“With the Apple Watch becoming available for pre-order on Friday, it’s likely that we’ll see reviews of the device from a handful of people who’ve been given early access to the Watch at some point this week,” Jan Dawson writes for beyond Devices. “I am not among them, but I wanted to share what I’m looking out for in these reviews when they do land, and which I think will make a big difference in how the Watch sells.
“I think how the Watch handles notifications is critical, both because I think it’s an essential part of Apple’s position around intimate computing, but also because other smartwatches have handled notifications so badly,” Dawson writes. “I think battery life on the Watch could put a huge damper on the success of the device if it’s not adequate. Given the reports we saw earlier this year, and Apple’s own public statements at the recent event about battery life, it’s still somewhat up in the air whether the broader group of users who now have their hands on the device will find it adequate”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Yes, the first round of reviews are going to be interesting and even more so when revisited a couple years down the line.
I’m wondering:
– what it feels like on the wrist, and for various bands.
– what change in behavior it creates.
– how well “hey Siri” works.
– are there glitches?
– does the fashion look become part of their identity, or well express their identity, or dot hey feel like they’ve signed up for the cyborg convention?
– hearing what others said to them about it.
– the reviewer’s sense of where this technology goes next. Does it feel static or end of the line, or is there a clear sense of a door opening with this device?
– what’s it like to know your heart rate all day? What about the circles thing, and nudges to stand. Did their behaviors change?
– did their spouses or significant others express interest or desire for one?
– can a non-watch-wearing reviewer actually imagining strapping one of these to their wrist daily forevermore?
I’m going to pass.
I am probably the biggest gadget fiend on the planet, but this device appears to serve not one solitary or remotely valid purpose that my iPhone 6 Plus can’t.
Besides, my aging eyes already require reading glasses and a tiny screen will only magnify that problem (no pun intended).
I suppose that in the end Fandroids were right about most Apple Fanboys… they will indeed buy anything associated with the company!
Looks like someone was oxygen deprived at birth.
Couple things I want to see:
1. What it’s like in sunlight;
2. How it does with water;
3. How people find the short battery life; and
4. Whether it’s found to be useful to people or not.
Watch battery life and the impact it has on the battery life of the phone with which it is communicating to and from – something that has not been mentioned so far.
I think early battery reviews will need to be taken with a grain of salt. Everyone that get an Apple Watch is going to fiddling with it incessantly while trying everything, showing it off to friends, and generally “playing with it” until the novelty wears off. I think that after their first month with it people will begin to see its battery life magically doubling as they begin to use it in a normal fashion.
MDN, kill the ad redirects! Your site is unusable on iOS.
Use the MDN app, I don’t have any problems. 😀
Yes, but MDN ought to be accessible from the Interwebs, too.
Agreed. This website is utterly unusable from an iPhone.
While I prefer the MDN app on iOS, I haven’t had any problems using Safari. Try enabling ‘Block Pop-Ups’ in Safari menu under Settings app. 😀
AD Hijacking
I recently experienced AD Hijacking when i used my iPhone4 on WiFi, using Safari to access USA Today. A “…would like to use your present location” dialog box appeared. I clicked on ‘ok.’ Next I knew I was in the app store. Tried closing and reopening, happened again. Surfed to MDN, where previously I never had a problem, got Hijacked. (If you have a choice and location isn’t really needed for the website click “don’t allow.”)
Thought this might be tied in with ‘Location Services.” Went to: Settings>Privacy>Location Services>System Services, disabled “Popular Near Me & Location Based iAds”
Seems to work OK now. Does this work for you? 😀
It’s not MDN serving the redirects, it’s the ad networks and lack of moderation as far as the code of the ads…
Ad networks should be run like the App Store…
I’m using a 1st gen iPad running 5.1.1 and all that ad crap never appears !
Back to the future
Is the ad situation out of MDN’s hands? Why can’t MDN shutoff all ads. Then bring them back on line one company at a time until one screws up the system and then shut that company out.
Because the ads don’t work that way?
Quit bitching, bitch.