for me, it’s easier to rotate my wrist this way. and if you can rotate display to landscape… seems like the way to go. i’m sure there’s good reason they don’t do this. but doesn’t it seem like sensors would work better on the inside of the wrist too? here’s a bad mock up.

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  • OphioukhosUnbound@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Would be great. Strongly support.

    Difficulties:

    • Different biology down there. Apple is doing a lot of unstructured learning on large datasets to make its inference algorithms from what we can see. It’s possible that they’d be set back a lot if they had to support an area they weren’t collecting data for. (Hard to say — I don’t know what the major research bottlenecks are for them. I agree that we’re probably a lot of great signals down there, but a great language you don’t understand isn’t communicative, I’d you get me.)

    • It’s a touch screen. You’d need to very reliably get it to turn off when it faces away from you or you could get lots of accidental taps and movement from a leg or wet gym clothes etc. (And watches don’t have a camera; they don’t know when you’re looking at them)

    • It’s a scratch able surface that you now have facing down. It’s going to be constantly run back and forth over metal laptops etc. This significantly increases the abrasion that a lot of people would be looking at.

  • dcdttu@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Let’s hope that S9 has the sapphire display, otherwise you’re gonna scratch. it. up. Haha

  • somewhat_difficult@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I would be interested in trying this too. The Microsoft Band was worn like that and it was very convenient. Landscape also worked well for the keyboard.

  • TWYFAN97@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The watch isn’t designed to be worn inside the wrist so that’s why it’s not an option.

  • _Kubose@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Yeah I’ve thought about this too, it’s way easier to just flip your wrist a little bit than it is to turn and hold your whole arm and elbow up, and it does seem like sensors would have a much easier time reading through the thinner skin on the inside of the wrist (though it’s probably not calibrated to do so accurately). I’d probably use my watch like this most of the time if it was actually supported tbh.

  • MrNudeGuy@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    it would honestly be easier to use apps if it was inside the wrist. turning my wrist to check the time is easy and quick but anything elst makes my are tired.