“[My Apple Watch] turned two months old this weekend,” Wil Gomez writes for Mac360. “Watch needs to be used to be appreciated and a few weeks are not enough. Watch is not just an electronic watch. Watch is an extension (accessory) to iPhone, a utility tool which offloads some of iPhone’s alerts, notifications, and most obvious functions and apps.”
Siri is prevalent on Watch. ‘Hey, Siri. Set an alarm for 1:30 pm.’ Siri responds. Done. ‘Hey, Siri. Open Maps.’ Siri responds. Done. Maps appears on the Watch screen,” Gomez writes. “Notifications can be audible bells and dings, or haptic buzzes, and sometimes both, often not noticeable by anyone sitting nearby. That’s priceless.”
“Watch is misunderstood. Critics lambast Watch as an overpriced bauble that won’t sell as well as iPhone or iPad, and does not have a clear value proposition. Use Watch for a week and you’ll see the value proposition is time and convenience,” Gomez writes. “I do use Watch for directions (haptic buzzes are great), notifications, alarms, Siri queries (oh so easy), Music control on iPhone, quick, almost hands free communication, including making calls, email, Messages, Calendar, and exercise and health tracking. Battery life has never been less than 40-percent at the end of a 16 hour day. Indeed, Watch is as personal as iPhone, but perhaps more so because it’s an extension of iPhone functionality.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Once again, it’s like trying to explain “Why Mac” to a Windows PC sufferer. You really have to use one in order to understand. There are just too many details, too many nuances; a list of benefits simply doesn’t do it justice. With Apple Watch, as with the Mac, it’s the whole experience. It’s indescribable, yet indescribably better.
We’ve now worn our Apple Watches every day for 2 months and 21 days.
We will never go back to the primitive days of not wearing an Apple Watch.
It’s amusing to watch those without Apple Watches wasting time obsessing over their phones all day – especially knowing that one day, sooner or later, they’ll also be wearing Apple Watches and then they’ll finally get it, too.
SEE ALSO:
Taking off the Apple Watch for one week – don’t ever make me do that again! – July 14, 2015
My week without Apple Watch – July 7, 2015
The Inquirer reviews Apple Watch: ‘Undoubtedly the best smartwatch’ – June 26, 2015
Newt Gingrich reviews Apple Watch: ‘Very helpful and surprisingly natural’ – June 19, 2015
One month with my Apple Watch: Why I’m loving it – June 17, 2015
Dalrymple reviews Apple Watch: ‘My most personal review ever’ – June 16, 2015
Apple Watch: 45 days later – June 8, 2015
Computerworld’s deep-dive Apple Watch review: ‘After a month of use: Very positive’ – June 8, 2015
Living with Apple Watch: One month in – June 3, 2015
Apple Watch: The early adopter’s take – June 1, 2015
Jean-Louis Gassée: Five weeks with Apple Watch – May 31, 2015
Ben Thompson: Apple Watch is being serially underestimated – May 20, 2015
BGR reviews Apple Watch: ‘A major technological achievement; you won’t want to take it off’ – May 7, 2015
The Telegraph reviews Apple Watch: Object of desire – May 7, 2015
Cult of Mac reviews Apple Watch: ‘Futuristic, fun and fan-flipping-tastic’ – April 28, 2015
PC Magazine reviews Apple Watch: ‘The best smartwatch available’ – April 28, 2015
Apple Watch owners shame so-called professional reviewers – April 27, 2015
Tech.pinions’ Ben Bajarin reviews Apple Watch: ‘Powerful’ and ‘completely new’ – April 8, 2015
The watch although tells time was an overpriced gadget. I’m happy to have returned mine after reassuring my thoughts of its uselessness
Thanks for the same blathering idiocy.
Anytime buddy. It isn’t really so, shocking to you I hope fanboy
Winner!
Egocentric much, splatter?
The watch is not an overpriced gadget. It is overpriced FOR YOU.
The watch is not useless. It is useless FOR YOU.
Well, even that is presuming you actually bought one. Really takes some talent to buy a product that costs hundreds of dollars that is actually completely useless.
You talk like you know me personally. You don’t
You question if I bought one.
I did.
I always tell the truth when I’m not lying.
