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The merged "I returned/sold my Apple Watch because..." thread
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I can see why you'd want to take them back spending over $800...that could buy some Apple TVs for the house or even an iPad Pro if you wanted one.
A friend can't even get his phone to load OS 2. It just freezes on 54 minutes left on his phone. He gave up on it.
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Most of us don't want to rely on a watch to answer emails, take all phone calls, surf the web, etc., so we still need our phones with us, either way. That's why a small and relatively unobtrusive watch that is simply a gatekeeper for our phone makes more sense, at least with current display tech.
That being said, if the Apple Watch had 3G capability, and it didn't change the form of the 38mm Watch, I'd likely welcome it, for those odd times I'd use it.
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Mines going back. Its the biggest waste of £300+ I've ever spent on an Apple device. It's not a finished product yet and I'm not sure how it will ever be anything but a gimmick/luxury product.
Looking forward to getting my money back.
Looking forward to getting my money back.
I could not agree more! Just like the iPad Mini 1...took it back and didn't care for it, but loved the iPad Mini 2. However I don't know if I'd ever see a need for a watch.
Wow, you guys are having the complete opposite experience that we are. I actually bought my wife an Omega watch for our anniversary in May, and, since we both started wearing our Apple Watches a month ago, we haven't touched our mechanicals, and I'm kind of wishing that I just bought us the Apple Watches in May, in the first place.
I guess it just depends on expectations. I only ever say the Watch as a replacement for a regular watch that gives me an easy way to check/screen calls, texts, emails, and a few other things like the weather. I also wanted basic health tracking functions.
The top three things in real estate is location, location, location. If you are talking about location on your arm to be a good seller in the millions, you can't be ugly, ugly, ugly.
I think it would be great to have gps and maybe even the ability to hold a sim and be a phone but if it is bigger than the current Apple Watch it won't sell. The watch has to stay relatively small and slim and it definitely can't wrap around the wrist and sell well.
The Apple Watch has sold quite well and about 5-10 times more than the gear because it looks good and does a lot of things while still looking nice professional. It still needs to do a lot more to sell even more but the gear is too ugly and big to be a viable rival. Others are doing well. Gear is UGLY
My SS 42mm will be sold on Craig's List this weekend. Not really like the fitness aspects and back to wearing my Charge HR. The AW is a nice device but not nice enough to replace my fitness device.
I hear you! I've got a 46mm Hamilton Pilot automatic watch.....which I love and will NEVER sell....but I'm going to have to figure out exactly how to keep it in the "rotation" since the AW came along. These AW's are addictive!!
I thought the watched look cool and practical. But in reality, it was just a notification holder for me, as I didn't use any of the health benefits. And so Id use my watch to check the notifications, but had to pull my phone out anyway to do anything related to it. It just seemed lacking to me. If it didn't rely on the iPhone, maybe it would've been another story. When Im at the park, I leave my phone in the car. The range of the connectivity didn't go far at all. Same with work. I leave my phone at my desk and walk across the building. It just didn't make sense for me to own one. So I sold it and got most of my money back 
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ive been all over, up and down this Apple Watch forum reading pros and cons and about people's experiences just to gauge weather or not to get an Apple Watch.
I want one but now that I've read so many comments from people returning and seeing all the feedback it sounds like the space gray stainless steel and even normal stainless steel have the housing scratched really easily and seems like the black SS had cheap paint cuz i hear so many stories of how easily it wears and tears.
I'd get the sport but a ton of people say the ion glass scratches very easily.
So it's either a scratched up glass face or a scratched up body. I don't want either.
I played with one in the Apple Store and was shocked how slow things loaded. Like unbelievably slow.
I know there's OS2 now so maybe things changed.
I tried one on at the Apple Store and was shocked at how light weight it is. I really liked how it felt on my wrist. It looks beautiful. I still want one but now I might wait for gen 2 but who knows when that will be. I doubt it'll be next year like some people are speculating.
We'll see .
