I wear my Pebble all the time, I imagine I'm Michael Knight or Penny (the niece of Inspector Gadget).
I use it for swim lap tracking, counting my steps, measuring my run, my sleep, whatsapp and e-mail alerts, monitoring cryptocoin value, watchface with a 24 analog display with sun position, sunrise and sunset marks, 'is it going to rain in the next few hours' early warning, music remote control, calendar and todo list, voice recording and picture remote, starchart, compass, geocaching and ingress assistent and weight-tracker with a battery life > 1 week.
Now it's just a bit thinner then the Apple watch, but the new Apple watch will be thinner then this Pebble. Will the new Apple Watch be waterproof, have GSR monitoring, headset and keyboard pairing, wifi, gps, a camera and match the weeklong battery-life?
I'd be tempted, but how developer friendly is the platform compared to Android Wear and Pebble (C and/or Javascript)?
I don't think the argument here is that the Apple watch is lacking features to make it useful. It's just an extra pointless gadget for most people, at least so far.
The argument is in the last two paragraphs, does Apple have these sleeper hit features, like for example extended battery life, waterproof, wifi and some killer app like facetime calling? It's already less intrusive then a smartphone for reading messages.
The iPod had a slow start as well and I remember the first responses to the iPad. The time of smartwatches will come I think, question is, just like in the article what will be the killer feature?
Now it's just a bit thinner then the Apple watch, but the new Apple watch will be thinner then this Pebble. Will the new Apple Watch be waterproof, have GSR monitoring, headset and keyboard pairing, wifi, gps, a camera and match the weeklong battery-life?
I'd be tempted, but how developer friendly is the platform compared to Android Wear and Pebble (C and/or Javascript)?