Not really bad at all if these are the cherry picked negative comments. These are the most critical comments that could be gathered from numerous reviews?
I currently have the the Pebble Steel and I have to deal with some of the issues that the Apple watch is going to have. I rarely just look at my watch without having to do a little wrist flick to turn on the backlight so having to do that is no big deal to me (It's a habit at this point). I'm a little disappointed in how slow the Apple Watch appears to be but I'm sure I can get past that. I'm really interested to try the Apple watch after using the Pebble for over a year and seeing how the experiences compare.
Uh, yes they are. I've read the majority of those reviews and those quotes are the worst from them. If you disagree I'd love to see what you thought was worse.
There were some quotes from videos that were pretty bad, but I did try and pick the worst I could find in about an hour of reading reviews. The truth is, there just isn't much negativity around anything Apple.
> [..] realized the company isn’t just selling some wrist-worn computer, it’s selling good looks and coolness [..] this Apple product works to help you look—and feel—good. [..] Even when the watch face is off, the black sapphire-crystal screen looks elegant.
- Joanna Stern, WSJ
What kind of ridiculous praise is this? You certainly won't find writing like that on any other consumer product.
Edit: I am very pro smart watch, and hope Apple succeeds. I only wanted to bring some of the real criticisms to the forefront.
They finally got this right. Photos, for me, was a major upgrade to iPhoto. Allowing me to have full resolution copies on numerous machines, and size optimized copies on mobile, secondary machines with no syncing effort on my part.
well invested in the apple ecosystem but this seems very good. I am very intrigued and may well end up with a few of these in my family. If the reality matches the marketing, I'm in. For a fitness accessory the on device GPS is the killer app.
they are always the 'good guys' until they are coming after you.
I can imagine, a time when government would have requested comms from the Occupation movement. The problem is that they get to determine who the current enemy is. We all agree that the extremes are negative (i.e. ISIS, Narc Terr etc.) but what if a government is elected that decides that reproductive rights, equal pay, race equality, pot legalization etc. are an issue...Are you still ok with back doors? There would have been a time in the very near past that these things would have been a very powerful weapon in the authority's arsenal that would have stifled our culture's advancement (imho).
>but what if a government is elected that decides that reproductive rights, equal pay, race equality, pot legalization etc. are an issue...Are you still ok with back doors?
To statists, the state is infallible. If race inequality is the standard codified by law, then race inequality is good, because the government has declared it so. So many people operate under these assumptions, giving exception only to a few partisan issues which they've never even thought critically about.
I hate government intervention in these matters, I really do. But in the case of Google I feel that their search results should be walled off from any other business interests. They have so much influence over the discovered internet that maybe its time to separate search from their other business interests.
Page and Brin were geniuses in realizing early that search was the golden ring to reach for. They deserve their billions for bringing this amazing service to us; but now with shareholders muddying the waters I don't think this should be leveraged for other business efforts.
I agree with much that you said; but I don't think you can minimize the boost android got by having eric on apple's board during a very critical formative point in the iPhone development. Google completely abandoned their earlier prototypes once they saw what apple had brewing. http://bgr.com/2013/12/19/original-iphone-android-story/
Also, the book that article is sourced from hashes out how the Google mobile software team working on iOS which was lead by Gundotra was a different body all together from Rubin's Android unit (who were actually gunning for Android to be shut down since they couldn't see the point of it).
It's worth a read.
Its an improvement. The typical pass has 4 characters so 10,000 possible combinations. Doing about 1 per second would find the password in the worst case scenario in about 3 hours; simply by trying all possible combinations.
I think trying to lift a usable fingerprint off a glass surface would be significantly more difficult than that.
