“My review unit is a 44 mm model in stainless steel with the new gold finish. It’s smaller by volume than the Series 0-3 42 mm models, but larger by surface area. And the display simply seems immense. It makes me wonder if I might not prefer the new 40 mm size, the display of which is slightly larger than the display of the old 42 mm models,” John Gruber writes for Daring Fireball. “I would encourage anyone on the fence about which size to get to go to a store and try them on before deciding. It’s not that I think this 44 mm model is too big for me, it’s that I wonder if the 40 mm model would be big enough.”
“The Series 4 Digital Crown is clearly all new. Apple — during the event and in their marketing materials — is trumpeting the Crown’s new haptic feedback. It ‘clicks’” as you spin it, and the clicks correspond to whatever it is you’re scrolling. This is a very nice touch. But the best thing about the new Digital Crown is how freely it spins,” Gruber writes. “There’s almost no friction at all. It makes the Crown on my Series 3 watch feel like it’s rusty. The feel of this new Digital Crown is so much nicer than the old ones.”
“The taps on this Series 4 watch are the best I’ve ever felt on any Apple Watch. They’re strong but not too strong… In the way that a notification sound can be pleasant, these taps are pleasant. This makes me think it took Apple four years to get to the point where the Digital Crown and Taptic Engine in production Apple Watches feel the way they’ve wanted them to feel all along,” Gruber writes. “Series 4 is to Apple Watch what iPhone 4 was to iPhone — the model that takes the original design to a new level.”
Tons more niceties in the full review here.
MacDailyNews Take: A nice review. Could’ve been nicer, perhaps, or not nearly so nice, but it’s a nice review nonetheless. Not the nicest, but, hey, you can’t have everything, right? In short: Nice.
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Left wing Gruber has the most brilliant Apple brain, but you don’t need to be Rush Limbaugh to know that Gruber is a leftist Hillary shillary anti-capitalist leftist brainwashed socialist democrat
Sad.
And now: what exactly is wrong with being anti-capitalist, socialist and democrat?
HNL–> Hole Notha’ Level
It might be clever but it is still big and ugly. At least they dropped the gold version – it was an exhibition of hubris loved only by footballers and rappers with too much money.
I enjoyed the article. But, comparing the AppleWatch’s “niceness” to every-other-watch-ever-made should be compared to the iPhone’s “niceness” to-every-computer-ever-made. That comparison in the article fails miserably. The AppleWatch is the nicest smart watch ever made. It should only be compared with other smart watches. Just like we only compare iPhone to other smartphones and not computers in general. Even though it really is just a small computer that has phone functions.