Do you like your watch?
Can you live without it?
Is it a cool functional gadget?
Would you buy it again if you could build a delorean with a flux capacitor?
It's ok.
Yes. Have done it twice already and am still not using the 3rd one I have, yet.
It's ok.
Don't know.
As I've posted elsewhere, I bought one (38 mm Space Gray Sport black band) to try for 2 weeks and if I didn't like it, I'd sell it for a slight profit or return it. It was sold for a $40 profit on the last day I could return it.
I ordered another to basically do that same for another 2 weeks. It got sold before the 14 days, again for $40 profit. There weren't that many responses in either case.
I ordered another and immediately put it up for sale... No takers and it's still unopened. Will open it soon and still leave it up for sale. I guess I'm keeping it, but never felt it was really worth ~$380 ($349 + tax for me). If it was $150, it's a no brainer, I'd keep it. I don't plan to sell an almost new watch at a loss though.
A bunch of folks at my work have them. I spoke to one person today who has a 42 mm Sport and she said she loves it but also admits, she doesn't feel it's worth the price Apple's charging ($400 + tax, in her case).
If you care,
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...g-about-getting-rid-of.1888823/#post-21397096 has more of my thoughts on this.
Here are some gripes of mine that I wrote elsewhere PRIOR to WWDC. These are just disappointments/gripes, not the primary reasons:
Some of my gripes and disappointments below:
- some apps are just slow
- some apps have content problems, like CNN. It's crazy that in some news sections which show only a few top stories/headines, that some of the articles are weeks old.
- some notifications from apps are just disappointing (e.g. You have message from WeChat but not the message itself!)
- some apps are just crap and/or buggy, including crash prone
- most (news) apps let you view very little on watch itself. You end up having to use your phone.
- why is it that the stock complication won't auto-rotate thru stock symbols? My MSN Direct Watch would auto-rotate thru a set of symbols.
- sport band is still tricky to put on at the right level of tightness, compared to traditional bands w/buckles on my every watch I've worn
I'd imagine that Apple had a much bigger feature list but had to cut it down to get out the door. Clearly, it's a v1 product. Some still will probably be improved, over time.
I am also skeptical about how accurately it can count steps, given I type so much of the day.