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One of the big draws of buying and wearing a mechanical watch is the emotional feeling of something busily working away on your wrist. In the same way I would
by api_or_ipa 10y ago
One of the big draws of buying and wearing a mechanical watch is the emotional feeling of something busily working away on your wrist. In the same way I would fine great joy in wearing a flavour of linux right on my wrist.
- kbutler 10y agoMeh... Maybe I'm just jaded by having had Linux running in my pocket for many years. (Linux, then BSD, then Linux again...)
- MBCook 10y agoI do love my Apple Watch, but I would also be thrilled if they put some sort of really fancy mechanical gizmo in there for the sole of having some ultra complex mechanical escapement only instead of software.
- disordinary 10y agoApple used to put speakers in their ipods just so there was a click when you used the scroll wheel, so I wouldn't put it past them to have some sort of haptic imitation of ticking that 99.999% of people will never notice or feel. :)
- jodrellblank 10y agoApple put an electromagnet in their newer laptop trackpads so they click when you press them, even though they can't move and aren't buttons.
- disordinary 10y agoYeah, and it's amazing how realistic it feels.
- 72deluxe 10y agoI find the clicking on my MBP 2012 really irritating - I much prefer tap to click. Do others really spend the entire day noisily clicking around to do stuff? Weirdly the tap to click stops working after connecting to the MacBook using VNC, even though if you open System Preferences and look at the touchpad options, it believes it is enabled with tap-to-click. They've said it is fixed about 10 times now - not sure if it is. Must retest.
- milankragujevic 10y agoYou might want to try NoMachine, it works on Linux, macOS and Windows. It's pretty fast, but the picture quality isn't that good because it uses video compression (VP8) instead of bitmaps.
- macintux 10y agoI've never understood why anyone doesn't use tap to click on Apple trackpads. Physical or not, the full click is such a flow interruption for me it drives me crazy when I have to do it (fortunately, effectively never). There was a viral Flash(?) game a few years ago involving a frog sticking out its tongue to trap insects; the catch for the game was that it had no help, everything in the UI was discoverable, but barely. Unless, of course, you used tap to click, which wasn't registered by the game. I spent 5 minutes trying to play before deciding the whole thing must be a hoax.
- favorited 10y agoI use it every day, and until reading this thread I didn't even realize it wasn't mechanical...
- rimantas 10y agoon iPhone 7 you get the haptic feedback when e.g. scrolling the picker items. I think 100% of users notice that.
- OJFord 10y agoAbsolutely - I'd love to see more along the lines of Tag Heuer's 'Connected' watches (which I think all have LCD faces), but stepping back to mechanical time. At it's most basic, just a notification light that mirrors that on my phone/tablet. Ideally, I think a ticker-tape-style circular display around the edge of the (real mechanical) watch face to give notification headings would be awesome.
- ajford 10y agoCheck out the Withings Steel HR. No ticker tap display, but it does have a small inset LCD to give you connectivity, but with style/class of analog. https://www.withings.com/eu/en/products/steel-hr https://www.withings.com/eu/en/products/steel-hr