WatchOS debuted with a lot of ideas. Some were good, some felt like they had potential, and some felt surprisingly unintuitive. With watchOS 3 Apple both giveth and taketh away, and for the most part I feel like it's pushing the Watch in a better direction - with some personal exceptions.
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I'm currently using OS 3 on an original (or is that Series 0 now?) Watch Sport, meaning I don't get the faster processor of Apple Watch Series 2 , but still zippier speeds - more caching! - alongside plenty of new ways to use the Watch. Apple is gearing Watch more towards health and fitness, while modifying and paring down the user interface.
Let's take the best example: access to apps. The dreaded spinning 'wheel of doom' has become a rarer sight. That it was ever a problem in the first place, in a device designed to stop you reaching for your phone, boggles my mind - and it's still not been solved completely. But on the whole watchOS 3 is a smoother experience, and the new Instant Launch dock avoids any hang time on your most-loved apps by keeping them running in the background.
Problem is, this comes at the expense of Glances, the boxes of 'glanceable' information you used to access by swiping up - a trade-off I'm not yet convinced by.
Instant Launch is great news if you're the type of person who actually uses a handful of apps on their Watch on a daily basis. But I tend to fall in the camp of people who use the Watch as more a passive, notification-based device, more for complications and easily glanceable info with little interaction.
Which is why I find the death of Glances somewhat lamentable, and why, in my first week of using OS 3, I haven't touched the Instant Launch as much as I thought I might. Glances weren't perfect - they could be sluggish, and sometimes didn't update, which would defeat the purpose - but they were a quick and easy way to sneak a look at information I wanted the most, like my heart rate or the weather forecast.
My most common use for Glances was controlling my music, something that now requires me to open Instant Launch, and, if it's not my last used app, scroll along to reach it.
These might sound like paltry complaints, but I felt like Glances had a lot more to give. I suppose Apple saw it as an interim solution to an experience where apps could be booted up with greater brevity. And if you are using apps like Uber on your Watch regularly, Instant Launch is a much better solution than what came before. Ideally, I'd have both Glances and Instant Launch available, with the latter taking the place of the main app menus (the collection of circles) that you're unlikely to be using much from now on anyway. vedere di piu replicas rolex e Chopard Xtravaganza
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