Apple Watch – 6 Months Later, Not That Great
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I mainly use mine for clock, stopwatch, two factor auth, weather, and music control. Big fan of the hardware buttons that your can bind two favorite apps to, instant access to your commonly used features makes for less poking around on it.
(BTW, Pebble latest major OS update fixed almost all the screen tearing issues I was having with my Pebble.)
You recommend it? I thought the battery was 2 days max..?
That said, if your goal is for dressing up... I would probably recommend against the Pebble Round. Drop by a Best Buy and check one out in person at least; my impression is that it looks terribly toy-like for a watch and would not be something I'd choose to wear in a more formal situation.
Honestly, I think if you get a black Time (or one of the Time Steels), you can make it work even in relatively formal situations. Because the main unit is relatively thin, you can even get it under your shirt color easily.
I have a red Time, and even then people just assume it's a sports watch or something before they see it light up with a message on it.
> I still don’t. I do use it for the most basic functions, and rarely switch from the main screen. Taking a glance at the time and my next meeting, getting a feel of the temperature outside, and making sure that I have my alarm set, are really my main functions I use it for.
Is pretty much exactly what I do with my Pebble Time, along with the usual notifications etc, which works fine for me
Huh? Does this mean that he normally sleeps with a watch on?
My LG G and my Pebble before it integrate with the alarm app Sleep for Android. Basically, I set a "I need to wake up by X time" in the app, the app uses the sensors in the watch to monitor how heavily you're sleeping, and will actually set off the alarm at the point within ~a half hour before the alarm time where you're sleeping lightest.
For someone like me that has a very, very hard time getting up in the morning, it's a fairly life changing thing. I also have Sleep tied in with a set of Philips Hues in my bedroom to have it start ramping up the lights to wake me up.
I'm still not a morning person, but I'm less likely to sleep straight through my alarm in the morning these days.
I just woke up after eight and a half hours of sleep, and had 88% battery left. Now, this was also with the Watch in Airplane Mode, but I've forgotten some nights, and still woke up with battery percentages in the same ballpark.
(Data point: I wear the 42mm model. The 38mm has a smaller battery.)
What's there to understand? It all comes down to whether the watch troubles you at all when sleeping. And if it doesn't bother you during the day, why would it bother you at night, when you are mostly unconscious?
I sometimes wear it (during sleep), and others not. Analog watches I can't usually wear when going to sleep, because I have my wrist close to my head, and the "tick tick" noise annoys me. Digital watches, no problem.
>It seems more common with people who have fully waterproof sport watches, I assume at least in part because they can wear them in the shower.
Huh? You can just wipe the watch every now and then.
I can't sleep with one on, and I don't understand why it doesn't bother others who can.
> You can just wipe the watch every now and then.
Even if I could sleep with a watch on, not having a sport watch means that I would have to take it off every morning anyways, so why not just take it off at night?
What's there to bother them? It's just something you have on you wrist all day anyway and barely notice it when you're not checking the time.
I guess some people can't sleep with socks on or pajamas either, but it's not something that's anything more than a personal curiosity.
It's not like having a watch on while sleeping brings in any pain/noise/other issues that make it objectively bad for sleep.
Even with my giant stainless snowboarding watch I'd be worried about breaking the watch while I sleep.
Your watch does not share those properties.
(And even so, lots of people, have no difficulty sleeping with their shoes or even boots on -- on the sofa at home, in an airport waiting, and it tons of other places besides, and even on the bed, usually with clothes on too, when dead tired).
Yours is a very weak argument, find a better one.
I always have. Had no idea that some did not, why bother taking it off, especially if it's waterproof? If it's impinging on your wrist or otherwise uncomfortable, you're wearing it too tightly.
I guess this is one of those things nobody really talks about, which leads to some weird differences, such as the guy who never realized until adulthood that putting the toilet seat down was something that wasn't just for women (like, he never did it AT ALL): https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/2jgfhw/tifu_by_using_...
