{"id":506,"date":"2015-05-11T08:18:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T15:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixel-stained-wretch.com\/wordpress\/?p=506"},"modified":"2015-05-11T08:18:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T15:18:15","slug":"an-accumulation-of-small-pleasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixel-stained-wretch.com\/wordpress\/2015\/05\/11\/an-accumulation-of-small-pleasures\/","title":{"rendered":"An accumulation of small pleasures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I\u2019ve been wearing my new\u00a0Apple Watch for more a week, I\u2019m beginning to get a better idea of its virtues, its limits, and how it fits into my life. I\u2019ve already discovered that I don\u2019t\u00a0<em>need<\/em> the\u00a0Apple Watch, but that I\u2019m very <em>happy<\/em> to have one.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t need one because the device\u00a0offers no special features or\u00a0functionality that I didn\u2019t already have available to me in other ways. My old Timex told me the time and offered a stopwatch when I needed one, and for the rest there was my iPhone, which (aside from also doing clock and stopwatch duty) already handled phone calls, messages, email alerts, Apple Pay, Apple TV and iTunes remote control, weather reports, Major League Baseball score updates, and even rudimentary fitness tracking.<\/p>\n<p>What the\u00a0Apple Watch does is to act as digital WD-40: so many little\u00a0things\u00a0become\u00a0so much\u00a0more\u00a0<em>frictionless<\/em> with it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I don\u2019t get many phone calls, but when I do, they often\u00a0occur at the most inconvenient times, times\u00a0when\u00a0my phone is nearby but not ready to hand, such as when I\u2019m preparing a meal or visiting the smallest room in my apartment.. With my\u00a0Apple Watch, I can answer the call or send it to voicemail and not have to wonder\u00a0who rang me.<\/li>\n<li>Same with messages and email alerts: with my\u00a0iPhone and iPad and Mac all chiming at once when a digital communique comes in, it\u2019s really tempting to drop everything and get to the nearest device to find out what just arrived. Now the nearest device is strapped to my wrist, and I only have to lift it to see what\u2019s what.<\/li>\n<li>I don\u2019t use Apple Pay much, but when I do, paying with\u00a0the\u00a0Apple Watch is less stressful and troublesome than with\u00a0my iPhone: I always feel\u00a0a small worrisome fear\u00a0that I could drop my phone\u00a0while fumbling it from my pocket to the NFC reader, but I <em>know<\/em> my\u00a0Apple Watch can\u2019t fall to the floor and smash while I\u2019m trying to buy a chipotle\u00a0chicken panini at my local Panera.<\/li>\n<li>I have an iPad, an iPhone, and an Apple TV Remote that all can control my Apple TV or iTunes player, and they all can do more than the\u00a0Apple Watch Remote app. But I usually don\u2019t need that extra functionality: I mostly\u00a0need to pause what\u2019s playing (or play what\u2019s paused) or adjust the volume, and the\u00a0Apple Watch app does those things\u00a0just dandy. It also lets me know what I\u2019m listening to for those times when\u00a0I\u2019m working at my Mac and iTunes is buried two Mission Control desktops away while\u00a0it shuffle plays my whole music library: I just raise my wrist to see.<\/li>\n<li>The iPhone Weather app is great, and it gives\u00a0me a sad\u00a0&#x1f622; when I\u2019m using my iPad and want to check what conditions are like out in the Big Blue Room. Now I have weather reports always at\u00a0hand\u2026literally.<\/li>\n<li>I love MLB Baseball\u2019s Game Day app and the wealth of information it provides. But when I just want to check the score of the current Dodger game (or find out when it starts), all I need do is take a quick\u00a0Apple Watch glance.<\/li>\n<li>As for fitness\u2026. I am by nature a sedentary person, almost sessile, really, but lately\u00a0I\u2019ve been trying to go for more walks (I do live in a very walkable neighborhood, just a mile away from the bluffs overlooking Santa Monica Bay). The iPhone Health app has been great for keeping track of how much walking I\u2019ve done on a given day. But the\u00a0Apple Watch Activity app does an even better job of keeping me up to date on my peregrinations, and its gimmicky achievement rings really\u00a0<em>do<\/em>\u00a0provide me with just a little extra incentive to abandon my desk or sofa more often. Nor do I need to open an app to see it: the activity summary is a complication right on the watch face. Ironically, I put more effort into improving my fitness the less effort it takes me\u00a0to track it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The\u00a0Apple Watch does not provide a single killer feature. Rather, the accumulation of small conveniences and pleasures that it provides is its <em>actual<\/em> killer feature, and one that you can\u2019t demo.<\/p>\n<p>It only emerges when you live with the watch day after day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that I\u2019ve been wearing my new\u00a0Apple Watch for more a week, I\u2019m beginning to get a better idea of its virtues, its limits, and how it fits into my life. I\u2019ve already discovered that I don\u2019t\u00a0need the\u00a0Apple Watch, but that I\u2019m very happy to have one. 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