Foreword. I am one of the biggest Apple-fans out there. I have owned, and I longed to possess before, almost all objects that Apple introduced over the last 20 years: a MacBook, a MacBook Pro, several iPhone, a mac desktop, iPod, iPad. I also tested alas competition on the laptop, about PCs with Windows, an Android phones. Just to not feel caged, to test the difference and go back home Apple screaming.
This is the first time I’m in front of an object presented by Apple, the Apple Watch, in the next exit and not yearn to own it
It will not buy. I’m not saying do not inherit it ever. Maybe in future developments. If you wil give it to me i will enjoy play around..but please: don’t give it to me.
Here are eight reasons why exactly this subject do not want it.
1- Design. Frankly, not my thing. Does not have that WOW-effect on me , I had in front of other Apple products. What for example I have had over the last presentation of the ultrathin Macbook.
I do not mean that it is bad, but does not attract me particularly. Frankly I find the Moto 360 hundred times more fascinating.
2- The battery. The idea of having yet another device to put under load in the evening, and that probably will leave me walk before the day ends not just fascinates me. On the batteries and their life: this is where you play the future of mobile technology. Rechargeable battery with the movement, ultra-fast recharge in 5 minutes, refills induction or graphene super-battieries … Dear Houses: this is where you have to come to us and make a real difference.
3- The notifications. Frankly the idea of having a device attached to the wrist, which shows me notifications even more unequivocal than those that already have the phone in my pocket a few inches from it seems crazy. A cage in the cage.
A continuous flashing of email, sms, facebook notifications, whats’up, phone calls, results of matches. The inability to escape the notification, the possibility of not seeing a call. The possibility for a moment to escape with the mind … and to think only of themselves. I think all this is turning into something crazy and crazy. And the watch reminds me of the receiver attached to the ankles of prisoners under house arrest, which can not escape from the field of 100 meters of their home otherwise it starts playing.
Certainly perhaps we can also turn it off, but then what do we buy?
4- Need for reading time? The clock was born for that, to know the exact time, I guess. But already I read the time on the phone. I read it on the computer in front of me to date more than 10 hours a day. In fact the clock does not take him more today. And I feel much freer arms.
5- The apps. I already have a phone stra-filled app. I do not see the need to have yet another device that I replicate the apps you already have on your phone. Again: we have become so lazy that they have no desire to get his hands in his pocket for his cell phone?
6- It lacks the killer feature. Yeah. really miss the application, the killer feature that makes it essential to the device, just as an excuse to buy it and use also other functions. That feature innovative, unique and of which you can not do without. I do not see.
7- Fitness. I already have Runtastic on my phone that I use when I go running, I have subscribed to Spotify and meanwhile doing sports I listen to music with my headphones bluetooth Beats. Watches with heart rate monitor, gsm etc., are already in use for years and years. Garmin, Polar and more. Apple needed the Watch? I Have Not.
8- Health. And ‘this maybe the killer feature of the future. A watch capable of monitoring the state of our healt and maybe even prevent a heart attack. To date, Apple opens up to developers a platform that could evolve a lot. But we are a year zero. And when health could only take it away with the constant ‘notifications’, able to give me a nervous breakdown.
Note: it will be a great success. They will sell millions pieces. And as is always the case with Apple products (remember the first iPhone that did not even have the front camera?) It will improve a lot. Let’s see how it will evolve!