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My Apple Watch Setup
The internet is rife with people talking about the smartphone, tablet, and laptop setups, but you don’t really see into what people are doing on their smart watches. This isn’t surprising as there are many fewer of us smart watch owners out there, and there are fewer things we can do to customize
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Josh Ginter on the Apple Watch Series 2
Josh Ginter is a great writer, and I always enjoy reading his thoughts on Apple's mobile devices (see here, here, and here). Today he shared some first impressions of the Apple Watch Series 2, so of course I rushed to check them out. I agree with him on almost every point.
Originally, I
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Apple Watch Series 1 Review
Last year I wrote this extensive review of the first Apple Watch, where I talked about hardware and software. It was one of the my favorite reviews I've ever written, and I stand by almost everything I wrote then. Here's how that review ended:
However, if you are still on the
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watchOS 3: The BirchTree Review
Contents
* Introduction
* The Little Things
* Performance
* The Dock
* Messages
* Activity and Workout Enhancements
* Learn to Breathe
* Conclusion
Introduction
Apple has finally shipped watchOS 3, the third major version of their still extremely young wearable platform. watchOS shipped in April 2015, with watchOS 2 coming just a few months later in September. As I have made
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10 Predictions for the Apple Watch 2
We are exactly 1 week away from Apple's next big event, and all we know for sure is that they will be unveiling the new iPhone. What we don't know is what else will be shown off at the event. iPads? Macs? Maybe, but what I'm most interested in
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We Finally Have Some Apple Watch 2 Rumors
It's taken a long time, but we finally have some updates on what is going on with the new Apple Watch model that we pretty much all agree is coming out this fall. Mark Gurman reports:
The updated versions will also be able to integrate GPS-based location tracking, according to the people,
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New RPG from Square-Enix for Apple Watch
Square-Enix just put up a page for an upcoming RPG titled Cosmos Rings. Normally this wouldn't be big news to me, as I don't really play many RPGs these days, but when you tell me that game is for the Apple Watch...well then you've got my attention.
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A Watch that Just Tells Time?
I really like the design of this watch face, but my Apple Watch has trained me to think a watch that only shows this information is a waste of space. Any simple watch can tell you the time, but the big appeal of the Apple Watch to me is that it does more than that.
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Fixing Media Controls in watchOS 3
Apple's watchOS 3 is a pretty excellent update overall, but there are a few things were Apple is missing the mark in my opinion. The first one was with the new Timer app's interface, which they have already partially addressed, but now after using the beta for a few weeks another
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Apple has Already Partially Fixed My Big Apple Watch Concern
I either jumped the gun a few weeks ago when I called the new Timer app in watchOS 3 a disaster or Apple heard my complaint and has addressed it already. It's certainly the first possibility, but I like to think it's the second. Either way, the second beta of watchOS
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Clearing Up a Major watchOS 3 Misconception
I've been hearing a lot of chatter about watchOS 3 on the podcasts and blogs we all follow, and there has been something we don't usually hear: positive talk about the Apple Watch. Yes, it's true, the Apple Watch is getting new life in watchOS 3, and even the
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The New Timer App in watchOS 3 is a Disaster
It sounds quaint, but one of the most common tasks I use my Apple Watch for is to set timers. I have timers for everyday things around the house (coffee, laundry, cooking, etc.), and it's also wonderfully helpful when you just need to time something randomly throughout your day. Seriously, I use this
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Should You Install the watchOS 3 Beta on Your Apple Watch?
No.
It's tempting to get a little crazy this time of year and install all the betas on your iDevices and Macs, because you want to play with the new cool stuff Apple announced this week at WWDC. I was a big fan of what Apple showed off for watchOS 3, and if
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The Watch-ification of iOS
I watched the Apple keynote yesterday and thought the new features of iOS 10 looked good, but it wasn't until I installed it on my iPhone that I realized just how eerily similar a lot of these new features feel to what I enjoy everyday on my Apple Watch.
Raise to wake looks
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Rating Apple's watchOS 3 Announcements at WWDC
Apple talked about a lot of stuff at their WWDC keynote today, and there are literally thousands of articles posted today about what they announced. But if you came to this site, you want to hear something about the Apple Watch, so don't worry, it was the watchOS 3 news that got me
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Apple Watch's Low Hanging Fruit
Apple is almost certainly going to announce watchOS 3 at next week's WWDC and the internet is abuzz with what may be announced. I've already made my pitch for how I would change the Apple Watch software, but I wanted to take a few minutes to hit on a couple pieces
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The 5 Best 3rd Party Apple Watch Apps
The Apple Watch gets a lot of flack for not having good apps, and a lot of that criticism is fair. Watch apps are generally not as great as they were originally advertised, but there are some developers out there who have made incredibly useful watchOS apps that make the Apple Watch a very compelling