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> (who can skim important messages that come in, but needs not respond at length). iWatch + Airpods + dictation, my friend. It is amazing. If only the apple w

by Swizec 7y ago

> (who can skim important messages that come in, but needs not respond at length). iWatch + Airpods + dictation, my friend. It is amazing. If only the apple watch could play audiobooks (on Audible) and music (on Spotify) without a phone nearby, it would be the perfect minimalist phone. Alas until that happens I have to continue to lug my phone around when sportsing. You can download books to the Audible watch app but I've never gotten it to work. The connection just isn't stable enough. The new WatchOS supposedly enables the API that Apple Music has been using to stream via LTE (from what I've heard), but it smells like Spotify has decided it's no longer worth the bother.

graeme 7y ago
Do you just deal with having typos in a long reply? You can’t edit watch dictation, so a lot of my replies including some form of “damned apple watch” so people I’m replying to know what’s up. That said I quite like the combo in general. A big reason I went with apple music is the streaming. It is baffling to me that spotify hasn’t enabled lte streaming on the watch now that watchos 6 lets them.
- foobarian 7y ago
  I am a spelling perfectionist too but oddly enough I'm starting to notice I don't respect people who write perfect messages as much as those who let an occasional error through. Maybe it's because I know they waste time, or that they are not confident enough to skip the editing - and related, that they are probably low on the totem pole. It's a weird effect, and yet I still can't bring myself not to overedit.
  - wyre 7y ago
    As someone who hasn't entered the world of big business, this is an interesting perspective I haven't thought about. Thanks
  - graeme 7y ago
    You misunderstand: apple watch dictation doesn’t merely make typos. It mangles things. So you might have a message like: “Can you get broccoli from the store? Oh also we need kill thompson’s party. I mean we need kale for the party. Damned apple watch” You can either abandon the whole message, or repeat what you said to get it right. And include a disclaimer to show you didn’t mean the insane thing Siri wrote. On long messages it can get quite annoying to start over, as I find it hard to finish a long message without at least one oddly mangles phrase.
jonny_eh 7y ago
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/apollo-for-watch https://www.producthunt.com/posts/apollo-for-watch
indemnity 7y ago
WatchOS 6 added streaming support using the same/similar APIs on iOS, one would hope Spotify could bother to use them too. I've actually subscribed to Apple Music solely because Spotify (for which I have a subscription too) does not let me go running with only my watch...
paulcarroty 7y ago
Looks good, but the battery is very small, even without using Airpods/Audible/Spotify.

by Swizec 7y ago

graeme 7y ago

Do you just deal with having typos in a long reply? You can’t edit watch dictation, so a lot of my replies including some form of “damned apple watch” so people I’m replying to know what’s up. That said I quite like the combo in general. A big reason I went with apple music is the streaming. It is baffling to me that spotify hasn’t enabled lte streaming on the watch now that watchos 6 lets them.

foobarian 7y ago
I am a spelling perfectionist too but oddly enough I'm starting to notice I don't respect people who write perfect messages as much as those who let an occasional error through. Maybe it's because I know they waste time, or that they are not confident enough to skip the editing - and related, that they are probably low on the totem pole. It's a weird effect, and yet I still can't bring myself not to overedit.
- wyre 7y ago
  As someone who hasn't entered the world of big business, this is an interesting perspective I haven't thought about. Thanks
- graeme 7y ago
  You misunderstand: apple watch dictation doesn’t merely make typos. It mangles things. So you might have a message like: “Can you get broccoli from the store? Oh also we need kill thompson’s party. I mean we need kale for the party. Damned apple watch” You can either abandon the whole message, or repeat what you said to get it right. And include a disclaimer to show you didn’t mean the insane thing Siri wrote. On long messages it can get quite annoying to start over, as I find it hard to finish a long message without at least one oddly mangles phrase.

jonny_eh 7y ago

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/apollo-for-watch https://www.producthunt.com/posts/apollo-for-watch

indemnity 7y ago

WatchOS 6 added streaming support using the same/similar APIs on iOS, one would hope Spotify could bother to use them too. I've actually subscribed to Apple Music solely because Spotify (for which I have a subscription too) does not let me go running with only my watch...

paulcarroty 7y ago

Looks good, but the battery is very small, even without using Airpods/Audible/Spotify.