
When I first heard rumors of Apple Watch, I thought convenience would be its killer feature. Personal computers couldn't do everything mainframe computers could, but they saved you a trip to the offie. Phones couldn't do everything PCs could do on the desk, but they saved you having to go back to your desk or laptop. And watches, certainly, couldn't do everything phones could, but they could do brief, frequent, important tasks well enough that they'd save you having to reach for your phone.
In some ways that's panned out. Notifications on Apple Watch are easily glanceable, unlocking your Mac or Home is near effortless, and Apple Pay on Apple Watch — in areas blanketed with tap-to-pay, like where I live — means carrying cash or cards is almost a thing of the past.
But notifications weren't and aren't granular or prioritized enough, Apple's identity system isn't complete enough, and mobile payments aren't ubiquitous enough. And it's still a watch that, absent you turning your wrist or tapping the screen, can't even constantly show you the time like a watch. Convenience, alone, wasn't enough.
Neither was fashion. A clever band and even link swapping system that over a hundred years of traditional watchmaking couldn't come up with, designs from Jony Ive and Marc Newson, materials from gold to ceramic, and partnerships with Hermes missed the mainstream.
Fitness, though… that became key to Apple Watch's success. Bodies are fed as much by motion as they are by food, and filling your rings is a great motivator to keep on moving. Likewise, minds digest through stillness, and the breathing app helps make sure you always take the time to save your cache to disk.
It's the ability to track indoor and outdoor workouts, though, from walks to runs, swimming to skiing to rolling, with data on time and pace and, critically, heart rate that make Apple Watch compelling. Add partnerships with Nike and integration with exercise machines through GymKit, and it starts to go beyond fitness fad and becomes infrastructure.
And that's especially true as its gone from water resistant to swim proof, from being tethered to an iPhone to being LTE-capable-ish all its own, and from being Apple's only wearable to pairing with AirPods to give us a glimpse of a truly wireless future.
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