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Apple Watch sales up over 50% since last year
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Re: Apple Watch sales up over 50% since last year
#32My big question is: what do people do with theirs? Other than notifications and fitness tracking, I'm struggling to think of a use case for owning one.
It's a lightweight music player, ideal for fitness. That means that it would be a great replacement for the recently discontinued iPod Nano.
At the moment it's a bit pricy to buy one just for that use but maybe one day it'll be cheap enough that people will feel comfortable buying it for that feature alone.
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#33I've been waiting for the Series 3 ... you know what they say about 3s :)
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#34My big question is: what do people do with theirs? Other than notifications and fitness tracking, I'm struggling to think of a use case for owning one.
I don't have a smart watch myself but several of my coworkers do, the killer app for them seems to be two factor authentication codes; we've got like 10 different accounts at work that need 2fa and instead of pulling out their phones they just use the watch.
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#35The two main use cases seem to be notifications and fitness. I'm not big on working out, and I actively try to receive as few notifications as possible, so I don't think I'm in the target market for these. But I could see it being compelling for anyone who is interested in either of those use cases.
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#36Personal anecdote: I bought an Apple Watch early and didn't really know what to do with it. It wasn't until I fell off my bike and broke it did I realize how much more exercise I was getting with it. I bought another one soon after.
Similarly, I realized that my Pebble Time was both my alarm clock and helping me aim to go to bed earlier. Sadly, my Fitbit hasn't been quite a drop-in replacement (alarm is quieter; and I have to remember to open the app to sync sleep tracking).
Syncing should happen automatically even if you aren't opening the app. If you have to open the app to sync then some setting is turned off or something else is wrong.
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#37Series 2 is decent - a great solution for notification polling but I think WatchOS 4 will be the first non-beta release. There's a lot of neat ideas but so many little “do they even have a QA department?” moments, starting with having to wipe & reset my new one when it disabled activity tracking with no explanation. Quick Siri access is great but it underscores just how limited Siri is – falling into the uncanny valley of conversational UI.
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#38I’ve been saying it all along: to understand the Apple Watch, look to the iPod. The first three years of iPod sales were minuscule compared to the following ten: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ipod_sales_per_qua... The two products occupy a very similar space of affordable luxury; they are not world-changing like the Mac or iPhone, but category-defining. Through gradual iteration and segmentation, Apple sl…
This is not a good example. The reason the iPod sold so poorly the first few years was because you can only sync them with Macs.
Very few people owned Macs, so iPod sales were poor. It took iTunes for Windows to come out before things changed.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It wasn't until I fell off my bike and broke it did I realize how much more exercise I was getting with it. How does that relate?
I was getting a ton of exercise with the Watch, broke it, and stopped exercising because I wasn't being reminded to.
I mean, whatever works for you, but I don't understand that at all. You forget to exercise?
Re: Apple Watch sales up over 50% since last year
#40My big question is: what do people do with theirs? Other than notifications and fitness tracking, I'm struggling to think of a use case for owning one.
Notifications and fitness tracking are the primary use cases form me. Those alone are enough but I also use mine for Apple Pay. It's a way better user experience paying with the watch than the phone.
It's also a great alarm clock if you wear it to bed since it vibrates silently. No more waking my wife up at 3:00AM when I need to catch an early morning flight.
I used a Fitbit for years and was reasonably happy with it. But the reality is that the Fitbit was cheaply made and not especially attractive. If you're already spending $100+ on a fitness tracker that is going to likely break in a year, it isn't that much of a stretch to spend a little more to get a really nice Apple Watch that lasts longer and looks nice when you're dressed up.