# Tell me about your Apple Watch.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-apple-watch/734358>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 11, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-apple-watch/734358 "2015-10-11T21:06:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-apple-watch/734358/1 "2015-10-11T21:06:03Z")

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I like gadgets but I’m struggling to see the usefulness of an Apple Watch. If you have one, please tell me what you like and dislike about it. Thanks.

If this has been done recently, I’d appreciate a link. I tried searching but no matter how long I waited, Tapatalk told me that I needed to wait another 116 seconds.

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**Author:** ![Nuveena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a587f6/32.png) [@Nuveena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nuveena)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-your-apple-watch/734358/2 "2015-10-12T23:16:29Z")

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I don’t know that I’d go so far yet to say it’s “useful” but I like it.

Likes  
My phone is in a wallet type case that snaps closed, so I like being able to get texts, emails and other notifications without opening my phone.  
I also like being able to control the music or audiobook that’s playing with the watch.

Dislikes  
The calendar feature could be better. You can only see events for the current week.  
The map app has been utterly useless so far.

Here are the previous threads.

> **[I have an Apple Watch on my wrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=759564)**
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> I got it last Friday. So far, I’m still learning all that it can do - it’s an amazingly deep device. I just got my first call when I was wearing it, and my iPhone was in another room. I took the call Dick Tracy-style, and it worked perfectly. I...

> **[So how are Apple watches doing now?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=767841)**
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> The big announcements about the new iphones and ipads and other Apple things made me curious about Apple’s last big new product, the Apple watch. It seems like I haven’t heard much about them, either good or bad, since they were released. Are people...