Apple is touting the Apple Watch using three main arguments. The first is that it keeps time, and is accurate to within 50 milliseconds. (I’m so relieved by the fact that a watch in 2015 can be accurate, aren’t you?) The second is the “fun, spontaneous ways” you can communicate with “your favorite people.” And the third is probably the best selling point, given the way people have used wearables up until now: it offers “a smarter way to look at fitness.”
I have to agree with that. The tricircular interface on the Apple Watch’s Activity app, which shows how much you move, exercise, and stand, is a brilliant design.
However, much of the Apple Watch’s data will be piped through to the Health app on your iPhone, and the interface of that app is sorely in need of a redesign, even if we do get a separate companion Activity app for iPhone too.
There is a huge disconnect between the simple, intuitive interface of the Apple Watch and the dry, archaic look of the Health app. With nothing but straight graphs lacking easy-to-spot dividers, the Health app displays data in ways that will put off even the most earnest of exercisers.
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