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I don’t hate the Apple Watch, but I was pretty seriously disappointed at how it looked when it came out. Great! They made a watch look like my phone, cool

nicolas_t 3y ago
I still prefer the look of the galaxy watch classic
I_AM_A_SMURF 3y ago
It's funny that of all things Apple's watches are square and Android watches are round. It feels like it should be the other way around.
- Lio 3y ago
  I own (and prefer) a Garmin smartwatch but I actually think Apple got it right with the square screen. A round display suits analogue watch faces but square is better for utility. E.g. map reading or lots of data fields during exercise. Where you want more display given size of wrist real estate. Ironically Garmin used to make a square screen Epix but switched to round.
- fshbbdssbbgdd 3y ago
  Given the geometry of a wrist, you can comfortably fit a bigger usable display on a square watch face than a round one.
- mattgperry 3y ago
  Not really - watches are historically round because of roundrel clock faces. A square is a better form factor for literally everything else that an Apple Watch does. So it is the Apple move to shape the watch to perform best at 95% of its tasks, and a Google move to shape the watch to perform best with a subset of available watch faces. This isn't even new. Casio etc have designed digital square watches for decades because they don't need to be round without clock arms.
- pjc50 3y ago
  Historically, men's wristwatches were round and ladies' watches were square. I'm not sure why other than that humans will gender-code anything.
  - sieabahlpark 3y ago
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  - MandieD 3y ago
    Do not get me started on the gender coding of children’s clothes and accessories. Judging by pictures of me and my little brother in the 80s, and comparing that to the clothes for sale now, manufacturers spent the past 40 years learning how to avoid making anything that would be purchased for a girl being suitable to be handed down to her little brother.
  - Tagbert 3y ago
    Women’s watches were smaller and were more likely to be integrated with the watch band. That tended to square off the case. The actual watch face was still based on hands moving in a circle. Men’s watches when they are integrated with the bands also tend to be squarish.

nicolas_t 3y ago

I still prefer the look of the galaxy watch classic

I_AM_A_SMURF 3y ago

It's funny that of all things Apple's watches are square and Android watches are round. It feels like it should be the other way around.

Lio 3y ago
I own (and prefer) a Garmin smartwatch but I actually think Apple got it right with the square screen. A round display suits analogue watch faces but square is better for utility. E.g. map reading or lots of data fields during exercise. Where you want more display given size of wrist real estate. Ironically Garmin used to make a square screen Epix but switched to round.
fshbbdssbbgdd 3y ago
Given the geometry of a wrist, you can comfortably fit a bigger usable display on a square watch face than a round one.
mattgperry 3y ago
Not really - watches are historically round because of roundrel clock faces. A square is a better form factor for literally everything else that an Apple Watch does. So it is the Apple move to shape the watch to perform best at 95% of its tasks, and a Google move to shape the watch to perform best with a subset of available watch faces. This isn't even new. Casio etc have designed digital square watches for decades because they don't need to be round without clock arms.
pjc50 3y ago
Historically, men's wristwatches were round and ladies' watches were square. I'm not sure why other than that humans will gender-code anything.
- sieabahlpark 3y ago
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- MandieD 3y ago
  Do not get me started on the gender coding of children’s clothes and accessories. Judging by pictures of me and my little brother in the 80s, and comparing that to the clothes for sale now, manufacturers spent the past 40 years learning how to avoid making anything that would be purchased for a girl being suitable to be handed down to her little brother.
- Tagbert 3y ago
  Women’s watches were smaller and were more likely to be integrated with the watch band. That tended to square off the case. The actual watch face was still based on hands moving in a circle. Men’s watches when they are integrated with the bands also tend to be squarish.