Apple Watch: My most personal review ever

The Loop ^ | June 16, 2015 | Jim Dalrymple

[Swordmaker]

But can it keep time? That’s what I want to know!

Quite accurately, using the atomic clock at a Naval Observatory. . . And that's to 50 milliseconds per year.

Your list omitted:

• Receive MMS and regular messages from any source.
• Respond to MMS and regular text messages to any destination with either a selection of set messages or dictated text messages or audio messaging.
• Receive from anyone or Initiate iPhone calls from anyone in your contacts on the watch and conduct conversations with out taking the iPhone out.
• Do Internet searches using SIRI.
• Make reservations using SIRI.
• Set appointments, meetings, and dates on all of your integrated calendars across all Apple Devices, and extend invitations to all persons you wish to invite to meetings, parties, etc., using SIRI.
• Ask SIRI for directions to any location by address or type of business and receive directions quietly by means of pulses on your wrist.
• Draw simple graphics and send them to another Apple Watch wearer instantly in multiple colors.
• Send Emoji character indications of your feelings, thoughts, etc. to another Apple Watch wearer instantly in multiple colors.
• Customize Watch faces to include data you desire to see when glancing at the Apple Watch.
• Customize what data you want to be notified about.
• See current weather for your location and instantly for any location you set for other areas.
• See stock quotes for companies you are following.
• Control your home security system remotely.
• Open and close your garage doors and other remotes doors.
• Use the Apple Watch as a remote shutter release for the iPhone Camera.
• Use the Apple Watch as a remote control for your AppleTV to select channels, pause, fast forward, reverse, select movies, control Netflix, etc.
• Control iHeart Radio on my iPhone and play the radio station through the Apple Watch. . . listening to Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin is cool.
• Control all of your music library and playlists from the Apple Watch, and play the music through the Apple Watch.
• Put your Apple Watch in night/privacy mode.
• Set the Apple Watch in power saving mode.
• Send your heart beat to your significant other who receives it on their Apple watch.

Contrary to what you implied in your post, most of the basic communications does not require the message recipient to have an Apple Watch, and you can communicate with any phone or standard, non-proprietary messaging system.

[Swordmaker]

Spam

Spam is advertising messaging sent to YOU that you did not request. This is a review by a known journalist which was posted and addressed in the PING with the intention of reaching the 700 Freepers who have requested information on Apple products and for them, and those who may be interested in the Apple Watch, it is not spam.

You may move on to the thousands of other non-Apple threads on Freerepublic without bothering to read or comment on this article.

[Swordmaker]

I am well aware of this numbskull’s yogurt timeline. Now he can set his Apple watch to kick his arse if he hasn’t eaten yogurt for in the last nine hours. A great leap forward for the left half of the bell curve.

Your post showed you were not aware of when he started his yogurt diet and when he bought his Apple Watch. That indicated a lack of reading comprehension. You wanted to denigrate the writer and the Apple product. . . showing your fellow Apple-Hate Brigade Members your wit but instead showed you have only half of one.

[dennisw]

I was well aware and decided to have a little fun on the fanbois account. Thanks for playing. bzzzzzzzzzt!

[MacMattico]

That this is posted is funny to me because I was just at the Apple Store. Well earlier. I was waiting patiently for my turn and tried one of the watches on. As a female I thought it was kind of hideous. When they called me up to address my problem with my other device(which they promptly replaced) I noticed the employee was wearing one of the watches. I asked if they liked it. And they went on and on for 15 minutes on the fitness feature. Never said they lost a pound or that it could do anything else my phone couldn’t do. I can take care of my fitness just fine. The only people I can see really liking these are the the ones that enjoy an old school watch and don’t want to constantly have their phone with them, which I need. And as for the fitness part I’d probably break mine at the gym when I got moving. I never wore a watch to work out even before iPhones.

[cynwoody]

Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ.

Franklin Delano Beelzebub, that's who!

[kevao]

Wow, that's a lot of functionality! But with all the tasks Apple Watch has to perform, I'm concerned about the battery life. Can it replace my current watch? --

I bought this in 1993. No idea what kind of battery it uses, but as long as I give the stem two or three twist-charges every day, it keeps going like the Energizer Bunny. Haven't had to replace that battery yet!

