“The Apple Watch goes on sale in a few weeks: 24 April. It’s the latest release from the company that created gadgets that we didn’t know we had to have, like the iPod and iPad,” David Phelan writes for The Independent. “Right now, many people know what it looks like and how much it costs – though the 18-carat gold deluxe models have caused eyebrows to be raised at their £8,000 plus ticket price. But not everyone knows what the Apple Watch is for, or even know if they want one.”
“The Apple Watch is a convenient, deeply personal way to access notifications such as text messages, emails or social networking updates,” Phelan writes. “It also offers access to a wealth of apps from mapping to health monitors.”
“You can go to selected Apple retail stores from 10 April to see the Watch, try it on, see which size – there are two screen sizes – and strap you like best. There are lots of versions to choose from and though you can save time by looking at the various models on the Apple website first, trying it on is crucial,” Phelan writes. “But, be warned, once you’ve seen it and handled it, you might find you’re converted.”
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“The Apple Watch is a convenient, deeply personal way to access notifications such as text messages, emails or social networking updates”
For my mother, it will the only way to never miss calls. She has her iPhone 6 Plus buried in a bag, and in the noisy outside she can not feel any vibration or sound from it.
Or, while at home, she leaves the phone in one room, and goes to another.
The end of this.
EXACTLY——
The folks with the “nobody wears a watch anymore” just don’t get it………..
Health monitoring and stealth notifications are just the beginning ….
It will be nice for people of any age and any ability to no longer have to carry their phone around the house with them as they move from room to room just to not miss calls. And regarding notifications, no more running to find the phone every time it beeps and buzzes either. Sounds great!
Or, this is what’s going to happen:
1. You try on the Apple Watch, and buy it!
2. You wear it out of the store. So cool!
3. You go home and show everyone. Your Bluetooth has been disconnecting periodically but who cares. You’re the first on the block with the Apple Watch baby!
4. You forget to plug it in that night.
5. The next day you go to work not wearing the watch because it’s dead.
6. For the rest of the week, you wear and use the Apple Watch.
7. After the week, you realize something: inputing anything into the Apple Watch is a deadend. That’s talking on the phone or texting or surfing the Web, etc. Then you realize how you are starting to bypass the watch and go straight for the smartphone to talk and text, use Siri, etc. And while you’re at it, you realize that surfing the Web, reading Email, etc. are all so much better on the smartphone.
8. After 30 days with the Apple Watch, it’s been relegated to being used as a sex toy for your wife.
Watch. Wait. And see.™
How much did Samsung pay you to post this crap?
Uh, no. Some of us can resist the impulse.
Trolls can resist everything except coming off as idiotic.
Your ‘Troll’ comments are getting tiresome. I submit that you yourself are a closet troll. Get over it already, I have.
trolldude, if I’ve told you once, I have told you a dozen times: “Get back under your bridge and leave the nice people alone.”
Hey trolldude, did you figure out how to down vote multiple times? We all know that it was you and I know how you did it. You might be nearly as smart as your dad that you never met but you are still way behind me. A mother knows.
silverdick & mommy – stick your watches where the sun don’t shine. assholes like you deserve all the negative votes you got and more. i’m not tron, but i added my vote to your juvenile and disrespectful comments. i would have voted you lower if i could.
somehow i suspect that your behavior would be different if had to repeat your pathetic attempts at online insults in public.
But some us apparently cannot resist the impulse to post messages of superiority. Nice impulse control.
It also marks the beginning of end of iPhone, as iPhone marked the end of iPod and iPad marked the end of PC. Apple Watch will replace iPhone.
I believe that anyone who has an appointment to try an AppleWatch, Apple has a good shot at making a sale even if it’s just a soft sell. One thing for certain, Apple has a better shot at selling an AppleWatch than any other company selling a smartwatch that doesn’t have a retail store and staff trained to sell such a product.
Conservatively, if just three out of ten appointments produce an AppleWatch sale that should result in more sales than any other smartwatch ever sold. I’m still not sure whether that will be measured as a success or not. Wall Street’s expectations are unfathomable.
Sadly, I’m probably going to end up with more than one…
I can’t wait to ditch my crappy Pear Heart Rate monitor and switch over to the Apple Watch Sport.
BUT, I also wear a nice dress watch the rest of the time so if the Watch Sport works well I’ll look to get a stainless steel version with a black leather band.
The only thing it won’t replace is my dive watch. But I guess give it time for Apple to come up with one of those.
One watch per iPhone. If you plan to use it for dress up, get the stainless steel with upscale band, and fluroelastomer band for exercising.
Spot on.
This is my plan.
“Apple is about to change the world – again.”-MDL
Your world changes much too easily…as the digital political wind blows. Operative word being “blows”.
The biggest thing most don’t get about the Apple Watch?
It’s not a watch. It just looks like one and you wear it on your wrist.
Pundits didn’t get that about the iPhone at first either. Apple was wise to call the iPhone a “phone” and never a “pocket computer” or anything like that. The Apple Watch is truly a “wrist computer” but Apple will never call it that either.
Apple appropriated the word “phone” and re-defined it to fit their own vision. Apple is currently doing the same to the word “watch”.
So has this guy used one in person?
I’m still interested in the Apple Watch even though I have no plans to buy one, and I don’t think seeing/touching one will change that. I don’t need a smartwatch of any sort, so it would come down to an impulse buy. The price is a big hurdle there, but right now the biggest thing holding me back is the fact I like round watches. Hopefully gen 2 will have choice in size AND shape (and better battery life and a more mature app selection to help justify the outlay), then I might finally be tempted over the threshold.
I’ve been more than happy to go for first-gen Apple products before – my original iPod shuffle and iPod mini are still sat in a drawer somewhere – but I think I’m going to leave this one to the early adopters.