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Ive on Apple Watch: One of the Most Difficult Projects I've Ever Worked On

What I found most interesting in this article was that Cook gave the Watch project to Jeff Williams and not Dan Riccio who runs hardware engineering.

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chupachup said:
18k gold plated. The USA always gets crap gold.
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John Gruber confirmed that it is indeed gold (and heavier than the stainless steel watch).
 
Bummer that they couldn't build in a GPS tracker, despite the bulkiness of the device. Means I am stuck with my Nike Sportwatch.
 
Slipxtreme said:
Some of the reporters complained about the fact that Apple had planted hundreds of Apple employees in the front rows to ensure lots of cheering.

Confident people don't have to pull such tricks.

Yep. Like on Sunday pikachu or whatever his name is keynote google employees were all at the back...right.
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Wait, so Apple employees who worked on these products and were clearly proud of what they did got prime seats at the event and that's a bad thing?
 
JayLenochiniMac said:
The Moto 360 actually looks pretty terrible in real life (on the wrist) compared to the render:

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Wow that thing is awful.

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ElZeus said:
This is what I was expecting from Ive.

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I would like to see a circular :apple:Watch but I think what turns me off a bit is the iconography of the apps and some of the screen designs. Looks too kid like and I think that interferes with the high end quality and sophistication of the design.
Sure I would like to see a thinner watch but that might come with V2 or V3 but the toy like interface is what detracts and takes away for me. IMO Jony failed a bit on that department.
 
fallenjt said:
iPhone 6 rear design look great in person. At the end of the day, who cares about the back of the device since you will never see it anyway.
BTW, I was searching eBay for iPhone 6 case, and interesting, most of Clear case were gone from most sellers. So tell me that people hate the back and want to cover it with cases. I guess not.
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Actually I think a lot of people care what the back looks like because many people like naked phones. I’ve been protecting my phones with cases and screen protectors (went to glass about 2 years ago) so I could care less how the phone looks. But when you look at the iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 you could tell that Apple cared a lot about the looks. The 4 has the all glass back and the 5 has the chamfered edges which still looks nice today.
 
JayLenochiniMac said:
Not just text that is scrollable.
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But that text IS scroll-able...

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In fact all text that I've seen on the 360 is scroll-able. I have not once seen anything cut off. But either way... hopefully people realize that they are arguing design and aesthetics here right? There is simply no right or wrong "design", period.
 
farewelwilliams said:
I still wish the watch is bit more responsive to your location

Example:
You arrive at the mall. You're at the entrance and the moment you raise your watch, the directory of that specific mall launches.

Or you arrive at a popular restaurant, and boom: a deal appears on your watch.

of course there should be a way to disable this feature incase it gets a bit spammy, but still a feature I'd like to see.
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Imagine a dating app where the watch vibrates as you approach someone who also has the app and fits into your "type". You could quickly check his or her one-line reviews left by other partners (e.g. "good kisser, very into feet though.") and send your heartbeat to the other watch. If the other party accepts, both can check out each others profile and get walking directions towards each other.

Call the app chick-magnet (or *ick-magnet). :p
 
JayLenochiniMac said:
Yes, but I believe not while it's taking its reading and that's highly annoying (I may be wrong on this but someone can correct me). Seeing a text cut off is simply a bad design.

Apple would obviously not make this mistake had they gone with round but that's beside the point.
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There is no text while it's taking a reading. It's just your reading... numbers. And again... I've yet to see anything "cut off" in a way that I cannot physically scroll it into view or read it. Any/all text displayed on the screen can be scrolled unless the developer screwed it up somehow (3rd party app).

I'm not trying to be a troll... just throwing out some facts as I own and use the 360. :)

Basically there is absolutely no difference between the 360 round design and any other square design other than more (albeit small) screen on the edges. Everything can be seen or scrolled into view... just as it would on a square design.
 
I bet apple wants to have a yearly product in the first quarter which is the reason for the delay.

Watch at the beginning of the year | phone at the end.
 
KrakaJap said:
There is no text while it's taking a reading. It's just your reading... numbers. And again... I've yet to see anything "cut off" in a way that I cannot physically scroll it into view or read it. Any/all text displayed on the screen can be scrolled unless the developer screwed it up somehow (3rd party app).

I'm not trying to be a troll... just throwing out some facts as I own and use the 360. :)

Basically there is absolutely no difference between the 360 round design and any other square design other than more (albeit small) screen on the edges. Everything can be seen or scrolled into view... just as it would on a square design.
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I get it. My beef is seeing any text cut off on such a small screen is simply bad design and something Apple will want to avoid even if it's scrollable.
 
If you think about it, a round watch is sort of dumb for displaying text. Either you have to scroll to see more than 2 lines at full width or you have to letterbox it left and right which wastes a lot of space.
Mechanical watches are round because the clock hands go in circles.

Apple did good by displaying the round watch faces in the center and some extra stuff in the 4 corners because there's space there.
 
