It may have been mentioned already but as far as the instructions go they link you to instruction videos as you are setting up your watch. Could not get much easier than this.
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I’m sorry, Apple Watch
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Bought my 42mm sport off a friend for $300 and I haven't had any buyer's remorse or regrets. I don't think I'd enjoy it as much if I had paid full retail, but this is a pretty nifty device. But I went into it knowing the limitations, and that's probably why I'm able to just enjoy the thing.
Some of your points are extremely valid, but you seem to have too high of expectations for a wearable. The Apple Watch isn't intended to replace your iPhone, and that's where I think some people get frustrated.
Some of your points are extremely valid, but you seem to have too high of expectations for a wearable. The Apple Watch isn't intended to replace your iPhone, and that's where I think some people get frustrated.
This. There is also a user manual you can download from the iBook store.
My $600 mistake was returned after just 6 days. The Apple Watch is poorly constructed, the UI is half baked. The device is an over hyped, grossly over priced, trinket, child's toy. The Apple Watch is a disgrace to the Apple brand.
...that you bought because you had to have it. You should stop trying to make yourself feel better about your decision to return it.
The lady doth protest too much, methinks...
The taps on the wrist in-car are genius, and allow for head-up ("eyes free") navigation. If anything it's safer than a traditional sat nav. Pretty dumb to be blaming Apple for a lack of attention while driving, when they're offering something that enables it.
I'd hate to see a child try to use it if the OP can't even figure out how to use the digital crown.
Let's see:
Speaker: needs improvement. Can’t be used to play music? - Even if it could why would you? Do you walk around playing music on your iPhone speaker? not trying to sound like a dick but I'm just curious.
Battery: barely has enough to get through a day if you use it for more than timekeeping too often - Many of us do not have this problem. Mine goes easily 1.5 days of use on 1 charge if I let it but I charge it every night where Im at 65% battery left after 12 or more hours.
The price, Apple seems to just trying to get paid for 3 years of extensive R&D, and a very expensive marketing campaign. - $350.00 for a Smart watch that has activity tracking features is not all that outrageous. A Fitbit Surge is $250.00 and does less. (Sorry you live in Australia where everything is expensive).
Radio radiation: I'm not sure having streaming Bluetooth antennas pressed into your wrist is adding to my health -With all the radio waves we are bombarded with daily at every coffee shop and public place you're concerned with the radiation from a smart watch?
Marketing mails: Days after purchasing the watch, Apple keeps sending email to point out things you can do with it. Including Apple Pay (nope not here) - So you're complaining that the Apple watch didn't come with a manual and yet when Apple e-mails you material on what the watch can do you're complaining about that?
Cut the price in half. Get it to work at least one week on one charge - Already been done. It's called a Pebble Watch.
Some of you points have merit. The rest is fluff fueled by hatred of the product you are not forced to purchase.
P.S. Tim Cook doesn't read Mac Rumors. He's too busy running a successful company.
It's hilarious reading all of these comments! Really. How do people say this kind of stuff and actually mean it? I understand if you don't like the Watch because of its limitations or whatever, but complaining on the Internet that the Watch is a failure and will not make it in the market is just stupid. May I remind everyone that in 2010, the iPad was supposed to be "Apple's biggest flop in recent history" it's safe to be you probably own/have owned an iPad.
IT IS A FIRST GENERATION DEVICE RUNNING FIRST GENERATION SOFTWARE. WE HAVE ONLY HAD ONE SOFTWARE UPDATE SO FAR AND IT WAS A MINOR BUG FIX.
So my point is, wearable smart devices as a whole have only been a big thing for a short time. If you expect any company, including Apple, to make the best thing ever created in just a couple of years, you're crazy. It takes many years of analyzing the market and finding out what does and doesn't work. There will eventually be a market for the Watch just like there is for the "iPhone - a computer in your pocket" and the "iPad - just a bigger iPod"
Until then, the Watch is really for those who want the next big thing in technology and understand it takes time to make things perfect. Those are the type of people who love the Watch.
IT IS A FIRST GENERATION DEVICE RUNNING FIRST GENERATION SOFTWARE. WE HAVE ONLY HAD ONE SOFTWARE UPDATE SO FAR AND IT WAS A MINOR BUG FIX.
So my point is, wearable smart devices as a whole have only been a big thing for a short time. If you expect any company, including Apple, to make the best thing ever created in just a couple of years, you're crazy. It takes many years of analyzing the market and finding out what does and doesn't work. There will eventually be a market for the Watch just like there is for the "iPhone - a computer in your pocket" and the "iPad - just a bigger iPod"
Until then, the Watch is really for those who want the next big thing in technology and understand it takes time to make things perfect. Those are the type of people who love the Watch.
All of the OP's comments may make perfect sense in the context of his/her individual expectations and circumstances, except the question of value for money.
It's hard to take seriously anyone who returns an Apple watch because it turned out to be poor value for money. It's not as if the actual cost to buy it was not known before purchase, or very detailed descriptions - even videos - of exactly what the watch could do and how it does it. If a decision to purchase was still made despite this information, it's not a question of whether the watch really is good value or not, it's the decision making skills of the purchaser.
