Do you think that over time, we will get more watchfaces? One thing I like about Pebble watches is that we can design our own by adding our own images, etc. That's one thing I'll miss by buying an Watch.
I would like to see a watchface that shows 24 hour time.. Like Railroad and Military watches.
I am talking about a classic analog type display.
if Apple doesn't offer custom watchfaces, developers will just make their own battery-eating watch face apps.
Apple's reasoning will be to provide a quality experience on their quality watch. They would likely point to Android Wear as being an example of bad design in this regard.
In some respects that would be true - there are a ton of crappy watch face since anyone can create one.
However - it is the ultimate in personalization. There are some amazing watch faces. Then there are some great apps that let you build your own. I love the flexibility.
While Apple may not or shouldn't allow just "any" watch face to be in the app store. I do think they should allow a user to design their own to use.
Thanks for all the replies. I agree with this poster:
Cook was going on about personalisation, so to me we should be able to create our own watchfaces.
Do you think that over time, we will get more watchfaces? One thing I like about Pebble watches is that we can design our own by adding our own images, etc. That's one thing I'll miss by buying an Watch.
The watch faces are an important aspect of the Apple Watch. I hope Apple keeps the Quality control of this aspect. I too have a Pebble and there are lots of mediocre watch faces that clutter the pebble app store.
Do you think that over time, we will get more watchfaces? One thing I like about Pebble watches is that we can design our own by adding our own images, etc. That's one thing I'll miss by buying an Watch.
The watch faces are an important aspect of the Apple Watch. I hope Apple keeps the Quality control of this aspect. I too have a Pebble and there are lots of mediocre watch faces that clutter the pebble app store.
I could see them selling watch faces like they sell ringtones and possibly letting developers design their own and sell them in the app store. That would be the ideal situation but who knows.
Yes, I expect that would happen, but I'm curious as to why you feel this is "ideal"
For example, say your iMac came with 10 wallpapers, you could not select your own, but buy new ones from iTunes.
Would you consider that "ideal"
Ideal, surely would be you can buy professionally made ones if you wanted, or also create your own personal ones if you wanted.
No?
Thanks for all the replies. I agree with this poster:
Cook was going on about personalisation, so to me we should be able to create our own watchfaces.
Well I'm not a developer but I'm sure there is more to designing a watch face than making your own wallpaper.
There has to be code behind the faces to make the arms/numbers move and to display things like calendar events, weather, etc. Its not like you can go into photoshop and draw a picture of a watch and suddenly it would function like a normal watch on the Apple Watch.
I say it would be ideal for developers to create them and sell them in the App store because for one Apple would be able to review which ones make it into the store and ensure they work properly (just like they do with apps) and also if developers are making new watch faces instead of just Apple, we are bound to get a larger selection.
I could see them selling watch faces like they sell ringtones and possibly letting developers design their own and sell them in the app store. That would be the ideal situation but who knows.