“What’s fascinating to me is that all this attention is devoted to a device whose purpose is defined by attention — in fact, the Apple Watch is explicitly designed to reduce the attention you pay to your devices, which I think could lead to our attentions being directed away from devices,” Jeff Carlson writes for The Seattle Times. “One of the watch’s signature features is going to be the ability to receive notifications, passed along from your iPhone. Reminders, social media alerts, and related short bursts of information will appear for you to act on (or ignore) without reaching for your iPhone.”
“You might think this is trading one screen for another, but in this case the watch’s smaller screen becomes an advantage: you won’t get distracted by other things. How many of us have meant to do one small thing on the iPhone and then ended up checking email and catching up on Facebook or Twitter?” Carlson writes. “A quick flick of the wrist seems less intrusive to me than engaging the phone.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Yes.
As we wrote back on January 31st: All phones are cumbersome to the same degree. They have to be pulled out, woken up, and poked at. Apple created… a world of iPhone/iPhone knockoff addicts. Apple will change the world again with Apple Watch, replacing iPhone zombies and iPhones on and under dining tables and everywhere else (you know, the stuff the older set complain about: “People nowadays, always looking at their gizmos, nobody can even have a conversation”) with quick glances of the wrist – like in the days of yore.
As we wrote on January 30th: With iPhone, Apple changed the fabric of our everyday lives: All around the world today, you see people constantly pulling phones from pockets and staring at them. With Apple Watch, Apple will change behavior worldwide once again. A quick glance at your Watch and you’re off. No more smartphone zombies. Watch and see.
As we wrote just yesterday: Just like the tens of millions who said they didn’t want or need an iPhone, who are now on their fifth iPhone, so it’ll go with Apple Watch.
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