I am the opposite. I am looking to switch back to a mechanical watch. Frankly the Apple Watch is a disaster in terms of product management. It offers too much useless functionality e.g. apps (ridiculously slow), the important functionality is crippled e.g. Health and areas are poorly designed e.g. complications.<p>And after the year of having it I have all this Activity/Health data and wondering what the point of it is. I can't use it for anything.<p>Unless Apple has something magical up their sleeve to dramatically improve the performance of iOS I don't understand why they bothered to bring full blown apps across. It's always going to be too slow to be useful.
I suspect at some point in the future smart watches will become useful and the masses will adopt them.<p>But right now, they're just over-expensive toys. When I can buy a 15m water proof rated Google Wear watch that has a week or more battery life for $99, then they'll be ready for mass adoption.<p>Until then, notsomuch.
Lost me after the long praise for the packaging (which I consider irrelevant) at:<p>"The watch displays a swirling globular particle cloud – it’s not anything in particular but it looks like it could be an abstract representation of a lot of things: flocking starlings; schooling plankton; a neural network; a star cluster sped up so that every second represents a billion years; a concept-art study for the sentient planet Solaris in the Stanislaw Lem novel of the same name."<p>Excuse my cynicism, but I'm here to read informative reviews/analysis, insightful ideas, rather than look at gorgeous</s> photos of black technology set to wood textures and read this syrupy poetry. :-/