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WatchOS 2 Impressions/Discussions
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I am pretty stoked about watchOS 2.0. I am curious if I should update my Watch OS now. I am currently on 1.0 and I see that 1.0.1 is available. Should I update or not?
I agree - but why worry about that?
I'm listening for the information - I don't care about how the speaker talks, or how he dresses.
Yeah. I want what we will never get, not ever from Apple.
A modular face with a truckload of complications. Call it Tasteless Geek face.
Like:
Date - TIME
small + small + small
small + small + small
and
Date - TIME
Calendar 3 line
Weather 3 line
And a 2 pixel horizontal line on the bottom for battery.
I can dream.
I'm not worried about it. Someone commented on the presentation being "Bleh". I agreed and elucidated atto why I agreed.
the information is the most important. However, Apple seems to care as much about how they package their products and the products themselves.
Even though there were a couple of minor bugs introduced with 1.0.1 there were several improvements and you should update.
The new watch faces were frustrating. Two more digital faces with the time in the same font on the top right and tons of unused space for complications. With third party complications coming (awesome!) they shouldn't have a single face that doesn't support them (and let you turn them off).
In general, I feel like some watch faces could be so simple to make that Apple should be releasing them all the time to keep the buzz going and people happy. There should have been a WWDC themed face pushed to our watches yesterday. The colorful logo IS a watch face already in its design. Every keynote they should announce a new watch face... Or heck, use NFC to only unlock a new face if you visit an Apple Store this month or something. Partner with fashion brands to offer exclusive watch faces if you visit their stores. (As you are most likely that store's target customer if you can afford an Apple Watch and want their watch face).
These are things Nintendo has been doing with their 3DS handheld for years.
In general, I feel like some watch faces could be so simple to make that Apple should be releasing them all the time to keep the buzz going and people happy. There should have been a WWDC themed face pushed to our watches yesterday. The colorful logo IS a watch face already in its design. Every keynote they should announce a new watch face... Or heck, use NFC to only unlock a new face if you visit an Apple Store this month or something. Partner with fashion brands to offer exclusive watch faces if you visit their stores. (As you are most likely that store's target customer if you can afford an Apple Watch and want their watch face).
These are things Nintendo has been doing with their 3DS handheld for years.
I'd have to agree with you.
That said, why can't we have both? I had a Pebble Steel and while yes, there are tons of garbage watch faces in the store, there are also some pretty awesome ones as well.
Visiting the Apple Store for a new watch face is a cool idea for people that are near an Apple Store, but many people are not.
That said, I do hope they update watch faces frequently. I really want a heartbeat watch face, EKG-style.
That is really the watch-face I am looking for. A simple Digital clock, centered, with the date in a corner.
It doesn't seem like Apple cares as much about the presentation recently.
They let the managers of each department give the presentations. That's not always the right strategy. Especially with the watch OS - you've got this Bill Gates type - geeky, but not a good speaker - giving the presentations.
The perfect speaker was Steve Jobs. He had charisma, knew his stuff, seemed a mixture between both a geek and a fun guy to have a beer with. It's hard to find that quality. No other company has the perfect person speaking, either.
Really looking forward to all of these people bricking their watches with beta builds they're not supposed to have.Should prove entertaining.
People with no patience for bugs really shouldn't be running beta code.
Why would this prove entertaining? Maybe you should watch some TV or something, you may find that even more entertaining.
If people wish to brick their devices so be it however I don't exactly find myself 'looking forward to it'.
Totally agree. Even if they don't open it to developers, Apple themselves can do so much more. As you said, keep the buzz, and keep people excited and try out new watch faces. They have thousands of designers, so it's seriously not too much to ask for. As much as I love my Apple Watch and the overall experience, my old iPod Nano 6G had more interesting watch faces, especially the digital ones.
Notice how the new photo face isn't analog. If it were there would be 1000 analog watch background/skins overnight and it would be awesome.
There was that other guy that always did the iOS stuff at these events. Scott Forstall I think. I like him. And I think Phil does a good job. He's nerdy but still fun and charismatic. During the whole watchOS 2 presentation I just wanted to give that guy a wedgie and take his lunch money.
Does anyone know if you can pair an Apple Watch running watchOS 2 with an iPhone running iOS 8? I have a development iPhone which I can install watchOS 2 with but I want to use my watch with my day-to-day phone running iOS 8. So wondered if you can pair it with another iPhone after install. I suspect not.
Lots of new features, some of which I think will have a significant (negative) effect on battery performance. I still expect to get a full day out of the watch on one charge, but I'm not surprised they held off on this at launch.
Why? It's not like you have to use them. If someone else wants an ugly, crappy, tacky watch face... So what? How does that affect you? You still have yours the way you like it.
The only thing this would do is allow devs to be creative and make even more elegant, classy, informative watch faces.
That would actually be pretty sweet, especially if it matched your actual heart rate.
Exactly. I find it tacky that there's a Mickey Mouse face preloaded. I get that it is a riff on a classic design but I don't want it. The only difference between it and third party watch faces is that surely some admittedly miniscule amount of my purchase price actually went to pay for a license of Mickey's likeness. If it was 5 cents, that is still 5 cents I couldn't choose not to pay.
I'm a special case though because I want Disney to burn in the eternal flames of the darkest hell. My mother in law was fired from her management position after 19 years, 1 year before she could retire with lifetime benefits. She had stage 3 cancer and had not missed a single day of work because of it. Used her vacation days to get the initial surgery. When she was fired she lost her health insurance.... With cancer. She died completely broke, under sub-par medical treatment, her house foreclosed on.
That's all a very long story... But it is me saying... Get that ****ing Mickey Mouse off my Apple product and bring on the tacky faces.