Inline responses. On 11 Apr 2015, at 00:41, Barry Hadder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 10, 2015, at 5:55 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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? >> > Doesn’t a new remote control interfere with the narrative that people are > sitting too much?
Almost certainly, but I’m confident that won’t make a dent in that use case. Apple is supporting Apple TV remote; perhaps they’ll support iTunes as well, then I can put on the cordless headphones and remote completely mobile, whether making tea or in bed. Wow, that would be nice! :) >> 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, we are supposed to want to buy a new iPhone, but we aren’t supposed to > want to have to touch it. We need to git a watch so we don’t actually have > to directly use our new iPhones. I still am finding their messaging > confusing.. Well, sort of. My point is more that you might not mind the inconvenience of shouldering the phone when using the watch makes it so much easier. Indeed, you might not even realise it’s happening at all. The clever part is that your phone is always essential; you’ll always have it, and there will never be any question of excess load; the watch will just be better at some things than your phone is. And remember, it’s Wi-Fi—your phone could also be the hotspot about the place, or as will be commonplace, on the home Wi-Fi with your watch. Essentially, your iPhone just moves a rung down the ladder, just as your computer often does today, with respect to the ever-present phone, for the easiest of tasks. The real question now is simply how long it will take before the phone is no longer required (or is required, but can be synchronised to your watch by means of the cloud, or whatever) so you no longer need the proximity and thus the inconvenience of carrying the phone. It may indeed be never, and that may very well not be a problem. >> 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? >> > You don’t want to have to handle your new iPhone. > Actually, I think that there are applications that a wearable would make > easier to use. But, I think those applications are limited. I don’t even want to be burdened with the thought of my iPhone. Am I asking too much? Very probably. >> , 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. >> > It looks to me like Apple trying to emulate Google. Oh, I dunno really. Wearables were always going to be the next frontier. I mean, let’s be completely honest for a second: this discussion comes down to asking what you can do with a device that just happens to be small enough to sit on your wrist. Forget all the Apple vs everyone politics, the character assassinations of various key execs, the market strategy, the pricing, the network effects on smartphones—the question is simply, “What are the possibilities for a smart watch?” It would be impossible for Apple not to concede the development of smart watches, even if it hadn’t been investigating them for (as is now widely reported) strictly health purposes. It’s certainly frustrating that, in a fast-paced technology landscape, Apple increasingly prefers to emerge victorious regardless of the needs of customers, even if that means starting late and squeezing hard for every last drop of profit from the Apple experience, but I don’t think that’s at all unusual for Apple. As usual the early adopters will be along to tell us how right (or wrong) we were about Apple’s approach, but in the end the market will push Apple closer and closer to the mark, just as with Android on phones. I have no doubt the convergence will benefit everybody, including Apple users. >> Well, anyway, I’m especially looking forward to handling incoming >> notifications while I’m on the toilet. :) > > Wow! Now I’m listening. Yes, I really must get around to setting up Touch ID on the other hand, as my current choice of finger is somewhat unfortunate. :) No, seriously, my biggest fear right now is all the apps that I don’t want pestering me all the time. I enjoy peace and quiet, and I’m going to prep things so my watch only tells me about the important stuff. That way I won’t “Forget” about things I was sure I’d get around to later, or never see the notification at all in the flood that would be listed on the phone lock screen. So if I can arrange things—probably just by removing all the apps—so that my watch connects me more to the things I really care about, then I could really come to like being tapped on the wrist. Besides which I suppose there is a much bigger danger of simply never being able to disconnect, which is quite frightening I suppose; the watch would make that even more inescapable. Therefore while I think notification responses are a terrific idea, it will have to be very carefully managed. -- 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.
