A collection of 156 posts
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 "
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
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
Apple first pitched the Apple Watch in September 2014, and they had 3 pillars that the device stood on: timekeeping, communication, and fitness. In my opinion, timekeeping should not be on that list, communication was the right idea but their specifics were off base, and fitness was a home run.