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If that were true they’d be making something more like the Pebble Time series of watches with week long battery life, essentials built in, and minimal API. App
by kobeya 9y ago
If that were true they’d be making something more like the Pebble Time series of watches with week long battery life, essentials built in, and minimal API.
Apple Watch is a battery hog, culprit number one being the sexy watchOS UI. If you want practicality and pragmatic trade offs, it is nowhere near what others have demonstrated.
- bpicolo 9y agoThey're clearly optimizing for a single waking-day of battery life, which is (imo) a reasonable thing to aim for. I don't want to wear a watch when I'm sleeping anyway. It's a different tradeoff than Pebble that allows them to do more. It's also something they've worked hard to pack features into (e.g. Siri voice on-watch in series 3)