72 HOURS USAGE OF THE APPLE WATCHAndreas E. Neuhold
EXPECTATIONS
• What is the Apple Watch?
• Does it change my workflow?
• How about free time?
• What is worse about the Apple Watch Gen. 1 ?
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COUNTRY& REGION
• Keep in mind, due restrictions of the Apple Appstore, some Apps could be unavailable in your region.
• The following Apps and Settings are suitable for:• Germany
• Switzerland
• Austria
WHAT IT IS NOT
• Its called a watch because you wear it on your wrist like a watch, but it isn´t a watch.
• The Apple Watch is not an independent device.
• Its not the cheapest time keeper you can get on themarket, even it has not the most impressive hardware design.
• It is not intuitive whether it is simple customizable.
WHAT IT IS
• Its an iPhone extansion and without an iPhone next to the watch, it makes simply no sense at all.
• Its a helpful tool to decide which incoming information or messages are important and worth to read immediately.
• It helps me to stay focused on my work or aktivity and I'mup-to-date with my incoming messages at the same time.
• It gets me things done in a much faster way.
• In deed I save time using the Apple Watch.
FIRST USER EXPERIENCE...
• ...Was simply horrible. I had too read the whole user manual to get familiar with the userinterface of the Apple Watch.
• After learning new Apple-Wording like "complications" or "check", I got deeper into the way the watch has to be used to get things done.
• Theire are two setting apps:• One on the watch• One on the iPhone
GROCERY LIST
• App: Buy me a Pie
• Keeps my shopping list up-to-date in an
easy way.
• Adding a new item by speaking with Siri.
• One touch on the watch gets the item
done.
Change in my daily routine:
I'm not using paper lists anymore.
I can put item to my list or delete them
from the list in seconds, without looking for
any paperlist.
DISCOUNT CARDS
Change in my daily routine:
I don't have to grap my iPhone out of my
poket at the cash point.
Hands free to grap my things.
• App: Stocard
• Keeps all my discount cards in one place.
• Backup functionality
• Easy to use.
ALARM CLOCK
Change in my daily routine:
I do not take my iPhone into the sleeping
room anymore.
• App: Integrated Alarm Clock
• Same functionality already known from the
iPhone.
TRAINING
• App: Integrated Training App
• Provides an easy-to-use interface
• Motivates during training
• Keeps focus on the training goal
Change in my daily routine:
Stand up in the office every hour for at
least 1 min.
Walking and running more often – better
health condition
TV PROGRAM
• App: On Air
• Keeps focus on the TV program.
• Shows what is currently on the TV.
• Lists the 20:15 shows and films.
Change in my daily routine:
No zapping through any TV-programs
anymore.
Fast descision if I watch a TV show or a
DVD/Bluray or reading a book
WATCH-INTERFACE
Change in my daily routine:
I look on my iPhone less often.
In a second I have the information that I
need, like next meetings, date, fitness and
local weather.
I never changed the watch display
Time Travel was discovered by Apple! Indeed!!
TEAM-TASKLIST
• App: Redbooth
• Team-Todo List including a huge capability
for crossworking.
• Powerful Filters.
• App and webinterface available
• Free at all.
Change in my daily routine:
Stay in focus
Get things done faster
Keeps the important things in mind
CALCULATOR
• App: The Calculator
• Provides powerful mathematics.
• Easy-to-use designed interface.
• Fast calculation.
Change in my daily routine:
Calculating difficult expressions like
square-root, ln, log, angle functions right
on my wrist without taking any other
device.
APPLE WATCH INTERFACE
• A real innovation to take control of a smart
watch.
• The Apple watch is controled using my
fingers or the digital crown at the right side
of the watch.
MAILS
• App: Microsoft Outlook
• Keeps all notifications rather simple.
• Connects to many mail accounts
• Includes Exchange and Office365
Change in my daily routine:
Doing mails much faster than ever before.
I descide which messages are readable
now, which ones I delete immediateley
and on which messages I will have an eye
on later.
LATEST TAKEN NOTES
• App: OneNote
• Keeps focus on all my notes.
• Shows the latest taken notes.
• Nothing more and nothing less.
Change in my daily routine:
As an Poweruser of Microsoft OneNote,
the Apple Watch takes my latest taken
notes to my wrist.
Never ever again without my notes.
TAKING PHONE CALLS
• App: Integrated Apple Watch Function
• Take or dismiss the call
• Answer the call with a predefined message.
• Start a call from the watch.
Change in my daily routine:
I do not miss phone calls anymore.
Easy control of the iPhone in meetings.
Fast way to reply to family, friends and
colleagues.
APPLE WATCH CHANGED THE WAY OF INTERACTING WITH INFORMATION IN
MY LIFE.
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