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Turnquiet posted:Apple Watch 2 needs to be round. A stainless OG Moto 360 with stainless band looks better, even if Android Wear on the 6S is a weaker experience than on Android (android lol). gently caress a round smart watch.
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XyrlocShammypants posted:That's like, your opinion, man. The victors determine what is a good looking watch, and the best selling smart watch is square. Not really, Apple determines the best selling smartwatch since Apple nailed marketing early on. Apple was bound to have the bestselling smartwatch since it was coming from a huge installed base. As someone who abandoned Android after 5+ years of defending it due to security gently caress ups but was worried the 360 would suck now on iOS and was proven wrong (seriously, and I only bought a stainless 360 plus band when it got to closeout levels of cheap [160 US, poors]) the Apple watch looks like poo poo compared to the Android Wear that lots of commoners have commented on since it looked so nice.
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Oct 19, 2015 02:27
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Turnquiet posted:Not really, Apple determines the best selling smartwatch since Apple nailed marketing early on. Apple was bound to have the bestselling smartwatch since it was coming from a huge installed base. As someone who abandoned Android after 5+ years of defending it due to security gently caress ups but was worried the 360 would suck now on iOS and was proven wrong (seriously, and I only bought a stainless 360 plus band when it got to closeout levels of cheap [160 US, poors]) the Apple watch looks like poo poo compared to the Android Wear that lots of commoners have commented on since it looked so nice.  I have the space gray sport, and it reminds me of an 80s Casio calculator watch bolted to a play-doh band. Utterly toylike in appearance. Truly desperately hoping for a round Watch 2.
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Oct 19, 2015 02:52
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I get that some select group of people want their Smart Watch to look as approximately like a traditional watch as possible. For them, the further from a automated/mechanical watch a smart watch gets, the worse it looks. The reality is that Android had a big rear end head start to market their watch and part of their failure thus far has been making their watch look too much like a traditional watch, even if some purists appreciate that. Apple stepped in and said "this is what a beautiful smart watch (not watch, but smart watch) should look like, in our view." Of course their brand is strong and people bought into it even further. Now more than 2/3 smart watches are Apple Watches and are square. It should bear noting that the group of people who believe watches should be round and approximate traditional watches are themselves still torn over whether or not to even wear a smart watch or stick to a traditional watch.
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Oct 19, 2015 03:21
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Most android smart watches did not look like traditional watches. In fact both launch devices were ugly square shits.
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Oct 19, 2015 03:34
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Don Lapre posted:Most android smart watches did not look like traditional watches. In fact both launch devices were ugly square shits. Well, now they do approximate traditional watches, which is the niche they are trying to fill (or be first to fill). Maybe they think Apple will go that route eventually, or maybe they just feel like it's the best course given their experiences with other shapes. In the end, the square design attempted by AW was bad looking compared to the square design of Apple. Maybe if they had executed well in the first place we'd be having a conversation about "when will AW have a round face?"
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Oct 19, 2015 03:40
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Apple Watch is probably the best looking smart watch on the market. It's still a really ugly watch. Taste in watches is really individual though. Some people adore those giant divers watches the size of a baseball on your wrist.
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Oct 19, 2015 06:48
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There's absolutely no reason for a smartwatch to be round. I could see Apple eventually launching a whole range of Apple Watches in a variety of shapes and sizes though.
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Oct 19, 2015 15:31
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gret posted:There's absolutely no reason for a smartwatch to be round. I could see Apple eventually launching a whole range of Apple Watches in a variety of shapes and sizes though. Depends how people use it. If people tend to pick round watch faces and other content works with a round shape just fine, then you could argue round makes more sense. Is there any reason for a smartwatch to be a rounded square?
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Oct 19, 2015 18:30
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RVProfootballer posted:Depends how people use it. If people tend to pick round watch faces and other content works with a round shape just fine, then you could argue round makes more sense. Is there any reason for a smartwatch to be a rounded square? Because apple invented rounded squares
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Oct 19, 2015 18:40
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Clearly they didn't as the Shakalamari brand watch that sold about 4,000 copies and required manual winding for 1 hour battery life did it first.
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Oct 19, 2015 18:56
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XyrlocShammypants posted:Clearly they didn't as the Shakalamari brand watch that sold about 4,000 copies and required manual winding for 1 hour battery life did it first. http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1701443/USD670286S1.pdf
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Oct 19, 2015 19:42
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Question. If apple made a round smart watch option, and made the UI work with it, would you buy it, or square? I'd buy circle anyday. The home screen and fitness stuff already makes sense with a circle watch face.
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Oct 20, 2015 00:17
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Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:Question. If apple made a round smart watch option, and made the UI work with it, would you buy it, or square? I'd buy circle anyday. The home screen and fitness stuff already makes sense with a circle watch face. Round for sure. I really hate the rectangle.
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Oct 20, 2015 00:19
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I'd have to see what it looks like. I'm not immune to saying that I bought mine in small part so that people would see I own a smart watch. If I didn't want people to know, i'd get a competitor's watch, nondescript strap and hide it. If they could make the round watch have the futuristic touches and distinguish it from a traditional watch then I would be on board with either shape.
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Oct 20, 2015 00:24
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XyrlocShammypants posted:If they could make the round watch have the futuristic touches and distinguish it from a traditional watch then I would be on board with either shape. What do you mean? It's a smartwatch, it has a million futuristic touches that make it different from a traditional watch. Or did you just mean in terms of styling?
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RVProfootballer posted:What do you mean? It's a smartwatch, it has a million futuristic touches that make it different from a traditional watch. Or did you just mean in terms of styling? Styling, the fringe materials etc.
