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Same for me, because there is a fundamental flaw in the product: It sucks at being a watch. I can check my Casio without flicking my wrist. I can even take it

Same for me, because there is a fundamental flaw in the product: It sucks at being a watch. I can check my Casio without flicking my wrist. I can even take it off and place it next to my keyboard and keep track of the time. Not possible on the Apple Watch, even more infuriating by the inconsistent detection of the wrist movement. The Apple Watch is a watch that sucks at being - a watch.

dagwaging 10y ago
this is one of the reasons i'm quite happy with my first gen pebble: the screen is always on, so i can always see the time i also got mine for half the original price, at $75 i think they were smart to focus on the things smartwatches actually do well: notifications, and simple remote controls (i.e. for music, navigation) having physical buttons makes it much more useful, since i can easily perform actions without even looking at the watch, or with gloves on and only having to charge it once a week is wonderful i personally don't use activity trackers, but the newest pebbles include that functionality i think android wear and the apple watch both try to do too much, and end up being good at nothing
- jon-wood 10y ago
  The activity tracking is the Pebble's killer feature for me. While I like getting notifications on my wrist, and being able to see the time whenever I choose is nice, what I really love is passive tracking of how far I've walked in a given day and how long I slept for. They've also just today released a mood tracking app alongside the rest of the tracking which prompts you once an hour for a quick summary of your mood and what you did in the last hour. Being able to later go back and correlate all these things is awesome - even now I know that on days I get out and exercise more I'm happier, soon I should be able to give objective numbers on that, along with being able to determine things like the correlation between caffeine and happiness/energy levels over the day. I'm pretty excited for the Pebble Core as well, especially since they announced Alexa integration, I think its got a lot of potential for drastically changing how we interact with mobile computing and moving on from the current interactive glass paradigm.
ZenoArrow 10y ago
> "It sucks at being a watch." I always thought it was a mistake to use a power hungry screen on a smartwatch. I've not tried one but I'd suspect the Pebble would be better in this regard as they use eInk displays that can be left on without draining the battery. https://www.pebble.com/ https://www.pebble.com/
speeder 10y ago
I currently hate smartphones for this reason too. They rarely let me make a phone call when I really want it. Specially cheaper ones ( I am on third world country ) they tend to outright freeze when you unlock them trying to render those pretty 1080p+ interfaces designed for flagship products, and sometimes take up to five minutes before I can actually dial. Similarly I am very annoyed by smartv interfaces, I struggle to watch tv on my Bravia and every time my grandparents visit they keep annoying me asking all the time how to reach Brazil most popular free tv channel ( Globo ) and depending on the tv state sometimes I fail to figure it out too.
massysett 10y ago
That's why I was surprised that the launch went on and on about watches and watch design and how they paid attention to watch heritage. They said "ooh, complications." They clearly wanted to say this is first and foremost a watch. But if you want a watch this is the last thing to buy.

dagwaging 10y ago

this is one of the reasons i'm quite happy with my first gen pebble: the screen is always on, so i can always see the time i also got mine for half the original price, at $75 i think they were smart to focus on the things smartwatches actually do well: notifications, and simple remote controls (i.e. for music, navigation) having physical buttons makes it much more useful, since i can easily perform actions without even looking at the watch, or with gloves on and only having to charge it once a week is wonderful i personally don't use activity trackers, but the newest pebbles include that functionality i think android wear and the apple watch both try to do too much, and end up being good at nothing

jon-wood 10y ago
The activity tracking is the Pebble's killer feature for me. While I like getting notifications on my wrist, and being able to see the time whenever I choose is nice, what I really love is passive tracking of how far I've walked in a given day and how long I slept for. They've also just today released a mood tracking app alongside the rest of the tracking which prompts you once an hour for a quick summary of your mood and what you did in the last hour. Being able to later go back and correlate all these things is awesome - even now I know that on days I get out and exercise more I'm happier, soon I should be able to give objective numbers on that, along with being able to determine things like the correlation between caffeine and happiness/energy levels over the day. I'm pretty excited for the Pebble Core as well, especially since they announced Alexa integration, I think its got a lot of potential for drastically changing how we interact with mobile computing and moving on from the current interactive glass paradigm.

ZenoArrow 10y ago

> "It sucks at being a watch." I always thought it was a mistake to use a power hungry screen on a smartwatch. I've not tried one but I'd suspect the Pebble would be better in this regard as they use eInk displays that can be left on without draining the battery. https://www.pebble.com/ https://www.pebble.com/

speeder 10y ago

I currently hate smartphones for this reason too. They rarely let me make a phone call when I really want it. Specially cheaper ones ( I am on third world country ) they tend to outright freeze when you unlock them trying to render those pretty 1080p+ interfaces designed for flagship products, and sometimes take up to five minutes before I can actually dial. Similarly I am very annoyed by smartv interfaces, I struggle to watch tv on my Bravia and every time my grandparents visit they keep annoying me asking all the time how to reach Brazil most popular free tv channel ( Globo ) and depending on the tv state sometimes I fail to figure it out too.

massysett 10y ago

That's why I was surprised that the launch went on and on about watches and watch design and how they paid attention to watch heritage. They said "ooh, complications." They clearly wanted to say this is first and foremost a watch. But if you want a watch this is the last thing to buy.