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Funny, I was EXACTLY like you! <grin> I love Apple products, but I don't want something on my wrist; especially when I have an iPhone already... and then this happened:
About 7 months ago I was trying to loose some weight, but because of my age I thought "I better start out slowly then build back up to my 26 mile bike ride every morning" routine. I took 2 years off working out because my roommate had his foot amputated and what would I do if I got hit by a car - no one to come get me or my bike. So I signed up for iTunes Match for my massive music library so I wouldn't have to remember to download music each day and off I went. I walked 4 miles every morning and six miles every night for a month before jumping back on my bike (my friend has his prosthetic by then).
During this month, a few days into it I asked my roommate if I could borrow his AppleWatch. I was just mildly curious just how much work I was doing in fact. I was really surprised to see in just the first 30 minutes of my morning walk the activity circled closed. By night time it had gone around 4 or 5 times. <LOL>. I also started entering in my food intake using LOOSE IT. Again, I was just mildly interested in my calorie intake vs my movement. Interest level on both on a scale of 1-10? I gave it a 2.
Those two things probably would have sealed the deal, then this happened:
I do play by play score calling for the local high school. I do football and basketball, We do as many "away" games as we do home games. I use AppleMaps, because it does a great job steering me around traffic, as some of the away games are 45 minutes in all directions. I forgot to give my roommate back his watch one night, entered in the destination to an away game into my iPhone and off I went. Keep in mind, I know where all these schools are after 20 years, but AppleMaps, along with ADOT (Arizona Dept Of Transportation) does a great job steering me around accidents, heavy traffic and other "live" events. Every time I was to make a turn or merge on to an exit ramp or anything really, the AppleWatch gave 4 strong pulses. That obviously made me look and because my hands are already on the steering wheel I "glanced" (I hate that buzz word). Holy crap. It showed a big ass BLUE ARROW, pointing the direction of the next move (along with aprox. feet - no street name at all) all without talking through my Trucks speakers via bluetooth and stopping my music or conversation in the truck with friends. And as the actual "turn" was to physically happen, again without disturbing the entire truck's participants, 2 more strong pulses. I thought "This is really cool." No more trying to look at my iPhone (which is usually in my pocket anyway). No more trying to hear over everyone talking. No more "2 second mute" during music playback.
OK for sure this would have sold me, then came the text messages:
While driving people would text me. Without trying to get my phone out or worse: my truck trying to record my voice over all the talking in the truck when I hit the "MIC" icon to "text back", I simply clicked the "mic" on the watch sitting right under the message and spoke in a normal voice never taking my hands of the steering wheel, taking to my watch. OK that was weird for sure, but surprisingly 99% accurate. WTF? My iPhone can't even do that without messing things up. seriously? The watch did SIRI better? Go figure.
OK Sold. I went and bought my own watch.
Seriously, I don't know anyway to explain "I am right with you on this one guy - no watch for me"... but these three unrelated things sold me and I'm so glad I did it. Maybe you don't do these things (well I'm sure you at least text), maybe some of these you do, but these were NOT things Apple used to try to sell the watch to my friend when he bought his, so I'm passing them on to you.
Joseph