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Re:Apple Watch orders fell sharply after the first day and h... by threeseed on Friday May 22, 2015 @10:32PM (#9591792)
Sorry but no. I can't reply to most messages other than with a OK or NO so my phone comes out. The apps take so long to load than again my phone comes out.

And seriously I have nearly every Watch app installed and none of them are that great. I like the TripAdvisor/Foursquare glances and some of the flight ones aren't good. But they aren't killer apps.

I need more continuous, contextual notification based on my where I am at that particular time. I need to be able to reply to text messages without speaking e.g. why isn't there writing recognition ?

It's a version 1.0 for sure. But they really need to get more creative with it.

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Re:Apple Watch orders fell sharply after the first day and h... by coldtea on Saturday May 23, 2015 @01:02AM (#9592058)
>Sorry but no. I can't reply to most messages other than with a OK or NO so my phone comes out.

If you're anything like me, you don't need to reply to most messages other than OK or NO.

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Re:Apple Watch orders fell sharply after the first day and h... by threeseed on Saturday May 23, 2015 @01:13AM (#9592065)
Be serious. Go through your chat history and see how many times you just replied OK or NO to a message. It's at most like 5%. The predictive algorithm is good at many replies but Apple still needs a solution for answers to quick texts like "what do you want for dinner".

Drawing on the screen, letter by letter similar to what Palm originally use do would be a massive improvement.

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Re:Apple Watch orders fell sharply after the first day and h... by coldtea on Saturday May 23, 2015 @07:55PM (#9594835)
>Be serious. Go through your chat history and see how many times you just replied OK or NO to a message. It's at most like 5%.

No, it's like 30-40%. Most of the time I don't even reply -- it's just a message to inform me of something that doesn't need any aknowledgement or response.

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