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by threeseed 3917 days ago
I have no idea what you are ranting on about here. I never said Apple invented the concept of a crown nor haptic feedback. That's just ridiculous. In fact many of their features are not true inventions by any sense of the word. They are merely novel implementations when applied to the context of a smart watch. And they serve to improve the day to day usability which is far superior to the Moto 360 and the other Android Wear devices I've seen. This has been Apple's playbook since the beginning.

My point with the fitness capabilities is that it is the best implementation of it both in terms of accuracy and usability. And I have tried quite a few in my time.

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> I never said Apple invented the concept of a crown nor haptic feedback.

Yes you did. To quote you:

> However there are a number of innovations e.g. digital crown, force touch, haptic feedback and the excellent Fitness capabilities that do put in far ahead of the competition in day to day usability.

Innovation: a new method, idea, product, etc.

So, yes, you did absolutely claim Apple invented the concept of the crown, haptic feedback, and so on. Otherwise that sentence makes no sense.

> They are merely novel implementations when applied to the context of a smart watch.

As I've shown even that isn't the case. I can list a smartwatch which had every feature on your least except one (force touch). Nothing novel about anything else you listed with regard to Apple Watch. Maybe of the features listed can be traced back to the early 2000s on smartwatches.

> And they serve to improve the day to day usability which is far superior to the Moto 360 and the other Android Wear devices I've seen.

Given that both have most of the features, that claim makes no sense. Maybe if you took of your tinted Apple fan goggles for a second and actually tried someone else's products, you would know how inaccurate that statement is.

I've used Apple Watch and a Moto 360. Have you? You didn't even answer my question when I asked you if you had even seen a Moto 360 in real life.

> My point with the fitness capabilities is that it is the best implementation of it both in terms of accuracy and usability. And I have tried quite a few in my time.

So have I. They aren't. Fitbit did it better many many years ago. Apple introduced a fitness product which is like something from 2010. The fitness trackers you can buy today are far and ahead better for anything beyond the basics.

Your misreadings are comical. He claimed that Apple's use of the crown was innovative (and it is) not that they invented the crown. He claimed that Apple's use of haptic feedback was innovative (and it is), not that they invented vibration. And across the board, review after review -- whether from tech press or watch press -- have echoed these claims -- Apple's implementations are innovative. By all means have at those windmills though.