I want one but now that I've read so many comments from people returning and seeing all the feedback it sounds like the space gray stainless steel and even normal stainless steel have the housing scratched really easily and seems like the black SS had cheap paint cuz i hear so many stories of how easily it wears and tears.
I'd get the sport but a ton of people say the ion glass scratches very easily.
So it's either a scratched up glass face or a scratched up body. I don't want either.
I played with one in the Apple Store and was shocked how slow things loaded. Like unbelievably slow.
I know there's OS2 now so maybe things changed.
I tried one on at the Apple Store and was shocked at how light weight it is. I really liked how it felt on my wrist. It looks beautiful. I still want one but now I might wait for gen 2 but who knows when that will be. I doubt it'll be next year like some people are speculating.
We'll see .
Stainless steel always scratches like crazy, whether it's an Apple Watch or a Rolex, but that's just part of the deal with any nice watch.
There's a Space Gray Sport (aluminum), and the Space Black Stainless Steel. I don't have a Sport, so I don't know about those. I haven't heard of anyone's SBSS chipping or anything (outside of some link bracelets wearing in odd places, which Apple is hopefully remedying); I have one and it's proven to be extremely durable - case and link bracelet - with zero nicks, dings, or scratches in 5 months of daily use and military life. Not sure how many "so many" is for you, but just offering my experience.
As for apps, yes, wOS2 improved almost everything... but it's still not going to change some people's minds on the usefulness of the thing.
Awesome to hear some positive feedback. The "so many" for me was basically a couple comments on different forums and pictures from Amazon reviews on spigen cases for the watch which ended up running the cost off of the SBSS or so they claim. Maybe they had a fake one. Maybe they played hot potato with it in the parking lot and claimed the case did it. Who knows.
I think I'm gonna save up and get one cuz I've been thinking long enough and yeah all things considered I still want one. So that settles it then.
Glad to hear yours is holding up great.
In a nutshell, pick your poison:
- The Sport's finish has the potential to chip and scratch, and the ION-X glass is more likely to scratch, but it is lighter weight, less expensive and the glass is less likely to shatter.
- The stainless steel (regular) will get lots of little scratches, but they don't look bad, and it's normal for a steel watch. Plus, they can be buffed out. The sapphire is less likely to scratch, but more likely to shatter than ION-X glass.
- The stainless steel Space Black will avoid many of the little scratches that the regular stainless model may get, but, once you do get a scratch deep enough to get through the finish, it's there for good. The sapphire is less likely to scratch, but more likely to shatter than ION-X glass.
It's pretty difficult, in my experience, to get a scratch deep enough to permanently damage the DLC; it's pretty durable, but definitely not damageproof. Apple clearly had some issues with early rounds of DLC for the SBSS version - particularly (it seems) the link bracelets. That appears to have been fixed... and there now exists a SB version with a Sport Band ( for the traditional Watch price of $549/599), so there's that option as well.
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I just don't understand why you would even buy it.
If you did any kind of research at all you had to know what the hell it did or didn't do.
Space Black SS here with the black sports band, I don't baby my watches and so far not the first mark on the case or crystal. It's holding up better than I thought it would. In fact I haven't seen a Space Black SS case with the DLC damaged. Not saying it hasn't happened, just saying I haven't seen one.
Tried mine for a week and although a nice device just wasn't for me. I like the fact Apple do give time to see if it's for you.
Where I could see the benefits for many people I needed the iPhone still on to many occasions.
Where I could see the benefits for many people I needed the iPhone still on to many occasions.
I've decided to return my Space Gray 42mm Sport after almost 2 weeks with it. Don't get me wrong, it's an amazing piece of tech and I've been thoroughly pleased with it, but there are a few things working against it (for me personally).
1) While I always have the latest iPhone (6S Plus now), I'm platform agnostic. I still have my Nexus 6 and I'll be getting a Nexus 6P in a few weeks. Yes, my iPhone is usually my daily driver, but I do switch it up from time to time and having a watch that only works with one platform isn't that great of an idea, especially because...
