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Why a Die-Hard Mechanical Watch Lover Can't Get the Apple Watch Off His Wrist

by csom on 2/14/16, 3:44 PM with 8 comments

  • by threeseed on 2/14/16, 8:28 PM

    I am the opposite. I am looking to switch back to a mechanical watch. Frankly the Apple Watch is a disaster in terms of product management. It offers too much useless functionality e.g. apps (ridiculously slow), the important functionality is crippled e.g. Health and areas are poorly designed e.g. complications.

    And after the year of having it I have all this Activity/Health data and wondering what the point of it is. I can't use it for anything.

    Unless Apple has something magical up their sleeve to dramatically improve the performance of iOS I don't understand why they bothered to bring full blown apps across. It's always going to be too slow to be useful.

  • by DiabloD3 on 2/14/16, 9:02 PM

    I suspect at some point in the future smart watches will become useful and the masses will adopt them.

    But right now, they're just over-expensive toys. When I can buy a 15m water proof rated Google Wear watch that has a week or more battery life for $99, then they'll be ready for mass adoption.

    Until then, notsomuch.

  • by afc on 2/14/16, 11:41 PM

    Lost me after the long praise for the packaging (which I consider irrelevant) at:

    "The watch displays a swirling globular particle cloud – it’s not anything in particular but it looks like it could be an abstract representation of a lot of things: flocking starlings; schooling plankton; a neural network; a star cluster sped up so that every second represents a billion years; a concept-art study for the sentient planet Solaris in the Stanislaw Lem novel of the same name."

    Excuse my cynicism, but I'm here to read informative reviews/analysis, insightful ideas, rather than look at gorgeous</s> photos of black technology set to wood textures and read this syrupy poetry. :-/

  • by spydertennis on 2/14/16, 8:24 PM

    Maybe he glued it on by accident.

    ...I hate all the titles on here lately.

  • by indy on 2/14/16, 8:30 PM

    A very click-baity article that's getting a lot of coverage from the usual pro-Apple websites