Two hours downloading install and counting. After trying for almost two hours unsuccessfully (kept getting stuck on verifying for long periods of time) I had to call Apple. I ended having to unpair then pair because my watch and phone were insisting that I had the latest (1.0.1) update. I have twelve more minutes to download. I'll see what it does this time.
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void rant(*poor_end_user_experience) {So I wanted to go running this afternoon. Today was supposed to be an 8 mile day. It could still have been an 8 mile day if I could have started my run on time but no, I had to be on the phone with Apple support using my last free support incident before AppleCare on my MBP runs out at midnight tonight. I was fixing a Photos problem which was made worse by a spotlight problem.
Then I noticed an article that WOS2 is out so I figured "Ok. This should take under a half hour." Famous. Last. Words. 3 hours later after I had to use a piece-o-crap Android phone for tracking my run, I picked up my Apple Watch and put it on only to see... An Apple logo with some kind of countdown. So 3 hours plus a really really r e a l l y R E A L L Y slow reboot.
I would have to say Apple screwed the pooch on this one. And all this after my running goal was cut in half due to time wasted on Apple caused issues. Remember back in the day when we said Apple gear was worth it because of all the time it saved? Remember those days?
Now that I've got it, I decide to dive into the niceties of WOS2. Animated watch faces? Really? A photos watch face? I like viewing photos on my watch but having them behind the watch face only works if I only take pictures that are really low contrast and mostly one color. Both of these new watchfaces have nothing on the screen but the time?!? Hello. It's a smart watch. The reason I don't use the butterfly with the flappy wings is it doesn't tell me if I'm late for a meeting or what the weather is right now or even so much as the battery level. I can get a Casio (or at these prices a Rolex) that shows me nothing but the time!
I wouldn't own an Apple Watch to simply tell me the time, beautiful animations and pictures of my kids notwithstanding. So then I went looking for better complications on the existing watch faces. I found a few more complications were allowed for some of the watch faces but honestly it's time for Apple to allow some third party watch faces.
Now we are approaching the end of this rant and I must say that so far the arrival of WOS2 for me was somewhat anticlimactic. Mostly because of what I perceive as an excessive update time. Had I known it would take this long, I would have started it as I was going to sleep rather than the middle of my afternoon. I found myself reaching for my citizen Eco Drive watch and a crusty old (GS4) Android phone while my AW was off taking a snooze in updateland rendering both itself and my iPhone 6 useless for the entire duration of the update. At the very least Apple could have put up a dialog that estimated the upgrade time and offered me a chance to back out. Telling me it was 500mb on my internet connection was basically telling me it would take 10 minutes or so. Then being stuck on a screen that said "4 hours remaining" with no escape hatch for me to take either my phone or my watch with me on a run left me no choice but to reach for my backup device... Android. I can't get Runmeter on Android but Runkeeper still works. For me today was not a good day in Apple-land;
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Then I noticed an article that WOS2 is out so I figured "Ok. This should take under a half hour." Famous. Last. Words. 3 hours later after I had to use a piece-o-crap Android phone for tracking my run, I picked up my Apple Watch and put it on only to see... An Apple logo with some kind of countdown. So 3 hours plus a really really r e a l l y R E A L L Y slow reboot.
I would have to say Apple screwed the pooch on this one. And all this after my running goal was cut in half due to time wasted on Apple caused issues. Remember back in the day when we said Apple gear was worth it because of all the time it saved? Remember those days?
Now that I've got it, I decide to dive into the niceties of WOS2. Animated watch faces? Really? A photos watch face? I like viewing photos on my watch but having them behind the watch face only works if I only take pictures that are really low contrast and mostly one color. Both of these new watchfaces have nothing on the screen but the time?!? Hello. It's a smart watch. The reason I don't use the butterfly with the flappy wings is it doesn't tell me if I'm late for a meeting or what the weather is right now or even so much as the battery level. I can get a Casio (or at these prices a Rolex) that shows me nothing but the time!
I wouldn't own an Apple Watch to simply tell me the time, beautiful animations and pictures of my kids notwithstanding. So then I went looking for better complications on the existing watch faces. I found a few more complications were allowed for some of the watch faces but honestly it's time for Apple to allow some third party watch faces.
Now we are approaching the end of this rant and I must say that so far the arrival of WOS2 for me was somewhat anticlimactic. Mostly because of what I perceive as an excessive update time. Had I known it would take this long, I would have started it as I was going to sleep rather than the middle of my afternoon. I found myself reaching for my citizen Eco Drive watch and a crusty old (GS4) Android phone while my AW was off taking a snooze in updateland rendering both itself and my iPhone 6 useless for the entire duration of the update. At the very least Apple could have put up a dialog that estimated the upgrade time and offered me a chance to back out. Telling me it was 500mb on my internet connection was basically telling me it would take 10 minutes or so. Then being stuck on a screen that said "4 hours remaining" with no escape hatch for me to take either my phone or my watch with me on a run left me no choice but to reach for my backup device... Android. I can't get Runmeter on Android but Runkeeper still works. For me today was not a good day in Apple-land;
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It said 1 hour, but it took around 2-3 hours starting at noon on release day.
1.5-2 hours to download. 30 min-1 hour to do verifying, install,e tc.
1.5-2 hours to download. 30 min-1 hour to do verifying, install,e tc.
After playing around with OS 2 a while my watch started to have synching probs, so I had to unpair and re-pair again. It was really slow and the watch appeared frozen at times, took maybe 15-20 minutes. So don't worry if that happens. Now all is working just fine.
was like this last night as well then an error appeared
Mine took about an hour to download on 100mbps, then about another 15 minutes to actually apply to the AW