. Maybe the tech isn't ready to do that kind of gestures yes but why not wait until it is?
Since they released it with a manual dial, I think they'll have to continue this way. Do you think at some point they can say "forget the dial, now we can do all with gestures"?
Um, yes actually. They fell on most product announcements over the last 3 years, since the iPad. Besides, Wall Street has never been a good indicator of anything.
It already looks like the dial is optional, but I could be wrong.
The screen is multi-touch + pressure sensitive, so I can't see why you would need it, apart from making it seem more watch-like.
The original iphone was $599. Price came down over time. Like all tech does.
And how do you propose getting a fully featured cell phone into a thin watch? Can't be done, at least yet.
If companies adopted that kind of attitude, we wouldn't have laptop computers, cell phones, planes, etc.. Why release anything until it is at it's optimum?
In the 80's, did you say that those giant cell phones shouldn't have been released until the tech was ready for a phone that would fit in your pocket? Should the first laptops not been released until the technology for full color screens and ultra thinness become available? Should the earliest of plane makers not made planes until the jet engine and pressurised cabin was developed?
You have to develop and release products to have the incentive to develop future versions that product which will then be slimmer, faster and better. That is the nature of all things.
If you wait to release something until it is "perfect," you will never release it.
AAPL was down 0.4% today while the NASDAQ was down more than twice as much. In fact AAPL hit an all-time high a full week ago. It has fallen about 5% since then, all of this long before today's product announcements.
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Not true in the least.
The danger is Apple might put people off this category of product all together. Instead of releasing something that 'feels' groundbreaking like the iMac/iPod/iPhone/iPad.
This feels far more me-too than those other products did.
The are some really good aspects of the Apple Watch, but the problem is it doesn't seem like something people will continue to use for more than one generation, due to its impractical gimmicky nature.
A bit like the Nintendo Wii.
Apple is about design and style.
This looks worst than the north end of a south bound cow...there I said it.
Soooo disappointing...Ives...shame, shame, shame on you!!! Your Aston's dash clock has FAR more style than this, but that would imply this abomination has any 'style' to begin with. You should stare at your Aston's dash for a while and learn something.
Was SOOOO hoping for something more cutting edge and fresh than a rehash of nano-on-a-strap look. sigh.
A "watch" is jewelry. As such it is likely to be subjective and polarizing .. therein lies Apple Watch's problem. YMMV.
Nuff said..back to waiting on Air II announcement so I can buy something useful to me.
This looks worst than the north end of a south bound cow...there I said it.
Soooo disappointing...Ives...shame, shame, shame on you!!! Your Aston's dash clock has FAR more style than this, but that would imply this abomination has any 'style' to begin with. You should stare at your Aston's dash for a while and learn something.
Was SOOOO hoping for something more cutting edge and fresh than a rehash of nano-on-a-strap look. sigh.
A "watch" is jewelry. As such it is likely to be subjective and polarizing .. therein lies Apple Watch's problem. YMMV.
Nuff said..back to waiting on Air II announcement so I can buy something useful to me.
Can't remember the last time AAPL was higher than before after a keynote though. Can you? Maybe the original iPhone announcement.