2 points

Pebble Time Steel should have been the “standard”. Maybe I’m the wrong audience but the Moto 360 is a big miss for me. A smart watch for me needs to have:

  • Always on, sunlight readable display
  • “3 day weekend” battery life
  • Basic smarts only: notifications, alerts, calendar
  • Durable, waterproof
  • Compact size
  • Fitness tracking

I don’t care too much about “premium materials” once some basic durability is satisfied. I don’t have an opinion about round vs square.

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5 points

9 years and smartwatch are still pretty pedestrian.

From buggy software, to shitty battery life, to too expensive.

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5 points

The Moto 360 just looks amazing. How come no smart watches are like that today?

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The fossil watches were spiritual successors to the Moto 360 series, IMO.

The pixel watch is a cut above all of them now though IMO, despite looking less like a traditional watch at a glance

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4 points

Because everyone complained about the flat tire.

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has it really already been 9 years i still think of smartwatches as new tech oh god i’m gonna die soon

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I miss the no bezel screen, despite the flat tire. Unfortunately I burned through three of these in a short amount of time from the cheap plastic back, and the battery was absolutely terrible.

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Yeah that whole “flat tire” thing was so blown out of proportion. It looks better than any of the current watches with their huge bezels. I swear someone paid off reviewers to pan Motorola’s products. The moto X got a bunch of unfair BS too.

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