My Series 0 might as well be a paper weight...

[robbietop]

Okay,

1. The throttling is done to stop the device from randomly resetting due to a power draw failure. So take your pick. Do you want a device rebooting randomly all day? Or do you want a device that may throttle intense applications such as games? Seriously, it's not throttling your damned email program or your Facebook app (unless video is playing). It's not throttling on Safari unless a video is playing. And it's not actually going to cause a performance issue. Only reason someone noticed is because they're anal retentive and ran the completely misleading Benchmarking apps.
   1. From a benchmarking perspective, the iPhone X outperforms the Samsung Galaxy S8, despite the S8 having more powerful specifications (more cores, more RAM, faster buses, etc). Don't trust this throttling nonsense, it's a money scam to profit off of lawsuits. The throttling has been going on for over a year and a half and no one even noticed the damn thing until someone ran a benchmarking app and noticed a power fluctuation at peak performance (a use case no actual user will ever achieve).
2. Second, what if Apple is throttling the Apple Watch 0? Who cares? It was underpowered from day one, just like the iPhone 2g. It is a launch prototype, just like Apple always does. Throttling may be necessary to maintain a charge in the clock and CPU. It's not gonna make the Watch 0 any more a pain in the ass to load native apps than it already was (a complete pain, at that.)
3. If you have an issue with it not functioning as an iPhone on your wrist, maybe remember it has a 38-42 mm screen and was never intended to replace the phone in the first place. Your misguided expectations that the Watch is more than an iPhone accessory are what is causing your obsessive angst. The Watch has NEVER been designed or intended to operate independently of the iPhone, hence why YOU ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE AN iPHONE to set the thing up.
4. The iPhone 2G had terrible battery life and the battery life improved over successive models. I remembe rhaving to charge my original iPhone 2 to 3 times a day depending on how many calls I was making. If you have an issue with battery life on a LAUNCH product, maybe you shouldn't be buying devices on day one and waiting a couple of years for the product to mature.

 

[b0fh666]

interesting anecdotal evidence... or not.

my SS S0 was giving me ****** battery life, so I decided to kill it by swimming with the thing in my wrist for an hour.
it survived, but a few hours later bluetooth died - would not connect to the phone anymore even after a bunch of restarts - wifi was OK.
so I decided to give it the silica gel treatment for 2 days... picked it up today in the morning and all was working again... and guess what, battery life seems to have improved a lot.

go figure.

 

[Tapiture]

Mine’s still chugging along pretty well. Siri isn’t as quick as I’d like but I’m not as bad off as some here describe.

 

[1rottenapple]

So why exactly is my logic "skewed" when Apple just admitted they throttle iPhones with aged batteries? I never had any issues until Watch OS 4. It's crazy to think a device I bought 2.5 years ago can no longer perform functions it could less than 6 months ago.

Exactly. Apple ****ed their reputation and they can never get it back for some people. I know for me I am wary now in terms of updating. Which is something I never did before.

 

[sean000]

Mine’s still chugging along pretty well. Siri isn’t as quick as I’d like but I’m not as bad off as some here describe.

Same here. I’ve applied all the updates and most of the functionality is just fine. Siri is the most frustrating part. She just doesn’t respond to commands as quickly. Of course it’s not as responsive in general as it used to be, but I’ve worn it every day since July 2015 and still have 25% battery left at the end of most days.

 

[imola.zhp]

I'm on 4.2.2 on my 14 month old S0, seems to be working about the same as it always has.

I've had it on for 5 hours now including a 40 minute workout and I'm still at 84% on the battery. Makes it through the day just find, same for my better half's 25 month old S0.

 

[b0fh666]

I'm on 4.2.2 on my 14 month old S0, seems to be working about the same as it always has.

I've had it on for 5 hours now including a 40 minute workout and I'm still at 84% on the battery. Makes it through the day just find, same for my better half's 25 month old S0.

powe savings on the workout app enabled?

 

[imola.zhp]

powe savings on the workout app enabled?

Nope

 

[Morphinius]

My Apple Watch Series 0 was extremely slow opening up the workout app after upgrading to Watch OS 4.2. It would take about 7 to 10 seconds. In fact, most of the Apple apps were extremely unresponsive including the timer (this may have applied to the non-Apple apps, too, but I don't use them as much). However, last night I updated to 4.2.2 and so far they all open as fast as they did with OS 3. My battery life is not as good as when I first purchased it (I ordered one the first night they were available), but it gets through the whole day. When I add a 30-40 minutes workout it lowers it, but still makes it to 2100-2200.