Hi. I go to the Apple store tomorrow afternoon for an appointment to look at an Apple Watch. I've one in my basket but I'm interested in Voice Over plus I have other questions. Once I've seen it, I'll report back. I want it for the heart monitor as I explained before, I walk two hours a day.
Kawal. On 10 Apr 2015, at 21:50, Anders Holmberg <[email protected]> wrote: Hi! Yu make me Laugh. I have never understood the meaning of the apple watch nor other smart watches. I’ve touched a peble but was not impressed. I could actually by me an ipod nano and use that instead. /A > 10 apr 2015 kl. 16:37 skrev Yuma Antoine Decaux <[email protected]>: > > Hi All, > > Just wanted to tell you guys what my first impression of an apple watch, as a > design cue, on the instant the apple sales girl handed it to me. It almost > felt as though she was unsure whether to hand it over after talking market > stuff about it, and after a few tos and fros, I had the suspicion she had the > same idea. > > It’s thick. Imagine a large toffee. with a button and a digital crown on the > side. I was first handed the links bracelet model. And the truth is, I will > wait for a way slimmer version. No matter the functionalities of this thing. > The demo it gave, as we couldn’t test it out there and then, gave some > impressions on the haptic. Sure, it gives you a very discreet tick on the > wrist. Wow. Really? Amazing technology. Feel the sarcasm. But what still is > stamped with hot iron in my mind is not this tick, but how ugly it felt in my > hand with its thickness. Imagine thick enough so that you have a space on the > sides of your wrist with both links and sports bands. You can fit a cigarette > on either side. You just can’t find a position that leaves the bracelet flat > over your wrist all around. Even that fancy metal mesh bracelet had a space. > What struck me was that I when I said “This thing is rather thick”, the sales > girl replied with a “Yeah, I was really surprised too”. I think this must > have been a deal breaker for a lot of people going in there to see it. I > couldn’t hear any oos or aahs anywhere. Checking both sizes of this thing, > there’s not much difference and both just feel like fat unattractive toffees > that come with diferent bands which don’t add anything to the watch culture. > Having had watches before in my time, I much preffer having nothing on my > wrist than this hunk of technology that seems to have a fatal bullimic > inclination due to battery restrictions. > > The second shocker for me was that this little piece of thing which is > useless without an iphone actually costs more than an iphone 6 here in > Australia. Not only is it a second deal breaker, it’s a total insult to > australian consumers. From 500 something mentioned during the presentation to > over 1600 aus dollars here, with 200 extra for the space black version. It’s > a complete ripoff. And I weigh my words. See why below: > > 1-It does nothing without pairing it with an iphone 5 or more. It’s totally > useless when your phone dies, if it doesn’t die before it. > 2-The fancy shmancy terms used like digital crown are a gimmick beyond the > slickest of car salespersons. I have less respect for Jimmy Ive now. It’s > just a freaking rotating button which you can also push. Man this is the > future (sarcasm again) > 3-You have to charge it daily, along with the phone. If you have a guide dogm > another pet, uni, etc the list goes on, why consider an extra daily chore > like this for not much? > 4-To make it cost more than an iphone, which in all technological, functional > and complexity terms has more to give than a watch is a blatant disrespect of > customers as well as an inherent belief from these people that once hooked, a > stupid apple customer will buy anything that comes out just from the hype > driven events. > 5-As blind phone users, I believe This is useless anyway. let me develop > below. > > I jack my phone with headphones when I walk around, either to tell siri to > open ariadne gps which gives me directions, or call this or do that. I have > the handy mic button and siri works for simple tasks like this. An apple > watch won’t bring anything better to my experience in the active set. Having > the phone talk to me while i walk is the worst geek nerd interpretation > nightmare I could think of, and I would have to lean the hand toward my ear > anyway because of background noise, and I won’t make myself look like a sick > puppy with a flebo on my wrist with earbuds. And you need to pull your arm up > to do anything to it. Another thing the sales girl told me which just > completely killed it, in a very comical way, was that apple advised that they > wanted watch users not to use the watch over 30 seconds at a time, as they > thought it was the benchmark limit at which point your arm gets tired. Talk > about computer human interaction research (another sarcasm). This was one > other of their excuses for battery time that basically sucked shit (excuse my > french) and providing weird marketing justifications to still try and make > the watch appealing. However, by that time, the sales girl knew she smelled > better than this thing, than the watch, that I was not sold on the design > factor (as a blind user and former 3D modeler), I really didn’t find this > good. at all. My impression was that it would be a longer rectangular shape, > slimmer along the arm and longer over the wrist, slightly bent, pretty much > marrying the shape of the wrist, and giving more expansion to the battery. > Seriously, go to an apple store and touch the thing. It’s ugly to the touch. > > In the end, I told the sales girl I wanted a pair of those apple earbuds, the > standard cheapo ones, and please send me to the genius bar. I love their > genius as everytime I have an issue on my iphone 6 (twice this year, first > one being that it died inexplicably when I woke up one morning, and this time > it bent in my jeans pocket and I couldn’t use the headphones anymore) have > the genius of just replacing your phone. Final irony is that I had no idea it > was bent but one of the staff members noticed it. And obviously the restore > backup on icloud etc required me to hand off my password about 5 times to the > genius because voice over wasn’t turning on right there and then, and > required an update from 8.2 to 8.3. And to imagine taht my server setup at > home, with cache of all new software that pushes it to my devices in a flash, > once it downloaded on the server, was not installed at the apple store > itself, meaning I had to stand there like a bum for 25 odd minutes with the > genius giving me some meta technical explanation when I pointed it out > (meaning it was bullshit to a computer science student majoring in maths but > completely valid to a lambda user), I felt like I was in a place I really > didn’t want to be in. Everything just felt fake, the music felt like some > weird supermarket of tech accompaniment, the people going there felt like > they were second or third or fifth wave apple new buyers (Unlike myself, > who’s first computer was an apple II), I felt like apple just went down a > notch in my respect gauge, meaning that the entire tech industry and my faith > in it went down since I won’t find better for now. > > Maybe I was expecting too much from this apple watch, maybe I’m spot on. I’m > usually very good with my intuition and when the rest of the pack starts to > pick it up, I don > t go “you see?” but it generally occurs and I smile to myself silently. So I > thought it good to communicate this to y’all, my conclusion being: wait for a > slimmer, less expensive version of this luxury item made for those who have > to show tech because only tech savvy as mass consumer, not slick tech guru > type with a much brighter idea of the future than this poorly executed > timepiece. I’m sure the software is top notch. I trust Freddericci and his > team of apple engineers. I don’t trust Johnny ive’s pompous description of > things and his love of bling bling, and I don’t trust Tim cook’s > accountant/logistics mind. I really hope apple will get one of the nwer guys > within to come out. A younger design guy too. apple is heading towards a > weird frontier of utopic pontificating tech that I’m not comfortable with to > be honest. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Yuma Antoine Decaux > "Light has no value without darkness" > Mob: +61 410732547 > Skype: Shainobi1 > twitter: http://www.twitter.com/triple7 > > > > > > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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