Years later I discovered I had sleep apnea, so "sleep tracking" (currently via Fitbit Charge HR) became important.
But then I realized in other comments that you were not alone in that. My bet: people who remove their watch for sleeping are the ones who tend to wear it tight, while people keeping it wear it loose.
Pebble owner here: for sleep tracking and a vibrating alarm that doesn't wake my wife.
Also, since it is true waterproof, for laps counting while swimming.
Apple Watch got the looks, Pebble got what really matters. Like in the Chinese proverb: "the ugly wife is a treasure at home".
Smart watches have virtually zero appeal to me as a result. They feel very much like something my father would be into and most of the people I've seen wearing them are over 50. Anecdotal I know, but to be honest, I'm surrounded by time keeping devices at this point. I have a half dozen internet connected accurate time-synced devices within arm reach right now in fact.
I don't need one while driving since my car has a clock and I can't ever recall the last time I didn't know what time it was or having to make a fuss to figure it out because I wasn't wearing a watch.
It seems like most of the folks who talk about it being useful are people who live in very urban environments and spend significant time on public transport, bicycles or in taxis where time keeping devices maybe aren't as common.
I've bought a Garmin Forerunner 235 which I now wear all the time. The battery lasts almost a week. It keeps track of my sleep and heart rate. It has a built in GPS so it's useful when I go running since I don't take my phone with me anymore. Plus when I'm cycling I can connect my cycling sensors to it. It will also show my notifications but that is the least useful part of the watch.
The watch is by no means perfect, there are plenty of bugs. Maybe some day Google or Apple will make their watches useful. Until then, Fitbit, Garmin and Microsoft seem to be doing the right thing with their fitness trackers.
Anyway, boredom is healthy, embrace it!!
Nope. But I have had cars with clocks, and they were unusable due to:
1. They stopped whenever the electrical system had troubles. So they were either behind or showed what was essentially a random time, because they needed constant resetting.
2. They were either woefully fast or slow.
3. They were digital (no hands) and small, requiring you to peer at them to read the time, taking eyes of the road for seconds.
4. They were accessible through a 'mode' button, which of course I never could remember how to scroll through the modes while trying to drive in traffic.
5. My analog watch I can read in 1/10th of a second with just a flick of the eye.
TL,DR: all clocks in cars suck. Not that they have to suck, they just do because of lousy human factors design.
While my plan was to only wear it during events I decided recently to try wearing it all the time. But I switched to using a "nato band", and that's made a tremendous difference. I regularly wear a watch every waking hour and it's not at all uncomfortable. Maybe eventually I'll grow weary of it, but so far it's been fine.
You'll be hard pressed to get me to get rid of them. If anything, I'm looking for more.
I am tempted by some sort of smart watch though. I have a cheap fitness band (Mi Band 1s) for basic fitness and sleep monitoring which I like. My brother loves his Apple Watch and I know of a couple of people with Pebbles who like them. My issue is that I'm not sure I need all the functionality. I have very few meetings and I already get desktop reminders of them, I don't text, email notifications are fine, but the vast majority of the time I'm at my desk, so I see them anyway. So while I kind of want one, it's more for the geek factor and the play around with it type of thing.
So I just go back to drooling over the $10,000 watches I'd love to get.
Though perhaps I'm atypical I've also had the same steel bracelet on for pretty much the past seven years or so. I've taken it off for a few days/weeks at time, otherwise I sleep with it, travel with it, and shower with it. Having the watch on the other wrist gives a nice bit of symmetry.
I'd be happy if it just used some low-power communication to relay information from my phone. It doesn't need a big touchscreen either. Imagine a "smartwatch communication standard" that let normal good-looking watches with months or years (or perpetual) battery time display info from all smartphone platforms would be fantastic. That way I could get an expensive watch and not have to worry about whether it's going to be an expensive paperweight in a few years. I'm happy to buy a $1000 smartphone, but a $1000 watch I want to use for a decade, even if its smart features don't work any more.
