A Reddit poster was considering buying an Apple Watch and posted this question. The response was very interesting, with useful tidbits to pass along when you get asked that question.
A few highlights, all from one comment (sort comments by “best” and this should rise to the top):
– Apple Pay on my wrist, including quick access to store loyalty cards and the like. Super convenient.
– At a glance access to current temp and rain chance percentage. I would miss this a lot if I returned to a normal watch.
– Leaving my phone and wallet at home when going to the beach or a public pool and just using the lte watch.
– I have my shopping list on my watch when I’m grocery shopping. I add items to the list on my phone or via Alexa on my Sonos one, but use the watch when I’m actually shopping so I’m not always taking my phone out to cross items off.
There are a lot more, not to mention the people who are now exercising regularly thanks to Apple Watch.
At this point, I think I use my Watch more than my iPhone. If Watch could pair to iPad, I don’t think I’d need an iPhone (except for its camera functions and the occasional phone call).
From the start of the day, it’s my:
– Alarm clock/night clock (so my wife isn’t disturbed);
– Weather report on the watch face so I know how many layers I need;
– Workout tracker/music player at the gym;
– Unlocks my Macs automatically (once you get this, hard to go back);
– Tells me my meetings/calendar;
– Notifications;
– Phone call screening (and the occasional phone call);
– Quick skim email/messages between meetings (the S4 44mm makes Mail a *lot* more useful)
– Clock, of course, so I know when to go home;
– Remote control for music and podcasts when the phone is streaming to the car;
– My communication device when with my son, so he doesn’t see me pulling out my phone all the time.
This is pretty much true for every weekday.
I haven’t enabled LTE yet, because I do keep my phone in my pocket, but in a future generation where its battery life can be all-day with LTE I’d seriously start considering just not taking my iPhone everywhere.
If anything, my behavior has changed since I got the Apple Watch. I use/look at my iPhone a lot less without missing any messages. The watch doesn’t replace anything but it does magnify what’s most important to me (texts, emails, calls, podcasts, exercise).
But can it replace your laptop?
I use the Watch for many things… Circles, steps and stairs are huge. Time, alarms, weather, UV, reminders, calendar… The best thing is that they are all available as complications on one watch face.
I also use it at night to see the time or if I sleep with it on my writes I turn off ‘raise to wake’ so that it doesn’t A. Waste battery, B. Disturb my wife by lighting up every time I move.
Yes, but you need Watch Pro
I do same, it is a pain to set. The raise to wake should be on the swipe up dock.
It is. Use the theater mode.
With the detachable Keyboard/Case®.
LOL!
Wow, I forgot about that! Thanks!