I went from a S3 to a S4 and the screen increase was dramatic (to me). Before my S3 I hadn't worn a watch for 10+ years and wasn't sure if I could get used to it again. Took me about a week. I relate to so much of what you said!
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The Apple Watch Launched Four Years Ago Today
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I went from a S3 to a S4 and the screen increase was dramatic (to me). Before my S3 I hadn't worn a watch for 10+ years and wasn't sure if I could get used to it again. Took me about a week. I relate to so much of what you said!
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Watch! And thank you Tim Cook, for taking a gamble on digital watches and creating one for us Apple Cultists. I have loved many Apple products, but the watch is in my top 5, maybe at the very top. I got an S0 on launch day and wore it daily for 3.5 years, up to when I finally exchanged it for this year’s latest model. Being a very forgetful person, I love my watch most of all for tapping me on the wrist with appointment reminders and to-do’s, and, using the timer, when to take a batch of cookies out of the oven, or catch a bus. I love that my watch lets me see who is calling or check a text without dragging out my phone—or needing the phone to ping, ring or make any other noises—without having to hold the phone, which, all too often, has slipped out of my hand (or been left forgotten on a table!). And I especially love how I only have to twist my wrist to check a grocery list or to pay for those groceries, or shoes, or coffee, or lunch! Or to scan plane or movie tickets. As if all this wasn’t enough, my watch monitors my exercise and my health. And, of course, it lets me know the time and the weather.
And yes, I like being able to switch out watch bands depending on where I’m going and what I’m doing.
I use it every hour of every day for a dozen different things; if I took a step out the door without it on my wrist, I’d go back to get it. Yes, yes, I know the watch isn’t for everyone, and that it wasn’t, like the phone, a break-out, world changing invention. But it’s made my life better, and I’m so, so very glad it’s still around and likely to be around for many, many more years.
Watch! And thank you Tim Cook, for taking a gamble on digital watches and creating one for us Apple Cultists. I have loved many Apple products, but the watch is in my top 5, maybe at the very top. I got an S0 on launch day and wore it daily for 3.5 years, up to when I finally exchanged it for this year’s latest model. Being a very forgetful person, I love my watch most of all for tapping me on the wrist with appointment reminders and to-do’s, and, using the timer, when to take a batch of cookies out of the oven, or catch a bus. I love that my watch lets me see who is calling or check a text without dragging out my phone—or needing the phone to ping, ring or make any other noises—without having to hold the phone, which, all too often, has slipped out of my hand (or been left forgotten on a table!). And I especially love how I only have to twist my wrist to check a grocery list or to pay for those groceries, or shoes, or coffee, or lunch! Or to scan plane or movie tickets. As if all this wasn’t enough, my watch monitors my exercise and my health. And, of course, it lets me know the time and the weather.And yes, I like being able to switch out watch bands depending on where I’m going and what I’m doing.
I use it every hour of every day for a dozen different things; if I took a step out the door without it on my wrist, I’d go back to get it. Yes, yes, I know the watch isn’t for everyone, and that it wasn’t, like the phone, a break-out, world changing invention. But it’s made my life better, and I’m so, so very glad it’s still around and likely to be around for many, many more years.
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Yeah, it makes sense. Nonetheless, the series 1 was simply the original apple watch with a newer processor to address the user complaints about the OG being too slow.
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Like iJustine. She’s loaded, yet she gets the newest iphones for free every year for review a few days before launch day while thousands of people spend the night outside the apple stores or premium reseller stores to get one (though, to her credit, Justine did have to do that more than once back in the day before she started getting free iphones).
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Yeah, I get how you feel. I’ve felt the same every time I have use my apple watch to pay for stuff here in Mexico for the last three years (before even Samsung Pay launched), where apple pay isn’t available yet nor are there any signs of it coming in the near future.
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The software does work. Remember that the OG apple watch, including its gold version, got upgrades up until watchOS 4.2, which already offers many if not most of the features found in the current software version (watchOS 5), so it’s still somewhat functional for now. Besides, the case is made of gold so it makes it a rare collectible (or will make it in the future)
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I’d say OG and series 1 would be of the same generation, since they’re both essentially the same except for the processor (because people complained the OG was too damn slow, apple updated its processor and called it series 1 instead of just leaving the OG in the lineup unchanged as the “cheap” option)
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From the original, even the series 4 is a worthy update. I did it and I really felt the difference from one to the other. Not to mention that the S0 no longer gets software updates.I am still wearing the original (S0) every day. But at this point I MIGHT be tempted to upgrade to S5 this fall
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I suggest you do upgrade. From series 0 to series 4 it’s really worth it. And if you do use apple pay, you may want to know that watchOS 5 (not available for series 0, so you’d need to upgrade) enabled the recent transaction list and push notifications for purchases made using the apple watch, just like we’ve had them in the wallet app for years for purchases made using the iphone.
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It’s a lot more valuable if they get papped holding an iPhone than you or I. It’s the same reason the Royal family and British government get free Range Rovers and Jaguars. It’s all about exposure and marketing.
To me, the Apple Watch marks the cutoff point where Apple went from making products that were truly game-changing and perfectly designed and executed for their intended market, to making less compelling and more disjointed products. It's the start of the less focussed, more generic big corporate version of Apple.
They've sold in big volume to existing iPhone users, but not moved the needle anywhere near as much as intended.
I had a couple when they came out and they never felt like an Apple product to me - that special "something" was missing.
They've sold in big volume to existing iPhone users, but not moved the needle anywhere near as much as intended.
I had a couple when they came out and they never felt like an Apple product to me - that special "something" was missing.
"Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. And Apple has been – well, first of all, one’s very fortunate if you get to work on just one of these in your career." ~Steve Jobs
Opening to his introduction of the iPhone. He goes on to say that Apple has been lucky to have introduced two such (iPhone about to be the third). The Mac & the iPod. The Mac came out in 1984, the iPod in 2001 and iPhone in 2007. Consider how many years those jumps were from one revolutionary product to the next and how "fortunate" Apple was to come up with JUST ONE of those.
The point, made so eloquently by Steve Jobs here, is that you can’t assume a game-changing company has lost its mojo because its products aren’t shaking up the planet each and every year (Apple was, after all dismissed in exactly the same way that you're dismissing it all through the 90's as a has-been, never going to shake up the world again. And then the iPod appeared, proving everyone wrong). Maybe Apple needs 17 years from iPhone to that next game-changing product, just like it needed from Mac to iPod.
Which brings us back to the watch; if you were expecting it to bring an explosion of change like the iPhone, then there was no way you were going to be anything but disappointed. Inventions that hit the market like the iPhone are, as Jobs points out, rare birds that cannot and do not appear often or on demand. The watch, however, is changing how we monitor and treat our health. That's a much slower and quieter change. I may be mistaken, but I think you're being premature in saying that the watch indicated that Apple was no longer a revolutionary company. I think we'll look back on the watch, and realize that it was a game changer, just in a far gentler way than the iPhone.
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