“Yesterday’s event provided a few key details about the Apple Watch. We learned how much it will cost, and when we’ll be able to buy it. But there’s still a very big hole in the center of the Apple Watch picture,” Kyle Vanhemert writes for Wired. “Tim Cook and associates showed off a grab bag of features, but they once again failed to give any overarching sense of why this thing exists. What is the Apple Watch? How will we use it? Where does it fit in our lives? In what ways does it replace our phones? In what ways does it complement them?”
“What is the Apple Watch’s reason for being?” Vanhemert wonders. “What are the things it’s better at than a smartphone?”
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MacDailyNews Take: Apple Watch better at timekeeping because it’s much faster to glance at your wrist than to fish out your iPhone. It’s better at notifications because it taps your wrist, you can glance, and it’s done, whereas notifications tend to pile up on iPhones.
It’s better at fitness because it’s on your wrist, it’s smaller and lighter, and it’s tracking your heartbeat, among other things, live, while you run, without stopping. It’s better at Siri because lifting your wrist and saying “Hey, Siri” is natural vs. fishing out your iPhone to invoke Siri. It’s better because it’s faster to quickly respond to quick questions with the intelligent answers Apple Watch suggests via a tap on the wrist than it is to hear a sound or feel a vibration (or miss both) and, again, fish out the iPhone and dictate or type out a response. It’s better because you can get the score of the game right there. It’s better because you can use Apple Pay with a simple wave of the hand. Like magic. We could go on and on.
Suffice to say, Apple Watch is better at many things than your iPhone because it’s faster. It’s always at hand (literally). Apple Watch is a both timekeeper and a timesaver. Apple Watch offers users bunches of seconds saved throughout the day that add up to real, significant time savings by the time you recharge it at night. That’s Apple Watch’s raison d’être.