Apple Watch is the Wearables King

[Eduard the weeb]

I personally don't like watches in general but I guess I see the appeal, I prefer just know how and were I waking to do my own calculations and I don't like be told to stand up if I at class and am not allowed to anyway.

[DrMacintosh]

39 minutes ago, hey_yo_ said:

So aside from telling me the time, what can a smartwatch do as good or even better than a smartphone? 

Track my swim workout (phone cannot physically do this)

Track my other workouts (phone cannot practically do this)

Tell time as conveniently

Track my heart rate (phone is physically incapable of doing this)

Its also a convenient as hell audio player, kinda like an iPod Shuffle on steroids. 

[mynameisjuan]

Just now, DrMacintosh said:

Track my swim workout (phone cannot physically do this)

Track my other workouts (phone cannot practically do this)

Tell time as conveniently

Track my heart rate (phone is physically incapable of doing this)

Its also a convenient as hell audio player, kinda like an iPod Shuffle on steroids. 

You know what does this even better than an iWatch.....fitbit ionic. Like in a different league 

[DrMacintosh]

4 minutes ago, Eduard the weeb said:

and I don't like be told to stand up if I at class and am not allowed to anyway.

Apple Watch> Notifications> Stand Reminders> Off

[DrMacintosh]

4 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

You know what does this even better than an iWatch.....fitbit ionic. Like in a different league 

A Fitbit Ionic doesn’t have 

Rich Notifications

Apple Pay

Apple Music

and lacks access to apps unique to the iPhone such as iMessage.

and a full App Store for complications on watch faces. 

 

 

Oh, and it also doesn’t have market share  

[Eduard the weeb]

4 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Apple Watch> Notifications> Stand Reminders> Off

oh yeah I use Android also lol forgot to say that

[mynameisjuan]

Just now, DrMacintosh said:

A Fitbit Ionic doesn’t have 

Rich Notifications

Apple Pay

Apple Music

and lacks access to apps unique to the iPhone such as iMessage.

and a full App Store for complications on watch faces. 

 

The fuck are rich notifications?

It has NFC for android pay

Spotify and can store files locally, no phone needed 

Has a simple messenger, but again, communication on watches are dog shit

And...again...who the hell cares about all the apps when most a limited and some times 100x times slower than on your phone. 

 

Can you have one discussion without being an apple fanboy...I tried them all...

[DrMacintosh]

16 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

The fuck are rich notifications?

https://willowtreeapps.com/ideas/wwdc-2016-rich-notifications-in-ios-10/

[captain_to_fire]

26 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Track my swim workout (phone cannot physically do this)

Track my other workouts (phone cannot practically do this)

Tell time as conveniently

Track my heart rate (phone is physically incapable of doing this)

Its also a convenient as hell audio player, kinda like an iPod Shuffle on steroids. 

• I managed to drop 33 pounds of body fat without a smartwatch or fitness tracker telling me how much calories I’ve burned or how’s my heart rate.
• I can always pair my Bluetooth headphones with my phone and while it takes more steps, it’s not hard. 
• Some universities called for a ban of smartwatches (at least mine did) during classes and as someone planning on going to grad school, I don’t see how a smartwatch will be beneficial if it’s always inside my bag because of cheating fears which are justified. Anyone caught wearing a smartwatch during examinations or even just a quiz will receive a zero in that test and might become grounds for expulsion. 
• Given how inaccurate voice recognition is, how can someone send a long text much less a long email to someone on a watch? I can do that on my phone. 

While many people have found a use case for smartwatches, I don’t and it’s just me. 

[DrMacintosh]

18 minutes ago, hey_yo_ said:

I managed to drop 33 pounds of body fat without a smartwatch or fitness tracker telling me how much calories I’ve burned or how’s my heart rate.

That’s cool, and? Does the Watch facilitate loosing weight or is it just tracking your activity? 

 

19 minutes ago, hey_yo_ said:

Some universities called for a ban of smartwatches

Can’t have your phone out, can’t have your smartwatch on either. Makes sense.

 

20 minutes ago, hey_yo_ said:

Given how inaccurate voice recognition is, how can someone send a long text much less a long email to someone on a watch? I can do that on my phone. 

Scribble works pretty well for short messages. Dictate works well for me. 

[captain_to_fire]

Just now, DrMacintosh said:

Can’t have your phone out, can’t have your smartwatch on either. Makes sense.

But analog watches are allowed inside classes so why would I bother with a smartwatch? 

[mynameisjuan]

1 hour ago, DrMacintosh said:

https://willowtreeapps.com/ideas/wwdc-2016-rich-notifications-in-ios-10/

So your argument for the iwatch being better is because you can watch short news clips.

 

Got it.

[Guest The Viking]

 

call me when apple watch can do this and not be made with cheap plastic. Thanks.

 

edit: in case somebody wonders which one it is

Spoiler

 

[DrMacintosh]

10 minutes ago, The Viking said:

 

call me when apple watch can do this and not be made with cheap plastic. Thanks.

