“Towards the end of May, I took off the Apple Watch I’d been wearing for nine months,” Alex Hern writes for The Guardian. “I’ll never put it on again.”
“I’d taken it off before of course, not only every night to charge, but when my colleague Samuel Gibbs reviewed it and then reviewed its updated operating system,” Hern writes. “But this time, while another colleague used it, I realised there was no point in wearing it.”
“In the week since I stopped wearing it, I have missed precisely one thing: the Dark Sky ‘“complication’ in the top left-hand corner of the watch face,” Hern writes. “You don’t need one, and neither do I. It just took me nine months of wearing it to realise.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Moronic tripe and so easily disproven that it’s ridiculous (see list below).
If you do not yet have an Apple Watch, you are really missing out.
We’ve had our Apple Watches on our wrists since Friday, April 24, 2015 and very happily so. They aren’t coming off for anything but the next-gen Apple Watch.
Here’s what we use our Apple Watches for in order of usage:
1. Time
2. Temperature (yes, via Dark Sky)
3. Fitness
4. Music while running/working out
5. Alarms
6. Weather forecast (yes, again via Dark Sky)
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)SEE ALSO:
Apple Watch: Why let facts cloud the debate? – June 6, 2016
Apple Watch: Still the leader of a growing smartwatch pack – May 31, 2016
Looking back on a year of wearing an Apple Watch – May 31, 2016
Living with Apple Watch for one year – May 4, 2016
Reasons why I still wear my Apple Watch every day – April 25, 2016
A year with the Apple Watch: What works, what doesn’t, and what lies ahead – April 22, 2016
Seems Alex Hern is not very smart.
That’s ok, but really to say that is the only thing you’re missing about wearing the watch is kind of ‘toolful’.
Give the watch to someone who will spend a couple of minutes – yes, that’s all it will take – getting it to work for them.
I can;t imagine not having it now.
Yes… all of those things are done better and faster with the phone that’s already in my pocket.
Still happy with my state of the art time piece… after the Apple Watch it almost made its craftsmanship feel even more special.
Thank you Tim & Co.!
Afraid that the UK is getting jaded with all the Brexit nonsense being sprayed by ridiculous politicians from all parties. This is obviously having an effect on journalists, so forgive them for they no not what they say for the moment … but then again, so called journalists from the Guardian don’t have a clue what they are saying any of the time, idiots!!
Obviously, these guys have not seen the no. of Apple Watches being worn around London and in use constantly on the transport network, buying snacks, avoiding having to stare at an iPhone screen every time a text arrives etc…
I just googled this “Brexit” in your post. I didn’t understand the term.
Then I discovered something shocking. In my reality/timeline, Britain was never EVEN IN the EU! I must have shifted dimensions into one where the UK was in the EU.
Also I remember the “Apple Watch” being called the iWatch.. Anyone else remember it that way??
Opinions are like…..
….just like those who promote AppleWatch ad nauseam.
I hate writers that say things like – you don’t need one because I don’t need one.
Like most things in life you’ll only get back based on the effort you put into it. About 6 months ago I found HeartWatch and WorkOut, they encouraged me to use my exercise bike daily because I was able to track my performance so easily and was encouraged by the improvement over time. I am 77 and after my last Doctor visit he has now taken me off any blood pressure medication. I give the Apple Watch credit.
Moronic
Just making a list of things you like to do with the Apple Watch does not counterbalance or disprove the reasons he used to stop using the watch. Lag, slow, battery life, fiddly watch controls, unintuitive interface and for me its ugly looks more than justify his reason for not using one.
I have one and I love it. Apple pay is MUCH better on the watch than on the iPhone. Only issue is its not everywhere but the watch is great with it. Filter and getting notifications without having to fiddle to get my phone is great, love that feature. The fitness part is cool. Could I live without it yes. So could everyone live without an iPhone but i would prefer not to and the SAME for the watch. Yes its great and I think the price is the real issue when you put it on top of he iPhone.
The Photos app is, surprisingly, one of the more useful features of the Apple Watch. I can snap pictures of documents, take screenshots from any app-even spreadsheet pages from the iPad, and quickly reference the needed information from the Photos app.