“After a full year of wearing the Apple Watch every single day, it’s time to revisit the hardware, software, and some things I looked at in our original review to see where the platform is and where I think it ought to go in the next year or two,” Andrew Cunningham writes for Ars Technica.
“I’m still wearing the Apple Watch because it does a handful of things that I quite like and have grown used to, even if this is just a subset of the Watch’s feature set,” Cunningham writes. “I’ve settled on the Modular watch face as the most functional one for me, and I’ve enabled Complications to tell me the day and date, calendar reminders, the current temperature, my Activity circles, and the Watch’s current battery level. The temperature and weather forecasts are the ones I use the most, especially as winter turns to spring and I want to check quickly and see whether I should have a coat or umbrella with me when I go outside.”
“The Apple Watch is doing fine. It’s certainly not the abject failure that some people have already tried to declare it. But if Apple wants to keep peoples’ interest and, more importantly, attract new interest, it needs to keep improving the Watch and expanding the number of things [for which] people can use it,” Cunningham writes. “The Apple Watch as it exists is still rough and limited in a lot of ways, but hopefully another year or two of improvements will help it realize its full potential.”
Tons more in the full article – recommended – here.
MacDailyNews Take: We’ve had our Apple Watches on our wrists since Friday, April 24, 2015 through today, or exactly 365 days.
Here’s what we use our Watches for in order of usage:
1. Time
2. Temperature
3. Fitness
4. Music while running/working out
5. Alarms
6. Weather forecast
7. Sports scores
8. Stock prices
9. Timers
10. Turn-by-turn navigation
11. Quick texts (mainly replies, Siri works remarkably well for dictation)
12. Quick news via 3rd party news apps
13. Apple Pay
14. Apple TV Remote
15. Basic email (reading, deleting, marking unread)