1. 72 HOURS USAGE OF THE
APPLE WATCH
Andreas E. Neuhold
andreas.neuhold@gmail.com
2. 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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3. 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
4. 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 the
market, even it has not the most impressive hardware
design.
• It is not intuitive whether it is simple customizable.
5. 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'm
up-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.
6. 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
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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!!
13. 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
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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.
