I’m sorry, I just can’t understand the pessimism. Always the same with new Apple stuff: it will fail, it has no obvious use case, blah blah blah. Accessibility notwithstanding, I’m surprised people got nothing from the keynote address other than Apple Watch has the ability to send heartbeats and do doodles.
Come on, guys. It’s a small device that you can wear on the wrist. Don’t you see any potential there at all? The remote control you’ve always wanted? The around-the-house communications device for the friends and family while your phone is docked and not weighing you down? Even the need for an iPhone is not so much of a deal, if the watch proves useful outdoors, because any place that you would go already sees you needing the phone for phone functions, regardless; your watch will always tether to a local phone, wherever you happen to be. So I preordered. I’ll take the leap. Why not? It might just be my imagination, but even now I have more fondness for my iPods than my iPhone as a music player—what’s to say the watch won’t make some of the things that are made clumsy by the need to pull out my phone and that I do all the time more enjoyable? I can’t know till I’ve tried it, so that’s what I’ll do, using the cheapest model available (Sport). I do acknowledge that Apple is a marketing-heavy company, and it’s always annoying to see the implementation fall short of the dream, so my hopes aren’t sky-high. Also, yes, I do think something has changed in the way Apple prioritises things; this product seems far more strained, for lack of a better word, and that may well be the result of executive decision-making that tends towards company growth rather than user satisfaction. But it’s no good dissing it till I’ve tried it, really. Well, anyway, I’m especially looking forward to handling incoming notifications while I’m on the toilet. :) Cheers, Sabahattin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
