[hullo]

If true, an interesting move; failing to account for the possibility of the iPad dominating the tablet market essentially sunk Peloton President William Lynch's run at Barnes & Noble when they invested too heavily in the production of first party Nook tablets. Those Nook tablets were actually a great product, far superior to the Fire tablets Amazon was eventually able to muscle in to their own niche, but it didn't ultimately mean that much in the face of Apple's domination.

[tmpz22]

I'm a dissatisfied apple watch owner. The battery is basically gone after a year and a half, and while some of the first party apps are cool, third party apps underperform with only a specter of the feature sets they have on other devices - likely due to constraints with the hardware and software. Syncing music is a absolute travesty taking 4+ hours to sync even a modest catalogue. The official debugging forums are themselves an 8th circle of hell.

It does not feel like Apple cares enough about the watch relative to its other businesses. If they did they wouldn't have shipped a device that should probably be in beta.

If I was a partner firm I would not invest significantly in the watch platform. Maybe in a 4+ years, but I really doubt it.

[machello13]

The point of syncing is that you leave it overnight. It’s simply not designed for syncing while you wait. The settings app makes this clear too. Moreover, how often are you syncing a totally different musical catalog to your watch? It sounds like you have a nonstandard use case (needing instant syncing of large amounts of music regularly) that Apple intentionally did not design for. I imagine most people leave the default settings to sync recent and frequent music, or pick a few playlists and leave it at that.

[birdyrooster]

I stream my music collection from the internet on my watch and it’s instant. I don’t know why you are trying to follow a pattern from 1995 and wondering why we don’t do that anymore.