I ordered my Apple Watch

I think it's fine.
But I also think you are correct to define it as not really a "watch" but a computer tool you happen to strap to your wrist.

I wouldn't want one.
I'm an old fashioned purist in this regard. I still wear a REAL watch. It's not as antique as to wind up, but it's mechanical. I've worn it for so many years I can't imagine NOT wearing it.

Real watches? I'm afraid they are a dying concept. When I was a kid? I wanted a watch. One Christmas I received a "real" watch as a gift and it seemed so great to be part of the grown up fraternity of a "watch wearer".
Today? My 9 year old nephew wonders why I bother to strap on a watch every day. Doesn't my cell phone, smart phone, tablet...all have the time on them? Why do I want some piece of metal on my wrist that is so archaic as to ONLY tell the time, and possibly if I squint the date?

And I think that IS the future.

So if the "Apple Watch" can in any way salvage or keep alive the tradition in any form, even if REALLY much more than just a watch? I guess I have to support it. Because I'm NOT going to win this generation over with my quartz, dial, minute hand technology.

 

I've got to tell one more story, then I'll leave this thread in peace.

I was just about to start 7th grade. And my Mother surprised me by buying me a watch I wanted.
This "watch" was a mid 70's marvel...the "Apple Watch" of it's primitive day.
Seriously, I should of known that someday I'd be driving a Prius, because this watch was "Big Bang Theory" nerd material. It really was hilarious but to the 7th grade me? It was great.
I can't even remember all it did or attempted to do. It had a calculator function. But more strangely stop watch functions, timer function and more than one "Musical" tone alarms. I think you could make it play "Charge!" and/or "Fur Elise". Keep in mind this is during a time when nobody had cell phones with personalized ring tones. The ability to walk into a room and make a beep tone version of Charge! spring forth from your wrist was somewhat unique. In hushed environment "Fur Elise" was near scandalous. I don't know what happened to it. I wish today I still had it. I didn't get too much time to enjoy it, as 7th grade was when I started to take closer notice of what girls thought was "cool", and peer pressure was strong enough to make me abandon this wonderful gift clearly before 8th grade, and well hidden by high school. Strangely the girls I liked, were not impressed by being able to do simple math from my wrist and the ability to offer a Beethoven concert in disconcerting beep tone quality. It's debatable as to whether I was hanging with the right crowd or the wrong crowd.

My mother seemed to know I liked watches and she would often find me unique ones. The other watch I really wish I still had today, was somehow at a garage sale or other outlet, my mother found a electronic watch given away at the premier of the movie Zulu Dawn. It wasn't made to be quality, but it worked. And the neat thing about it? Was that in the LCD window it said, "It's Coming! Zulu Dawn!". I think it cycled about every 3 seconds from promotional message to "time" but the "Time" part was really an afterthought.

Many, many adult years later a long running personal inside joke between my mother and me was when she would ask me what time it was I would respond..."About 3 seconds to Zulu Dawn".

Nobody around us had any idea what I was talking about. But my mother would respond..." I hear it's coming...".

I have to hope "Watches" continue to exist, in whatever form they adapt and evolve. Computer/Smart Phone accessory or otherwise. They still sell them, they still exist. But I'm am afraid, since my 9 year old nephew looks upon them with such disdain. Asking him if he wanted a watch was taken as nearly an insult.

I'm afraid he'll never be 1/2 the nerd I was when I was his age, nor perhaps will he ever be as cool as I am now.

 

I've heard that it won't keep a charge for an entire day. Is this true? I can see this being a potential show stopper for many.

 

Look cool. But the price is too much. I am sticking with my Omega Seamaster.

 

Yet another thing a person has to plug in everyday. Oh, the horror.

 

I've got the iPhone, posting with it, but still: I'm partial to one of these for wristwatch.



I've got a watch and a smart phone. Digging my smart phone out every time I want to know the time doesn't cut it: the other day I misplaced my watch, and I was missing it. But a $20 Casio digital works for me.

 

Doesn't work with my iPhone 4s. Why Apple? Why have you forsaken me?

 

Did you upgrade to IOS 8.3? I saw an update the other day.

 

Yeah, everyone with a 4S, 5 or 5C on iOS 8 should update. It makes everything smoother and faster. It's not quite as fast as iOS 7 still but I'm not complaining. I remember waiting up to 2 seconds to load up the dialer to make a call. Now it is back to instant. Don't update yet if you have a 5S or 6. Heard there are touch ID problems and the speed increase is negligible on already fast phones.

And yeah, no Apple Watch support on a 4s. Makes sense. If I'm using a $100 phone, I'm not likely to purchase a $350 watch.

 

Problems for me. Only 18 hour charge time. Needs phone to act properly as a sports watch. My garmin watch is huge compared to this but at least it is functional. Put me down for next gen watch though, if they get more watch battery life (I'm in a foreign counry and can't plug-in and my phone is dead, leave me with at least a gps watch) and sports and music functionality without a phone close by.

 

Oh my god!
Or to save time...OMG!

2 full seconds?

 

I know, right? 2 whole seconds! That's like forever! I could've blinked my eye almost 3 times.

 

having worked on UI, 1 second is way too long for most people before they get irritated. On a non smart phone, phone is always ready. 1 second is a long time versus right now ;-) In the 1980s it would have probably been acceptable.

 

I would prefer to pull the phone out of my pocket instead of having to charge one more device daily!

Except of course, charging a plug-in car.

 

I can't see having a phone and a watch, but maybe that will change. I'll wait for now.

 

LOL! really?

One Second is "Way Too Long" for most people?

I concede I'm old school...maybe "old world" in many avenues. But...

When "One Second" becomes the time marker for onset of irritation or frustration? Then I don't think the problem is with the technology. The problem is with US.

I have nothing against improvement of technology, software, hardware...whatever...

But for example? I haven't updated my computer in YEARS. It' a dinosaur by todays standards and I know it. But it's good enough for what I use it for....

There's a point where I can't really perceive the value of the improvement. In computing time, in pixels, in sound quality. I don't doubt it exists, I just don't care.

If simply saying the word "Relax" takes longer than resolution of the "problem" itself? Then we all need to relax.

I don't expect technology or performance to move backwards. "Instant" or on demand is near the standard today, will be the standard tomorrow.

But there's something lost in human terms when we measure the onset of frustration in seconds or less.