Did Apple script every Watch review?
I'm only part way through 2, but they have incredibly eerie similarities. And, it might take me another month to get through any additional articles.
What is puzzling is I have read HUNDREDS of reviews of HUNDREDS of products, including other Apple products from the same 2 sites I read these reviews and they have NEVER been in this format.
Here is the review from The Verge for instance.
This, like the other article I read isn't a product review at all. It is a lifestyle piece. It is a small novel, decked out in flashier designs than the site ever uses. And it feels like that wishy-washy lifestyle garbage is there to bury the fact that on all practical fronts the device is crap.
I'm still not sure exactly how people are shocked by this. The device is pretty much what they said it would be. People just seemed to buy so much into the hype they ignored the value of the actual words that said what the thing did.
Here is what I gathered. The device is actually slow somehow, but that should be fixed in an upcoming patch. The watch faces are basically hard coded?!?!?!?! Battery life is terrible, but no one wants to come out and say it. The platform has potential (seriously? this is basically saying the 1st party experience is shit but there is an SDK so "someone" can make it better... this is literally true of every smartphone with an SDK), the taptic engine is cool and there is no value whatsoever in buying more expensive models.
On the battery front, people are basically saying that yeah, they generally get through a day. Which is to say that in virtually every review, the watch comes off the charger in the morning, because the device is slow and most people use their phones anyway it rarely got used, and most reported it being down to 10% battery by dinner time causing most to remark that they fear for those who the watch more.
Because it requires an iPhone to work it also creates for itself a precarious balancing act. As I said before, they made it a device that can do a ton of things, but that rapes the battery life. Also, if it does too much it will negate people's need to buy future iPhones. If it does too little it die off as a product super quickly. So they are constantly trying to position it both as a device you will use a lot, but simultaneously, not at all. This device is the embodiment of sheer lunacy.
And yet... there are these article flowing out of the woodworks that will rave to you about how the weight is just right, and curves are pretty and the watch bands change the experience. Who the fuck cares? This is a $400+ watch! And you're buying it because it is a smart watch. Yes, looks are important, but still secondary. I don't need 1000 words describing the aesthetic beauty of the device with as few lines as possible actually admitting that the device fails as both a smart watch and a regular watch.
What is puzzling is I have read HUNDREDS of reviews of HUNDREDS of products, including other Apple products from the same 2 sites I read these reviews and they have NEVER been in this format.
Here is the review from The Verge for instance.
This, like the other article I read isn't a product review at all. It is a lifestyle piece. It is a small novel, decked out in flashier designs than the site ever uses. And it feels like that wishy-washy lifestyle garbage is there to bury the fact that on all practical fronts the device is crap.
I'm still not sure exactly how people are shocked by this. The device is pretty much what they said it would be. People just seemed to buy so much into the hype they ignored the value of the actual words that said what the thing did.
Here is what I gathered. The device is actually slow somehow, but that should be fixed in an upcoming patch. The watch faces are basically hard coded?!?!?!?! Battery life is terrible, but no one wants to come out and say it. The platform has potential (seriously? this is basically saying the 1st party experience is shit but there is an SDK so "someone" can make it better... this is literally true of every smartphone with an SDK), the taptic engine is cool and there is no value whatsoever in buying more expensive models.
On the battery front, people are basically saying that yeah, they generally get through a day. Which is to say that in virtually every review, the watch comes off the charger in the morning, because the device is slow and most people use their phones anyway it rarely got used, and most reported it being down to 10% battery by dinner time causing most to remark that they fear for those who the watch more.
Because it requires an iPhone to work it also creates for itself a precarious balancing act. As I said before, they made it a device that can do a ton of things, but that rapes the battery life. Also, if it does too much it will negate people's need to buy future iPhones. If it does too little it die off as a product super quickly. So they are constantly trying to position it both as a device you will use a lot, but simultaneously, not at all. This device is the embodiment of sheer lunacy.
And yet... there are these article flowing out of the woodworks that will rave to you about how the weight is just right, and curves are pretty and the watch bands change the experience. Who the fuck cares? This is a $400+ watch! And you're buying it because it is a smart watch. Yes, looks are important, but still secondary. I don't need 1000 words describing the aesthetic beauty of the device with as few lines as possible actually admitting that the device fails as both a smart watch and a regular watch.
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