45 Days With Apple Watch
June 7, 2015
This is the question I still get all the time and it’s one that I struggled to answer well when I first got the Watch. Now that the “new gadget small” has worn off a little, here’s what I’m using to the Apple Watch to do on a regular basis:
- Make and take phone calls (every call since May 24 has been on my Watch)
- Reply to text messages
- Control my music while in the car (safer than using the phone)
- Getting sports score updates
- Telling the time (duh, but I do check the time obsessively)
- Checking the weather and using Dark Sky to know if it’s going to rain
- Setting timers with Siri
- Marking tasks complete in OmniFocus
- Tracking delivery statuses
- Activity tracking
- Workout companion
- Apple Pay and Passbook
- Navigation in the car
Every single one of these items listed sans the Activity Tracking and Workout Companion is completely achievable with an iPhone. The difference, of course, is that because of the Watch’s proximity to you, in many cases it’s a more enjoyable experience. In fact, so many of the things in our lives that have become must haves have never been about replacing, but rather they’ve been about enhancing or extending a products proximity to you.