And then there's a "better than sum of parts" thing going on.
No longer wearing my Pebble Steel which had that "phone in pocket" killer app and week long battery, because the Apple Watch support for Microsoft Exchange Calendaring is so phenomenal.
When most of the population spends so much time looking at phone screens, a pitch like "Well now you can look at a much smaller screen, only you can't do so much with it, and it's a bit slow and unresponsive" is less than completely compelling.
Watch is a trinket at best. IMO Apple shouldn't be in the trinket business.
And seriously I have nearly every Watch app installed and none of them are that great. I like the TripAdvisor/Foursquare glances and some of the flight ones aren't good. But they aren't killer apps.
I need more continuous, contextual notification based on my where I am at that particular time. I need to be able to reply to text messages without speaking e.g. why isn't there writing recognition ?
It's a version 1.0 for sure. But they really need to get more creative with it.
If you're anything like me, you don't need to reply to most messages other than OK or NO.
Drawing on the screen, letter by letter similar to what Palm originally use do would be a massive improvement.
No, it's like 30-40%. Most of the time I don't even reply -- it's just a message to inform me of something that doesn't need any aknowledgement or response.
As someone who has had it a while ago it has two real problems. App loading performance is terrible. It needs to be instant like glances. And most importantly there is no killer app.