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Apple Watch |OT| Apple invents the watch!
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jts
...hate me...
Hodinkee Editorial One Year Month In: Why A Die-Hard Mechanical Watch Lover Can't Get The Apple Watch Off His Wrist (And Why That Matters)
aparisi2274
Member
I use iMessage, and I use MLB and Citymapper.
MLB is great for glances, so I can get news on the Mets and Citymapper is great because the glance shows me all the subway lines with disruptions, and then I can just click on it and it takes me to the app and I can see in detail what is disrupted and which stations are affected.
infiniteloop
Member
if using them with Siri/complications count i use Mail, Weather, dark sky, messages, activity, workout and timers.
Wow those sound incredibly useful.
Trying to come up with something fun to make...
LyleLanley
Banned
I use the built in apps fairly regularly but I haven't found many useful third party apps that aren't incredibly slow.
This is a huge problem as a dev.
LyleLanley
Banned
Slow apps or the fact that people aren't using third party apps?
3rd party apps are very slow no matter how you code them.
SmackCrackleNPop
Member
I actually just got one but not sure if I'm keeping it (not used to having things on my wrist)
After the initial set up of apps, I've pared it down to the essentials, I use mainly for Activity, Notifications from Messenger/Hangouts/Messages and Airmail. Plus TheScore for sports stuff. Beyond essentials, it can get bloated.
After the initial set up of apps, I've pared it down to the essentials, I use mainly for Activity, Notifications from Messenger/Hangouts/Messages and Airmail. Plus TheScore for sports stuff. Beyond essentials, it can get bloated.
For me, iMessage, FaceTime Audio, timers, weather, activity monitoring. And the notifications of course. Plus Music app, using the Watch as my remote control.
aparisi2274
Member
Anyone happen to be using this watch band from JETech?
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0168W83P2/?tag=neogaf0e-20
I was trying to see how it would look on a 42mm Sport Aluminum watch, but I can not find a photo...
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0168W83P2/?tag=neogaf0e-20
I was trying to see how it would look on a 42mm Sport Aluminum watch, but I can not find a photo...
Zeyphersan
Banned
Anyone happen to be using this watch band from JETech?
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0168W83P2/?tag=neogaf0e-20
I was trying to see how it would look on a 42mm Sport Aluminum watch, but I can not find a photo...
I JUST bought the silver one yesterday, will be arriving tomorrow. But I have a Stainless Steel watch so my pics won't be helpful to you
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Zeyphersan
Banned
I feel like the app screen just needs a new UI in general. It seems unintuitive given the size of the screen
I like complications as more of an app shortcut than anything because the app screen is so cumbersome.
Wrestlemania
Banned
I've stopped wearing mine. It's been so nice to go back to a normal watch, to be honest.
All I really want is for the watch face to be a lot smarter. I don't want apps or anything like that - it's all way more fiddly and slow than just getting information from my phone. I want the face to show information and actions that are relevant to the time of day, my location, weather etc.
Just arrived home? Stick a big button on the screen to let me turn my Hue lights on. Once they're on, go back to the normal face.
7.30am and I'm at home? Show me the next trains to work. Once I'm on the train, stop showing it. And vice verse when it's time to leave work.
I want the watch face to work for me with the least amount of interaction with a tiny screen as possible needed.
All I really want is for the watch face to be a lot smarter. I don't want apps or anything like that - it's all way more fiddly and slow than just getting information from my phone. I want the face to show information and actions that are relevant to the time of day, my location, weather etc.
Just arrived home? Stick a big button on the screen to let me turn my Hue lights on. Once they're on, go back to the normal face.
7.30am and I'm at home? Show me the next trains to work. Once I'm on the train, stop showing it. And vice verse when it's time to leave work.
I want the watch face to work for me with the least amount of interaction with a tiny screen as possible needed.
I like it fine just as a watch in most cases. I also wouldn't like apps to just intrude on my watch face that way. I like your ideas if they are just quick notifications.
aparisi2274
Member
I like your ideas, but I do not mind using the glances to see what subway lines are disrupted when I leave for work, or what the Mets are doing via the MLB app.