Basically you know jack sh-t
My word got heard
How do you like that
Went out and me a tag heuer instead
It hold its value apparently aapl don’t
“Basically you know jack sh-t”
You have just capsulized the awe-inspiring intellect of Cocoa Boy in a single sentence. Thanks, Splatter.
Although Cocoa Boy can’t rap like this dude. Lay down an ear- bleeding bass line and shout splatterific’s verse in a pouty yet menacing voice through an over-amped P.A. system. Yeah, that works for Beats 1 or should I say, Trolls 1.
I think it’s UNDERpriced. @$399 it’s a total STEAL. Apple is almost giving them away for FREE.👀💥😱⌚️🎉🚀💕❤️
You lack credibility. I believe that you never bought one but were likely in an Apple Store and tried one on. When it didn’t work with your Samsung wannabe iPhone, you went back to your trailer park and complained to your mom that she didn’t give you any money after you turned 32.
Stop being a tit.
You didn’t buy an Apple Watch.
I wish I felt as passionately about my apple watch as MdN does. I like it, but I don’t love it the way I do other apple products. It definitely feels like a gen 1 product to me. The slowness of the apps and the sometimes clumsy gui makes it irritating at times. I’m sure it will get better with time. But, it’s not a life changing device for me yet.
The Watch as a whole is the watch’s best feature. Again, I agree with the author adn MDN take that the watch’s functionality is making it indispensable to wearers. My favorite aspect of the Watch is Activity in combination with Workout. I find it highly motivational, and following the intelligent prompts given with each weekly summary I have been increasing my goals bit by bit, a sign that the Activity app is actually doing something good for me.
Apple fanboys gladly demand Apple take their money, what else is new?
Wow, how indepth. Amazing.
It’s as in depth as the apple watch
Flop, Flop, Flop, Flipidy Flop, Flip Flop⌚️😜
Wow! How in depth, amazing you were able to type that.
I wear mine when I have appointments or don’t want to miss a notification. On weekends, I usually don’t wear it because I don’t care to be interrupted on my days off. I do usually have my iPhone with me: it is silenced and I frequently miss notifications, but they aren’t important on weekends.
You are trolling about price against a device that financed for one year, costs the user about a dollar a day for the first year.
Agreed that $350 is too much if you are living off the govt. and need your check for beer and cigs and junk food.
If you do have a job, then go buy an average decent watch for the same price that just tells time…that’s your only real option.
It’s not the price it’s the principle
Unnecessary and useless is a waste no matter how you justify that to yourself
hey splatter
opinion: A belief or conclusion held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof
as a matter of fact, those are just like assholes, we all have
them; so what
while i wholly support your right to opine and i certainly would
not be required to accept such as valid or universal, please
try to find some perspective after all this time
happy trails y’all
Personal preferences are important. With them, each of us can get exactly what we want. We understand your opinion: you found the Apple Watch useless and therefore consider it is overpriced at any price. Fine.
However, I am curious — what do you think of Apple’s other products like the iPhone, iPad, and Macs? To be honest, you sound like a troll. Most folks who like Apple’s products don’t diss products they don’t happen to find useful on a personal basis.
iPad 4, iPad Air, 27′ iMac, iPhone 4,5,6. iPod mini, nano, Itouch, AirPort Extreme x2, I think I own enough Apple products to have earned my explanations. Not that I need to explain my love for apple. It’s been upsetting only to recently to see the changes at Apple that are setting the ground work for there demise. Know if that’s a troll. I really don’t know what much to say except, IT SUCKS FOR YOU!!!
Did you write this about yourself trollboy: “Unnecessary and useless is a waste no matter how you justify that to yourself.”
Finally, the truth about you and from you. Nice!
Do you like gladiator movies silverhawk1. Have you ever undressed in a grown mans changing room. Did it make you erect. Did it make your apples tingle. If so they do have a chat room for you.
You’re angry with Silverhawk1 and overreacted. It’s understandable. You don’t care to be challenged. You’ve proven your Apple bona fides with your list of gear. But remembering for a moment that Apple is LGBT friendly and its CEO is openly gay, I’d suggest you’ll be taken more seriously if you don’t play the gay card.