Hi! It will as usual take forever for apple to release it here in Sweden. As all things use to do regarding apple. Siri for example has been out for quite some time now and is finally here in swedish after 3 years. /A > 10 apr 2015 kl. 18:03 skrev Jonathan Mosen <[email protected]>: > > Hi Yuma, thanks for sharing your experiences. That was an interesting read. > I ordered my Apple Watch a few hours ago, not an easy task because it's not > being sold here in New Zealand at launch. I ordered it because I've received > a lot of customer inquiries about whether I'll write a book about it, and > whether I can provide training, so for me, the watch is a business expense. > If I didn't have a business reason for buying one, I reckon I'd sit this one > out. I have yet to see much of a use case for this product at all. I wear a > Braille watch, and I love being able to tell the time quietly and > unobtrusively, especially in boring meetings when I'm counting the minutes. > Like you, I walk around with my phone connected to earbuds, or in my case > cabled to my hearing aids. My phone is in my pocket at all times, and by good > use of notification sounds, I know when there's a notification I really need > to attend to right now. > I also use a Focus 14 Blue Braille display which is around my neck, so I > already have a great, silent tool for checking things without taking the > phone out of my pocket if that's what I want. > When I use the watch, I may feel differently and decide I can't imagine life > without it, but right now I don't see why I'd feel that way. > I would like to just make a few small points based on the research I've done > to date, in case people are still on the fence. > You're right, the watch's functionality is limited without a phone, but it's > not completely useless. For example, Apple Pay works stand-alone. You can > have up to 2GB of music stored locally on the device, and there is storage > for photos as well. Finally, you can connect to a wi-fi hotspot directly from > the watch and use Siri, send iMessages, and yes, heartbeats too. > One thing I think could be potentially useful about the watch is the haptic > feedback you can receive when using it in conjunction with Maps. The feedback > on your wrist gives you directions without having to listen to instructions. > For people who are nervous about having their ears covered or distracted by > speech, this could be good. > I also wonder about the benefits of haptic feedback for people with hearing > impairments. For example, if you charged it sometime during the day, maybe > while you're at the office, you could wear it at night and get an alarm that > taps you on the wrist to wake you. That said, I'm probably clutching at > straws a bit with this one as there are far cheaper products that will wake > you with an alarm you don't need to hear. > You can also pair the watch with Bluetooth headsets although I understand > there may be some issues at launch with some. > I'll look forward to holding one in my hands, it will b interesting to see > what other list members think. > Jonathan Mosen > Mosen Consulting > Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training > http://Mosen.org <http://mosen.org/> >> On 11/04/2015, at 2:37 am, Yuma Antoine Decaux <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> 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 <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] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>.
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