Hands-On With the New 'Face Gallery' for Apple Watch in iOS 10

[drumcat]

To those of you who think that there's some money in watch faces, let me leave you with this...

 

[twochoicestom]

'cause the Apple Watch and using watchOS is so awesome, you need an iPHone app for this, .. :-/

And, btw, how can they call it "complications" unthinkable under Steve Jobs. Already sounds like not for / too complicated for regular users, ... Call them details, or features or whatever marketing gimmick you want to decorate around it, ... hey, what about decorations, .... ?!?

1. You can still do it on the watch, but this is a nice extra which makes sense. It's there if you want it - what's wrong with choice?

2. A complication is a feature on ANY watch which isn't hours/minutes/seconds. They didn't invent it as a marketing term.

 

[tricouleur]

This is proof AW is a flop

Please elaborate?

 

[CarlJ]

And, btw, how can they call it "complications" unthinkable under Steve Jobs. Already sounds like not for / too complicated for regular users, ...

They are called complications because that's what such features have been called on analog watches for centuries.

 

[brunosh]

Kinda off-topic, but thanks to this videos I just realized now the question mark on the Macrumors logo. Can't be unseen now, ahah!

 

[starryknight]

For heaven's sake. I do wish they would put some of this effort into letting us show a nicer watch face on our iPhones when in Lock mode. I'm a positive guy and have been a diehard Apple fan since 1994, but good grief they've been making it hard for us recently.

 

[nia820]

Woohoo! This mean we finally get third party face watches.

 

[ReneR]

1. You can still do it on the watch, but this is a nice extra which makes sense. It's there if you want it - what's wrong with choice?

2. A complication is a feature on ANY watch which isn't hours/minutes/seconds. They didn't invent it as a marketing term.

Next you need an Mac App to use your iphone, ...
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They are called complications because that's what such features have been called on analog watches for centuries.

great, +1 to you, guess one need to be professional jewelry dealer to know that, .. yet it does not stop Apple to name everything else how they want? AirPort et al?

 

[CarlJ]

great, +1 to you, guess one need to be professional jewelry dealer to know that, .. yet it does not stop Apple to name everything else how they want? AirPort et al?

Hmm. I know it, and I'm not a professional jewelry dealer. Lots of people know these terms. I have a couple of watches. I find them interesting. Learning about things one finds interesting is fun. I hope you don't see learning, or being knowledgeable, as something odd.

It has been widely reported that the team that made the Apple Watch are big fans of traditional watches. So they went with the terms that everyone who knows about watches already uses (face, crown, complications, bands, etc.), rather than feeling the need to invent new terms. Watches have been around a long time. When the original AirPort came out, WiFi was not well known amongst the general public.

 

[ReneR]

Hmm. I know it, and I'm not a professional jewelry dealer. Lots of people know these terms. I have a couple of watches. I find them interesting. Learning about things one finds interesting is fun. I hope you don't see learning, or being knowledgeable, as something odd.

It has been widely reported that the team that made the Apple Watch are big fans of traditional watches. So they went with the terms that everyone who knows about watches already uses (face, crown, complications, bands, etc.), rather than feeling the need to invent new terms. Watches have been around a long time. When the original AirPort came out, WiFi was not well known amongst the general public.

Following your analogy any other name than AirPort would still have been better for normal users to get what it was about. E.g. certainly not an airport, but rather Wireless-LAN, ...

Heck, the Airport name may have been so unpopular that even Apple renamed it eventually ;-)

And naming something "Complications" is IMHO very un-Apple.