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Why I Believe in the Apple Watch
The Apple Watch gets a lot of criticism for being slow, for having a weird interface, and a mess of other things, but I still love mine. The fact that I love my Apple Watch doesn't mean that the criticisms are wrong, however. There are plenty of tech products out there are are
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Why Truly Standalone Apps are Android Wear 2's Biggest New Feature
I'm a well-known lover of smart watches, especially the Apple Watch. And while I think Pebble is doing good work in the smart watch space, Android Wear has never really impressed me that much. The hardware looked really bad and the software was way too limited. But Google just had their I/
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On Pebble's New Lineup
Let me get this out of the way up front: I like Pebble a lot. I don't use one currently because the Apple Watch has taken over all the jobs I used my Pebble for, but I still think they make good products and they are absolutely the best wearables for a certain
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Apple Watch vs. Android Wear 2.0
Google showed off their big update to Android Wear this week and the company is calling it the biggest update to the platform yet. Here's a quick summary of what they've added:
* Watch face complications
* New app launcher
* A keyboard for text entry
* Smart messaging auto-responses
* Speed
This feels like
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How to Understand the Apple Watch
I think the tech world is suffering from what I'm going to call smartphone syndrome. The smartphone is the most important technological achievement of the past 20 years, and there is little doubt it will continue to thrive for the foreseeable future. The movement was kicked off in 2007 with the iPhone (don&
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Apple Watch is Putting Watch Makers on Notice
Fossil is having a tough time of it lately, and they blame Fitbit and Apple Watch for the trouble:
“In addition to that, I think especially in watches — we attribute this really to all of the press and PR and excitement around wearables — there seems to be somewhat of a lack of interest in watches
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Why Does Apple Not Have an Activity Website?
Pardon the busy design, but why doesn't a website like this exist? Is it Apple's obsession with privacy and not wanting your health data ever touching the cloud? Does it have something to do with a bigger plan in the future? Maybe it's just a lack of interest entirely.
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Why A 20-40% Thinner Apple Watch is Not in the Cards for 2016
There was a report last month that the next version of the Apple Watch is coming out in a few months and will be 20-40% thinner than the original model. In a world where tech gets thinner every couple years, this seems like a rather pedestrian prediction, but I think it's going
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366 Days of Thinking Deeply About the Apple Watch
We just hit one full year of the Apple Watch's release and I realized I've written a lot about it in that time. I've been an outspoken advocate for the value of smart watches in general, as well as a supporter of the Apple Watch as the best smart
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What Ambient Apple Watch Faces Might Look Like
One of the things on the very short list of things that Android Wear has over the Apple Watch right now is the ability to have always-on watch faces. All smart watches light up when you lift them to your face, but sometimes that's not enough. If you want a smart watch
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Thinking Big and Small About the Apple Watch
We're closing in on the 1 year anniversary of the Apple Watch (2 weeks from today, actually) and I've been thinking about the Watch a little more than usual. I've been focusing my work on figuring out what Apple can do in the coming months to make the Apple
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What Even is the Apple Watch?
Long time readers will be more than a little familiar with my affinity for the Apple Watch. I love my Apple Watch and it's one of my absolute favorite tech products I own. But even today, almost a full year after buying it, I still get asked "what does it do?"
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watchOS 3 Proposal: Fixing the Side Button
The Apple Watch is great, but it has some major flaws that Apple needs to address to make it even better. Today I wanted to explore how Apple could fix the side button on the Apple Watch. You know, that button that you double-tap to activate Apple Pay but have never used to bring
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A Love Letter to My Apple Watch
There is no shortage of blog posts and podcast episodes with people discussing at length why they stopped wearing their Apple Watch or what drastic changes they think Apple needs to do to make the Apple Watch the least bit useful. I won't suggest that the Apple Watch is perfect or that it
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The Best Health, Better Apps, and Outstanding Communication: My watchOS 3 Pitch
Apple first pitched the Apple Watch in September 2014, and they had 3 pillars that the device stood on: timekeeping,
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Those Red, Green, and Blue Rings are Brilliant
When I first got the Apple Watch, I thought the three rings system was a clever way to track your activity, but ultimately thought it was inferior to apps like Runkeeper's Breeze app, which have dynamic step goals. Now, after about 10 months working on filling those rings everyday, I feel safe saying
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On the Fitbit Blaze
I've gone back and forth on my feelings on Fitbit's new fitness tracker/smart watch, the Blaze. My first reaction was "yikes," but that changed a bit the more I thought about it.
Fitbit dominates the fitness tracker market with its Flex and Force models leading the way. Those
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Upgrade your Apple Watch Band for Less Than $30
The Apple Watch is a wonderful product that I love and use all the time, but it can be a little hard to legitimize spending a few hundred dollars on additional watch bands. It was hard enough legitimizing spending $400 on a watch, so I have not bought any of Apple's official watch
