{"id":1418,"date":"2014-09-23T02:43:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T09:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2014-09-23T02:43:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T09:43:09","slug":"wrist-communicator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/wrist-communicator\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrist communicator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2014\/09\/apple_watch\">Apple Watch: Initial Thoughts and Observations<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The most intriguing and notable thing about Apple Watch\u2019s design, to me, is the dedicated communication button below the digital crown. [&#8230;]\u00a0Apple is notorious for\u00a0<em>minimizing<\/em>\u00a0the number of hardware buttons on its devices&#8230;\u00a0The only explanation is that Apple believes that the communication features triggered by that button are vitally important to how we\u2019ll use the device.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I had that same thought when\u00a0viewing\u00a0the Apple Watch\u00a0unveiling and noticing the\u00a0unusual dedicated button:\u00a0<em>Apple must consider those communication features\u00a0vitally important.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It took me a little while to get used to the idea, but it now seems quite natural\u00a0to virtually tap loved ones on the wrist and\u00a0send them little drawings and heartbeats. Perhaps in five years we&#8217;ll be wondering how we ever got by without that capability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber, &#8220;Apple Watch: Initial Thoughts and Observations&#8220;: The most intriguing and notable thing about Apple Watch\u2019s design, to me, is the dedicated communication button below the digital crown. [&#8230;]\u00a0Apple is notorious for\u00a0minimizing\u00a0the number of hardware buttons on its devices&#8230;\u00a0The only explanation is that Apple believes that the communication features triggered by that button are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/wrist-communicator\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wrist communicator&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robinstewart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}