Take a few minutes to read Nilay Patel’s take on the Apple Watch.
His assessment is certainly accurate. Apps take a relatively long time to launch and there is too much lag when an app has to communicate with the iPhone.
I see this as a glass half full. I love my Apple Watch, wear it every day. These are the things I get from my watch at a glance, with no lag:
– Current time
– The day and date
– Current outside temperature
– Texts
– Email
– Other notifications
– Alarm settings
– Battery life
There is a ton of value here. All of this functionality is immediate. The only lag is the time it takes for my watch screen to light up.
Add to this list Siri interaction (Siri is its own glass half full), Apple Maps integration (mileage to next turn, wrist taps when a turn is close, all incredibly useful), and Calendar integration (I use Fantastical’s complication, works very well).
This is a glass half full, but a really big glass, with lots of capacity for improvement. This was first generation hardware and I have incorporated it into my day-to-day life.
I do see Nilay’s disappointment. But I would urge patience here. Point out the flaws, that helps Apple home in on what to change. But give Apple another generation to address the flaws (I suspect these issues are not software fixable, or they’d be fixed) and judge the change.
I can’t imagine that we won’t see significant changes with the next generation of Apple Watch.
Agreed, I use mine every day. I honestly feel it’s way a head of it’s time. Apple Pay is something I use every day. My gas station, grocery store, pharmacy, most restaurants all take Apple Pay now.. I rarely take out my wallet. I’ve gotten to the point where I only carry a few loyalty cards and a debit card..
We’re going to see digital drivers licenses and SS cards soon as well. I can imagine a day where the watch becomes our wallet.
Why is that important? because the watch, unlike the phone, is always on me. which is something a wallet generally needs to be. While a Smartphone ‘can’ be a wallet, it’s will not be as good at it as the watch IMO.
When people see my watch and comment that they heard it has problems I make a comment like “Well, we all had problems when we were little kids, and look at us now.” And then they get it. They realize they were thinking of it as a fixed thing when it’s constantly evolving and a moving target. Or, I’ll say “Remember the first iPhone that didn’t have simple copy and paste?”
Nilay Patel is a smart man who grasps technology better than most non-engineers. But he’s not a non-engineer who does not develop products. His perspective is also skewed when looking retrospectively. All to say, this is premature ejaculation of disappointment.
Sorry I have no respect for this guy and his click bait website. Go read Jony Ive’s most recent comments and it’s clear that there will be a ton of improvements to this product over the coming years.
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