The Apple Watch won't be complete until it gets this feature
Apr 28, 2015, 19:53 IST
Communication is central to the Apple Watch experience.
At the moment, you can call and text people right from your wrist, and you can even send taps or your own heartbeat to other people's Apple Watches. You can also use Siri to help you get your message out.But the Apple Watch is currently missing one major form of communication: Video chat.
When the first reports of the Apple Watch surfaced in early 2013, it was likened to something Dick Tracy or James Bond would wear: "A watch that double[s] as a computer, two-way radio, mapping device or television."The first Apple Watch does a little bit of everything - it's a communication tool, a health tracker, and a timepiece, of course - but there's obviously room for improvement. Recent reports also suggested Apple cut many exciting features from the Watch because it couldn't get them to work consistently, possibly to preserve battery life as well.But the Apple Watch is most exciting when it's doing something futuristic and fantastic: For example, paying for coffee or groceries with your wrist is both exceedingly simple (two button taps pulls up your credit card) and profound.
I'd like to see more of these dramatic moments on the Apple Watch. And the only way for that to happen is to include a FaceTime camera.
At the moment, you can call and text people right from your wrist, and you can even send taps or your own heartbeat to other people's Apple Watches. You can also use Siri to help you get your message out.But the Apple Watch is currently missing one major form of communication: Video chat.
When the first reports of the Apple Watch surfaced in early 2013, it was likened to something Dick Tracy or James Bond would wear: "A watch that double[s] as a computer, two-way radio, mapping device or television."The first Apple Watch does a little bit of everything - it's a communication tool, a health tracker, and a timepiece, of course - but there's obviously room for improvement. Recent reports also suggested Apple cut many exciting features from the Watch because it couldn't get them to work consistently, possibly to preserve battery life as well.But the Apple Watch is most exciting when it's doing something futuristic and fantastic: For example, paying for coffee or groceries with your wrist is both exceedingly simple (two button taps pulls up your credit card) and profound.
I'd like to see more of these dramatic moments on the Apple Watch. And the only way for that to happen is to include a FaceTime camera.