You make a lot of valid points but you are forgetting about the 14 day no questions asked return policy. I’ve preordered mine but plan to make use of the return policy if I feel the watch doesn’t suit my needs. It’s simple, get the watch and try it out for yourself and just return it if you don’t like it.
Best regards, Rick Alfaro From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Yuma Antoine Decaux Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2015 11:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: glad I didn't pre order i read your comments and placed everything on 1st generation. Wasn’t that my point altogether from the start? As in “people, please do consider this as it is a 1st gen device and you will be the test subject for apple to improve it.”. When you think of it this way, so you would accept all of these issues and go ahead still with the purchase? It’s like a fridge company that will tell you it has a tech that can alert you when your milk is low, but please hang on as it’s buggy. We will charge you 3000 dollars for the fridge, but hang on, the features we’ve introduced but don’t work very well right now will be fixed at some point? Isn’t this how android is? And isn’t this exactly what The CEO used as example to lambast android phones? If you take it one step further, a standard customer is invited to check a dead box with a demo running on loop, then invite you to pre order the watch. it’s only when you get it that you can have an intelligent estimation of the thing. As if I was going to buy a game console with all sorts of stuff being promoted on it, I go to Nintendo or microsoft, and they have a box there with some videos running out of its dvd, but I can’t do anything with it to test whether I want to buy it. But touching it is giving my fingers an orgasm. So due to my fingers loving the touch, I’ll buy it. Isn’t that coaxing? Gentle cohertion to be more precise. or even if I read about this crazy new furniture that makes me build muscles even as I sit on it working on a computer. I get the usual “this is the most ergonomic chair in the world”, “it’s fibro elaster polymer set to precision of nanometers for the double stitching is done with premium grade graphine nanotuves” etc etc, then I go to the furniture shop, and they have a dummy demo that I can’t sit on because it’s not done, but I can pre order it for a price that is double from the rest, but trust us, we’re banana republic and our history of office chairs precedes us. Anyway, I’m here for the discussion, hopefully no one takes offence from my words, I’m very sarcastic and stuff but this is my nature, and it has no malevolent intention. Just sincere as an old school tech geek who loves his gadgets and who also loves seeing the potentials. Cheers, Yuma Antoine Decaux "Light has no value without darkness" Mob: +61 410732547 Skype: Shainobi1 twitter: http://www.twitter.com/triple7 On 13/04/2015, at 11:54 am, Alex Hall <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: See below for comments. I've tried to be as fair as I can be, but it seems like you are determined to hate this device and won't consider it in any way useful. I saw no positive comments in the quotes you used, for instance. Anyway, here goes… On Apr 12, 2015, at 6:42 PM, Yuma Antoine Decaux <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Here’s a list of quips about the watch. I’ll wait for next year’s version instead of jumping on the thread with just touching the thing without even testing its functionalities. content list 10 items • Topolsky says that the Watch too often interrupts him with notifications while he’s trying to do other things. “I’m in a meeting with 14 people, in mid-sentence, when I feel a tap-tap-tap on my wrist… A version of this happens dozens of times throughout the day — for messages, emails, activity achievements, tweets, and so much more. Wait a second. Isn’t the promise of the Apple Watch to help me stay in the moment, focused on the people around me and undisturbed by the mesmerising void of my iPhone? So why do I suddenly feel so distracted?” I have to wonder if he took the time to set it up. You are meant to decide which notifications make it to your Watch, not just leave *everything* enabled. How often do you disallow notifications from an app on your phone? Same thing here; you tailor notifications to fit what you want to know about "now". • Patel says the Watch is too slow. “The Apple Watch, as I reviewed it for the past week and a half, is kind of slow. There’s no getting around it, no way to talk about all of its interface ideas and obvious potential and hints of genius without noting that sometimes it stutters loading notifications.” I've heard that as well, but Apple did tell all reviewers that a software update would be coming to address that problem before the public launch on April 24. • Manjoo says the Watch, unlike the iPhone or iPad, is not for “tech novices.” ” There’s a good chance it will not work perfectly for most consumers right out of the box, because it is best after you fiddle with various software settings to personalise use. ” Sorry, I don't get this one. Your iPad has to know your iCloud information, then you have to go manually download any