Watch Face activates too late?

[samiznaetekto]

I'm sure that the Apple Engineers can make the screen light up at a reasonable time...

"Can"? Multiple reviewers of the watch which is in PRODUCTION mentioned the lag and called it "distracting", "frustrating", etc.

So, apparently, Apple Engineers couldn't.

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All these bugs will be easily fixed with future software updates

Not a chance. The watch is a black box with an accelerometer in it, which only can tell you the orientation and magnitude of apparent gravity relative to watch's sides, but cannot know if you're actually looking at the watch or doing something else. There's just no way around it. You either trigger the screen too much which will eat the battery for lunch and perform unwanted actions, or it'll lag annoyingly. There's no way for a dumb black box with just an accelerometer and no eye tracking camera to do the right thing 100% of the time.

 

[cwosigns]

Not a chance. The watch is a black box with an accelerometer in it, which only can tell you the orientation and magnitude of apparent gravity relative to watch's sides, but cannot know if you're actually looking at the watch or doing something else. There's just no way around it. You either trigger the screen too much which will eat the battery for lunch and perform unwanted actions, or it'll lag annoyingly. There's no way for a dumb black box with just an accelerometer and no eye tracking camera to do the right thing 100% of the time.

You have no idea what you're talking about. The 5s was released with a serious SOFTWARE bug that prevented the level from working correctly. Everyone was sure it was a hardware issue that couldn't be fixed with a software update, yet lo and behold...a software update fixed it.

I get that you don't want the watch or even like it. But you're working awfully hard on this forum to convince people it's a terrible device and won't ever get better. Why are you so invested? And don't you have something better to do?

 

[samiznaetekto]

>You have no idea what you're talking about. The 5s was released with a serious SOFTWARE bug that prevented the level from working correctly. Everyone was sure it was a hardware issue that couldn't be fixed with a software update, yet lo and behold...a software update fixed it.

It's one thing to compensate for a bias in one of the axes on the accelerometer, it's totally a different thing to detect from what appears to human eye a random noise of accelerometer readings that the user raised the watch and is looking at it.

 

[totten76]

"Can"? Multiple reviewers of the watch which is in PRODUCTION mentioned the lag and called it "distracting", "frustrating", etc.

So, apparently, Apple Engineers couldn't.

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Not a chance. The watch is a black box with an accelerometer in it, which only can tell you the orientation and magnitude of apparent gravity relative to watch's sides, but cannot know if you're actually looking at the watch or doing something else. There's just no way around it. You either trigger the screen too much which will eat the battery for lunch and perform unwanted actions, or it'll lag annoyingly. There's no way for a dumb black box with just an accelerometer and no eye tracking camera to do the right thing 100% of the time.

Obviously you're set on the Apple Watch sucking when you, and a majority of the population haven't even used it. I'm sure the black box is incabable of telling you time in the way you need it to. gtfo

 

[samiznaetekto]

Obviously you're set on the Apple Watch sucking when you, and a majority of the population haven't even used it. I'm sure the black box is incabable of telling you time in the way you need it to. gtfo

I've been using a smartwatch for 6 months now, and had similar issues with the lag and too many accidental activations. This problem simply cannot be solved using accelerometer alone.

I've been working on iOS apps using accelerometer, gyro, magnetometer, and GPS for several years now - trust me in what I'm saying.

 

[kdarling]

All these bugs will be easily fixed with future software updates

The long turn-on delay during a wrist flick might be fixable, but there's no software way to fix the basic problem of a watch that only comes on with certain motions.

Those of us who have worn watches all our lives know quite well that there are normally many times when we are able to glance at a watch without having to move our wrist at all, or perhaps just very little (or very slowly, such as when trying not to wake up someone in your arms).

Correspondingly,those of us who have worn smartwatches for years also know that any watch that requires a motion to turn on, is going to be annoying at times. Unless, as mentioned above, a watch can check your eyes to see if you're looking at it, it's just not possible to figure it out from motion alone.

This is why, in my case, that I now favor watches that stay on all the time (either by virtue of a low power display, or via a separate physical clockface).