“I’ve already had a little bit of wrist time with the Apple Watch myself. To be specific, I’ve been trying a 42mm stainless-steel model with a fancy chain-link “Milanese loop” band that Apple loaned to me,” Harry McCracken writes for Fast Company. “I’ve learned quite a bit already that I didn’t get from attending both of Apple’s media events and getting brief hands-on demos at them.”
The Good:
• The hardware’s fit, finish, and general cleverness is exemplary
• The size is right
• The screen is delightful
The Bad:
• It has trouble waking up
• The Apple Watch is fast, except when it’s slow (when it’s doing something involving using my phone as a middleman to snag information from the Net)
• It’s quirky in the way that first-generation products running wildly ambitious software almost always are
General observations:
• Once you master force touch, it’s nifty
• You only want to touch the screen a little
• Apple Watch etiquette remains an unresolved issue
Many more pros, cons, and observations in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: A good article – recommended – but we’re not having any issues with our Watch displays coming on when we want them to. We would like for some way to STOP them from coming on – like when doing crunches with arms crossed (off, on, off, on, off, on). Anyone know if there’s a way to lock the Apple Watch’s display off?