Zeyphersan
Banned
Just got some third party watch bands in, all from JETech
Faux-Milanese Loop:
Magnet is really strong. It's super comfortable, feels almost like the legit one. Easily worth $25, it's awesome
Faux-Leather Loop:
Honestly not into this one at all. Magnet is strong, which is nice, but the material feels all wrong, nothing like Apple's. It also goes really high up the band for my wrist size, a downfall of them not having S/M/L options. Will probably end up returning it, not worth the $40 in my opinion
Faux-Link Bracelet:
I like this one a lot as well. Needs a tool to resize unlike Apple's, and it came out of the box with a very metallic smell, but I think that will fade. Might end up exchanging it since the butterfly clasp is a tad loose on one side, gotta decide if it bugs me enough or if it gets worse over the next couple weeks. A great price at $75, especially compared to Apple's asking price of $450
Links to all three:
Milanese: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B011CR8RZ4/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Leather Loop: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014T0UQNC/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Link Bracelet: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0168W83PW/?tag=neogaf0e-20
P.S. Sorry for the large image sizes, I thought the quotes would shrink them down more
Faux-Milanese Loop:
Magnet is really strong. It's super comfortable, feels almost like the legit one. Easily worth $25, it's awesome
Faux-Leather Loop:
Honestly not into this one at all. Magnet is strong, which is nice, but the material feels all wrong, nothing like Apple's. It also goes really high up the band for my wrist size, a downfall of them not having S/M/L options. Will probably end up returning it, not worth the $40 in my opinion
Faux-Link Bracelet:
I like this one a lot as well. Needs a tool to resize unlike Apple's, and it came out of the box with a very metallic smell, but I think that will fade. Might end up exchanging it since the butterfly clasp is a tad loose on one side, gotta decide if it bugs me enough or if it gets worse over the next couple weeks. A great price at $75, especially compared to Apple's asking price of $450
Links to all three:
Milanese: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B011CR8RZ4/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Leather Loop: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B014T0UQNC/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Link Bracelet: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0168W83PW/?tag=neogaf0e-20
P.S. Sorry for the large image sizes, I thought the quotes would shrink them down more
Purple Cheeto
Member
This requires a lot more machine learning and internet of things stuff than the device isn't currently capable of.
Speaking as a developer who is working on Apple Watch Apps, the hardware isn't there to do stuff like this, and the APIs don't support it yet either (probably because the hardware would poop itself).
Yeah something akin to the little dynamic/contextual lower left quick icon on iPhones would be cool, whether it be some special complication or notification or glance or something.
Yeah, not sure what the new Apple Watch hardware would add aside from much needed improved performance. Android wear + Google Now (+Tasker/IFTTT) already does most of this
Wrestlemania
Banned
Yup, exactly how I expect something like that would be implemented.
RedNumberFive
Banned
I also received the JETech Milanese Loop a few weeks back, and have been super pleased with it. The black loop looks really good with the space grey sport model.
The Elite
BOSS
2nd Gen sounds like it will be this fall.
infiniteloop
Member
at least wait for the mid-march event. if nothing new there, will be sept at the earliest.
Zeyphersan
Banned
yep lots of retailers seem to have a promo every other week.
Apple discontinued the iPhone 1 and the iPad 1 once the next gen was released. I expect the same for the iWatch 1 as well, more so because as a fashion device it would be obsolete
jts
...hate me...
The only references I have in "recent" memory of Apple doing so was the infamous iPhone 1 price drop and more recently the elder AppleTV 3 dropping the price.
The Watch being in a whole new unproven market with retailers dropping the price as a sign of it not matching the actual demand for the device, it wouldn't be shocking for me if Apple themselves readjusted it to kick some energy into sales. Especially at a time where more people are aware that 1 year old tech means it's due for an update. I could be simply daydreaming though.
Opus Angelorum
Member
Zeyphersan
Banned
Anyone looking for a nice dock should look at HiRise by TwelveSouth
https://www.twelvesouth.com/product/hirise-apple-watch
Got one, love it a lot. Works well in nightstand mode as well
https://www.twelvesouth.com/product/hirise-apple-watch
Got one, love it a lot. Works well in nightstand mode as well
aparisi2274
Member
Zeyphersan
Banned
I would have gotten that one, but I also got the HiRise for iPhone and wanted them to match
I would have gotten that Belkin double dock if it wasn't so goddman expensive
http://m.belkin.com/us/F8J183-APL/p/P-F8J183-APL/
aparisi2274
Member
Every time I go to get the Forte, I can't pull the trigger, because I do not want to have to take my watch off and then fit it to the stand and redo the clasp on the band... As it stands right now, I just take it off and lay it on my night table, right over the charge cable from Apple.
Even though I was the one complaining about how DND works on the watch in this thread (still don't like it), I recently got a space gray watch when it went on sale at Target and overall I think it's great too. I would like a Reminders and a Notes watch app even though once they add Notes to it the University I go to will probably start making me take my watch off while taking tests.
I actually use third party apps too and don't think they're that slow enough to be bad, although I would still like them to retrieve info faster of course. The most useful app being Wunderlist where it's great having a shopping list on your wrist and always having 2 hands free to pick up items.
Flying Toaster
Member
I picked up a sport when I got my 6s. Decent companion item and useful. My most used app is MLB. I am eagerly awaiting version 2.
