It just wasn't useful for my day to day life.
It was easier just to look at my phone basically
If you've always got your phone in hand or nearby on the table, yes, it's easier (or at least just as easy). When I'm sitting at my computer—which is logged into my iCloud account and gets texts and calls, too—and my phone is next to it on the table, I hardly use my AW at all.
But whenever I'm
not at my computer, like if I'm walking to work or school, or when I'm out shopping with my wife, or if I just don't need to carry my phone all over the apartment like a favorite toy ... that's when I use my AW the most.
I can point to two separate occasions when it made its strongest case:
- The first time I walked home from work and carried my iPhone in my gym bag, using the watch to send and receive texts from my wife. Short texts, like, "Hey Siri, tell my wife I'm on my way home," "Need anything from the market?", etc, and honestly, not enough to require typing them on an entire smartphone. I've never felt comfortable walking and typing (I spend enough time dodging around
other people as they walk-and-type, fer christ's sakes), so it was really nice to just fire off a quick text without breaking stride.
- Going Christmas shopping with my wife, while carrying my phone just in case I started getting messages from work, I realized I was becoming one of those husbands who'd follow around, face buried in a phone, browsing Facebook or playing Candy Crush. So, I put my phone in
her purse. I didn't have to worry about missing any messages (indeed, I got a couple, and they only needed me to reply with "OK"), and I had a nice day of shopping
with my wife -- participating with her, spending quality time with her, which I wasn't able to do for most of the week.
There are a bunch of apps I use now and then, and the watch has some unique tricks, but the best thing about it for me is that it lets me put away the phone without isolating myself from the people who need to reach me.