Though if you're talking about wearing a $1000 watch, the pebble watches as a whole might not be your vibe. The Pebble Time (especially the red one) can look like a McDonald's toy from afar
But if you remember that you're wearing things like a smartwatch to _get your shit together_ (or whatever), after powering through the initial self-conciousness of wearing a Game Boy Color on your wrist goes away. Well, did for me at least. But the first couple of weeks were almost embarassing.
I'd prefer physical hands on the watch even if it meant the info display was limited. I'd be happy with a good looking chronograph that could just notify me of messages from apps, and display short texts. 2x16 chars lfs mono text would be enough to not ruin the design of the watch.
Edit: it's a thing! http://www.slashgear.com/hps-isaac-mizrahi-smartwatch-woos-l... (Perhaps a bit blingy but just what I'm talking about)
What I'm thinking of is something that all watch makers could add to a dumb watch design and only add $100 to the cost of the watch.
Basically a low-powered pager type display on a watch? Sounds awesome.
Exactly. Just the most basic low power lcd.
We have small display in retail for pricing, and many IMOD display for very slow frame rate / stationary uses. That could be used for poster, or all kind of things. Why do we not have a standard protocol for it?
I've forgotten two or three times, and every time the watch has easily lasted through two full days without dying.
Like the author I don't use third party apps very much (except maybe for Wunderground), but unlike the author I find the built-in functions more than justify the cost. I would recommend it and look forward to seeing what the Watch II brings.
Next unicorn idea: a checklist app of all the devices to charge before going to bed every night!
A powered bucket that you toss all your crap into to wirelessly charge all the electronics you're carrying around with you. Room for at least 1 mobile phone, 1 bluetooth headset, 1 smartwatch and 1 wearable hud-like device.
Notice the "u" in bUcket is uppercase since it looks like the product, making it easy for people to write about in facebook and twitter without having to past the logo everywhere. In fact the logo is just the simple text version of the product name.
Useful and a viral marketing plan all at once.
[edit] And you will need a bucket next to every bed, any hotel. I wonder what Borat would do with them. Reminds me of this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdnuOa7tDco
So? Most hotels managed to keep up with stuff people need over the decades -- phones, air-conditioning, TVs, microwaves, cable, ethernet-based internet access, wi-fi, movies on demand, frequently USB charging ports, etc.
Ikea has now furniture that charges wirelessly. In the end it will be in our walls, floors, coat hangers, beds, doormats, etc. The only other option is that the chips we put in our stuff are not gonna need energy. The current need for more and more powerful chips needs then to be stopped. The next algorithm won't be able to run on it or it wouldn't be able to have a voice interface. My bet is that these things will all need to get lots of energy out of their environment and that wireless charging will play the biggest role in that.
BTW, if the "jack port" (sic) is removed, there will still be a Lightning port. Which supplies power.
Hell ,yesterday I wanted to take a picture of the underside of my car with my phone. Turns out the watch works as a remote camera display... very happy with that!
The watch is slowly taking over a big chunk of the stuff I used to use my iPhone for...
I didn't like having to take the sport band off every night, so I got one of those knockoff link bracelets from Amazon- it looks just like the one Apple sells at 1/5th the price.
I've decided that if they release a new watch this spring I will buy it. Even though I was late to get mine, It has more than paid for itself in 6 months. Whatever the new features of the new watch will likely make it worth the upgrade to me. (The workout app alone is worth $350 for me. I've already saved $30 in gas with the navigation reminders I expect... the watch just keeps paying dividends.)
The fact of the matter is, the iPhone was a truly revolutionary product(they often quoted that in their marketing material, but that was no hyperbole), whereas the Watch has been an evolutionary advancement compared to what was already at the market, at best. That is to say, it didn’t do anything particularly different, or did what alternative products did differently. It integrates well with the Apple ecosystem, and that digital crown is interesting( from what I am hearing, it’s not that great in practice ), and..well, that’s about it, really.