apps you want, manually configure mail accounts, set up your Notification Center and push notifications how you want them, log into all your social media accounts, and so on. No computer is going to be perfectly configured for you right out of the box, and I can't understand this complaint from the reviewers. • Manjoo also says Watch apps don’t work very well. “The Uber app didn’t load for me, the Twitter app is confusing and the app for Starwood hotels mysteriously deleted itself and then hung up on loading when I reinstalled it.” I can't comment directly here, as I of course don't have one, but all those are third party apps, correct? Who's to say those developers aren't at least partly to blame? Plus, these review units are still technically betas. If the final release has such problems, then yes, that won't be a pretty sight. :) • Manjoo says you have to use Siri to use the Watch, and Siri still stinks. “I grew used to calling on Siri to set kitchen timers or reminders while I was cooking, or to look up the weather while I was driving. And I also grew used to her getting these requests wrong almost as often as she got them right.” I'm not surprised. Siri usually works well, but when I use it with my bluetooth headset, the failure rate goes way up. Hopefully Siri will get a whole lot better on the public end as well as the server end. • Patel says the Watch, unlike the iPhone, requires two hands to use. “ You simply can’t one-hand the Apple Watch…because it’s a tiny screen with a tiny control wheel strapped to your wrist, you have to use both hands to use it, and you have to actually look at it to make sure you’re hitting the right parts of the screen. And you expected what, exactly? Perhaps it's because I'm used to a braille watch, but interacting with a wrist-mounted device will obviously require both hands. It's a bit misleading to say it that way, though, because one hand is tapping the Watch, but the other is still free. You can hold things with that free hand, you just have to keep your wrist still. • Topolsky says the Watch isn’t a very good watch. “I’ve found the experience somewhat inferior to that with a conventional wristwatch, due to one small issue. The Apple Watch activates its screen only when it thinks you’re looking at it…Think about the way people normally look at their watches, then make it twice as aggressive.” This is another area I've wondered about. Again, due to my use of a braille watch, touching the Apple Watch to get the time seems obvious and not an issue at all. The motion-based checking, though, strikes me as a great idea that won't work correctly. Remember Siri's "raise to speak" feature, which worked about half the time? Even when it did work, there was a long enough pause between the motion and the "you can talk" beep that I sometimes lowered my phone to try again, only to have Siri suddenly kick in. This feature on the Apple Watch may work perfectly one day, but I'm not holding my breath for that perfection to arrive right away. Of course, I could be wrong, and it will be interesting to see how many people complain about this aspect versus how many love it. • Patel says it’s not as good as an iPod at playing music. “Remember when turning sixth-generation iPods into watches was a thing? That nano did a great job of displaying a lot of music information on a tiny screen, and the Apple Watch does not.” The Music app isn't perfect? Well, again, this is a first generation product with first generation software, in a whole new class of product design and human interaction. Plus, with the requirement that you use bluetooth headphones and the relatively low storage space, I can't imagine too many people using that app very often, at least not right off. It only takes an update to fix this 'problem', so if people don't like it, it can change. • Patel says it’s not a very good communications device. “There’s no doubt that being able to send quick replies from your wrist is a powerful idea; it’s the stuff of science-fiction legend, and every smartwatch has to be able to do it. But the Apple Watch is just the first step towards making that reality. It’s not anywhere close to being an actually-powerful communications tool, especially not when it’s competing with the phone in your pocket.” See first-generation everything in my previous comment. Plus, with so many diverse use cases, who's to say that plenty of people won't find what this device can do right now quite useful? • Patel says the Watch isn’t a great fitness tracker. “Out of the box right now, the Apple Watch is a very expensive, barebones fitness tracker. It’s much nicer than its competitors — I used it with the white sport band and thought it was really quite striking — but it’s certainly not more full-featured.” I'm confused. He says it's not great, then says it's better than everything else out there? Sorry, but which is it then? Plus, fitness-tracking using the existing sensors is all software, so as the initial wave of feedback comes in, Apple will almost certainly make changes. Once more, first-generation everything. 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] <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. 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