2) At twice the price of my Pebble Time, it makes it hard to swallow. Yes, there are things I can do with the Apple Watch that I can't do (at least not right out of the box) with the Time, but for me a smartwatch is mostly a notification piece. I don't take calls on my Apple Watch, I don't respond to messages through the watch, etc. I basically use my smartwatches as a way to keep my phone silent and know whether a notification is worth pulling my phone out to respond or not.
3) The cost has made me insanely cautious and aware of where my right arm is at all time (I'm left handed). I'm a big watch person and have worn one daily for 25 years, so I know what sort of abuse they take. At the price of the Pebble Time, I'm comfortable bumping it against a wall or door because I know if I tear it up, I can run to Best Buy and buy another one without feeling too guilty. But the Apple Watch, at $400, makes me uncomfortable. Ad in the cost of AppleCare+ to protect it, and suddenly it's become as expensive as most of the smartphones I own. I don't want to have to constantly worry about tearing up my watch.
These are all my personal feelings and probably don't apply to others, so no need to rake me over the coals because I've decided to return it. I just wanted to share my experience.
1) While I always have the latest iPhone (6S Plus now), I'm platform agnostic. I still have my Nexus 6 and I'll be getting a Nexus 6P in a few weeks. Yes, my iPhone is usually my daily driver, but I do switch it up from time to time and having a watch that only works with one platform isn't that great of an idea, especially because...
2) At twice the price of my Pebble Time, it makes it hard to swallow. Yes, there are things I can do with the Apple Watch that I can't do (at least not right out of the box) with the Time, but for me a smartwatch is mostly a notification piece. I don't take calls on my Apple Watch, I don't respond to messages through the watch, etc. I basically use my smartwatches as a way to keep my phone silent and know whether a notification is worth pulling my phone out to respond or not.
3) The cost has made me insanely cautious and aware of where my right arm is at all time (I'm left handed). I'm a big watch person and have worn one daily for 25 years, so I know what sort of abuse they take. At the price of the Pebble Time, I'm comfortable bumping it against a wall or door because I know if I tear it up, I can run to Best Buy and buy another one without feeling too guilty. But the Apple Watch, at $400, makes me uncomfortable. Ad in the cost of AppleCare+ to protect it, and suddenly it's become as expensive as most of the smartphones I own. I don't want to have to constantly worry about tearing up my watch.
These are all my personal feelings and probably don't apply to others, so no need to rake me over the coals because I've decided to return it. I just wanted to share my experience.
Decided to give the watch a try again and ended up selling it, as I purchased this one 2nd hand on ebay so I couldn't return it to Apple. Found my battery barely making it through the day, texts and email consistently will murder the battery. Found the dictation not to be as stable at this point and time. Found myself using the phone moreso than the watch. I'll give it a spin again on the next version, but as this time I'll stick to rockin my watches and using my phone.
Bought one just out of curiosity. It's going back tomorrow. Way too fiddly. The sport strap is also a pain to put on. Just my opinion.
I returned my new 42mm SGS on Watch OS 1.0 back in May mainly due to price vs features.
This week I started looking around the second hand market I picked these up this morning:
42mm Space Grey, boxed with black original strap and also the Product red strap, also boxed.
Paid £250, RRP £339+£39 = £378.
38mm Rose gold sport with lavender strap.
Paid £240, RRP £299.
Combined I saved 28% off the Apple RRP in the UK, they have 11 months warranty remaining and with watch OS 2 I'm happy.
In all honesty I do think Apple got the pricing wrong with this device, I wonder if the RRP was £249 for the 42mm Sport and say £229 or £199 for the 38mm Sport people would be returning them?
This week I started looking around the second hand market I picked these up this morning:
42mm Space Grey, boxed with black original strap and also the Product red strap, also boxed.
Paid £250, RRP £339+£39 = £378.
38mm Rose gold sport with lavender strap.
Paid £240, RRP £299.
Combined I saved 28% off the Apple RRP in the UK, they have 11 months warranty remaining and with watch OS 2 I'm happy.
In all honesty I do think Apple got the pricing wrong with this device, I wonder if the RRP was £249 for the 42mm Sport and say £229 or £199 for the 38mm Sport people would be returning them?