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Jony Ive on Apple Watch: 'Everything We Did Was in the Pursuit of What We Thought Was the Best Solution'
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If follows the same pattern of anything related to this guy. He's one of the reasons I've left Apple products for now. There are so many things about the AW that could have been better and yet have never been fixed. I liked the AW when I used it, but after experiencing a Gear S3 and how much better the user interface is... it makes this guy look like more of an idiot in what he's said here about the AW design process. I'm sure Samsung probably spent a fraction of the time and money building a Gear S3, and at least when it comes to the UI (something Ives should understand), its not even close how much worse the AW (initially, and with the updated UI) UI is.
Love my Omega Seamaster and Cartier Santos but I use the AW most of the time due the fact I am an avid swimmer and athlete and I enjoy the challenges and data tracking plus a bunch of other features that come in handy. Nowadays, I only use my mechanical watches for social occasions.
But you don't have one. For me personally I am 180 degrees from your opinion. It is absolutely a game changer for me and for everyone that I know that has gotten a watch so far. (a small sample group of 6 people, but still)
I'm curious what was the reason? Or if you had a lot of reasons, which was the overriding or most important one?
In the vain of opportunity... 
The day that Cook, Ive, and Schiller retire is the day Apple will be reborn.
The day that Cook, Ive, and Schiller retire is the day Apple will be reborn.
I still wear mechanical watches daily because IMO they have more character and are functional. I currently have an Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 2500C and a Nomos Neomatic Minimatik.
I don't have an Apple Watch, but I hope they make an Apple Watch "lite". I'd be interested in this for just the gym or fitness activities, specifically the HR tracking and possibly bluetooth streaming.
I don't have an Apple Watch, but I hope they make an Apple Watch "lite". I'd be interested in this for just the gym or fitness activities, specifically the HR tracking and possibly bluetooth streaming.
They all seem so full of themselves these days... blah blah blah... with the customer in mind. I hear the sound of a cash register in the background, oh wait... there is Tim and his infinite pipeline.
I wear an Apple Watch every day and don’t experience this at all. Of course I use the watch for only a few things so I’m not spending a lot of time navigating the UI. I launch a workout or a timer or set an alarm or check a notification or use Apple Pay. I spend next to no time navigating the app grid as all the apps I use are located right near the clock face or I access them via multitasking pane. To me the Watch is dead simple to use.
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The band connector is the best thing about the Watch. I suppose Apple could have gone the Android OEM route and made a watch that looks like a bad knockoff of a mechanical watch but I think they respect high end watches too much to do that.
Yep, that's pretty much it. Most of the rest of the functionality is lost if you don't also have your iPhone in your pocket. However, by far the biggest problem is that Apple prevent third party developers from fully accessing the watch face.
The complications on the (rather dull) selection of given watch faces are more or less useless for anything useful. It does not yet appear to have occurred to Apple that the main display on an Apple Watch does not need to be an imitation watch face. It's a screen that attaches conveniently to your wrist. That's where comparisons to a watch should end.
Developers should be allowed to produce apps of any kind that users can choose to use as their main watch face. Until then, the potential of the device remains crippled.
I bought mine for notifications, which has been a real boon since I get business messages several dozen times a day. No more fishing out my iPhone all the time. The surprise is that it has actually helped me exercise more. Just the right amount of nag. I waited til the series 2 and set appropriately low expectations, but I’m pretty happy with it. Agreed, it’s not as revolutionary as iPhone, but it’s definitely useful and we’re still in the early days of wearables.
It would have been cool if the Apple watch was available in Carbon Fiber.
Lightweight, durable, pleasing to touch without fear of damage.
It undoubtedly got things moving the first year. Plus, big profit margins in the first stages. They only sold it a year, Mr. Robespierre. I hope you enjoy your People's Android Watch.
I thought their typical disposition towards "direct manipulation" was to eliminate it at all costs. This is the the same Apple that turned the click wheel into a circular track pad; that refused to ship a mouse with more than one button, and now sells mice and track pads with no actual buttons; that eliminated the home button, first by faking it with a haptic "button", and then just getting rid of it entirely; and replaced physical function keys with a touch screen. A digital crown that the user physically turns and physically presses is anathema to everything else the company has done when it comes to "direct manipulation." To Apple, direct manipulation means interacting with a digital representation of a button on a screen. They make it more direct not by introducing physical buttons, but by eliminating the interface layers between the user and the button (ex. eliminating the need for a mouse by expanding the use of touch screens).
I don't believe this for a minute. I find it highly implausible that Jobs knew about the popularity of using the 6th gen. iPod nano as a watch, to the point of releasing a dozen watch faces for it to promote this aspect of it after it's first year, days before his death, and not having any further discussions about the obvious potential which lay within such a device. It's just implausible to me.
Lots of reasons. I’ve never liked the design of the Apple Watch but I thought I’d give it a try and hoped it would grow on me. It never did though.
It was my main watch for the first year but had always rotated it with my other watches. I found it was gradually getting less wrist time until it became my work watch, then one day I left it off to go to work and I haven’t touched it since or found myself missing it.
My main gripe was the rectangular display. A watches main function will always be as a watch for me and I prefer an analogue face, which is relatively tiny on the Apple Watches display. It’s best feature was the straps and bracelets, which were very well designed and generally very comfortable to wear.
I’m glad I gave it a go but it just wasn’t compelling enough or have the looks to compete with my real watches.
I had the watch for some time and it ended up being just one more device bugging me with notifications. Thanks but no - stay away. As for healthcare I don't trust a watch to take and monitor my heart rate or whatever... There are FDA (USA) or EMA (EU) approved medical devices for that.
A dud the size of a fortune 300 company..
They have said the HomePod was something they were working on for years. I cannot imagine they spent more time developing the HomePod than they did the Apple Watch. There is no way there was only a 2.5 year gap from it being brought up to it being rolled out. Jobs definitely knew and likely was part of it. The tech in the Apple Watch just matured enough this year to be considered more of a stand alone device. The technology just wasn't around when Jobs was alive to make it happen.I don't believe this for a minute. I find it highly implausible that Jobs knew about the popularity of using the 6th gen. iPod nano as a watch, to the point of releasing a dozen watch faces for it to promote this aspect of it after it's first year, days before his death, and not having any further discussions about the obvious potential which lay within such a device. It's just implausible to me.
Or just use headphones with a remote in-line which does all that (except heart rate)? And who really needs a heart rate monitor unless you have cardiac problems, in which case you need a real holter monitor type device and have medical supervision while exercising.
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The biggest draw-back with the Apple Watch has been time. It takes far too long to setup and that setup fails or needs to be redone far to often.
Half gimmick and half useful - all joined at the hip to the iPhone.
JMHO - YOMVG
Half gimmick and half useful - all joined at the hip to the iPhone.
JMHO - YOMVG
Another interview where he talks a lot but says nothing. Thumbs up to the interviewer though who asked Jony a few challenging questions.
I agree IF the Apple Watch could be used with non-iOS devices.
I suspect we will see this cross OS functionality from non-iOS OEM's (Samsung and others).