As I like to say, and have many times ... the Apple Watch is not a watch. Once someone understands that, then it will make sense ... :-) ...
It is a wrist computer that has over a thousand apps for it! And in relatively short order there will be THOUSANDS of apps!
“ONE” of those apps just happens to tell time.
Sorry , a watch that cannot function as a watch will NEVER make sense, a watch cannot run out of juice everyday, it’s a MAJOR FAIL... the iPhone can successfully make and receive phone calls... they are essentially the same device but the “watch” isn’t ready for primetime... The original iPhone wasn’t ready for primetime either but it had enough potential in the largely useless non-phone/”internet enabled computing device” functionality that people could excuse the lapses.
Please explain to me how a one inch by one inch screen will ever be usable for any function ... will you be able to edit a document on it? Will you ever be able to read a map on a screen that size? Will you even be able to read a text message? Can you name ANY app out of the “thousand or so” that you mention that will ever be usable on this tiny screen? The answer is NO ... That means that this is not only NOT a watch , it isn’t what we now consider to be a phone (meaning a smart phone) , it is fashion and nothing more... and fashion goes out of fashion. If it ever morphs into something truly usable, a “Dick Tracy” phone ,,, say with a long battery life , usability without being tethered to a mothership iPhone and native GSM phone capability then it deserves a look.
Perhaps it’ll be useful by the 3rd generation or so.