“[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.”
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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.
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One month with my Apple Watch: Why I’m loving it – June 17, 2015
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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
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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
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