Is anyone else reading the Daring Fireball Apple Watch article/review?

[bobob]

Daring Fireball has just posted the closest thing to a review of the Apple Watch ye, with lots of interesting details...

The Apple Watch

 

[Armen]

Daring Fireball has just posted the closest thing to a review of the Apple Watch ye, with lots of interesting details...

The Apple Watch

Cliff notes on the details? I don't like the writing style on that article.

 

[budselectjr]

Cliff notes on the details? I don't like the writing style on that article.

Writing style as in longer than a paragraph?

 

[bobob]

Cliff notes on the details? I don't like the writing style on that article.

Here's a few samples:

It has the finest fit and finish of any Apple product I’ve ever used. It is a wonderfully well-constructed and designed object. Everything about it feels good, and material-wise, it looks great. The side button has a very nice clickiness, and the digital crown feels great as you spin it...


After more than a week of daily use, Apple Watch has more than alleviated any concerns I had about getting through a day on a single charge. I noted the remaining charge when I went to bed each night. It was usually still in the 30s or 40s. Once it was still over 50 percent charged. Once, it was down to 27. And one day — last Thursday — it was all the way down to 5 percent. But that day was an exception — I used the watch for an extraordinary amount of testing, nothing at all resembling typical usage. I’m surprised the watch had any remaining charge at all that day. I never once charged the watch other than while I slept...


For Apple Watch, Apple is billing the Digital Crown as the breakthrough input device. And, to be sure, there’s no other watch, smart or otherwise, with a crown like this. Eight years of daily iPhone use had me swiping the Apple Watch touchscreen to scroll at first, but I quickly learned to adopt the digital crown instead. It truly is a good and clever idea, and, presuming it is patent-protected strongly enough, the lack of a digital crown is going to put competitors at a disadvantage. You can scroll the screen by swiping it, but scrolling the crown is better...


To me, the breakthrough in Apple Watch is the Taptic Engine and force touch. Technically, they’re two separate things. The Taptic Engine allows Apple Watch to tap you; force touch allows Apple Watch to recognize a stronger press from your finger. But they seem to go together. The new MacBook trackpad has both haptic feedback and recognition of force touches, and Apple Watch has both, too. I don’t think Apple will ever release a device that has one but not the other. This is the introduction of a new dimension in input and output, and for me, it’s central to the appeal of Apple Watch...


Digital touch opens the door to forms of remote communication that most of us haven’t ever considered. Non-verbal, non-visual, physical communication across any distance. This could be something big. If you’re the only person you know with an Apple Watch, your timekeeping will still be precise, your activity tracking will still be accurate — but digital touch as a form of communication will be pointless. Digital touch only works, only becomes a thing, if Apple Watch becomes a thing. Digital touch is not designed for an isolated product. It is designed as a tentpole feature for a hit product with widespread appeal and adoption...

 

[Rogifan]

He said he's writting another review on the software.

 

[zacheryjensen]

Hard to take Gruber seriously knowing he's basically a total shut-in and probably the least appropriate candidate for this device's main feature set. Gruber's always pretending to know things he's got no clue about and is pretty good at it. For example, he talks about video games once in a while, but, anyone who is actually into that market knows immediately that he's utterly clueless. I suspect this is another such case, and he even admits has no real use or interest in the fitness features, for example.

Well, listening to his podcast for a few years, one knows that gruber basically sits inside 99% of this time, and his stress use cases that he often brings up for his tech are entirely based around unusual travel scenarios, like attending conventions and blogging about them.

This guy sometimes has useful or interesting insights, often has people on to chat who actually have some meaningful knowledge, but, his own views are coming from such a bizarre life that it can't be a useful perspective on a product like this.

 

[Arran]

Daring Fireball has just posted the closest thing to a review of the Apple Watch ye, with lots of interesting details...

The Apple Watch

Thank you. Good thoughtful review. I only skimmed part of it - but will finish it tonight.