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> It does all that. Sure, I didn't mean to imply that it doesn't. I was simply illustrating how different people have different use cases for these wearable de

by heywire 10y ago

> It does all that. Sure, I didn't mean to imply that it doesn't. I was simply illustrating how different people have different use cases for these wearable devices. While we may see some more convergence, I think that multiple categories will remain (fitness, etc). > I use it all the time (when alone) to set reminders, reply to texts, etc. The great thing about the iPhone and Siri is that you don't need a watch to do that. Most of the time I don't even have to pull my phone from my pocket to do a "Hey Siri". Apple seems to have done a pretty decent job with the voice recognition and hotword detection (I think that's the right term). > Of course I'm guessing the Blaze is much cheaper. Actually not much. The Blaze retails for $199.

MBCook 10y ago
I knew you knew it did all the other stuff. You're right about the phone, but it's very nice to be able to just raise my wrist and sort of whisper into my watch. I don't have to make sure I'm loud enough that my phone can hear me from my pocket. It just feels easier/more natural if you don't already have your phone in your hand. I wonder if the pricing on the Blaze was set before the latest Apple Watches came out. That would have been a decent value against $350 or whatever they were, but now that a very nice one starts at $260 it's a tougher sell.
- brlewis 10y ago
  Blaze does not appear to be a tough sell on Amazon. Right now different Blaze models place 1st, 3rd, 5th, 8th, 11th and 12th in the top 12 places on https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Cell-Phones-Accessories-Smart-Watches/zgbs/wireless/7939901011 https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Cell-Phones-Accessories-... Apple Watch models in spots 2 and 10.
  - MBCook 10y ago
    Interesting. The big catch on buying an Apple Watch right now is that depending on the model you want you can still face a pretty decent delay in being able to get one. All things being equal I wonder how that would affect the rankings.
acdha 10y ago
> Most of the time I don't even have to pull my phone from my pocket to do a "Hey Siri". Apple seems to have done a pretty decent job with the voice recognition and hotword detection (I think that's the right term). My experience is that “hey siri” works well if you're somewhere quiet but it's really prone to false-positives, even for things which sound nothing like th at. Most of the other iPhone users I know have commented about disabling that after Siri kept activating in meetings, which is the same reason I turned it off after a couple days, and then hoping that the next hardware release would do a better job. Maybe the 7S… Amazon appears to have done a much better job - their users talk admit how good it is rather than joking about how it's faster to get there phone out of your pocket than retry your Siri query multiple times.

by heywire 10y ago

MBCook 10y ago

I knew you knew it did all the other stuff. You're right about the phone, but it's very nice to be able to just raise my wrist and sort of whisper into my watch. I don't have to make sure I'm loud enough that my phone can hear me from my pocket. It just feels easier/more natural if you don't already have your phone in your hand. I wonder if the pricing on the Blaze was set before the latest Apple Watches came out. That would have been a decent value against $350 or whatever they were, but now that a very nice one starts at $260 it's a tougher sell.

brlewis 10y ago
Blaze does not appear to be a tough sell on Amazon. Right now different Blaze models place 1st, 3rd, 5th, 8th, 11th and 12th in the top 12 places on https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Cell-Phones-Accessories-Smart-Watches/zgbs/wireless/7939901011 https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Cell-Phones-Accessories-... Apple Watch models in spots 2 and 10.
- MBCook 10y ago
  Interesting. The big catch on buying an Apple Watch right now is that depending on the model you want you can still face a pretty decent delay in being able to get one. All things being equal I wonder how that would affect the rankings.

acdha 10y ago

> Most of the time I don't even have to pull my phone from my pocket to do a "Hey Siri". Apple seems to have done a pretty decent job with the voice recognition and hotword detection (I think that's the right term). My experience is that “hey siri” works well if you're somewhere quiet but it's really prone to false-positives, even for things which sound nothing like th at. Most of the other iPhone users I know have commented about disabling that after Siri kept activating in meetings, which is the same reason I turned it off after a couple days, and then hoping that the next hardware release would do a better job. Maybe the 7S… Amazon appears to have done a much better job - their users talk admit how good it is rather than joking about how it's faster to get there phone out of your pocket than retry your Siri query multiple times.