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The Apple watch recently obtained a means to reply to messages by means of handwriting recognition. This works rather well in practice and I find I'm able to se
by gvurrdon 10y ago
The Apple watch recently obtained a means to reply to messages by means of handwriting recognition. This works rather well in practice and I find I'm able to send short replies quickly and easily in situations where speaking to the watch would be inappropriate (e.g. on a bus).
I find Siri very useful indeed for one thing in particular, which is to set reminders. This has been a very useful feature of smartwatches, and I might even consider it a "killer app". Other than that, sending some messages from the watch and setting timers I don't use Siri.
I would agree about the utility of watch notifications. For example, if my Nest camera spots a human figure on my property I get a photograph of them turn up as a notification on my watch, which is awesome.
The fitness tracking is of little interest and not really very useful given my main sporting activities involve sparring - blocking punches is not an activity which suits wearing an expensive watch.
- izacus 10y agoI find it funny that reminders are go-to thing that everyone talks about when mentioning Siri. Can it do ANYTHING else well? Especially if you're outside USA?
- gvurrdon 10y agoI don't know and I'm not particularly bothered to find out since I don't want to use it for anything other than reminders, timers and the occasional text message. When I was using Android Wear and Google Now that was all I wanted; the rest of Google Now was far too much of a nuisance. If Pebble could have handled reminders as easily I'd have been using that instead.