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Oct 20, 2015 06:53
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Also http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.txt
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Oct 20, 2015 14:29
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Apple changing the form factor of the watch screen seems unlikely; part of iOS' success is that they don't change the screen form factor that often, and when they do it's in a backwards compatible way so that older apps still work on newer screens. That seems difficult to do going from square to circle.
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Oct 20, 2015 15:07
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I need for this mockuo to actually happen. And to be able to control my iPad or atv from stupid watch.
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Oct 20, 2015 20:49
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pipebomb posted:I need for this mockuo to actually happen. And to be able to control my iPad or atv from stupid watch. You can control your ATV (or iTunes) from your watch? https://support.apple.com/kb/PH20782?locale=en_US
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Oct 20, 2015 23:53
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fordan posted:You can control your ATV (or iTunes) from your watch? https://support.apple.com/kb/PH20782?locale=en_US Ah, good to know, thanks.
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Oct 20, 2015 23:54
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yeah, but not as a complication.
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Oct 21, 2015 00:12
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I'm finding battery life vastly improved under 2.0.1. Very satisfying indeed!
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Oct 24, 2015 01:01
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A round smart watch makes literally no sense. Every time you see one all the content is just squeezed into the tiny square of best fit in the circle anyway, so you're paying for a ton of screen that you can't use for the one aspect of the thing that differentiates it from a dumbwatch. It's an entire hardware spec designed for just one inferior aspect of the product. It would be like if the iPhone had that iPod/rotatry dial like those comical mockups had.
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Oct 24, 2015 01:17
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I understand what you're saying and yet I will literally never buy a smartwatch until there is one that is round + extremely good because the square/rectangular watches look horrendous
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Oct 24, 2015 02:00
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It's not like people wear watches as jewellery
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Oct 24, 2015 02:05
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I buy Apple products for strictly utilitarian reasons.
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Oct 24, 2015 02:06
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I like the square design because it reminds me of the basic app shape on iOS.  Besides, with a round watch you'd have to go huge to have comparable space, and I don't see that working unless you're going diver's watch big, and then you're just serving people who prefer huge watches.
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Oct 24, 2015 08:41
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Don Lapre posted:It's not like people wear watches as jewellery
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Oct 24, 2015 16:24
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I'm very much in the "I prefer a round smartwatch" camp, but I tried on the Hermes Cuff yesterday, and it was incredible looking. The 70s style wide cuff made the apple watch look not so bulky, and the stitching and square angles of the cuff/band combo complemented the rectangular watch shape and actually made it look good. I then tried on the "single tour" Hermes and a stainless steel with standard apple brown leather strap. The watch really did look unattractive with all but the cuff. Wearing the cuff model, I actually got excited about the watch. My sgs now looks like a comical Fisher-Price My First Watch with Edible Play-Doh Band (patent pending).
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Oct 24, 2015 16:42
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I feel like the Olio is the best looking smart watch I've seen.
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Croc Monster posted:I'm very much in the "I prefer a round smartwatch" camp, but I tried on the Hermes Cuff yesterday, and it was incredible looking. The 70s style wide cuff made the apple watch look not so bulky, and the stitching and square angles of the cuff/band combo complemented the rectangular watch shape and actually made it look good. I then tried on the "single tour" Hermes and a stainless steel with standard apple brown leather strap. The watch really did look unattractive with all but the cuff. Wearing the cuff model, I actually got excited about the watch. Oh my god I know I waste money on poo poo but fifteen hundred dollars for a watch band I can't even
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Oct 24, 2015 20:39
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The watch is included. So only about $1,000 for the band 
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Oct 24, 2015 20:48
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Croc Monster posted:The watch is included. So only about $1,000 for the band That irrationally makes me feel a bit better about something I'm not going to buy anyway but lordy lordy. Wonder how long before replicas that are 95% as good for 1/10 the price come out.
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Oct 24, 2015 20:53
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An Apple Watch will by definition always look like an Apple Watch. Just like with the iPhone, there is a particular appeal there to many consumers. It isn't necessarily supposed to look like a "normal" watch by design. If a round model is released, it still won't satisfy people who want a replacement for an heirloom ornamental watch, probably on purpose. Edit: although I wouldn't be surprised by seasonal licensing deals with watchmaker (or designers) that go off the rails with form factors every so often Like a Bill Cosby one with dual heart rate monitors SLOSifl fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Oct 24, 2015 |
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Oct 24, 2015 21:00
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mediaphage posted:That irrationally makes me feel a bit better about something I'm not going to buy anyway but lordy lordy. Wonder how long before replicas that are 95% as good for 1/10 the price come out. Yeah, they're already out on amazon/ebay/alibaba and look just fine. Before the Hermes was even released, I saw some 3rd party cuff bands on Amazon and thought even then that they framed the watch better than a regular band.
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Oct 24, 2015 21:08
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Croc Monster posted:I'm very much in the "I prefer a round smartwatch" camp, but I tried on the Hermes Cuff yesterday, and it was incredible looking. The 70s style wide cuff made the apple watch look not so bulky, and the stitching and square angles of the cuff/band combo complemented the rectangular watch shape and actually made it look good. I then tried on the "single tour" Hermes and a stainless steel with standard apple brown leather strap. The watch really did look unattractive with all but the cuff. Wearing the cuff model, I actually got excited about the watch. It's called a bund strap and they've been around a lot longer then the 70s
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blugu64 posted:It's called a bund strap and they've been around a lot longer then the 70s
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