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Sounds like the smartwatch Samsung would've built (and has kind of already done it). Except I remember the idea of "smartphone on your wrist" being met with muc
by higherpurpose 12y ago
Sounds like the smartwatch Samsung would've built (and has kind of already done it). Except I remember the idea of "smartphone on your wrist" being met with much more hostility in reviews than in Apple Watch's case. In the reviews for Samsung's smartwatches it was called a "stupid idea". In the Apple Watch's reviews it's "well...you learn to cope with it".
I'm not defending Samsung's watches. I think all smartwatches are a solution in search of a problem right now, and that most implementations are either terrible or insufficient. Just pointing out the obvious bias for one company.
- bydo 12y agoSamsung's watch was a smaller, worse smartphone strapped to your wrist, down to a camera, dialer, etc. They marketed it based on that: do everything your phone can, less comfortably and conveniently, without taking your phone out of your pocket! Unsurprisingly this was not an attractive use case to many. Apple is positioning their watch as something to get you off of your phone, rather than another way to access it (Google did this a little more than Samsung's first offering, but Apple is taking it much further). There's a reason every review is seeded with the narrative of spending too much time with technology. We'll see how this bears out—a lot of us have no problem keeping our phones in our pockets already, and many smartphone obsessives wouldn't be able to make the switch with the Watch in its current state if they even could be convinced that they wanted to—but at least it makes somewhat more sense. (I'm not buying one, either. Yet.)