“Allow me to begin my analysis of Watch and watchOS 3.0 with my own experience,” Bambi Brannan writes for Mac360. “First, to use Watch is to love to use Watch. It has replaced half a dozen different watches in my collection – sport to luxury to basic – with half a dozen or more different watchbands which are easily interchanged to match an event.”
“Second, Apple’s idea of Watch navigation was designed in a darkened closet with Keynote slides because it didn’t match reality,” Brannan writes. “Instead of using the honeycomb app launcher (who can figure out what all those stupid icons mean?), I went straight to Glances for convenience, and setup just those notifications that were unique and worthwhile to me. That same scene was repeated earth wide because Apple’s honeycomb app launch interface was too cumbersome to use.”
“In Watch watchOS 3.0, Apple addresses my major complaints. Apps launch instantly or nearly so. Glances are gone and replaced by a familiar and user configurable Dock experience. Goodbye, honeycomb app launcher, we hardly used ye,” Brannan writes. “In other words, Apple paid attention to how customers were actually using Watch and responded accordingly with adjustments, changes, and options that will make Watch more useful than the first versions of watchOS.”
Much more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Yup.
Apple Watch is currently in the same situation as iPhone was in 2007, saddled with 2G speed and prior to the iPhone OS SDK (March 6, 2008) and the resultant App Store (July 10, 2008). A few of us had iPhones for that year while the rest of the world looked at them as a curiosity, but we knew.
We wouldn’t trade that early iPhone or this early Apple Watch experience for anything.
You can have our Apple Watches when you pry them off our cold, dead wrists. — MacDailyNews, December 1, 2015
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]