3 ms·
Neither apple nor google smartwatches have easy enoughUX for things I do often. Eg. Someone Whatsapps me 'Can I get that bag back I left at your house", I wan
by londons_explore 3y ago
Neither apple nor google smartwatches have easy enoughUX for things I do often.
Eg. Someone Whatsapps me 'Can I get that bag back I left at your house", I want to reply with "Sure, I'll be home around 6pm".
I could get my phone out to reply. It will take about 10 seconds (1 to get phone out of pocket, 1 for finger unlock, 1 to open the notification tray, 1 to tap the notification and wait while the tray slides closed and the keyboard slides up, 5 to type the message and hit send, 1 to return the phone to my pocket).
Or... I could use my watch with voice typing. But the watch still takes around 10 seconds when you deal with the fact I need to confirm the message and the voice typing is laggy and sometimes needs to be done twice.
Just fix the UX so common tasks can be done in 4 seconds or less and I'd use it. It should be a physical button I press and hold, say "reply saying I'll be home at 6pm", release the button, and it should automatically reply to the notification that just came in and should be all done within 4 seconds (3 seconds of speaking, 1 to lift the watch to the mouth and press the button).
- infotainment 3y agoIf you ever used a Pebble watch with an Android phone, it was almost the experience you describe. It’s really a shame that company died.
- htrp 3y agobought by fitbit who was bought by google
- infotainment 3y agoYup, and Fitbit used essentially nothing from Pebble; it was basically an accquihire. They should have just rebranded Pebble’s lineup as Fitbits, IMO.
- Loggias 3y ago[dead]
- londons_explore 3y agoEven if they can't get the voice recognition good enough, they could at least send the text and sound clip to the other person so any recognition inaccuracies don't get in the way of conversation.
- ghaff 3y agoI wear my Apple Watch for hiking. But I have almost all notifications disabled, I don't really care about quantified self sort of data, voice input isn't reliable enough, etc. The tradeoffs mostly aren't there vs. a watch that tells me the time and I never need to charge.
- londons_explore 3y ago> I don't really care about quantified self sort of data, Same here... I really don't understand why everyone cares about their heart rate or how many steps they've done today.... Like how is that helping my life? I might as well start measuring how many millimeters my fingernails grow each week and have a fingernail-growth-race...
- ghaff 3y agoAt one point, I had a sleep sensor sent to me to review it from a company that Apple later bought. My take at the time was (and is) that maybe if I were concerned I had some sort of issue it might make sense to track things for a while on the cheap before I saw a doctor. But, for the most part, if I had a bad night's sleep I mostly know that and it's one of those things that happen. I also know if I'm getting out and walking enough without precisely tracking numbers. I get that having specific goals helps some people but not me.