![]() ![]() There have been rumors of upgradable bands with special health features built in such as blood pressure and bodily fluid analysis. Apple making them responsive is certainly a good start. Will watchOS3 save the day? Not from what I see unless developers finally come up with a way to produce quality apps. There is also a fitness app called Breathe that uses the devices screen and haptic feedback to lead users through a series of breathing and meditation exercises. Apple is also rededicating the side button from a wonky friends portal to a bona fide dock and the old Glances swipe from the bottom now invokes a Control Center. This is great but I expected that speed from the get go. The major feature upgrade is that apps will now open up to seven times faster. During Apple’s recent developer’s conference Apple revealed there is a beefy software update coming in watchOS3. Perhaps there is good news on the way, at least some hope because when you are marooned in a digital device desert, hope makes for a mighty enticing mirage. If you don’t have an Apple Watch, lick a postage stamp and stick it on your wrist and then tell me what you want it to do. The problem with this is developers clearly don’t have any idea what to do with the watch either and have yet to come up with much in the way of apps. I thought for sure Apple would beef up the experience with their version 2 software update which gave us some watch face additions and the ability for native apps. The maps, Apple Pay, fitness tracking, apps and other features are all slow and feel half-baked. An Apple Watch does one thing great, tell time, and it makes for a great way to get notifications. It does great things as a compliment to your iPhone but it’s no place you’d want to be isolated on. In my initial review I likened Apple Watch to the moon. I was bored within the first five minutes. Having such a small screen and no ability to type is a handicap for sure. The watch is pretty much a non-factor in all of those departments. It makes you realize how much we use mobile devices to consume information - whether it is the web or social media or even games and entertainment. To be fair, the long white box was cool and the moment I strapped it to my wrist was cool but ever since than it has pretty much been “now what?” When I first got my Apple Watch I might have had lower expectations but I expected at least a few gee whiz moments. It was like buying your first big screen except this time it was supersizing your smartphone. Here’s the thing: that first iPad, all 20 pounds of it, was a darn cool device. Buying the first iEdition of any Apple product means being the cool guy on the block for a year and then wildly outdated the next - just ask anybody who bought the first iPad. I also knew the impulse purchase would mean having the version without a built-in camera. I knew in just a couple years it would be the oversized Apple Watch with the underperforming battery and processor. I went into my Apple Watch purchase last year with fairly modest expectations. ![]()
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