It just works.

S6 gives me 30 hours

Charged 60-90 minutes per day. Usually lives around 20-80% never hits zero, seldom hits 100%

Used for daily workouts for maybe an hour, sleep tracking, and basic tasks. Often used to pay for things, find quick directions, or do maths.

If my s6 with 94% battery life remaining can do this comfortably, basically any ‘current’ watch will be more than capable.

That 30 hour lifespan really is that sweet sport for daily use without having to think too hard about it.

It’s called a phone

I don’t use it for that purpose often, but that’s still primarily what I see it as.

I want a perfectly seamless slab of glass with no ports.

I want a magic crystal

I don’t think I’ve ever spent more than £10 for a strap

I’ve always put my watch into sleep mode as I go to bed. It forces you to long press the crown in order to use the screen, and disables always on.

You’ll find it in your focus modes

One button press and one tap of the screen, or you can ask Siri. It also mirrors your phone if you’ve got automatic focus modes set up.

People get real emotional when their muscle memory needs recalibrating

the new OS doesn’t suck. You just need to learn how to use it again. You got comfortable

Took me about a week.

In a word, consistency.

Sometimes I’ll wear a little women’s Casio on my other wrist because it looks cute, but usually with a bunch of other bangles and beads. AW stays on my left wrist through the day, and my right at night.

There’d be one iPhone size.

Ive wouldn’t have hung around as long as he did

No glass

The M series of chips would have happened a few years earlier.

The iPad and Mac would be the same thing

AirPods Pro/Max would be independently capable music players.

The watch would never have happened

Apple, as a company, would be more focussed.

At the very least, I’m more conscious of my own unhealthy decisions and habits, and have easy to parse data showing me how they impact my health.

I probably buy one case a month on average.

I like matching my phone to my outfit, or just having something fresh.

I’ve been on the hunt for the perfect case for like ten years now. I still haven’t found one.

I tend to donate my box of cases whenever I upgrade. I’ll keep one or two I really liked in a drawer though. Don’t know why. But I like them.

It’s built for swimming

It’s not built for hot water and soap

UX consistency across apps is important. It removes one more layer of pointless abstraction. Almost everything behaves the same.

Third party support. Apps and games are generally prioritised for iPhones. Physical accessories are very easy to find, often remarkably cheap, and offer a lot of variety in functionality. This market just doesn’t exist for Androids.

MagSafe. It’s boring, invisible, and so seamless. Probably my favourite iPhone feature. I think I’ve plugged this current phone in twice since I’ve owned it.

The social clout people don’t like to talk about. iPhones are absolutely a status symbol in the same way cars are.

Stickers in iOS17. I love making stickers from all my pet photos, or pasting photos of my friends into scenes from movies or historical settings.

I also love how iPhones almost look like jewellery today. They are sickeningly pretty objects.

Customer service is just good. AppleCare+ should just be the default option when buying a new phone.

Let your wrist breathe. Damn.

The sensors are pretty good. A little bit of wiggle room isn’t going to lead to cruddy data. Unless you’re very active, there’s no real need to clamp the watch to your wrist so hard.

Personal rule of thumb for any watch is to still be able to just about fit my pinky finger through the strap while it’s on my wrist.

I’ve been searching for the perfect case for over a decade.

Good cases exist, but I’ve never found the perfect one.

My Fitbit was basically a separate device.

My Apple Watch is an extension of my phone.

They each have their benefits. Fitbit is really good at presenting its data in a digestible way. AW is really good at pretty much everything else. Neither are bad though.

I have a preference, but mostly because I’m already quite invested in the Apple ecosystem, so any device that acts as an extension of this will be a priority for me.

I like boring. Boring works.

I’ve dropped one phone four inches on a table and it shattered.

I’ve dropped another straight into concrete from 3 feet the day I bought it by being too excited and opening the box as soon as I left the store. It had a minor scuff on the chassis.

Almost every example I’ve seen of the AppStore has been compromised on some way, either shifty data practices, crappy monetisation methods, or just kind of bad.

Apple only has to nail the basics to make almost every single competitor on the market obsolete overnight.