I believe Apple can eventually transform this into a great product, one step at a time. I am not personally drawn to the Watch, or any ‘smart watch’ for that matter, but maybe it’s because I haven’t experienced yet what Apple hasn’t invented yet that would make me want to buy and wear it. Maybe next year when the Home Kit initiative enables ‘smart devices’ and the watch to play nice together, or when you can control your Apple Car using the watch and Siri (if you can name your Apple car, I ‘ll name mine KITT), then I ‘ll really want it.
These days the only product Apples makes that is significantly better than the competition is the MBP, and even that gap is slowly disappearing. The iPhone is not significantly better than the top Android phones. Microsoft has leapfrogged Apple in the tablet space. The Apple Watch was anything but revolutionary. Their desktops have never been better than the competition. Apple TV doesn't offer much compared to the competition. Their recent service offerings (e.g. Apple Music) haven't been better than the competition.
I can't remember the last time Apple released something that was clearly better than anything else on the market. That used to be routine for Apple. I don't know if it's due to Apple getting worse or everyone else getting better, but it's interesting to note.
Go back to when the they gave the green light to the iPad. iPhones were small. Tablets were a thing, but not big. e-readers were a thing. Phablets were growing in markets like Asia.
What if everyone started buying tablets, and used bluetooth headsets to make calls? It seems unlikely that they would completely replace phones, but it could be that people start buying phones that are compatible with their tablets, and Apple would be frozen out.
So they brought out the iPad, and no, tablets didn’t replace phones, but Apple made some money and Tim Cook sleeps well at night.
Now I think it’s the same thing with watches. It seems unlikely, but one day we might find that all watches can make calls, and Amazon has one that uses voice to buy toilet paper or whatever, and what if people start buying phones that are compatible with their watch instead of watches compatible with their phones?
Apple doesn’t want to be frozen out of that game, so here’s a watch, and Apple is making some money, and if watches evolve to become huge, nobody is going to think of Apple has having “missed the boat.”
For the market leader, this is their primary imperative: Don't miss the boat. They don’t have to win in tablets or watches, they just have to make sure they are strong enough that if the phone business gets disrupted, they can compete. Or if the phones aren’t disrupted, at least make sure that nobody buys a Samsung because “Apple doesn’t make a tablet or watch that works well with an iPhone."
They could stay a major player for a long time and do just fine, but they'd go from being "Apple under Jobs" to "Microsoft post-Gates." It's a long, slow sunset, and you sleep fine at night, but you don't win it all.
With that said: yup, the Apple Watch does put off the final sunset a few years.
Not really. http://financials.morningstar.com/valuation/price-ratio.html... - Apple's P/E ratio has never exceeded 20 during the years of peak iPhone growth.
Compare with say, Facebook, which has a ~85 P/E ratio currently. Do investors expect a 300B market cap company to expand at the rate of 2010 Apple?
> "The job of the watch is to do more and more things on your wrist so that you don’t need to pick up your phone as often."
> "The job of the phone is to do more and more things such that maybe you don’t need your iPad, and it should be always trying and striving to do that."
> "The job of the iPad should be to be so powerful and capable that you never need a notebook. Like, why do I need a notebook? I can add a keyboard! I can do all these things!"
> "The job of the notebook is to make it so you never need a desktop, right? It’s been doing this for a decade."
> "[The job of the Mac] is to challenge what we think a computer can do, and do things that no computer has ever done before—[it should] be more and more powerful and capable so that we need a desktop because of its capabilities."
I can relate to what Phil Schiller is saying. For me, the Apple Watch become more useful once I stopped having the phone in my hand all the time.