Sometimes I forget to wind, and the battery dies, and then the watch is correct only twice per day. But after a couple stem twists, the battery is as good as new! They don't make batteries like that anymore....

I recently bought an Ipod in 2006, and that battery no longer even holds a charge! Battery quality and longevity have really gone downhill, IMO.

[Swordmaker]

Didn't you read the review?

I put my Apple Watch on when i got up this morning at about 8AM and have been using it all day, It has 48% battery life left right now at 12:39AM. I will put it back on it's charger when I go to bed in an hour or so when I go to bed. It always has more than enough to get through an entire day.

As for replacing your pictured current watch. . . not a chance. Nobody can replace a lying bastard of a watch like that.

[Swordmaker]

I was well aware and decided to have a little fun on the fanbois account. Thanks for playing. bzzzzzzzzzt!

Excuses, excuses, excuses. Doesn't hold any water around here, Dennis.

[kevao]

Nobody can replace a lying bastard of a watch like that.

That in itself is good reason to upgrade. I have to admit, when my Bill Clinton watch says, "It is 2:30pm," I'm in doubt, having echos of "depends on what the meaning of is, is." So I'm always having to consult another watch or clock anyway, just to be sure that SOB is lying again!

[Swordmaker]

The only people I can see really liking these are the the ones that enjoy an old school watch and don’t want to constantly have their phone with them, which I need.

You mis-understand. This is not a replacement for the iPhone, nor is it a merely a time piece. You still need the iPhone to use the Apple Watch.

The point is that you don't have to keep digging your phone out of your purse or pocket to check what just came in or to answer the phone when you have the Apple Watch. You can glance at it and know what just came in if you have it set that way.

My girlfriend's Apple Watch arrived a month before mine did. . . and she has found it a very useful thing to have with her. She was always missing calls because her iPhone was buried in her purse and it would be disconnected before she could even get her purse open to get the iPhone out. Often it would be a call she didn't want to answer anyway. . . but sometimes it would be a call for her work that needed to be answered RIGHT NOW. With her new Apple Watch she no longer missed any calls that, as a professional, were important. Same with texts. She saw them instantly. . . and did not have to dig her phone out. . . and could answer them right on the watch.

I can securely use ApplePay without digging my iPhone out of my pocket. Very convenient. We were on vacation last week and the hotel room worked with our iPhones and also with our Apple Watches. We did not have to stick finicky card keys in the slots several times to get the door to flash green. We just walked up to the door and it lit green as soon as we reached for the knob. It was necessary to use our left hands where the Apple Watch was but that's a mall inconvenience for a large convenience.

I have put my Rose Gold $3500 Stürhling meteorite dial mechanical watch in the jewelry box and will probably wear it only for special occasions. I like the functionality the Space Black Stainless Steel Apple Watch offers me. . . it enhances the functionality of my iPhone6, my iPad, and my MacBook Air.

[Swordmaker]

That in itself is good reason to upgrade. I have to admit, when my Bill Clinton watch says, "It is 2:30pm," I'm in doubt, having echos of "depends on what the meaning of is, is." So I'm always having to consult another watch or clock anyway, just to be sure that SOB is lying again!

Now that is truly funny. . .

[Cronos]

all hail Apple

[equaviator]

You don’t use an Apple Watch, it uses you.

[flaglady47]

Anyone, who makes a good Android version of an iWatch? Is there one out there that is as good or just about as good, or different but still good?

[WayneS]

So it is a cult.

[WayneS]

Now that is a nice watch.

[kevao]

If someone ever figures out how to load a Linux OS on the Apple Watch, I’ll be off to the Apple Store first thing.

[outofsalt]

Jim is an idiot

[IncPen]

You don’t use an Apple Watch, it uses you.

Actually, the opposite is true.

Tim Cook, Apple CEO, stated the other day that privacy, not data mining, would be Apple's top priority on all of it's devices.

With Google Android, everything is free, but you are the product. Your privacy is not their concern.

Something to think about when you download Android apps, or get that cheap phone from China.