Originally Posted by fleury
My opinion as follows:
iPhone 6: Design wise, a lot to be desired. The rubber or whatever, banding is butt ugly. Jobs would have found a way to make it seamless but the thick banding looks hideous and ruins a good design otherwise. As for size, I think Apple hit it out of the park. 5.5" is the new norm, and having held a friends Note, or even the S4, the iPhone seems inadequate in size. If too big is an issue, the 4.7" is a good in between. Feature wise, say what you want about Apple, and others having NFC, mobile payments hasn't taken off at all with others, but with Apple it is sure to happen quickly. I like how they made it easy to install your card. I also like the Android-esq predictive keyboard. Again though, I think all in all, the biggest feature nowadays will be the catch up in size.
Apple Watch: I didn't see a lot of the interactive features coming, so it was a pleasant surprise to see the direction they took it. A lot kinda gimmicky, like sending your heart beat or drawing a stupid face and sending it to your friend on their Apple Watch, but it's at least interesting to see that this will probably be built upon in a more interesting way in the future. Major, major disappointment with the design of the physical watch though. Too small, square, thick, cheap and gimmicky looking. The design is so un-Apple. Too many bands to choose from, which is hard to believe Apple doing, but almost none of them in the presentation appealed to me. Especially at this price point for such an ugly thing, I won't be jumping at the first generation. Maybe the second which undoubtedly will be improved upon, but for now the thing is not elegant no matter what gold is attached to it. Again though, I do like the features to some degree and like where they'll likely take the thing in the future. Hopefully they come up with the second generation around May because I can't see the thing selling big with that cluster#### of a cheap design.
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