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Watch the Apple Watch Series 4 Smoke Older Apple Watches in Speed Comparison
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It was a branding statement. Apple wanted the watch to be a fashion statement and not just another device to differentiate it from other smart watches. I’m sure they never expected to sell many of those, since the gold watches were handmade. It got people (and more importantly the press) talking about the outrageously priced model and helped spread the word about the new watch.
Since it has an OLED display, couldn't they have created a minimal "always on" display so that it always displays the time, whilst also saving a lot of battery power? I really hope this will be a feature one day, because any watch still has this advantage over the Apple Watch: the ability to see what time it is without having to do anything.
The mental gymnastics in this post to justify not buying a new watch are astounding. Enjoy your series 0 that is 0.2mm thinner and one tenth the speed I guess, priorities.
I actually watched this... What a useless and absolutely meaningless piece of information...
Seems like it's time to update my watch from Series 0 to this new one 
Not that I've noticed. Still painfully slow to download stuff to the new watch (well, using Audible it is).
WatchOS is a lot more limited than iOS, and the Watch has got to be faster than the iPhone 3G for example, yet the 3G can load a more complete OS faster...
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I turn mine off at night every night so it doesn't drain.
It's still quite slow. However, I've come from a 3 to a 4 and can't see a difference and I can't remember what it was like with my first AW.
I'm trying to get one on a plan with my carrier in Australia. However, they're all out of them. Are there currently low stocks in most places? I hope I don't have to wait too long, they haven't gotten back to me with an ETA.
Screen size. Screen size. Screen size. All the extra complications are fantastic. More information! The other day I tried my ‘old’ watchface that I was fine with for 3 years...and it felt so ... outdated. And then there is the better call clarity. And it IS a bit faster, Siri works better for me. The four really is a notable upgrade to the three, even without the ECG.
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I almost never reboot my watch but I decided to do a test in the s3 after watching this. It took 1:37.71 running watch OS 5.0. That's quite a large difference from this test.
But anyway, we seem to be with watch where we were with phones about five years ago. Each update shows notable performance changes. Meanwhile I can't say the same (or at least not to this extent) with phones anymore. That's not a complaint regarding thenlhones by the way. I'm happy to keep them longer. I'd probably still be using the 6s plus if my X list hasn't been so strong.
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i wish iPhone nomenclature was this straightforward
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It was about $150 for us in the US too :/
I realize it does a lot more in the health department but I'm baffled how the price is never really talked about. That's a huge price jump considering I bet most people don't even spend that on a single analog watch.
What’s to talk about with price? A few have complained that once again Apple increased the features and dared to increase the price.. but honestly what else is there to discuss? It is significantly bigger screen. Significantly faster. Sounds better. I didn’t mind paying more because I got more. I know I will get attacked for saying that. If I didn’t want more, I had the choice of buying the reduced cost S3. So there you go. Pay more, get more. But you have a choice. Including not buying at all.
I was an early-adopter and bought the Series 0, Steel w/Saphire face. At the time I was hoping Apple was entering the watch business like any other watch company, treating their product as both an essential wearable and a piece of jewelry... only adding their tech-and-design-savy to a product. I thought that meant I would have it for 10+ years, and therefore, needed a scratch-proof face. Apple didn't make a proper watch, they made a gadget... a throwaway, planned-obsolescence obeying, only lasts 3 years tops, tool that happened to resemble a watch and happened to be worn on your wrist. Now, for a wearable gadget, it's AWESOME. But it is WAY too expensive on a cost-per-year basis. I can't, nor anyone else who's doing the math and for whom money is not 'no object', justify the steel-and-saphire version ever again. So i went with the series 4 gps. I love it. It's fantastic. I'm disheartened that while it looks like a great watch, it isn't.
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I get your frustration, but that’s often how new technology products work. They improve rapidly year over year. The speed increases in early iPhone days were also very impressive. Apple is making the best product they can every year, which is really want we want.
I can’t resist a bit of snark: If you want smart watches that don’t improve year over year, take a look at Android watches. They have been very frustratingly stagnant.
As an owner of the first Gen, I’m really impressed with series 4, though having gone back to mechanical, and given its price, it’s not for me. Good to see apple evolve this product
This is the biggest reason I had no interest in buying the early watches.