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Totally agree with you. And when you use the apple watch, if you pay attention to details, it's an incredible and fascinating miniaturisation of a computer. It just amazing how well crafted is the user interface ( people can say and shoot critics all day the long , but , I take my hat out when I see the apple watch user interface)

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> It just amazing how well crafted is the user interface ( people can say and shoot critics all day the long , but , I take my hat out when I see the apple watch user interface)

huh? The Apple Watch user interface is the worst of the smartwatches on the market. Even Apple themselves were practically apologizing for how slow and crappy the Applewatch UI was during the last WWDC event. Apple had to completely remove what they had previously touted as core features (side button for friends/heartbeat, Glances) in previous watchOS versions. Yet it's still a clusterfuck without an always-on display. AndroidWear is more simpler/intuitive and Samsung Gear is more elegant with the rotating bezel

I can tell, you are not a developer

I've tried both Android Wear (Moto 360, mainly) and the Apple Watch. Both of these devices were horribly slow when I first had them but with OS updates both have improved and, whilst not incredibly quick, are usable.

I also tried a Pebble Time; the display being always on and the longer battery life didn't really make any difference and the non-touchscreen UI seemed much more fiddly to me.

Have you tried iOS3? Everything you were saying was totally true on the original Watch, but I t got a major UX overhaul right down to the fundamental interaction paradigm and, in my mind, improved a lot. Between that and the dual-core chips in the new watches it's considerably better than it was.

The UI was slow, but it wasn't crappy. The UI was excellent on watchOS1 and I think, now that they've removed most of the delay and added the Dock in, watchOS3 is amazing.

Indeed, the watch is great. I'm not such a fan of the iPhone for various reasons, primarily that I find the interface a bit clunky and very much dislike the locked bootloader, App Store and so on.

But, to use Android Wear on an Android phone would involve activating various Google account settings I don't want to turn on.

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