Wired: The secret History of the Apple Watch

Isn't the watch pretty much useless unless connected to an iPhone ?

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Isn't the watch pretty much useless unless connected to an iPhone ?

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The point of smart watches right now is being a supplement to your Smart Phone giving you quick access to functions like notification, navigation and authentication. They are not now and probably never will be a replacement to you smart phone simply because the display is too small to be used in the same ways.

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And watches are supposed to be ROUND !!!

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I agree. I'm not a fan of the square shape at all.

Yeah, but they don't really talk about the watch replacing the phone, just freeing people from it.

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Along the way, the Apple team landed upon the Watch’s raison d’être. It came down to this: Your phone is ruining your life. Like the rest of us, Ive, Lynch, Dye, and everyone at Apple are subject to the tyranny of the buzz—the constant checking, the long list of nagging notifications. “We’re so connected, kind of ever-presently, with technology now,” Lynch says. “People are carrying their phones with them and looking at the screen so much.” They’ve glared down their noses at those who bury themselves in their phones at the dinner table and then absentmindedly thrust hands into their own pockets at every ding or buzz. “People want that level of engagement,” Lynch says. “But how do we provide it in a way that’s a little more human, a little more in the moment when you’re with somebody?”

Our phones have become invasive. But what if you could engineer a reverse state of being? What if you could make a device that you wouldn’t—couldn’t—use for hours at a time? What if you could create a device that could filter out all the bullshite and instead only serve you truly important information? You could change modern life. And so after three-plus decades of building devices that grab and hold our attention—the longer the better—Apple has decided that the way forward is to fight back.

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Did you even read the article?

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I did, but it was quite easy to see why he made his original comment.

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What else has there been to get excited about exactly ?

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The Internet of Things. That is what will make the smart watch a truly useful and ubiquitous product. Smart Watches are a proxy to your Smart Phone's functionality including ability to authenticate you as you. Tap to pay at the register, tap to unlock your home or car, all with your phone in your pocket/purse and your hands full. Voice commands to close the garage door, turn off the lights, take calls, send texts, etc. The Smart Watch could be as lifestyle changing as the microwave and the remote control, IF the Internet of Things develops properly.

Broke and Gaston would have a field day with the watch is square discussion. I'm pretty sure Casio many decades ago, along with more contemporary watchmakers like, oh, I dunno, everyone from Bulova to Effin' Pebble have proven the concept that round face watches are not slavish, dogmaticly rigid archetypes for a timepiece.

Every single one of those square watches you posted are ugly as shite, or at best, would look much better if they were round.