I go for cellular, because I buy SS and have no choice! I could simply not activate it but it costs me peanuts to have it activated so I do. If they did a GPS only SS for a reduced price, I'd probably take that.
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Who else has tried multiple AWs, only to conclude that it’s not for them?
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had both versions and the cellular is the only way. I left my phone at home when just walking the dog and used it with Apple pay when taking short grocery trips. Non-cellular makes no sense to me since you have to have your phone as well so whats the point..
I'm getting the feeling that you have exaggerated expectations for the watch. It's not an amazing thing that changes how you interact with the world. That was the iPhone -- it changed everything because we now all have a computer in our pocket. But the watch isn't a computer on our wrist. It's simply too small to do everything we can do on our iPhone. Even if you get the cellular model, it's not going to be like you can leave your iPhone at home. It's good if you want to go on a run/hike/bike ride/walk the dog/run to nearby grocery store, and want to carry as little as possible with you -- you get a bare minimum communication device. Other than that, you'd want your phone with you.
As I said, the watch has been very good in motivating me to get moving more. It has changed my life, and I'm sure many other people also feel this way. That may be why you feel like you're missing out on something, because yes, some people do get something special out of the watch. For me, that was fitness, which you say you aren't interested in. And I can't think of anything else that might make the watch significant to someone.
So after 3 watches you still cannot find a use case for yourself?
the AW is not for everyone, stop trying to make it work for you and get on with life
I have an AW6, and actually do not wear it that often. But, in all honesty, that is mainly because I try to include my mechanical watches in my day to day. And, with working from home being the norm for me, I rarely leave the house. So, why put a watch on at all.
I do like the look of the AW7, mainly the 'edge-to-edge' display. But, I would have to get a very high value for my AW6, to even think about trading in/up. So, there's that...
I do like the look of the AW7, mainly the 'edge-to-edge' display. But, I would have to get a very high value for my AW6, to even think about trading in/up. So, there's that...
I’ve honestly heard people say exactly that. I never had just a gps model because I always wanted to be able to keep my phone home. Figure out what you want to accomplish with it. Then determine if the Watch can satisfy it. For me, I’m very active so it just makes sense for me to leave my phone home.
"Figure out what you want to accomplish with it" is very good advice. Once LF does that, he can then determine if the watch can accomplish his goal(s). If it can, then he need to determine if the current watch is able to do that and whether or not the problem(s) are user based, software based, or a combination thereof.
Exactly! This is a conversation I have with many of my clients when it comes to justifying purchases. Do you have a problem that “xyz” can solve? Then you have your answer.
I've had several Apple Watches and have returned, traded them in, or sold them. The only Apple Watches I prefer these days are the stainless steel or titanium models because they feel more premium and less like toy gadgets, but those are also the most expensive and harder to justify the cost. I've never been 100% satisfied with them. Ideally I'd like some device that can give me all of the health and fitness data that an Apple Watch can without a screen that still looks nice and syncs and presents in an Apple way on my iPhone, but I haven't found anything that works for me that meets this criteria. Aside from the easily swappable bands, I do prefer mechanical watches because of no daily charging, the depth of the dial, the being able to switch between them depending on dress/occasion. So you're not alone as I've wafted fore and aft over whether the device is right for me, too.
I use my Apple Watch for quick tasks that are more convenient compared to pulling out my iPhone.
1) Notifications.
2) Dictating quick messages via iMessage and siri.
3) Controlling music playback
4) Quick actions via shortcuts (mostly accessing playlists, calling people and composing canned messages)
5) Apple Pay (especially now with masks making Face ID inconvenient to use outdoors)
6) Siri for quick actions like calculating the price of a product after discount.
7) Quick glance at info (eg: retrieving a password via 1password)
8) Unlocking my iphone
There’s no one dealbreaker for me, but a lot of nice little conveniences. And hey, if I am going to wear a watch, may as well wear one with the most features, no?
It’s funny, because I replaced my Series 4 (which I’d had for 2 years, coming off 2 years of Series 1) with a large Seiko dive watch.
It doesn’t look like it, but the sticker price on it is higher than the base Watch models. But I like having something that looks more functional than glitzy.
I agree. Take watch faces on the Apple Watch for example. I absolutely love how the butterfly watch face or how the astronomy watch face looks like but you can add like one complication to it and on some watch faces you can't even tell time accurately when you quickly look at it because there's only clock hands without hours and minutes. But it looks impressive. So I when I was still having Apple Watch I used like three watch faces.