Apple Watch is the Wearables King
6 hours ago, hey_yo_ said:
- I managed to drop 33 pounds of body fat without a smartwatch or fitness tracker telling me how much calories I’ve burned or how’s my heart rate.
- I can always pair my Bluetooth headphones with my phone and while it takes more steps, it’s not hard.
- Some universities called for a ban of smartwatches (at least mine did) during classes and as someone planning on going to grad school, I don’t see how a smartwatch will be beneficial if it’s always inside my bag because of cheating fears which are justified. Anyone caught wearing a smartwatch during examinations or even just a quiz will receive a zero in that test and might become grounds for expulsion.
- Given how inaccurate voice recognition is, how can someone send a long text much less a long email to someone on a watch? I can do that on my phone.
While many people have found a use case for smartwatches, I don’t and it’s just me.
I routinely use Siri to quickly compose messages on my Apple Watch to send to my friends and colleagues. It’s actually pretty accurate for short to medium length messages. The trick is dictating everything you want to say at one go so the algorithm has more context to work with when transcribing your message.
The issue here isn’t what the watch can do that your phone can’t; it’s what the watch can do more quickly and conveniently. It’s like a remote for your TV. Doesn’t let you do anything you couldn’t do by walking over to your television to manually change the channels, just faster and way more convenient.
If Apple Pay on your phone feels fast, paying via your watch feels at least 50% faster in comparison.
I don’t have to reach into my pocket every time my phone vibrates. I can look at my wrist to discern the nature of the incoming notification and decide whether it is worth responding to or not.
And when I am running, I don’t bring my phone with me, and so it’s handy to be able to store music on the watch.
I have even even used my watch as a clicker to control my PowerPoint presentation running from my phone. Cheap thrill, but cool that it’s there.
It’s a bunch of nice little conveniences in one neat little package that further adds value to a smartphone.
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