So the UPS guy brought my Apple Watch today sometime in the early afternoon. I work from home, so I was fortunately here to receive it. I actually had a very busy day and was going to wait until after work to open the box, but my wife and son, who both had the day off of school, were both too eager to see it.
I opened it up, let them gawk at it, stuck it on the charger, and started the sync while I worked. And of course I got less work done than I was supposed to after I was done syncing it. I was too busy messing with it.
As I walked over to the pre-school to pick up my youngest son, I got a notification that the Cubs won. Awesome. When I showed him I had received my watch today, he checked it to make sure I used the Mickey Mouse face as I had been promising him. (I had, but later changed it. Too many other good options.)
I expected I would be fiddling with this thing all evening, but really by dinner time I felt like I could just let it do its thing and adjust as I go. As I was cleaning up the kitchen after dinner, my iPhone was across the room and I was pretty amazed at how easy I dealt with phone calls and texts without having to stop what I was doing. The speaker isn't super loud for phone calls, but it gets the job done in a pinch.
After dinner, we decided to have a fire and a glass of wine out in the backyard. Again, I left my iPhone on the mantle in the living room to see how things would go. I received and dealt with all my communication via my watch while sitting on the back patio. One of my kids went in to use the bathroom and left the front door open on his way out. The Alarm.com app on my watch let me know that someone had left a door open and I told them to go and shut it.
After the kids went to bed, I turned on the security system (from my watch), fired up the Apple TV (from my watch), checked Twitter (from my watch), got caught up on some shows, and here I sit. I just put the watch on the charger and it still had 21% left.
Could I have done all this stuff on my phone? Yes. Absolutely. But all the marketing about staying in the moment is not hype. It's the real deal. This is how the TYPICAL scenario would be if doing any of those things on my phone:
1. Get the Alarm.com notification.
2. Pull the phone out of my pocket.
3. Yell at the kids to shut the front door.
4. I have my phone out, might as well check Twitter.
5. I want to read this article I see on Twitter before I forget about it.
6. A text came in better answer that.
etc.
Before I know it, I've been on my iPhone for 10 minutes, and my wife is glaring at me by the time I put it back in my pocket. With the watch, half the time she barely realized I was even doing anything.
I opened it up, let them gawk at it, stuck it on the charger, and started the sync while I worked. And of course I got less work done than I was supposed to after I was done syncing it. I was too busy messing with it.
As I walked over to the pre-school to pick up my youngest son, I got a notification that the Cubs won. Awesome. When I showed him I had received my watch today, he checked it to make sure I used the Mickey Mouse face as I had been promising him. (I had, but later changed it. Too many other good options.)
I expected I would be fiddling with this thing all evening, but really by dinner time I felt like I could just let it do its thing and adjust as I go. As I was cleaning up the kitchen after dinner, my iPhone was across the room and I was pretty amazed at how easy I dealt with phone calls and texts without having to stop what I was doing. The speaker isn't super loud for phone calls, but it gets the job done in a pinch.
After dinner, we decided to have a fire and a glass of wine out in the backyard. Again, I left my iPhone on the mantle in the living room to see how things would go. I received and dealt with all my communication via my watch while sitting on the back patio. One of my kids went in to use the bathroom and left the front door open on his way out. The Alarm.com app on my watch let me know that someone had left a door open and I told them to go and shut it.
After the kids went to bed, I turned on the security system (from my watch), fired up the Apple TV (from my watch), checked Twitter (from my watch), got caught up on some shows, and here I sit. I just put the watch on the charger and it still had 21% left.
Could I have done all this stuff on my phone? Yes. Absolutely. But all the marketing about staying in the moment is not hype. It's the real deal. This is how the TYPICAL scenario would be if doing any of those things on my phone:
1. Get the Alarm.com notification.
2. Pull the phone out of my pocket.
3. Yell at the kids to shut the front door.
4. I have my phone out, might as well check Twitter.
5. I want to read this article I see on Twitter before I forget about it.
6. A text came in better answer that.
etc.
Before I know it, I've been on my iPhone for 10 minutes, and my wife is glaring at me by the time I put it back in my pocket. With the watch, half the time she barely realized I was even doing anything.