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Apple Watch’s true magic lies in what it can’t do

“As I get more comfortable with my Apple Watch during day-to-day activities, I’ve started to figure out what tasks I like doing on it, along with the ones better suited to a larger screen,” Serenity Caldwell writes for iMore. “What I appreciate most about the Watch is that even as a 1.0 product it knows its limitations — it tackles the stuff it can, and offloads the rest to your iPhone.”

“The real beauty is that you can pass that query off to your iPhone with Handoff when you swipe up, rather than having to redictate it on the phone,” Caldwell writes. “Because of the Watch’s superior microphone, I’ve found myself using it for 99 percent of my Siri queries, then handing off to my iPhone when necessary.”

Caldwell writes, “The more I use my Watch, the more I realize that it’s not so much another device as it is another screen for my ecosystem — a way to get information that’s best viewed at a glance, rather than digging through app folders and having the possibility of getting distracted by Twitter.”

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