Strap-on fiddle factor: We poke ten Apple Watch apps It’s the hottest thing to happen to wrists since Chinese burns, but apart from leaking your biology and emptying your wallet, what can an Apple Watch actually do for you – assuming you can get one? Apple Watch Sport Beyond the limited built-in functions, the answer lies in the 4,000-odd apps that already support the device …
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I have a Pebble and I love the notification on my wrist. I was looking for an excuse to give an iWatch consideration and I have to say none of these watch apps have sold it to me. If these are the best uses then I'll keep my iWallet in my pocket.
As an aside however, Hours appears to answer an app question I was going to need to research, so I'm now giving that a try. So it wasn't a waste of an article
I have no real yearning for an Apple Watch (for a start - I lack the pre-requisite compatible iPhone/iOS device. However, I shall watch with interest to see how imaginative the application development side progresses. The lag issue is concerning but I guess as the hardware matures and becomes less dependent on the phone, plus smarter coding, things will improve.
I like the idea of the rail enquiries app - as someone who does end up fumbling with a phone checking whether I've missed the train I'm trying to catch.
I caught a TGV out of Paris last week. Having the SNCF app I'd previously installed on my Android phone pop up on my LG watch and tell me which platform to head to in advance of arrival at the somewhat disorientating station (it had also been nagging me to get a move on some time before) proved remarkably useful.
Well, at that cost I'll get something else, but a simple 2 button BTLE device on the bars might be nice, then the tablet in the pannier can do the work for me, makes uploading fractionally easier - I'll pay up to £4, maybe £5...
Else I'll just keep using my GPS Logger.
Isn't that just inviting some 'crotch scalding' slapstick comedy along the lines of the old classic 'asking someone the time while they're holding a cup of tea' gag?
Could be even more eye-watering with a recipe app.
Whilst holding a pan of boiling melted sugar : "Let me just consult that Toffee Apple recipe again..."
[Icon choice obvious]
PS: Round of applause for: "It’s the hottest thing to happen to wrists since Chinese burns..."
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... yet with the most promise...
Sadly if you don't use endless silicon valley software fart-up apps that only the coolest of cool kids use, then its really quite useless at automating anything.
It can tell me if someone lists something on etsy, but it cannot let me look for a standard bit of data on a random website... only choose from the list of "cool" sites you can be choosing..
I cant even remember what i wanted it to do, but as a result of it failing so fashionably, i wrote a small python script and banished it forever.
Still, i am commenting on an iWatch article... i have already wasted enough life for a few more cigarettes.
Agreed. I installed it on my Android phone thinking it looked promising then looked at endless recipes all for apps I never use, have no intention of using, do not want to use, would rather chop my hands off than use etc. Definitely one for the hipster generation, I think I'm just too old. But then I remember when Facebook started and it was this thing just for us academic/scientist types . . .
I'm simply not into sharing everything with everybody instantly type stuff.
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