Posted on 07/10/2015 10:07:12 PM PDT by Swordmaker
What did you gain from that post and what did it contribute to this thread? I warned that poster and now his posts are gone. . . just like what happened on the other thread to a whole bunch of anti-Apple Hate Brigade posters whose only purpose was disruption and slinging insults and making the thread unpalatable. That poster was trying to do the same thing. Sorry if you don't like it.
Do you use it? I thought not. For what it is designed for, it is the perfect size. It is NOT designed to be the only device a user carries. Read the article for how it is supposed to be used. It is a door keeper to advise the user of what is important and what is not. I find that invaluable. I do not user it for surfing the internet, nor do I use it for answering email, although I can in a pinch. I can answer a message with a quick response or even dictate a more complex reply. I can see my upcoming appointments without pulling out my iPhone and invoking the calendar app. . . and I can set new appointments without doing the same. I can answer phone calls, or choose to ignore them without pulling out the phone at a glance of my wrist, knowing that the call is unimportant or can wait until later. That function alone is valuable to someone running a business or even sitting in a play or movie getting an emergency call from a babysitter.
The ability to monitor your health is another function and see it immediately is also a great help.
The calculator watches failed because entry of data required using a pointing device to depress the itty-bitty keyboards. . . and errors were easily made. I had one and I was perpetually starting over with a calculator. Mine allowed inputing formulae. . . and only once or twice was I able to ever get a complete formula input so that it would work.
That is not the case on the Apple Watch. No keyboard. Reading the data on the Apple Watch is easy. It is not the 8x8 LED grid of the numbers of those calculator watches you refer to. . . it is a Retina Display. On my 42mm I can easily discern the details of the 3 point Fonts of second indicators at the twelve hourly locations around the general Utility Watch face at normal reading distances. The whole face is a touch screen.
If there was a "perfect size", it wouldn't need to come in two different sizes.
LOL.
It comes in two sizes because people are not all one size. There is essentially a man's size and a woman's size. . . but they intermix. My girlfriend's is the 38mm and i have the 42mm. I'm bigger. She's smaller. I have a bigger wrist, she has a smaller wrist. Don't you have any common sense?
They're not just one of two sizes, either.
Don't you have any common sense?
Enough to know that the size is compromise dictated by varying physical attributes of the users, and that "perfect" is an absolute that disallows any possibility of compromise.
Any body ever tell you that your criticisms are anal?
Only the ones that cared more about saying something that sounded good than being objectively defensible.
My point, which was not made to you, stands. In itself, it is the right size for what it does. Go argue with yourself and your anal delusional anti-Apple viewpoints. You do not add anything to the discussion. Your irrational purpose is to pick nits, inflame and irritate. I shall ignore your nit picking.
Maybe, but I'm betting you won't let anything that tends to mitigate the superlative hyperbole go unchallenged.
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