This is exactly the combo I wanted, but it's so hard for me to justify spending $700 on it. The gold is so beautiful.
Fuck. Hopefully the gold aluminum isn't too much of a bummer.
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Apple Watch Series 4 reviews
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This is exactly the combo I wanted, but it's so hard for me to justify spending $700 on it. The gold is so beautiful.
Fuck. Hopefully the gold aluminum isn't too much of a bummer.
Spotify needs to make a native watchOS app first. They probably will, given there's already an Apple Music watchOS app that's pretty robust and a selling point of the service.
Don't pay much attention to the shipping estimates, they tend to inflate it on purpose so you get surprised when it arrives "early". Underpromise, overdeliver is the apple store MO.
WatchOS 5 adds a *lot* of public APIs that let third-party apps nearly reach feature parity with the built-in music and podcast apps, so yeah, I think Spotify now has the tools they need to build a high-quality WatchOS app.
Yeah, I was reading about streamkit and the other API's. The watch platform is definitely in a great place these days. 2015 was a dark time.
You do realize that the whole point of "wanting your cake and eating it too" is saying the statement is a contradiction right? Why should anybody take it seriously that you're saying Apple should create a contradiction?
It's way too soon to update my Series 1 Apple Watch, but I'll re-evaluate when the Series 5 releases.
I'm still on my now 3+ years old series 0, and I'm interested in getting this one.
Cellular seems cool, but the extra $100 makes me not feel good about it, when my series 0 isn't useless by any means.
$500 is a lot for a Watch when I still like mine.
Cellular seems cool, but the extra $100 makes me not feel good about it, when my series 0 isn't useless by any means.
$500 is a lot for a Watch when I still like mine.
Plus you still have to pay extra for the cellular option on your phone bill each month so it's really not just 100 bucks.
Yeah, if I do get a Series 4, it'll likely be without cellular.
If the Watch works better, than I should have no problem syncing music and apps to it.
My current Series 0 sometimes freezes up and crashes apps if I listen to music during a run.
I use my watch for less and less because of how much stuff still takes so long to load, or more often just crashes.
I still use and like it a lot, for texting, tracking workouts, and most importantly, time keeping.
How's day to day performance on the Series 3 and 4, to those who have them?
Over the week I've just convinced myself I want one now. Was always a little jealous of my mom's series 0. I'm hoping I can grab one when I pick up my 10 plus tomorrow
Yeah my series 2 runs like ass so I'm probably going to upgrade as well.
You would also have to potentially worry about burn in on an OLED.
Just make only the clock appear for always on and make complications/images/etc. only appear on wrist raise. That would be perfectly fine for an always on display. You don't even have to show the seconds hand. This would also work with basically every watch face.
Although I agree that battery life is the restricting factor, I don't think complications are an issue at all. If you can press a complication you can almost certainly press the crown to activate the display already. Most of the desire for an always on display I've seen comes from wanting to be able to read the time at any point, in which case you've already pointed to the solution; a minimal display that only shows the time.
MrWonderful has actually touched on a potential solution here, where to allow for an always on display you could introduce an OLED screen and when the screen isn't awake have it be all black background with a minimal amount of pixels displaying the time while still having it readable so that battery life is conserved as much as possible, but I think such a configuration is probably prohibitively expensive (EDIT: should clarify I mean in terms of the risk of burn-in and battery drain, rather than expensive in terms of price) for now at least.
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I bought a Gen 2 because I figured I would find lots of uses for it. It's great at telling time and I feel the vibrations better on texts than my phone in my pocket. But other than that it just annoys me with fitness goals and telling me to breathe.
I guess this is one of those "I feel old" moments.
I guess this is one of those "I feel old" moments.
Contradictory to how you're putting it sure. I expect more from Apple and their designers/devs, sorry but not sorry. I expect form options I like and the functionality to react to that form. Why again is this so damn hard?
Haha, do people not like the packaging? I think it's sexy as hell
Haha, I mean it's telling me I'm meeting my goals. Not bugging me to get off my ass. :p
I've noticed in Watch OS 5, when I'm out walking around it will pop up a notification asking if I want to record it as a workout. I don't like this, if I want to record a workout I'll do it myself. I can't figure out how to turn this off though, it isn't in the activity section of notifications. Any ideas?
Watch app -> workout -> start workout reminder and end workout reminder
Packaging was different with the old SS vs aluminum models right? I was just hoping the aluminum had that dope little watch sleeve.
Packaging the bands and the faces separately is pretty smart though. Wonder if they'll change them periodically?
Still tempted to buy one of these. I think I'm going to wait until after Christmas though. I just bought the Max. Gotta be a good boy for a while.
I liked the weird white plastic jewelry box my steel S0 came in. Shame they don't do those anymore.
So I'm talking myself into the SS Gold, am I insane? I wear a Navy suit pretty much every day and I'm worried about it being too flashy but in every video I'm watching it looks subdued enough where it's not tacky but also not bland. I have an aluminum space grey one for the past few years and it works fine w/ my suits (I mainly wear watch at work or the gym, tend not to in street clothes) but the gold one just looks soooo fucking dope in videos but I also can't tell if I'll be able to pull it off.
What do you guys think, does the SS gold look gaudy or do you think it will fit in a professional setting?
What do you guys think, does the SS gold look gaudy or do you think it will fit in a professional setting?
So none of the stores around me have it in stock today (not even official Apple resellers), and the Apple Store doesn't have it in stock until the second half of October, even though the release date in The Netherlands is today. The two biggest online retailers also don't have it, and they don't have a releasedate for it on their site. I'm confused.
Ordered from Best Buy Canada last weekend (it was still in stock), but it still hasn't shipped. I can even still cancel the order, which is bizarre. I'll be blown away if this arrives tomorrow
Man, I'm astonished they let you open links on this thing. Looking like I will finally update from series0 launch model. I'm very bummed though, I've worn the brown modern buckle since it came out and they no longer offer it. I really want to get my hands on a new one. They were listing it still on their site before the new models came out.
It's 04:12 at night here, so already the 21st, and the one retailer that had it as "in stock on the 21st" (MediaMarkt) switched to "in stock in more than 2 weeks" as soon as the clock hit 00:00.
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The new gold color looks amazing. I'm now more concerned about how do I dress up or down an Apple watch.
Wow, that's a pretty decent speed upgrade. Reminds me of the jump from the iPhone 3g to the 4.
I haven't seen any reviews featuring the silver aluminum. Always the black or the gold.
I'm second guessing my order, might have to cancel it and get the space grey.
I'm second guessing my order, might have to cancel it and get the space grey.
Silver will look good and be the most watch like looking of all of them. I find it the easiest to adapt into the wardrobe.