Nowadays I either leave the phone on my desk or leave it in my pocket and accomplish basic tasks on the Watch. Checking OmniFocus, checking Fantastical, calling Uber, answering calls, making quick iMessage reply, turn-by-turn navigation, etc. You could say these tasks are boring and could be done on a phone. But the point is that I can do it on my wrist without picking up the phone, which, sometimes, very convenience to have both of my hands free.
I'd like to use third-party apps but haven't found any that are particularly well-done. I see this complaint on Reddit a lot too - people are looking for apps but all the existing ones suck. I've heard that WatchOS 2.1 is still pretty buggy and the processor is underpowered, which makes it very difficult to write a high-quality app at the moment.
I'm also solidly in their target audience since I follow the fitness wheel religiously - about 125 straight days of meeting my "goals", which really has made a marked positive difference in my life and health. I hadn't used anything like a fitbit before that.
Granted, I don't usually go in to apps on the watch cause they're slow, but it is very useful to me. I have a sport band and it is super easy to take off and tighten/loosen.
Plus it looks leagues better than the pebble I had.
A Moto360 but at about 1/3 the thickness would be something I might consider. I would have bought one already if it didn't look thick enough to be a Woz-style nixie-tube watch.
In fact I'm rather hoping my next watch might be a used Rolex GMT Master II (Black/Red or 'Coke' bezel).
TL; DR: Keep iterating.
Part of a young platform is the tasks it can allow you to do vs what you quickly wish it could do.
A watch to me is just another screen that I'd expect to be able to behave like my phone, or tablet.
Watches, as young as they are in their platform cycle, are going to see a lot of hardware development from iPhone 1 to 3GS which was the first viably performant phone.
Likewise, the Galaxy Note 1 was interesting enough but underwhelmingly powered that the Note 2 replaced it within a year. What was remarkable became applicable.
At this time, I've been looking into the Asus ZenWatch 2 as a more capable alternative when loaded with WearTasker.
The $129 for a ZenWatch 2 that I can program any which way I want with WearTasker while the platform matures is almost too good to pass up while the platform develops and matures. Far less thought to buy the next one.
Would love to hear about any other watches other that Pebble that may have caught your interest.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cuberob.we...
http://amazon.com/ASUS-ZenWatch-Android-Wear-Smartwatch/dp/B...
- The UI, imho, it's ugly when compared to Android Wear. It needs a refresh to keep up and align with iOS. Possibly better hardware ?
- First of all this is a watch, stop treating like it's the ultimate Computer. It has potential to be great but it isn't yet.
- Apple needs to stop advertising like "you badly need an Apple Watch as a companion for your iPhone or you will have a not so happy life. This is a watch, there are people who never use a regular watch and those that will probably buy one will use it as a regular watch plus Phone notifications or tiny apps.
- All these reviews are a result of Apple Marketing, see above, the product is just the first model it will get better just don't expect to replace your Phone or laptop.
- Why don't people threat it just like a regular nice watch like Fossil, Citizen or Seiko ? Or even if they want like a Tag Heuer (for the gold model).
I'm using the Apple Watch as my primary smartwatch right now, largely because I think the hardware is better, but I've got the Android watches charging on the shelf and thought it was pretty ironic to see a Google product be prettier than an Apple one but less practical.
Completely agree but still Apple has again some advantages since they own both hardware and software so this means in future once Apple get their design improved it might be better than Android Wear. But also i'm looking what traditional Watches Makers like Tag Heuer and Fossil will do with Android Wear.
Maybe because AppleWatch will be worth little as soon as AppleWatch 2 is released. It happened with iPhone 1 and iPad 1 too. The second generation was so much more powerful (hardware specs). iPad 2 is still supported, whereas iPad 1 cannot even play HD videos and is stuck with iOS 5. We can assume AppleWatch 2 will have a far better hardware and can run apps in a better way while consuming less battery, so that the battery will last longer.
Traditional mechanical watches will work for many decades with some love and care, some of them are of very high precision and quality and already hundreds of years old.
