Reasons why I still wear my Apple Watch every day

“It’s been a year since I’ve had my Apple Watch,” Susie Ochs writes for Macworld. “The things I complained about at the start are still an issue, and they mostly boil down to the fact that even running native apps, this is the slowest Apple product I’ve used for a long time. Still, I’ve charged the battery almost every night, and worn the Apple Watch almost every day.”

“I can’t help it; I’ve come to rely on the little thing,” Ochs writes. “It doesn’t do anything my iPhone can’t do, of course, but some of those little tasks are suited particularly well to my wrist, and the watch has wormed its way into my everyday routine so deeply that I’m genuinely sad on the rare days when I accidentally leave it plugged into its charger all day.”

Ochs writes, “To prove my utter dependence on this handy little gadget, I humbly submit this list of the things I use my Apple Watch for, virtually every day that I’m wearing it.”

Read more in the full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: As we explained last week, we’ve had our Apple Watches on our wrists since Friday, April 24, 2015.

Here’s what we use our Watches for in order of usage:

1. Time
2. Temperature
3. Fitness
4. Music while running/working out
5. Alarms
6. Weather forecast
7. Sports scores
8. Stock prices
9. Timers
10. Turn-by-turn navigation
11. Quick texts (mainly replies, Siri works remarkably well for dictation)
12. Quick news via 3rd party news apps
13. Apple Pay
14. Apple TV Remote
15. Basic email (reading, deleting, marking unread)

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