- Message delay from phone to watch – I can hear my phone signaling a message has arrived but it takes a while to show up on my watch
- You have to remember to turn both watch and iPhone back on after being in airplane mode, even if set to “mirror phone”
- Only black watch faces? Really?
- Having to re-provision all my cards on to my watch for Apple Pay (even though, as a payments geek, I understand why, it’s still annoying)
- Haptic “pokes” not hard enough for my thick skin – I sometimes miss them
- Using the scroll wheel is awkward
- Turning on the watch by bringing your wrist up doesn’t work consistently, resulting in me flailing my arm around – and the “off” is too fast after a wrist-up “on”
- No number input while using as a phone – if I need to press “9” to make something happen, I have to go find my phone
- Maps just doesn’t work well enough for pedestrian use- I had to keep digging my phone out to see where I was going, again even in “mirror” mode
- No Google or Facebook or Amazon apps yet!
On the other hand – what I like:
- Controlling my Apple TV from my wrist
- Siri (especially for setting timer in kitchen)
- Not missing phone calls
- And – my biggest surprise – having a convenient device on my wrist that tells me the time!
This post was written by Glenbrook’s Carol Coye Benson.
As a founding partner of Glenbrook, Carol has offered clients over 25 years of experience in product, marketing, and strategy development with leading financial services providers in both wholesale and retail financial services. She is a co-author of the book “Payments Systems in the U.S.” Before founding Glenbrook Partners, Carol was a managing director of the Global Institutional Services division of Deutsche Bank, in charge of marketing, client online services, and Internet development.
Carol began her career as a corporate lending officer for large multinationals at both Bank of America and Citibank. During her time at Visa International, Carol founded and managed Visa’s European product-development office, where she led a series of electronic-commerce and chip-card projects designed to bring European banks online. Carol formally retired from Glenbrook in June 2020, but remains important to the firm as both a friend and advisor.