Friday, April 24

Apple Watch 101: Unpacking, pairing, and poking

Our Apple Watch arrived this morning.

However you feel about smart watches as a concept or the Apple Watch in particular, the fact of the matter is that this wearable already has momentum behind it by virtue of being a brand-new product from the world's biggest consumer electronics company. Developers are already here, although many of them are still trying to figure out how an Apple Watch app should look and work. An order placed today won't make it to your doorstep until four-to-six weeks from now. None of this guarantees long-term success, but it does mean that Apple's Watch is a product to... watch.

This is our first experience with the Apple Watch outside of controlled demos at Apple events and some limited hands-on time during Apple Store try-on sessions, so for your reference we've documented the process of extricating the watch from its multilayered packaging and pairing it to a phone. More detailed impressions will follow in the coming days—we'll be wearing the watch around for several days to get an idea of where it fits into our digital life and, more important, what it actually changes for people who buy it.

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