dirtynine said:Question 3 should have an option to the effect of "I'll check back when it hits version 3 or 4"
This is it for me. I'd have to see a world of value between my iPhone and the iWatch to make me forgo my real watch.Rovin Romine said:I have an iPhone. I'm curious about the watch, but not enough to be interested in buying one. I also like my real watches very much.
That said, can we get some wrist shots/reviews posted to the thread when they roll in?
Oil Can Dan said:This is it for me. I'd have to see a world of value between my iPhone and the iWatch to make me forgo my real watch.
Rovin Romine said:PS. I love 24 hour watches, so I'm a fan of that "sun in the sky" watch face they show on the apple site.
One of my favorite iPhone ap is "daylight" - it's a 24 hour clock with a single hand. Noon is at the top of the clock face, midnight at the bottom. The background shows (calibrated for latitude/date) the sunlight, twilight, and darkness periods. It's very easy to adapt to reading it. It's great for any outdoors person who relies on daylight for their activities. Especially if you instantly need to see how many hours are left before twilight.
Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/daylight/id324528814?mt=8
If they had that on the iWatch, I'd be much more interested.
I have that exact Seiko as my everyday, bang around watch except I put an oyster band on it. The things are bulletproof - favorite watch I've ever owned.Rovin Romine said:
Yeah. I'm there. Right now the iWatch looks like an awesome 4-6 hr. supplement to an iPhone, plus a kinda crappy watch. Apple would need to get the iWatch up to speed with what I expect from a typical watch I'd wear. I'd settle for something that, after burning off most of the battery, just went into "watch only" mode and could run for 72 hours. I'd need it to be waterproof - at least swimming pool level. I'd also need substantial ding resistance.
However, I'm glad Apple is making a 38mm watch. I have small wrists.
My current fav. non-court watch is a Seiko SKX013 (review). I love this thing. Pretty much bullet proof, good lume, timing ring, and, since it's not super speedy, I don't have to worry if I bang it into something.
dirtynine said:One fashion roadblock I see with Apple Watch (and all smartwatches really) is that you won't be able to help looking like kind of a dork when you're interacting with them, no matter how nice the design and materials are. Not Google Glass-level dorky, but just enough to matter. You just don't poke or swipe or talk to a regular watch, or even touch it with your other hand that much. There's a certain stoic, dignified quality to traditional watches that is a big part of the appeal.
And speaking of dorky, god forbid you ever actually need to take your iPhone out and use it for a few minutes while an Apple watch sits idly on your wrist - maybe it'll end up being very common, but at least at first I just think that will look straight up goofy, basically advertising that you're an Apple/gadget freak.
I am reading nothing but great things about the bands Apple's made. I wonder if traditional watches can be made to lock in with the Apple Watch band mechanism.
How do you use it to control your AppleTV?CallYaz said:using it to control my appleTV and DirecTV boxes has been huge. They both play music around my house and outside and I can now quickly change songs in Pandora or a playlist without searching for my phone or my various remotes. Also use it to set my house alarm and lock the doors when I leave in the morning.
behindthepen said:
There is a bug with the weather app (doesn't load at all), which is pretty annoying. And I wish the screen would be a little more sensitive and show itself more quickly. But those are things which can obviously be fixed.
behindthepen said:How do you use it to control your AppleTV?
behindthepen said:How do you use it to control your AppleTV?
The feature that I think will be intensely useful are the wrist notifications that I have a call or email. While I don't expect to actually read the emails on the Watch, getting them in real time if I'm not at my desk is huge. I currently keep my phone on silent, and usually can't feel it buzz in my pocket, so this is an important feature.wutang112878 said:For anyone that really wants one of these, whats the awesome feature that sucked you in? Because I cant seem to find one for myself. It did seem like a neat feature to be able to read a text or email by just glancing at your wrist, but then I realized that while I work and while I watch TV at night I have my phone out of my pocket on a surface nearby so I can just glance at it so its pretty rare it would really save me from having to take my phone out of my pocket. I really cant figure out what I'd do with the thing if someone just gave me one.
bowiac said:The feature that I think will be intensely useful are the wrist notifications that I have a call or email. While I don't expect to actually read the emails on the Watch, getting them in real time if I'm not at my desk is huge. I currently keep my phone on silent, and usually can't feel it buzz in my pocket, so this is an important feature.
Basically, right now when I walk anywhere, I need to pull out my phone every 5 minutes to check if I've gotten an email. The Apple Watch I hope will remove my need to do so.
Certainly not as good as Roku, but I'm not sure I'd go as far to call it shitty. It is definitely annoying that basically need to reboot it once a month, but yeah, it could be better but it's also not awful.Blundatola said:Unfortunately, no kind of remote will change the fact that the AppleTV interface is shitty.
wutang112878 said:I have a 6 and I was thinking about the 6+ because the screen size but ultimately I decided against it because it seemed like it was barely going to fit into my pocket and I thought it was going to be pretty uncomfortable if I was sitting down and had it in my pocket. Definitely check one out in the store first because I was totally sold on it until I held it in my hand/pocket.
Rovin Romine said:
I love the 6+ in that the screen lets me go through reams of text a lot easier. Sort of a mini tablet.
I haven't found carrying to be a problem - with a suit jacket or blazer it works fine. Other than that, just get jeans with longer front pockets and carry it there. I agree it won't work in the back pocket of most jeans.