“There are basically two main ways of using the Watch: pressing the Digital Crown to go to the home screen and picking an app, or swiping up from the bottom on a watch face to access the Glances, which are basically quick views into all the apps you’ve got loaded,” Nilay Patel reports for The Verge.
“Apple had several apps loaded onto the demo unit I played with: Uber, the SPG hotels app, Shazam, and a few others. What’s interesting is that Glances clearly aren’t the apps themselves — when you click on a button in a Glance, you get kicked out to a loading screen and then into that screen in the app,” Patel reports. “So clicking ‘unlock door’ in the SPG Glance actually opened the SPG app, and showed me the button again. And then I wasn’t on the Glances screen anymore. It’s not a major thing, but it took me a few seconds to understand what was going on.”
“The defining theme of the Apple Watch so far: it’s nicer than I expected and I’m sure the confusing interface settles down into a familiar pattern after you use it for a while, but I’m still not sure why you’d want to put this thing on your wrist all the time,” Patel reports. “Apple’s big task at this event was convincing people that a use case for the Watch exists, and at this moment it still feels like an awful lot of interesting ideas without a unifying theme. We’ll have to wait until we get review units in hand and spend way more time with one to really understand the value of the Apple Watch.”
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MacDailyNews Take: The value of the Apple Watch is immense. Doubters will come to understand soon enough or be left behind, still constantly (and needlessly) hauling out their iPhones (or pretend iPhones) all day long like 21st century luddites.