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504: It's a Trap!

LINUX Unplugged

CHAPTER

The Ugly Side of Android Watches

There's no watch combo that works with Android that appeals to me. There are times where I get the swipe up gesture just doesn't work, and then you add the fact that my case has a bit of a lip down there. The thing that they nail here is media playback and volume control on the phone. It's really hard to try this stuff.

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Speaker 3
But the upside is you can't do anything, right? You just say like, well, I won't use that for now. I can't.
Speaker 1
But there are some sys admins out there getting paid straight now who will be fixing it. And later it'll be fixed. Meanwhile, I'm like, geez, well, I know, see, I'm going to be doing this and I got to do this with the kids and I got this thing. I had to go take care of. So I think I could probably get to this tomorrow night, you know, and then so I go all day without syncing and services. So that was definitely had one of those outages and it's like this hurts more than I thought it would hurt, but recovered. And there hasn't been any problems since then. So that was the ugly for me. The bad was I do miss having a good watch. This sounds sort of like a real first world problem. But when you get used to a decent watch, I know you pebble users out there know what I'm talking about. It's a good watch that works for you. It's really hard to try this stuff. And the thing that they nail here is media playback and volume control on the phone. So if you just like me, like to sometimes like you're doing some dishes or something, you just put the phone down and you just play a podcast because it's got good enough speakers these days. So nice to be able to pause that
Speaker 3
with the phone or clear notifications right. Just right there.
Speaker 1
There's no, there's no watch combo that works with Android that appeals to me. And that's just what it is. And this is where the Apple ecosystem kind of kind of starts to chip away. You know, this is one of the things you have to push against. It starts kind of like making you rethink this stuff. Also, Android's performance has come a long way. Still not as good as iOS. And the if you choose to use the gesture mode, which you don't have to, it's optional. But if you choose to use like the back gesture and the swipe up gesture. So clunky compared to the iPhone. And there are times where I get the swipe up gesture just doesn't work. And then you add the fact that my case has a bit of a lip down there. Yeah, that doesn't
Speaker 3
work.

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