JayLenochiniMac said:
I get it. My beef is seeing any text cut off is simply bad design and something Apple will want to avoid even if it's scrollable.
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MrCrowbar said:
If you think about it, a round watch is sort of dumb for displaying text. Either you have to scroll to see more than 2 lines at full width or you have to letterbox it left and right which wastes a lot of space.
Mechanical watches are round because the clock hands go in circles.

Apple did good by displaying the round watch faces in the center and some extra stuff in the 4 corners because there's space there.
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Scrolled text is going to be "cut off" on round or square guys... hence the need to "scroll" it. Come on. This isn't that difficult to understand. You're also missing the entire point Motorola is trying to make... the fact that this is first and foremost a watch... not a gadget. It's their design angle for aesthetics and looking great because a lot of wrist watches are round regardless of their mechanics. If you don't like round watches, that's fine because there are plenty of square ones out there too. But the fact is that the 360 is simply NOT cutting anything off anymore than a square watch would.
 
BigHonkingDeal said:
As long as they are making a "Sport Watch" that I can not swim or even shower with and have to pray that the battery lasts a day..... I will not buy that thing for $100.-, What good is it?
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That is quite a huge oversight isn't it? I can maybe forgive phones with all their ports for not being waterproof but not a watch.
 
KrakaJap said:
But that text IS scroll-able...

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In fact all text that I've seen on the 360 is scroll-able. I have not once seen anything cut off. But either way... hopefully people realize that they are arguing design and aesthetics here right? There is simply no right or wrong "design", period.
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How come the text doesn't look smooth? I see a lot of jagged edges.
 
Rogifan said:
How come the text doesn't look smooth? I see a lot of jagged edges.
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Do you mean the pixelation of the screen or physically? Physically its very smooth and clean cut but the screen ppi really sucks compared to what we're all used to in smartphones. :) The screen is also beveled so at that edge you're going to see aberrations... kind of like a prism.
 
KrakaJap said:
Scrolled text is going to be "cut off" on round or square guys... hence the need to "scroll" it. Come on. This isn't that difficult to understand.
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Cut off at corners is more annoying than cut off evenly, that's all.

Rogifan said:
How come the text doesn't look smooth? I see a lot of jagged edges.
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That's one of the complaints from the professional review I posted earlier.
 
vvswarup said:
Apple products were no less polarizing when Steve was a the helm. The iPhone was criticized left, right and center. The decision to ban Flash from iOS met with wave after wave of criticism. Article after article proclaimed the end of Apple.

It paid to write articles trashing Apple then and it still pays do so now. All that's changed is that people have a new tool with which they can legitimize their criticism of Apple-make it look like Steve wouldn't have done things that way.
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I don't think the people who criticized the removal of Flash are the same people who criticize the Apple Watch though.

Leaving out flash was a tough, but great choice that showed vision and focus. The Apple Watch on the other hand represents the opposite of that (IMO of course), with Apple putting in it every feature they could think of.

I think this looks like a very different Apple than the one who left out Flash.
 
KrakaJap said:
Do you mean the pixelation of the screen or physically? Physically its very smooth and clean cut but the screen ppi really sucks compared to what we're all used to in smartphones. :) The screen is also beveled so at that edge you're going to see aberrations... kind of like a prism.
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I can see pixels. Looks like a pre-retina display.
 
KrakaJap said:
But that text IS scroll-able...

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In fact all text that I've seen on the 360 is scroll-able. I have not once seen anything cut off. But either way... hopefully people realize that they are arguing design and aesthetics here right? There is simply no right or wrong "design", period.
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Do a Google Image search for "Moto 360 cut off " or Moto 360 cropped UI and you will find some non scrollable text that are indeed cut offed


http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/540dbbc76bb3f7645bfb05e4-800-600/moto360heartrate-2.png
 
MrCrowbar said:
Imagine a dating app where the watch vibrates as you approach someone who also has the app and fits into your "type". You could quickly check his or her one-line reviews left by other partners (e.g. "good kisser, very into feet though.") and send your heartbeat to the other watch. If the other party accepts, both can check out each others profile and get walking directions towards each other.

Call the app chick-magnet (or *ick-magnet). :p
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Haha that is funny!

Review: "I said no, don't, stop, he heard "no don't stop"".
 
Rogifan said:
I can see pixels. Looks like a pre-retina display.
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Yeah I'm not arguing about the resolution... nor the battery life. Moto failed in a number of areas including the pre-ordering process. But overall I personally love the design and that's what I read from almost every reviewer. And I don't normally have the watch right up to my face so the resolution bit doesn't bother as much as it does a lot of other people.

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fortysomegeek said:
Do a Google Image search for "Moto 360 cut off " or Moto 360 cropped UI and you will find some non scrollable text that are indeed cut offed

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Um... I don't need to do a Google search... I own a 360. :confused:
 
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