Apple released its latest iPhones, and they come with improvements in... who cares, they've finally got a watch! It's still months away though, so we don't know all the details, and so far, it seems a little disappointing. It looks like... a watch. It's not as clunky as earlier smart watches, but it still does look like a digital watch, with a big rectangle on a much-thinner strap.
They even kept the little wheel at the side - not to wind it, but as an input device for when the tiny screen would be obscured by using on-screen controls. Which makes me think: 1. haven't they noticed that those wheels aren't easy to use? Ask me in the middle of the daylight-saving shift if I wouldn't give up the wheel for setting the time with a touch screen. And 2. The original Blackberry (the one that looked like a pager) also had a wheel to navigate its functions: just one more reason for them to curse fate.
It sounds like they've got the right idea usability-wise by not just making it a mini-iPhone, and instead giving it a new paradigm. But stylisticly it's not even as good as Samsung's smartwatches. I guess the disappointment is that the iPhone didn't look like previous phones, mobile or otherwise: it created its own, cleaner style. That's kind of what the Pebble did with watches. The iWatch barely even looks better than this fake Windows watch.
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