The next problem is, I don't need a smartphone and a watch. Ideally I would want one device, a smart watch that can do everything incl. cell modem and last for a few days and be as small and lightweight as a traditional mechanical watch. We all know that this will take another few years. So for now I am happy with a smartphone and don't use a watch at all.
I like mine, and I don't have a problem charging it frequently enough nor do I find it hard to take on or off with the sport band.
I do a major criticism which is that 3rd Party apps are essentially useless because they are too fiddly to launch.
Luckily the built in features make it a good product anyway.
I don't understand... the choice of what watch to wear is hindered by it being a "statement"?
Then the apple watch came out and every other person in public started asking me if that was the apple watch, and I got tired of having the same discussion all the time, and stopped wearing it.
I wouldn't say I miss it - it was nice not reaching for my phone as often, but I've found just not being so glued to my devices even more liberating. I've set expectations of those around me, and my jobs, that I'm not constantly "on" and it might take ten whole minutes to get me sometimes.
Not sure how that's the watch's fault?
I don’t suppose to take off my watch every night and charge it!
That's kinda part of the deal.
the sport band, which doesn’t make it easier to take the Watch off and put it back on.
But, it does. For putting it on you just have to brace it against something else to hold it in place. A couple practice times gets it down pretty good. For taking it off, it's basically a pull tab. Can't be much easier than that.
It's a physical watch, not our abstract lord and savior we can offload all subjectivity onto to make us feel better about ourselves.
keep telling myself it’s the best watch ever designed…
Just wait until it's also the key to your Apple Car.
Due to bad luck, I went to buy a LG Watch Urbane 2nd ed 3 days after it was pulled from the store :-/
At the moment, there is no Android/iOS/Windows Phone LTE watch on the market. I would even settle for 3G :-/
Two words: screen. size.
The reason you still need a phone is because we now use a phone for lots of tasks that used to require a desktop computer.
For now I quite like the Band: it's not as fashionable as other smartwatches, it's more a utility/health device. It gives feedback on health, and it has motivated me to walk more during the day and sleep longer (yet most days I still don't do enough). I also did some running and biking with it, and the feedback I get from it makes me feel good.
I wear it at night too. It measures sleep; I use the smart alarm that wakes you up according to your sleep cycle. I charge it every two days during breakfast or in the evening.
I got this one for $10. http://www.amazon.com/Orzly-Night-Stand-Apple-Watch-Conceali...
And now eight years later they have a billion active devices.
(Okay okay, Cook probably meant all device types combined, but iPhone would still be a huge portion of that)
The successful smartwatch wiill function and look like a normal analog watch with real mechanical hands, except it will be stuffed to the brim with mobile CPUs, Bluetooth, cellular, WiFi,GPS, NFC, accelerometers, heart rate monitor, flash storage, and batteries. Batteries in the watch face as well as throughout the entire wristband. Just cram it with all that modern crap but make it look and function like a watch that an actual normal person wouldn't be embarrassed to wear. A smartphone with everything except for that obnoxious screen.
If that existed, consumers could pick and choose from an infinite buffet of accessory devices that are purely designed for user interaction, while leaving the connectivity and processing up to your headless wrist-mounted computer, which one again, isn't a complete embarrassment to wear.
Your "smartphone" should just be a screen for your wrist computer. Your laptop should just be a bigger screen for your wrist computer, with a keyboard that's also just an input device for your wrist computer. Your television is just a really big screen for your... You get the idea. Good news: you don't even have to own a crappy proprietary IR-based remote that you'll inevitably lose, because your TV UI exists on the handheld "smartphone" screen that passes data to the big screen via the watch computer.
Your wrist computer would have awesome battery life because it's not powering an LCD screen and the whole device can just be packed with batteries. Notice how the Pebble's battery life puts the Apple Watch to shame, and it could be even better without any screen at all. I have a Withings Activite and the battery lasts for months, even though it has bluetooth and a haptic motor.
