203: ‘Unused VIPs’ With Serenity Caldwell
The Talk Show With John Gruber
John Gruber
3.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2017
⏱️ 122 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know. I feel like it's been like a weird new cycle and I feel like this show is going to be |
| 0:03.6 | chock full of complaints about Apple products. |
| 0:08.2 | It's, yeah, I don't know if it's complaints so much as problems that would be solved and |
| 0:14.4 | haven't been yet. Yeah. Well, let's start with a good one. Here's here and I really like this piece |
| 0:23.2 | because I felt like it's the sort of thing that people just don't bring up. And it's a piece you |
| 0:28.5 | wrote an update of a two-year-old piece that you published last week on the basic gist of it is |
| 0:35.9 | how come all every other smartwatch other than Apple Watch doesn't really have a smaller size |
| 0:41.1 | that fits smaller wrists like for example the wrists on an awful lot of women. And I say that because I |
| 0:49.6 | don't I think Apple very deliberately does not call the 42 millimeter the men's watch in 38 millimeter. |
| 0:56.0 | The women's watch because it just I don't I don't think it's like even like political correctness or |
| 1:04.2 | something like that or trying to. There's just no point for it. Because there's no reason to. |
| 1:09.2 | There are men who wear the 38 millimeter because they have smaller wrists and and there are surely |
| 1:15.3 | women who wear the 42 millimeter because their wrists either their wrists are bigger or they want |
| 1:20.3 | the extra battery life or whatever. But let's face it for most women the 38 millimeter is a more |
| 1:28.8 | comfortable size. Yeah absolutely. And you know I mean what is the market out there for other |
| 1:36.8 | non-Apple smartwatches and watch like fitness bands for for those sizes. And it's really non-existent |
| 1:44.4 | that's the that's the frustrating thing is I actually I I'm not against Android where as a platform |
| 1:50.5 | and as a software because I think they're actually doing some really interesting things there. |
| 1:55.3 | And even Fitbit is doing some interesting things on the software side. But there's just nothing |
| 2:01.2 | there's literally nothing. The closest you can get if you want a small quote-unquote smartwatch as a |
| 2:07.8 | woman is to get one of the big smartwatch manufacturers like connected fitness device like fossil |
| 2:17.2 | just released one of these that's 36 millimeters round. But it's literally it's a watch with a |
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