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Android Wear is specifically designed to avoid this problem. You get a series of glance-able cards that you can swipe through for more information or actions. I
by tadfisher 12y ago
Android Wear is specifically designed to avoid this problem. You get a series of glance-able cards that you can swipe through for more information or actions. In maybe one or two places (the Settings app) do you actually get a list view, and they are all one-line entries that fit easily on a round screen.
Apple's philosophy toward the smartwatch experience is just different. Android Wear is all about contextual notifications and glanceable information. What we've seen of Apple Watch is smartphone apps scaled down. I'm sure it will be very powerful and well-designed, just not my cup of tea.
- themagician 12y agoStill, the actual "usable" area on a circular watch is the square within.
- tadfisher 12y agoSomehow I can read emails and reply to texts just fine. And people don't ask me about the calculator on my wrist.
- femto 12y agoOr a circular aperture could naturally be viewed as a "spy hole". Why not use the gyros, the fact that the watch is on a movable limb, and there is typically a single viewer, to fake up a holograpic view, whereby a virtual screen is bigger than the watch and the user sees the whole screen by moving their wrist relative to their eyes.