lol.....You may be right and it will make it harder for the NSA to break into but right now i'm thinking...beam me up Scotty.
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lol.....You may be right and it will make it harder for the NSA to break into but right now i'm thinking...beam me up Scotty.
The fact that the playing field is now level is what prompted me to wonder how Steve would've handled this new environment we're in. Fun but pointless, I admit.
The show is indeed getting interesting.
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I agree, but to be fair the innovation on wearables seems to be occurring industry-wide.
That's not to diminish Apple's work here, but it is not the quantum leap made with the iPhone in terms of device vision.
I feel like other companies have studied and figured out Apple's approach to the execution of technology and are now able to put their own recipe together for achieving the same thing.
They studied Apple's kung fu, and are now integrating it with their own trial-and-error approaches, resulting in their own recipes. Key in this is their integration of customer feedback, an ingredient that Apple largely lacks; Apple "tells you" what you want.
I feel the industry is mature enough to make this notion obsolete. There's no more "invention" to be had in these devices, short of holo-displays and the Matrix (which would be another product category altogether). But even that is debatable.
Still, what an amazing era we live in, and I look forward to what companies (not just Apple) are set to deliver in the future.
But that isn't relevant here. The original criticism was that the round screen would have to be larger to show the same information as the Watch currently does.
Even without overlaying the Watch on the 42mm Huawei, that's absolutely a false claim -- the 38mm currently shows almost the exact same content as the 42mm Watch, yet it fits almost entirely within the display area of the 42mm, bezel and all! Not to mention easily fitting entirely within the 42mm Huawei round watch.
Add to that, virtually the entire 42mm Watch display area fits into the 42mm Huawei round watch display. Moreover, even if Apple did take the 42mm Watch display to the edges of its bezel, it almost fits into the 42mm round Huawei ... note that there is additional display area on both sides of the Huawei with the 42mm Watch bezel overlaid onto it. A good UI would of course take advantage of all available display area.
Also, you're assuming Apple's rather large bezel is result of technology limitations, rather than design considerations. But think about this ... the 42mm Watch has the exact same technology inside it as the 38mm watch. The only difference is the screen is larger, and the battery is larger. But even with the added screen size drawing more battery power, the 42mm battery lasts longer than the 38mm (something Apple does not promote). So why not put a larger display on the 42mm watch making it even more useful? Because then it won't look like the 38mm. Apple chose form over function.
And I can't restate this enough -- the 42mm display does not display substantially more information than does the 38mm display,yet the 38mm display fits almost entirely within the 42mm display area, bezel and all. That fact alone totally debunks this meme that a round watch would have to be substantially larger than the Apple watch to display the exact same information.
So there's absolutely no validity to this claim whatsoever.
That said, the size of the information displayed will obviously change with the diameter of the watch. But based on Apple's current display sizes, the exact same information, at the exact same size, would both easily fit inside a comparable round display without any compromises whatsoever.
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You're right, we'll never know, yet I find myself musing occasionally about the current state of Apple's software, and I keep thinking Steve being the perfectionist he was, would not have been a happy camper (understatement of the year) and heads might have rolled.Articles like this make me wonder a bit where Apple would be if Steve hadn't died yet.
What would he have done, what direction he would've taken the company, what Apple products would look like now...
Alas, we'll never know. Perhaps Steve took Apple products to maturity, just like cars and guitars. Innovation will be small and iterative in nature. The fundamentals remain the same.
Here's to hoping for a new kid (from Apple or otherwise) that changes the game like Steve did, though.
I don't like how Apple is taking Steve's legacy and shooting it in the face, but I guess that was Steve's last mistake: "Don't stop to consider what I would do."
Damn it, Steve. You shouldn't have said that.
Rant over and out.
I appreciate the optimism of your post, though I've never thought of my iPhone as a "bulky tech brick." If/when Apple watch becomes completely untethered from iPhone, I may give it a second look. That said, unless some sort of amazing hologram-esque interface come along, the tiny screen required of a watch face will always be a limiting factor. When it comes to spending my money (i.e. payment transactions) I'm not so sure I want it to be completely effortless. It's better if I do have to think about it. We know product sellers and credit card companies want the transaction to be detached from the reality that either cash is being sucked from our bank account, or that debt is being racked up. Considering the massive amount of personal debt in America and other countries, as well as over-spending in general, I'm thinking the convenience added to the transaction process by tech gadgets is not without its downside on a pretty large scale. (Now exiting old guy "get off my lawn kid" soapbox.
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Yeah, the Apple Watch bezels are really big. But they're not alone in that. Motorola loves to point out that most watches use only HALF their available space for display:
Actually, the rounded corners help that ratio. I think that if, for example, the Apple Watch was fully rectangular, it would be using less than 42% of the space. Ditto for others.
That's true with scaled pages like the clockface. However, for unscaled pages, the 38mm displays less info:
What it debunks is the idea that showing less info (say, round vs square) is somehow a horrible thing that makes the watch unusable. Total bunk.
Millions upon millions of Apple Watch buyers already chose a smaller display when they got the 38mm version. Proof that the argument about "more scrolling" etc is meaningless in real life to most buyers.
The demonstrable fact is, style is more important to most people.
I think it can easily be something more or different than style, like simply comfort and/or pricing and/or availability even.
Yep, sorry, I got rushed and had to end abruptly. I wanted to say something like "personal choice" but could only think of "fashion" at that second.
You're exactly right. It can be many things.
However, display size is not often quoted as the reason to get the 42mm. More often, it's how it looks.
As I keep saying, if sheer text scrolling size was the most important thing, we'd all be wearing something like the Samsung S that wraps around half your wrist with lots of text lines.
More importantly, most of these watches are supposed to be a companion piece. For lots of scrolling, you switch to your host phone instead.