Source: Apple
Posted on 07/11/2015 6:00:18 PM PDT by Swordmaker
When a revolutionary new product is launched, the first instinct is to understand it by relating its most obvious features to what we already know. In time, it becomes apparent that the analogies we formed, to understand the device, failed to properly inform us of the new way of doing things invited by the product.
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Source: Apple
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Nowhere is this more obvious than with the Apple Watch. To understand it as a wristwatch that has some fancy features is to miss the relationship it has with the iPhone. The proper, elegant partitioning of tasks is one key area that is lost on the casual observer.
For example, one of the interesting aspects of the Apple Watch is that you're saved from constantly fiddling with your iPhone. As Ben Bajarin puts it, in "My Week Without Apple Watch:
... having to respond to your phone or pull it out of your pocket or bag for each phone call or text message turns out to be fairly disruptive.
I believe it depends on the nature of your lifestyle and technical work, but for me, I have to agree. I have found from my own experience that busy people focus on certain kinds of tasks, and when the iPhone disrupts, it's a pain. The Apple Watch can be a friendly and discreet first line of defense. Mr. Bajarin concludes, and I concur:
Of course I can get by without it but, given the number of conveniences I’ve been able to quantify in the flow of my daily life, I can no longer imagine life without it.
The lesson is this. The Apple Watch is designed for people who need to manage the flow of information into their brains in a task oriented, perhaps stressful, but always information rich environment. If that doesn't apply, then the Apple Watch can be dismissed as an expensive, glorified timepiece.
On the other hand, as Mr. Bajarin describes his experience, once a productive person is exposed to the smart partitioning and filtering of tasks, the old way of fussing with an iPhone during every "information experience" just won't do. It's possible to theorize that watchOS 2.0 is designed to drive that point home even more clearly.
The design of the Apple Watch probably explains why some people dismiss it as unnecessary while others love it and can't live without it.
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Didn’t buy one yesterday.
Not today, either.
Sorry about tomorrow, too.
And I am an Apple customer.
Well, somebody needs to push this silly product. Finally, they’ve pushed their products too far and even the Apple fanboys are reluctant to buy. Oh well, the next product will drive them mad...
What's the next product, a tweeting toilet?
How does the Apple Watch interact with various state laws? does it qualify as a “hands free device” so I can legally talk on the phone and drive at the same time?
This alone would make the watch worth the cost. One avoided ticket is the whole cost of the watch.
Solution: Turn the phone off. Check it when you aren't busy. Few people will object that you didn't respond instantly.
Life is too short to be worshiping your cell phone as your god.
As I have written before, it is mystifying why Apple thought a wrist-borne auxiliary I/O device for the iPhone would be a big seller.
I was able to compare my samsung gear to the iwatch, iwatch is prettier but my samsung gear ran circles around it in ability and battery life.
You stole my words.
I want the Duke Boys edition with the Confederate flag.
Reluctant to buy? In whose world or reality?
The Motley Fool, using the figures produced by Slice Intelligence, the organization that claims the Apple Watch is flopping, says that between April 10 and June 26, a mere 77 days, Apple sold 5,500,000 Apple Watches at an average selling price just over $500, making a gross revenue of $2,750,000,000 (that's BILLION), which with a markup of 42% resulted in a profit of $1,155,000,000, also BILLION.
That's two million units more than Apple sold iPads in the first 90 days of their release in 2010, the best selling product release in history. In fact, Deagle, Apple sold the same number if Apple Watches in the first 24 hours as they sold iPads in 90 days.
That's hardly a flop.
So far, the only place that has claimed it isn't handsfree, is New Zealand. Everywhere else has certified it hands free.
That doesn't work if you are a physician on call. . . or many of quite a few other professions who need to be available 24/7. That's what makes you one of the ones who doesn't get what makes the Watch a game changer for those who do get it. Read the article.
How were you able to compare? Did you buy an Apple Watch and use it? Somehow I doubt it. You read a spec sheet. . . and even on there the Apple Watch is better.
I didn’t buy it, my spouse did, loves apple but disappointed
OK. . . it helps to have two of them. . . a spouse with one.
Granted, there are a few, a very few, people where instant response is a desirable thing. But for the vast number of other people... my statement stands.
My sympathy to folks who have allowed themselves to become a slave to technology.
Nothing like another First World Problem to show us some real perspective.
Pulling an iPhone out of your Pocket is now a hindrance to leading a fulfilling Life.
I cannot believe my Father fought in WWII so we would have the Freedom to tackle these important issues head on.
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