“You won’t find the Apple Watch on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs,” Peter Cohen writes for iMore. “That doesn’t diminish the watch’s fundamental utility, though. A funny thing’s happened to me a number of times since I started wearing an Apple Watch: I see people staring at my wrist. Inevitably, if I catch their gaze, they’ll initiate a conversation with me about it.”
“There’s a lot of interest in the Apple Watch. But people are still trying to get their heads around it,” Cohen writes. “Ultimately people want to know how I’m using it: What I’m using it for. Getting important notifications, I tell them. Starbucks transactions and using Apple Pay. Making calls, sending messages, activity tracking. Those are my top uses. Things that make it so I don’t have to reach for my iPhone.”
“Many people are certainly interested in the Apple Watch, but more often than not, they’ll shrug and say something like, ‘Well, it’s not for me.’ Or ‘It sounds nice to have, but I don’t need one.’ Well, no kidding. No one needs an Apple Watch,” Cohen writes. “The Apple Watch is, by design, an accessory for the iPhone — something that improves the experience of using one.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Once again, you really have to use one in order to understand. It’s like trying to explain “Why Mac” to a Windows PC sufferer. 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 24 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, saying things like “Well, Apple Watch isn’t for me” – 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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