Your wrist computer can be upgraded and you can still have compatibility with all of your same accessories, giving you the freedom to upgrade each device piecemeal. Drop your handheld "phone" screen in the toilet? Good thing it was just an LCD panel with a WiDi chip so it only cost 100 bucks, and you didn't lose any phone numbers despite not having cloud backup.
Bottom line: Everyone is trying to make the smartwach work as some kind of pale shadow of a smartphone that has a worthless interface, a garbage battery life, and doesnt even functuon as a decent timepiece. Even with all that, you still have to have a smartphone to make it a functional device. As long as tech manufacturers continue to follow that strategy, the smartwach will continue to be an abysmal failure.
Everyone's been looking for the "smartphone killer" and they're hoping it's the smartwach. It will be, but only once we actually let the smartphone die. What does the iPhone 6s / Galaxy [whatever] offer over the iPhone 5 / Galaxy [whatever - 3]? Nothing. Maybe some new color options. Webpages started scrolling smoothly on phones about 3-4 years ago,and since then its been a wasteland of innovation. We're at the "look how many cupholders we have" phase of smartphone advancement.
It's plain that the future is one device, always on your person, impossible to lose, one unified OS, and with an infinite ecosystem of compatible auxiliary interfaces. If the tech giants don't already have their engineers working toward this vision, they should feel shame.
Why does it even have to be a watch? How much processing power and battery life could you stuff into a subtle, tasteful belt? Nobody has any vision.
The watch is just another room for an interaction. It shouldn't try and be a supercomputer.
You talk about the watch like it's inherently got to have a slow CPU and short battery life. But it's the display that's the single largest consumer of battery, and the CPU is relatively weak in an effort to compensate for that. On top of that, a leather or plastic band is a complete waste of wrist real estate that could be put to use as batteries or sensors or anything else.
A device like that could be your watch, phone, tablet, laptop, TV, smarthome remote, fitness tracker, and wallet. The wrist device shouldn't be an accessory, everything else should be an accessory for the wrist device.
Your comments about cloud storage and data centers is no more relevant to this topic than it is in any other. There's nothing mutually exclusive about "headless" wrist computers and the cloud. Obviously with a data connection, your wrist device would in fact be your always-present connection to that remote data center.
Oh, the humanity.
Imaging us with those old mechanical watches. That we had to wind-up AND set to the correct time.
Source: couple of beaters (Hammy Khaki Auto and an Orange Monster)
Rather they need to focus on things like..
- Add wireless charging in the iPhone & make it waterproof
- Force the copyright cartel's hands by buying one of them so they can get their cable TV (OTT) service up and running. Everyone hates Comcast and Apple offering an innovative cable like TV service over the Internet I feel would be game changing .. put a hurt on comcrap.
I and millions of others will never bother wearing any type of smart watch ... our phones do us fine!
Of course, maybe you are right and it is the oodles of non-watch wearers who will finally bring Apple down.
When I see people wearing an iWatch - here in Spain it's usually the tourists and some local "uber-geeks" - I can't help but feel sorry for them, because they've paid so much money to unnecessarily complicate their lives and now everyone has to see that.
Lost souls, seeking to be different by thinking different, except of course everybody does that and now different means not thinking differently... Or something like that.
Maybe in the future the smart watch will be a practical and useful thing. Right now the iWatch seems like a terrible watch and nothing more.
/rant.
I just think it's unwise to throw $600+ on a piece of experimental tech which is cumbersome to use and makes you look like a "me too" teenager.
That, when more than half the people on Earth earn less than that in a year ...
But you can think deeper than "earn" and "afford". You don't have to, but it won't hurt if you started looking beyond the linguistic abstractions so conveniently given to us by the media and corporations.
Look up the documentary "Darwin's nightmare", watch it and then look up the Apple iWatch launch event with Christy Turlington and a video of her wearing the iWatch in Tanzania.