“For many Apple Watch owners, the gadget wrapped around their wrist is much more than just a watch,” Lance Whitney reports for CNET.
“Around 80 percent of Apple Watch owners said they use the device for fitness tracking and notifications, according to survey results released Friday by advertising technology company Fluent,” Whitney reports. “Listening to music is popular among 77 percent. Exchanging emails and instant messages is on the list of 66 percent. Using the watch to purchase items via Apple Pay is also a favorite activity among 61 percent of those polled.”
“Around half of those polled said they believe the majority of people will wear smartwatches 10 years from now,” Whitney reports,” while 75 percent of current Apple Watch owners echoed the same forecast.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The fact is, we can’t live without it – and haven’t since April 24, 2015. Apple Watch simply saves us too much time. We don’t even want to think of going a day without our Apple Watches!
If you don’t have an Apple Watch yet, you’re missing out.
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Great device that has gotten drastically slower since its release. So much potential but waiting for the killer app. Love not having to pull out my phone for important notifications. Love controlling my Apple TVs from my watch. Apple Watch Siri is awesome and not nearly the smart as she is on the phone. 😉🖖🏼
Not sure if you’re trolling or what. I haven’t seen a drastic slowdown, the killer app is notifications and fitness tracking. Your last sentence doesn’t make sense. If you’re saying Apple Watch Siri is better than on the iPhone, I agree.
What are you talking about? My Apple Watch Stainless Steel Space Black has not slowed down at all. . . zip, nada, no slowdown. If anything, as Apple has released updates, my Apple watch responses have sped up.
I think Rettogo was saying that Siri was “not nearly the smart ass she is on the phone,” but that is because Siri doesn’t really talk much on the watch.
I’ve found Siri to be more accurate on my Watch
So have I. Very seldom have I had to correct anything
I haven’t used one, but I recall you mentioning this the other day. Are there no actions you can take to determine what is slowing you down? I.e. reset to factory settings, and only add apps back as needed? Is speed a common complaint?
I guess you’re right. In this article:
http://appadvice.com/appnn/2015/12/a-dozen-reasons-why-people-are-unhappy-with-apple-watch
A dozen reasons why people are unhappy with Apple Watch, they state: “…The biggest theme in the critiques was about performance. Many thought the Apple Watch was too slow, particularly around data retrieval and third party apps….”
In “I’m an iOS developer, and there are two main reasons I’m giving up my Apple Watch” speed and design are recurring themes. http://qz.com/533215/why-im-giving-up-my-apple-watch/
I also just read that if you turn on reduce motion and reduce transparency (under Accessibility) this can boost the speed of your AppleWatch. He says “…You’ll notice how things are a lot more snappier than before on your Apple Watch. But, you’ll also notice at the same time that it does come with a small compromise. With ‘Reduce Motion’ turned on, those funky looking home screen animations are completely gone, and with ‘Reduce Transparency’ working its magic alongside, you’ll notice how the UI feels absolutely solid, and the blur effects are long gone, making things a little stale…”
http://wccftech.com/apple-watch-faster-reduce-lag/#ixzz45YRxedSR
Tilt to see the time is #4 reason ???!!!???
These people have a way of reading a watch without actually seeing the face?
I love my watches. I have a sport and won a stainless steel model. Loving that I can now have both paired at the same time and can just put on whichever one I want.
Perhaps it’s a complaint from users that are used to glancing at wristwatches on other’s wrists occasionally to tell the time. I’m assuming the Apple Watch face is blank most of the time when not facing the owner.
That’s a really great tip. While I like my Apple Watch quite a bit the speed can be frustrating.
Had mine since 12 May 2015 and find it great looking and useful. Wear it every day (and most nights).
“Around 80 percent of Apple Watch owners said they use the device for fitness tracking… “, So #Apple would you please make a water proof version? Thanks
I use mine when i swim, windurf, shower, bikram Yoga..etc..
And i have done so for about 12 months now..
Just font dive deep…. More than 3-4 feet…
I meant windsurf
It took a while for my wife to finally use hers, but now she can’t do without. Having her blood glucose levels available at a glance (through the Dexcom monitor and app) is fantastic. (Without the watch, the monitor/app/iPhone combo literally saved her life the first night she used it. Any wonder why she is now totally dependent?)
Bought mine last April and I wear it every day and every night, bar the 2 hours in the morning getting ready when it’s on charge.
Fantastic device, so handy. Definitely getting another one once this has run its course.
First thing i put on every morning .. Last thing i take off befire going to bed..
