I know, I know, Reddit is a horrible slush pool with “high noise, low signal” as my dad says.
But there are diamonds in that slush, and I think I’ve found one (unless it’s fool’s diamond).
It’s a comment from reddit about why the Apple Watch is what it is, and this is a comment which explains which watch is what the other is that is…
…er…here it is:
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It makes sense to me. I think Apple realized that this device needs to be more than just a notification delivery system– it needs to be a full fledged platform with limitless capability. So they had to come up with a springboard that allowed quick access to everything without the aid of spotlight (no typing), or an infinite scrolling list. What they came up with allows you to quickly glance over everything, zoom into a neighborhood of apps, then select the one you want. If you can think of a more efficient system to navigate through 30+ apps, I would be super interested to hear it.
And the crown (other than double tapping) is how you zoom in and out, and scroll longs lists with precision. Pinch to zoom obviously doesn’t make sense, so again I ask what is the better solution to this? I think it’ll just become second nature to use. That is, it’s not inconvenient in any way to move my pointer finger a quarter of an inch from the display to the crown and scroll.
I think the main problem here is that you’re underestimating just how much you’ll be using Apple Watch. From the moment you put it on your wrist, it’s going to be the first point of contact with your technology from then on. It’s going to become the device that we want to see advance more quickly because it’s attached to us and it’s our window into a new world that will quickly become optimized for glancible information.
In many cases, you’ll be met with a new decision to make, such as when navigating with maps “should I try to zoom in on my watch, or get out my phone”? And I think in 70%+ of situations, the watch is already right there in front of your face so you’re going to use it, and you’ll be glad you have the ability to scroll and zoom easily. Once people start using this regularly, the watch is going to evolve quickly because we’re going to start asking a lot more of it in the coming years. It’ll become the most exciting frontier of personal technology matching or even surpassing smartphones imo.
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