i actually decided a couple weeks ago not to review the apple watch
yet not because it isn't an important product or because i couldn't get one or
whatever but because i felt like this piece of technology straps to my wrist
was in such a state of early access that given apple's recent announcement of
watch os 2 i should probably just wait
then i realized that watch os 2 is coming in the fall and apple
legitimately expects people to buy this thing and use it for months before those
improvements materialize so while i might still take another crack at it
with more emphasis on functionality once that software update arrives i've
definitely got some words to say in the meantime
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the apple watch it's available in an umpteen bajillion different model so
let's start with some of the things that differ between them you can get a 38
millimeter or 42 millimeter face to suit your wrist size a 350 dollar to 17
thousand dollar price tag to suit your wallet size a variety of construction
materials ranging from aluminum with ion x glass on the sport models to stainless
or gold with sapphire crystal glass on the more premium ones and enough strap
options to choke a horse ranging from plastic to leather to stainless steel
then there's the similarities there are body sensors on the bottom of all models
in fact the hardware is identical down to a mere eight gigabytes of on-board
storage actually kind of funny if you think about it they've all got two
buttons a lower one for frequent contacts and the upper crown for
bringing up the home screen and for scrolling vertically which is a funny
throwback to my blackberry days actually
funnier still because it comes from apple the inventor of momentum based
touch on everything because scroll wheels
anyway though i picked up a 38 millimeter apple watch non-sport
non-edition with a milanese loop band because i thought it looked kind of cool
so some of my comments will be specific to this skew but most of my feedback
will be general observations about apple's first wearable that is to say if
you don't count tricked out ipod nanos the fit and finish of the apple watch
isn't perfect my crown button is a little spongier than it should be
especially when you gotta double tap it sometimes but overall i would say it's
outstanding it's worlds better than the moto 360 the shining hope for Android
wear enthusiasts who wanted a really premium feeling option and it makes the
lg g watch r still my personal favorite smart watch feel like a geeky gadget
rather than a piece of jewelry particularly because of its plastic
screen and you know what maybe that's the point here isn't it if we evaluate
the apple watch as a smart wrist mounted wearable a category that
it appears to be trying to invent in spite of arriving somewhat late to the
party it falls short of the functionality delivered by smaller
companies months or even years ago and if we evaluate it as a watch you know a
time piece then i don't know about you but the fact that i can't check the time
with a discreet glance at my ARM when cornered by a talkative neighbor or
during an unsatisfactory sexual encounter where i'm on the bottom
without it being extremely obvious that i'm bored
is simply unacceptable i mean sure it can be woken a number of ways by
gesturing double tapping or pressing the crown but if a real watch company
released a watch that required any of that kind of
to find out what time it is we'd laugh them out of town which doesn't mean that
it's all bad it's a very forward-thinking product and i'll say
more on that later but for now navigation with subtle vibes when turns
are coming up is solid the wireless charger is a nice finally apple
inclusion the ability to set the watch facetime a few minutes ahead felt like
they really designed this product for me personally phone conversations are
surprisingly easy to hold with the on watch speaker and microphone with
facetime support coming and the 272 by
340 pixel OLED display a first for apple
is very sharp with retina class pixel density and super high contrast making
it easy to read in pretty much any condition and easy to forget where the
lcd ends and the border begins gorgeous
it's just too bad that the battery life sucks the big one without enabling power
reserve which lasts a very long time but turns off literally all functionality
other than pressing a button to show the time the apple watch couldn't even make
it past lunch on the second day both times i forgot to charge it and this is
with what i would consider very moderate use there are just so many compromises
in this product that all come back to battery gesturing to turn on the screen
no always listening hey siri the lightning fast display timeout when i
pause to think for a second while using it the fact that the watch only buzzes
and avoids turning on the display at all
to show incoming notifications i mean that last one is what iOS lorded over
Android for so long apple knew that that
was important years ago but simply couldn't overcome the engineering
challenges or at least not in a way that wouldn't force them to compromise on the
design or vision for this product to
make that a reality because that's what happened here just like those early
flash based ipods that held like 50 songs and seemed like a pathetic
replacement for the hard drive based models that held thousands apple is
making moves six steps ahead of their opponents they could have pulled out
wi-fi or reduced the performance of the apple watch's soc to make it a more
sensible and well-rounded product today but instead they've set the internal
goal of what a smart watch should be a computer on the wrist and now they're
just playing a waiting game until the product they want can actually be
manufactured and i see why they did it because what comes first the chicken the
you know interactive computer on your wrist that apple is trying to build or
the egg the software that will run on that computer and make it functional
either one of them is useless without the other and apple can't sit and wait
forever while developers only work on you know Android wear or pebble stuff so
they launched what is essentially a development kit a product
that can be coded for that's functionally the same as what's coming
and that allows apple to collect valuable customer feedback like hey it
shouldn't take two touches to dismiss notification hey being able to interact
with hangouts or gmail messages in addition to imessage would be cool hey
starting navigation with siri shouldn't require me to touch the device which is
super inconvenient when i'm on a motorcycle hey this thing is useless as
a music remote one of the only things i do with my smart watch until it defaults
to music control on wake when i'm playing music and supports third party
media apps like sonos and play music but one that will seem
like an early adopter toy once the one with the always-on display not to
mention always listening siri and stuff like that arrives
okay so then Linus should everyone who bought one feel like an idiot well i'd
say it depends why they bought it if they bought it to have a great smart
watch then yes if they bought it as a fitness tracker especially the one i got
that's telling me i'm progressing in my walking workout when i'm sitting writing
this review and slips off from sweat when i play badminton
then yes if they bought it as a fashion accessory that looks good shockingly on
both men and women with the same design way to go apple and that like white
earbuds in the 2000 tells the people around them how hip and cool they are
then i guess not i mean i've seen first hand it's a killer conversation starter
and not just with my fellow geeks like my other smart watches so
the answer to that one then is that the value is in the eye of the beholder and
while many will find better bang for the buck in a 20 sport watch the apple watch
delivers at the very least an unassailably better value proposition
than like a high fashion pair of shoes or
something they'll both be simply dreadful and you won't want to be seen
in public with them in a year but at least the apple watch will do something
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