Archiwa Tagu: Apple Watch

Lauren Goode:

Remember the first time you used an iPhone? That’s what Apple Watch is like.

After you first set up your Apple Watch and pair it with your iPhone using Bluetooth, you’ll think, “What the heck is going on, where do I swipe to see things, how do I get rid of this notification that just popped up?” And so on.

With some other smartwatches, that feeling never fully evaporates. With Apple Watch, it does.

Martwił mnie brak intuicyjności raportowany przez parę osób zaraz po hands-on na Spring Forward i cieszy mnie, że to zagubienie w UI nowego produktu zostaje szybko zastąpione zrozumieniem.

Nilay Patel:

First things first: it is really confusing to have both the Digital Crown and the communications button next to each other on the side. As I tried to navigate the Watch interface, I found myself pressing one or both several times, without knowing which one would take me to the home screen, back out of an app, or launch a feature.

There are basically two main ways of using the Watch: pressing the Digital Crown to go to the home screen and picking an app, or swiping up from the bottom on a watch face to access the Glances, which are basically quick views into all the apps you’ve got loaded.

Z tego co rozumiem, to Glances nie są dostępne z „ekranu domowego” z ikonkami aplikacji, ale są dostępne z ekranu wyświetlającym tarczę zegarka. Nie jest to oczywiste.

That feeling of not knowing exactly where you are or what’s going to happen is pretty disorienting for an Apple product — the steady iterative updates of iOS and OS X mean that it’s traditionally been quite easy to pick up a new iPhone or MacBook and understand how to use it. But the Watch is really different, in ways big and small. To customize a watch face, you Force Touch on the screen, and then regular tap on various elements, which Apple calls „complications.” But then you don’t drag on the screen to change them as you would on an iPhone, you move to the Digital Crown and scroll. Nothing prompts you to do that, you just have to know. Does this sound complicated? It is. It makes sense over time — it gets your fingers off the tiny screen — but it’s not immediately intuitive.

Jeśli Nilay Patel jest zdezorientowany, a facet używa przecież urządzeń z iOS-em od 2007 roku, to znaczy, że UI jest na tyle inne, że będzie wymagało przyzwyczajenia. Ciekawy jestem swoich własnych wrażeń – obawiam się, że mogą być podobne na początku, dopóki wszystkiego nie zrozumiem. Ale jak do tego podejdą osoby, które rozumieją technologię inaczej?

Sean Hollister:

But if you want to actually find and select one of those apps, you’ll need to swipe around and tap the one you want on the screen itself. That’s a little easier said than done: I stabbed the wrong icon more than once and wound up inside an app I didn’t want. You can zoom in with the digital crown, but it’s a little awkward to keep switching off between the buttons and the screen taps. It made me wonder why I couldn’t just use the excellent digital crown to zoom through apps and select them.

Worse was Force Touch. „Force Touch uses tiny electrodes around the flexible Retina display to distinguish between a light tap and a deep press, and trigger instant access to a range of contextually specific controls,” reads an Apple description, which roughly translates as „When you press down hard on the screen, sometimes you can activate hidden controls.” Like changing up your watchface (see above). But sometimes when I tried to tap, it thought I was trying to Force Touch—and it wasn’t always clear which one I needed to do to perform any given action. Again, maybe I’d get the hang of it after a while.

W końcu jakieś konkretne uwagi, które zdają się potwierdzać moje obawy co do Force Touch. Sean jest też pierwszą osobą, którą znalazłem, która ma problemy z celowaniem w ikony.

Jako, że jestem Polakiem to za znanym kawałem z diabłem i dwoma stalowymi kulkami zaczynam się obawiać, że najpierw popsuję ekran wciskając go za mocno, a zgubię zegarek.

Christina Bonnington:

Overall, I found the touch and software experience of Apple’s Watch certainly as good as, if not better than, any other watwatch on the market today. The hardware quality is superb, the screen is sharp, and the software experience is surprisingly robust—perhaps overwhelmingly so.

Znajduję zaskakująco dużo pozytywnych opinii na jego temat, w tym brak problemów w nawigowaniu po interfejsie. Na samą myśl o tym jak jest rozbudowany sam się jeszcze gubię w myślach.

Matt Warman dla The Telegraph:

What is compelling is the usual Apple combination: in so far as it goes, Apple Watch just works. So that means even in a sea of tiny app icons on a 38 or 42mm screen, I found it impossible to hit the wrong one.

Tego się bardzo obawiałem, biorąc pod uwagę, że czasami nie trafiam w ikonę na iPhonie – jak widać niepotrzebnie.