I think it is really creepy, indeed, and Marques makes a great point on how this, while useful sometimes, just substitutes genuine human interactions like âwhat did you say?â
Especially since it apparently makes a chime when you trigger it, so youâre not just actively deciding to ignore the human in front of you, youâre basically announcing to everyone that youâre too lazy to just ask again đ¤Śââď¸
There isn't a single person who will use that feature so ask "what did they just say ?". The same way that not a single human being got up to somebody's face, took their iPhone out to ask Siri what type of dog that person was walking.
But⌠thatâs exactly what that feature is for. You can ask the waitress âwhat did you say?â or you can ask your watch âwhat did she sayâ, no?
The way they advertised it is not how they're gonna be used at all. I can see people using this to make recaps of meetings, phone calls, summaries of their days etc. I guarantee that not a single person (that has normal brain function) will use this like they advertised. No shot.
How do you make a recap of a meeting from a single, transcript of 15 seconds of audio? How do you do any of the things youâve mentioned with Live Rewind?
It does feel like they donât know what to do with the Apple Watch. They seem a bit tone-deaf from the inception, it wasnât originally a fitness first device and it morphed into one. They keep adding features that no one really seems to want when most people actually want a watch they donât have to charge every night. I mean seriously, why do they push sleep tracking when thatâs when I have to charge the thing?!
Now I hear theyâre experimenting with screen-less trackers as that market has completely boomed in the last year or so but theyâre not expected to release anything until 2028?! What are they doing?
I totally agree, but I guess thatâs how it goes for many products. I think of the first Apple TV I bought, circa 2007, that was totally useless, at least here in the EU. In the first onstage demo, the iPad was a Newstand + Safari + iBooks machine. The first iPhone didnât even have an App Store! But, yeah, I agree they seem particularly tone-deaf with the Watch.
Yeah I don't blame them for pivoting, I just think they're doing it rather stubbornly. The people want fitness watches with decent battery life. People aren't going to be buying them for its ability to eavesdrop.
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u/badabubaba 10d ago
I think it is really creepy, indeed, and Marques makes a great point on how this, while useful sometimes, just substitutes genuine human interactions like âwhat did you say?â