coolerkid

I was almost certain I was going to buy it no matter what, until I saw the price. Overdelivered on features, really amazing, but was hoping they would surprise on the price and come in below $3k. No way I would strap $3500 to my head in public. Gonna be many years for the price to come down enough for this to get mainstream adoption. 

hselburn said:

You know Apple, men wear the watch too. Just a thought after hearing about the temperature sensor. 

Doesn't sound like it can even alert you if you have a fever. That would have been nice to have during the pandemic. 

Wow, that's disappointing. Guess I'm not upgrading my Watch this year. 

I was excited to see this announced and ordered one right away. After using it for a couple weeks I really don't like it. The new trackpad has a more limiting area than the old one. The scroll ring doesn't work whatsoever. The ring buttons aren't very useful. I only really used the next/back buttons, and those were in the old trackpad. The new design is nice so I can tell which direction I'm holding the remote and I like the size and weight better, but that's really the best feature. The one thing that really kills it for me is that they put a mute button where the old play/pause button used to be. I'm constantly hitting mute instead of Pause. A dedicated mute button really isn't needed anyway. I would have preferred to see the volume buttons on the left side of the remote, and the power button on the right side, like with the iPhone. I would have liked to see Siri activate by holding down another button, like the power button, no need for a dedicated button on something I rarely use. That would have reduced the number of buttons on the front and made it much easier to use without looking. I'll be returning mine and going back to the old one. 

So the next logical step would be to get OS X to run on the iPad. It would be a great device if they had it run as OS X when it was docked with a keyboard/trackpad, and run as iOS when removed from the keyboard. The apps could handoff to each other, so if you were working on something in OS X and moved to the iPad, you could continue where you left off.