Love my Apple Watch
I could say the same about my panties.
Ahhh.. Now u got my imgination going…😋😄
Love it. Great having notifications and fitness tracking on my wrist, not to mention weather. Problems are the accuracy of workouts (‘Other’ workouts basically sitting around burn double the calories of a real ‘Outdoor Walk’), and the Remote and Camera apps don’t work. I’ll have to try resetting it.
Just bought my second; a 38mm. It’s faster (same processor, less pixels) and lighter. Like getting the Watch II early.
I don’t think that’s how it works…
I got my WATCH for xmas; apparently I was a very good boy for such an extravagant gift.
Battery life is good, getting at least 1.5 days out of it. It charges really fast, too.
The one invaluable feature for me is swipe up and right to get the sonar ping to find my phone. Always losing it and tap my wrist to make the phone go ping-ping to hunt it down. Usually under a pile of eternal paperwork.
Love SMS to the watch so I know if I need to dig out the phone for when it’s something more than, “Whazzup?”; the phone is staying in my pocket more and more.
I often walk past the Apple Store in Bondi Junction in Sydney. Yesterday, for the first time ever, I saw someone looking at the Apple Watch. Every other time, even when the store is crowded, the Watch table has been deserted.
I have only ever seen two Apple Watches in the wild in Sydney.
Maybe they don’t have the time…..
So funny! After delivering that line you need the drum thump and a cymbal crash! I wasn’t ready for that and it made me laugh out loud.
I find WATCHes popping up everywhere here in Honolulu. At a party last night 3 timely timepieces were in attendance. Those who didn’t have one were eyeing them enviously.
Maybe it was because only the groovy people of Chinatown were invited?
Maybe everyone else already had one and you’re late to the party. I put mine on last May and haven’t taken it off since. First on in a.m. Last off at p.m. Can’t wait for next iteration.
I have one since day one and MDN is right, I can’t live without it. The notifications and fitness tracking are awesome. I just added Strava to track my running and biking and I’m happy!
Had one, liked it but was only ever lukewarm. Started showing wear and tear alarmingly quickly (space grey sport, anodizing started flaking away) so resold it while I could and got a Pebble Time Steel.
Aside from voice replies to texts (which was always flakey anyway), I don’t miss anything. Which I think goes to show the Apple Watch does a lot well but doesn’t have a unique killer app. Yet.
I may be back for version 2. Depends on what they add/refine and whether they change the design. I could never quite convince myself I liked that bulbous rectangle shape, and going back to a round watch confirmed it,
An Apple Watch with the shape of, say, a Moto 360, would knock it out of the park.
Apple should be concerned with the tens of millions that have panned Apple Watch instead of Apple fanboy minority that buy anything with a shiny Apple logo.
Please, troll, show us the definitive proof there are “tens of millions that have panned Apple Watch.”
Why are you even on this site? Oh, that’s right. No life.
Apple fanboys like you would buy a turd if it had a shiny Apple logo on it.
I was in an Apple Store this weekend for an issue with my iPhone and saw the AW table. I was immediately attracted to it and couldn’t resist it, and left the store with my first AW. I love it, and yet haven’t fully learned it. I have a free online training session with Apple this morning (what a fantastic service!), so have no doubt I’ll love it even more. I’m not buying Applecare for it because I intend to by AW II next year.
It has been one year since Apple Watch has been released. I guess you visit your Apple Store once annually. Don’t really get out much do you? Or maybe you never had a burning desire to be the first in your location to take in the sublime beauty of Apple Watch. That’s really funny.
Who the fuck are you to judge?
You can’t see the humor? What a sad and pathetic person you are.
Nah, I don’t see any humor either. Keep your day job, “comedian.” (Asshole, actually.)
It’s hard to figure out what your point is with your lame comment, but for whatever it’s worth, I only go to an Apple Store when I need to. So, no, it’s not even annually, because I don’t need to. You see, nitwit, I’ve discovered this amazing thing called the internet, and in this thing I can buy Apple products without going into a physical store! You might try it.
Apple Watch can detect human vital signs, but, ironically, is unable to sense its own failure to thrive. Poor little, Apple Watch, so young, so little, so sad. sniff (wipes tear from eye)
I’m an Apple fan from way back and keenly anticipated the Watch until it came out. I can’t get over the ‘lozenge-look’ of the hardware and the complexity of the interface. I trust the Apple team will make improvements to both on the next iteration and am willing to wait. By that time my iPhone will also be upgraded and compatible 😉