Why a Die-Hard Mechanical Watch Lover Can't Get the Apple Watch Off His Wrist

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&#x2F;Health data and wondering what the point of it is. I can&#x27;t use it for anything.<p>Unless Apple has something magical up their sleeve to dramatically improve the performance of iOS I don&#x27;t understand why they bothered to bring full blown apps across. It&#x27;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&#x27;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&#x27;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>&quot;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.&quot;<p>Excuse my cynicism, but I&#x27;m here to read informative reviews&#x2F;analysis, insightful ideas, rather than look at gorgeous&lt;&#x2F;s&gt; photos of black technology set to wood textures and read this syrupy poetry. :-&#x2F;

Maybe he glued it on by accident.<p>...I hate all the titles on here lately.

A very click-baity article that&#x27;s getting a lot of coverage from the usual pro-Apple websites