Two and a Half Tasks
In my own case, I use my Apple Watch mainly for two and a half things besides telling the time and date. The first is general fitness tracking. This isn’t the same as quantifying a million things about serious workouts for serious fitness fanatics, though my watch can do some of that. It’s more aimed at the vast majority of people, like me, who need to be less sedentary, and to see and meet goals for daily physical activity, standing up more and doing light exercise.
The second is notifications. It’s easier to glance at a text, or reminder, or an approaching calendar item on your wrist than by digging your phone out of your pocket or purse. And, with Apple’s watch and some competitors, it’s also easy, when necessary, to tap on an intelligent canned response. Apple’s Siri actually works remarkably well for me as a way of occasionally dictating a longer response via the watch, even in moderately noisy settings.
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The half-task? It’s using Apple Pay and code-based authentication and payment features like the Starbucks app and electronic plane and train boarding passes. The reason I call this a half-task is that half the time, the readers used by merchants for this are configured for phones and the wrist contortions required to use the watch instead aren’t worth attempting.
(Speaking of wrist contortions, I wish Apple would sharpen the algorithms that turn on its screen when you raise your wrist to check the time. At least once a week, I find I have to make multiple awkward attempts to get the screen to light up.)
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