Made of Aluminum, Saphire, Ceramic, and stainless steel and does that

 

All if which are highly customizable. 

[Guest The Viking]

10 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Made of Aluminum, Saphire, Ceramic, and stainless steel and does that

 

 

All if which are highly customizable. 

sure, high quality materials, yet still looks cheap. Damn, Apple has a hidden ability there, I thought they used plastic.

 

i'll still take my "cheap" watch.

 

ps. the mickey-mouse screen thing should be the default one on apple watch 

 

 

yup. Very fitting. 

[79wjd]

4 hours ago, hey_yo_ said:

IMO, I call that laziness. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The only use case I can think off that applies to me is fitness but then I managed to drop 33 pounds without a smartwatch telling me how much calories I've burned from running and swimming.

Oh, it's completely about laziness. But smartphones are also about laziness, I could buy a hotspot and just carry around a tablet or laptop with me and have a much bigger screen and far more power, but it's far less convenient.

 

A smartwatch just ads convenience, but that's still a (potentially) good reason to get a smartwatch. 

[DrMacintosh]

1 hour ago, The Viking said:

yup. Very fitting. 

It’s interesting how much you dislike the design

[mynameisjuan]

53 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

Oh, it's completely about laziness. But smartphones are also about laziness, I could buy a hotspot and just carry around a tablet or laptop with me and have a much bigger screen and far more power, but it's far less convenient.

 

A smartwatch just ads convenience, but that's still a (potentially) good reason to get a smartwatch. 

The laziness is not related to the device it self. Not about how a smart watch is a lazier phone. 

 

Hes talking about how some people say "my fit bit helped me lose 40lbs".....no your fit bit really didnt do shit, you just began exercising. 

[79wjd]

20 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

The laziness is not related to the device it self. Not about how a smart watch is a lazier phone. 

 

Hes talking about how some people say "my fit bit helped me lose 40lbs".....no your fit bit really didnt do shit, you just began exercising. 

I was only referring to the first line of his quote, which was referring to something different than the rest of his post.

[mynameisjuan]

1 minute ago, djdwosk97 said:

I was only referring to the first line of his quote, which was referring to something different than the rest of his post.

Oh my bad then

[abazigal]

6 hours ago, hey_yo_ said:

• I managed to drop 33 pounds of body fat without a smartwatch or fitness tracker telling me how much calories I’ve burned or how’s my heart rate.
• I can always pair my Bluetooth headphones with my phone and while it takes more steps, it’s not hard. 
• Some universities called for a ban of smartwatches (at least mine did) during classes and as someone planning on going to grad school, I don’t see how a smartwatch will be beneficial if it’s always inside my bag because of cheating fears which are justified. Anyone caught wearing a smartwatch during examinations or even just a quiz will receive a zero in that test and might become grounds for expulsion. 
• Given how inaccurate voice recognition is, how can someone send a long text much less a long email to someone on a watch? I can do that on my phone. 

While many people have found a use case for smartwatches, I don’t and it’s just me. 

I routinely use Siri to quickly compose messages on my Apple Watch to send to my friends and colleagues. It’s actually pretty accurate for short to medium length messages. The trick is dictating everything you want to say at one go so the algorithm has more context to work with when transcribing your message. 

 

The issue here isn’t what the watch can do that your phone can’t; it’s what the watch can do more quickly and conveniently. It’s like a remote for your TV. Doesn’t let you do anything you couldn’t do by walking over to your television to manually change the channels, just faster and way more convenient. 

 

If Apple Pay on your phone feels fast, paying via your watch feels at least 50% faster in comparison. 

 

I don’t have to reach into my pocket every time my phone vibrates. I can look at my wrist to discern the nature of the incoming notification and decide whether it is worth responding to or not. 

 

And when I am running, I don’t bring my phone with me, and so it’s handy to be able to store music on the watch. 

 

I have even even used my watch as a clicker to control my PowerPoint presentation running from my phone. Cheap thrill, but cool that it’s there. 

 

It’s a bunch of nice little conveniences in one neat little package that further adds value to a smartphone. 

[Guest The Viking]

2 hours ago, DrMacintosh said:

It’s interesting how much you dislike the design

we all have design preferences. In my case, either I like, or I don't. I just don't like the apple watch design, it just feels... off? i'm more of a "classical" guy so I'll buy a smartwatch that looks like a watch. that's all really. And I'll keep insisting that, for the price you pay, an apple watch just looks cheap, good materials or not.

 

then again, the most likely people to buy an apple watch are apple users so whatever, right? (and yes I know that know android smartwatches kinda work with ios)

[Murasaki]

havent seen a single person wearing one

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

I'm surprised people still care about wearables. I'll stick to gold Seikos.

[AresKrieger]

I mean being king of something insignificant does still make you a king, but it also makes it a hollow achievement. A watch only signifies how much money you have lying around to waste needlessly, even with extra features it still is essentially useless without a phone and doesn't provide any additional functionality so why bother.