Nah you're alright, i'm quite happy with my Apple Watch that doesn't look like a kids toy from the 80's.
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Pebble 2, Time 2, and Pebble Core Launch on Kickstarter
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Nah you're alright, i'm quite happy with my Apple Watch that doesn't look like a kids toy from the 80's.
2 things I rate more than that - 1. The most important thing for anything that going on my wrist, because bear in mind lots of people spent up to £10,000 for this reason alone, the Apple Watch looks good. 2. Apple Pay.
Each to their own. To me it looks like a squashed iPhone with truly terrible UI.
Now the Pebble might not be the most attractive thing on the planet. But it's not making itself out to be.
It's a cheap functional watch. Job done.
Apple kinda cracked the code of wearables IMHO. They're stuff to wear, not just gadgets. The "service" they provide you (and make you pay a lot, of course) is heavy marketing and cool design that create a huge hype, so you'll feel comfortable wearing it and not a nerd. Same exact thing for Beats, it's something other people recognize and you feel cool wearing (because you probably don't care about sound and you're even happy to pay more for crappy stuff). Not saying it's fair or morally right but it works, this is how people are made and this market works in my opinion.
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I thought the same the first time they pulled this off. Don't like pebbles and would never support this cheapskate company who risk people's money instead of their own. Kickstarter doesn't care, they just want money. Pathetic
Bingo! And that's exactly why Apple lost focus overloading their Watch with too many features and apps. Not very wise. It's NOT supposed to compete with the phone or act like one.
And that cheapskate company is still HERE and doing a great job. You've no clue how Kickstarter works.
I know right!
Appears a lot of people - myself included - would also like the Pebble Time 2!
Keep in mind, "e-paper" is not the same thing as "e-ink". Kindles use "e-ink", and to the best of my knowledge, nobody has made that in color at production scale.
As far as I can tell, "e-paper" is just a type of transflective (works with a backlight or with ambient light) display. Everyone on this site has experience with transmissive displays. They're the type used for almost every computer. Most phones use transmissive displays, while some use emissive (OLED displays emit light from the pixel rather than passing light from a backlight panel; CRTs are also emissive displays). The most common place most of us have probably seen a reflective display is Nintendo's GameBoy. There were a few where they experimented with internal lights, but almost every model from the original up through the Advance used a reflective display with no internal light.
Transflective displays tend to be a bit compromised. As with the Pebble's display, colors are vibrant, but you don't usually get many of them. Apple's Newton line used transflective displays. The 2000/2100 actually had a lot of neat technologies in it that we now take for granted. At idle, mine consumed around 60 mA running the display and everything.
People like this poster are self conscious fools who have a NEED to look good in order to get laid when the reality is that it's NOT what they wear or have but how they carry themselves.
Same case with those who buy Starbucks coffee just to look " cool " due to the premium service. They need to over themselves. You can't premium-fy computers which is Apple's biggest mistake. Selling an experience is really selling theatrical BS. Starbucks is guilty of that. I should know. I used to work for them.
Out of curiosity, what do you mean by "actually use it"? I check the time, set timers, check calendar, read texts (at least 30/day), and more, and always get 2 full days of life. (Source: Apple Watch 42mm.)
You've got a point there. Apart from material and construction quality AW is currently a bad value for money proposition.
The built in GPS. Are you referencing the Pebble Core? I didn't see it listed as a feature of one of the two watches. It would be great if the watches had it, but I fear it'll greatly affect battery life.
I am sorry buddy...but you called me out when I was trying to do the same with the guy who made the original comment. Let's set the record straight. what you said is exactly what I believe.
The answer to this probably lies in the user experience. Some things can't be compared on paper. There's a lot of polish in the Apple Watch experience that most people would walk away from saying, "yeah, the Apple Watch is nicer." Also, Apple excels at having a great ecosystem, so by nature, the experience will be smoother with an Apple Watch vs. Pebble.
Some people might not care about that. But matching the Apple Watch's features are only half the battle. Implementation is the other half.
There are a couple things that can be compared directly though... like the much higher-quality screen, configurability, and Siri. One could also argue that the Apple Watch looks a lot nicer too as opposed to looking geeky. That's a matter of opinion, of course... but the point is that there are plenty of reasons why someone would consider the Apple Watch well worth the money.
Agreed with most of your itemized list. However, behind the scenes, Pebble struggles with quality control with some of their product line and their customer service is a gimmick. They only have E-mail for a contact and I have heard nightmare stories when it comes to a reaching a feasible solution. At least with Apple, I know they will stand behind their product and they are expensive, yes; but they put out very nice, refined hardware.
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As little as it seems, I really appreciate the audible speaker on the Apple Watch. It's very subtle and nuanced, but really serves its purpose. I actually turned off the haptic feedback to conserve battery life. The speaker on the Apple Watch is not to loud, but for me, it's just right without drawing attention.
