1. It's The Most Capable Smartwatch To Date
The Apple Watch may be the smartwatch that proves how versatile and useful they can be. Beyond telling time and pulling notifications from your phone, which all smartwatches do, the Apple Watch puts more information and functionality on your wrist. You can interact directly with a wide array of apps and games (with a seemingly more robust initial ecosystem than Android Wear has wrangled to date), use Apple Pay, hold calls directly from the watch, get at contacts in a hurry, send watch-to-watch images and vibrations, and more. That means less of a need to pull your phone out of your pocket every few minutes, which might make you more attentive in your daily life.
2. It's A Gorgeous Timepiece
Apple's design aesthetic translates well to its first wearable device, with the Watch looking almost like a tiny, rounded square iPhone that you strap to your wrist. It can also be outfitted with any number of distinctive, easily attached straps. It's a good-looking gadget, with the Retina display sharper than competing watches, and the hardware also brings some innovation to the smartwatch industry. Using the Digital Crown for zooming and scrolling gives you precise control without obscuring the screen, and the Force Touch tech lets you press harder on the screen to access additional options. Having interaction with a smartwatch broadened beyond simple taps and swipes should make for a more comfortable interface.
3. The Software Looks Just As Impressive
The iOS-derived Watch OS is an eye-catching piece of wearable software, with bright graphics, crisp fonts, and a nice selection of customizable watch faces. More importantly, it appears to be quite functional, too: the main menu's flowing array of circular icons should make it easy to get to your apps and games without having to swipe endlessly to access what you want. And the app ecosystem already looks like it'll be very solid from the start, with a good selection of useful and fun apps available from the outset, along with at least a few games. If the iOS app selection is any indication, it'll only get better and better by the week.
4. It's Been Made For Communication
One surprising aspect of the Apple Watch is how much focus Apple has put on communicating directly from your wrist. It won't be for everyone, but the ability to take calls from your phone right on the watch could come in handy. The subtler interactions also have potential to expand your options for staying in touch with others: like being able to send a drawing from one watch to another. (If a picture is worth a thousand words, perhaps sending a doodle will save time, since you won't need to deal with your phone's on-screen keyboard.)
5. It'll Get You Up and Moving
The Apple Watch might not suit hardcore fitness buffs, who have many options for dedicated wearable devices out there, but Apple's seeming intent to get people to move more in their everyday lives should work for the general population. Striving to hit reasonable, attainable goals by doing a little more each day is much more sustainable (and manageable) than trying to go all-out. The Watch will buzz you if you've been sitting for too long, track the hours in which you were standing or moving, and offer charts and graphs to track your activity and encourage more. If you need a little motivation during the day, the Apple Watch will provide just that.
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