In the case of the Apple watch in particular, value isn't just about what you take out of the box and power up - because this is a software driven device, it can, in theory, be made to do countless things we can barely imagine right now. It's hard to see how a computer with far, far more power than went to the moon and yet is right at the starting line of possibilities, could be called poor value for money at the entry price of a Sport edition.
It's hard to take seriously anyone who returns an Apple watch because it turned out to be poor value for money. It's not as if the actual cost to buy it was not known before purchase, or very detailed descriptions - even videos - of exactly what the watch could do and how it does it. If a decision to purchase was still made despite this information, it's not a question of whether the watch really is good value or not, it's the decision making skills of the purchaser.
In the case of the Apple watch in particular, value isn't just about what you take out of the box and power up - because this is a software driven device, it can, in theory, be made to do countless things we can barely imagine right now. It's hard to see how a computer with far, far more power than went to the moon and yet is right at the starting line of possibilities, could be called poor value for money at the entry price of a Sport edition.
How is that name-calling? The only way that the watch would cause an accident is if the haptic taps startle you. If you get startled by the haptic taps, then you startle easily.
The taps have never come close to startling me, except for one time when I was falling asleep with the watch on. But when I am awake, the taps are so subtle that there is no way they are going to scare someone into crashing a car unless that person is hypersensitive.
I mean, if you consider my comment to be "name calling", maybe you are a little sensitive.
Come on, don't hold back. Tell us what you really think.
So you weren't smart enough to identify all these shortcomings in advance of your purchase, but saw the light six days later? I have no problem with anyone who decides that the AW doesn't suit them for whatever reason, but your generalization flies in the face of the many people who are using the watch productively.
By the way, I don't know how much personal experience you have with other Apple products, although your pronouncement about the AW being a disgrace implies that you do. If so, you may recall the days when the Macintosh was called a toy by its detractors.
Yes, exactly.
Probably not this year.
It's inevitable by looking at the other product lines.
Once there is a lower entry level AW, it will be favored by those that would choose a lower cost wearable.
Fitbit will dominate the entry level fitness tracking until it is squeezed at both ends of the pricing spectrum.
Apple will dominate the upper, more profitable segment for years.
I do wonder if Apple cares about the market were companies buy wearables for their employees:
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In 2013, about 2,000 companies offered their employees fitness trackers, according to technology research company Gartner. In 2014, this rose to around 10,000.
By 2016, the firm predicts that most large companies - those with more than 500 employees - in both the US and Western Europe will offer fitness trackers with their programmes."
Interesting fun game.
I'm thrilled with my AW experience and, in some cases, has already saved my relationships.
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Ah, the memories! That's precisely what I thought of the first Macintosh.
If only people bothered to RTFM when they put down this kind of money on something.
Even though people doubted the iPad when it was announced, those doubts vanished as soon as people got their hands on one. That's not happening with the Apple Watch, in fact it's almost the opposite. People are giving it a try believing that its going to be some kind of revolutionary device and they are underwhelmed when they finally get one. Yeah it's only a first gen product but that's no excuse when you advertise it like it's the next big thing and charge a ridiculous price. Will it get better with Apple Watch 2? Probably. But it's not going to become a hit like the iPod, iPhone or iPad. This is just another example of how Apple without Steve Jobs just can't get it right.
Your statement "...in fact it's almost the opposite" is based on what reliable evidence? Please don't tell me it has anything to do with forum posts from people complaining about the watch.
How did this idea ever become a reality, that Steve Jobs is the only person at Apple to have ever created anything, and that without him, the creative process is gone? It's absolutely absurd.
Should we also disregard all the posts from people saying they love their Apple Watch?
Obviously he didn't create everything himself, but he was the leader of the ship. Steve had very high standards and demanded excellence from anyone who worked under him. As a result of that, when Apple did create a new product it was usually done right.
I agree. Apple still makes excellent products, but there are many small details that feel unpolished. I can't help feeling that Steve would have demanded everyone stay and work until these details were fixed just right, but now they tend to stop just before that final little push.
As a representative sample of the user base? Yes, yes we should. Forums do not represent the user base, and gleaning meaningful data one way or the other from them is useless.
No doubt Steve Jobs had a big influence, but it wasn't always good. The original iPhone was far from "done right," and before you say it was a new product that led the way to where we are now, so is the Apple Watch and it too will likely lead the way in wearable Apple tech. And as far as demanding excellence goes, to this day my iCloud email notifications do not clear from the iPhone or iPad after reading the email on other devices. I have read for years that plenty of people see the same behavior, and yet Apple seems to ignore the issue time and time again. Additionally, I have an old Apple Watch Sport that shows up under my devices on iCloud.com, and although there is an option to delete it, I get an error message that the request can't be processed (or some such notification). When I call Apple about the issue, I am told that perhaps it will just disappear one day. Not exactly excellence as far as I'm concerned.
Apple has always had issues. They had them with Steve Jobs (and some because of Steve Jobs) and will continue to have them under current and future leadership.