In order, its nothing to do with ego (and you seem unable to understand sarcasm around being complex), major issue with the AW watch - it connects to one device, so i have a choice. link for work, link for personal. totally different responses. work, "call you later", type responses simply wont work... it's that simple.
I'm trying to understand how you leaped to "it can only connect to one device", I will assume you carry around two phones... one for work and one for home? If that's the case, clearly the AW isn't going to work well in that scenario. If that isn't what you meant, than I have no idea what you are talking about. I use my iPhone for work and home, and have no problem responding to both from my AW. You'd be very unusual if you NEVER can respond to a text with a simply reply. You don't have to like the AW if it doesn't work for you. That doesn't make it a bad product with 90% return rates.
No, YOU have the context wrong. someone said they cant remember to flip the mute switch on the phone in the morning, to which i responded why was it any different to remembering to put on the watch in the first place? I have no issues remembering to put on the watch or turning on the mute function on my phone so as to not be "one of those people"
I reread your post. I misread it.. you said it was easier to put your phone in mute than putting on a watch. Neither one is enough bother to impact my day... won't speak for you. We are talking about things in a morning routine that are measured in seconds.
You don't know what the returns or the sales are. That data is simply not public. PERIOD but you post the same rubbish from a source that's got no access to the data, in the same way i make up "9/10", but it's appears more than true AW has had more returns than previous apple products. For reasons i have no idea, i can only "guess" it's surmised by the title of this thread as the value (value and cost are not the same thing) in real terms is low.
You are right, I don't know the return rates for AW. I wasn't stating them, you were. You said 90%. I said that was BS and provided at least some data other than my opinion that a significant percentage of AW buyer are happy. I don't believe I've made any claim of return rates in this thread... I just said your claim was BS. If you are going to throw out ridiculous claims, expect people to challenge them.
This is a discussion forum so why are my opinions on this product ego, but yours fact or real?
Maybe because you like it, i don't? So by your measure than means everything i say is incorrect? but by the same measure it makes everything you say...? How complex is that (this is sarcasm!)
The ego comments were directed at the tone you took that the AW is a failure (because it doesn't work for you), that others lives must not be as complex as yours (because we can get use from the AW), and because you stated that I and others don't have a "right" to state that the AW is a good product. I and several others in this thread have stated numerous times that the AW isn't for everyone. The whole point of this thread, I'm guessing, is to discuss why some think its a waste of money, and why others don't. Lot's of people don't find use in it and think its a waste of money. They should return it. Lots of others find use in it and think it provides value for what they spent. I'm one of them. The only thing I called you on for BS was your ridiculous return claims and blanket statements that don't apply to everyone as you've implied.
The AW is too slow, that's a real problem like it or not, its not got any real USP, its not able to do sleep or heath activities without running out of power - kinda key and linked to the same thing the HR monitor is not even close to being accurate and seems to take ages to notice changes, flipping the watch to see the screen doesn't always work, it's too expensive vs its peers, it's too focused on siri and siri is just not that good as yet and gets frustrating, the OS feels rushed/beta still, its an extension device that still requires you to carry the phone you can't add a contact from a txt for example - I didn't try adding one from a call history, I'm not bothered about the shape, it's limited to a single device pairing, most things on the screen are a struggle to use comfortably, running youtube make the device unpleasantly hot, if you get lots of emails the battery struggles. How's that for being objective - no doubt you will dispute everyone, but they are real..!
I am not even going to try and interpret that stream of gibberish. If you were trying to set some kind of record for a run on sentence, you nailed it. Let me try to net it out... you don't like it... it doesn't work for your "complex" life. Got it. You aren't everyone.
I've spent the time to configure the AW for my life and love it.... here are a couple of the things that I like about it. Not trying to convince you that you should like it, just providing something to support why I like it.
- Notifications of messages/calls - the PRIMARY reason I bought the AW was because for whatever reason I often don't feel my iPhone vibrating in my pocket. The AW alleviates this problem and I don't miss calls or messages any longer.
- Keep my 6s Plus in my pocket more - I have spent a lot of time tweaking my notifications and what I allow to go to the watch. Rather than pull out my phone, I can take a glance to see if a message is urgent. Many (not all) I can reply from my watch. By getting the notifications I want to my AW, I don't get as distracted and wander off for a long time on my iPhone wasted time.
- Watch - I was already wearing a watch... now I don't have to worry about it updating the date when months change (always had a problem with that), DST, etc.., or changing time zones when traveling internationally
- Weather - I use Carrot weather which has great complications and glance
- Music Controller - Use headphones on my iPhone a lot, and especially when working out its a pain to pull out the 6s Plus to change tracks. The controller on the AW glance works well for me. Also, when doing yard work and both hands are covered, I use Siri to change music. It took a while to figure out where to place the watch in relation to my mouth to get it to consistently respond, but works great once that was figured out.
- World Clock - I do a lot of international work and travel, and having available other times on my watch is very handy to be aware of what time it is at home, or at a location I'm working with.
- I sometimes can't find where I left my phone around the house, and the watch alarm to find it works better than anything else I've used. Also if I walk away from my desk to go the kitchen, and I get a call or message, I get it if I left my phone on my desk.
- I configure different apps/glances for different use cases depending on what I'm doing that day. If I'm traveling, in the office, working at home, or at play. It takes only a few seconds to configure and maybe a minute for the AW to get the new config.
- There's more, but hopefully the point is made.
You and others have complained about slowness. I have not experienced that because I don't tolerate slow apps. If they are slow, they get bumped off the watch. I am also somewhat restrictive of what I configure on the watch.
As I said, not trying to convince you that YOU should like the AW. It doesn't work for you... got it. Doesn't mean its not a good product that plenty of others see value in.
