--Originally published at The tech
Since the reveal of Apple’s first wearable back in 2014, there’s been a lot of speculations regarding the Apple Watch questioning whether it’s worth it or not for its price tag. The truth is that as the first of its kind, the watch spread out throughout the world like any other: 12 million Apple Watches were sold by the end of 2015.
After a year of daily use, I consider the Apple Watch as a nice tool to simplify activities that can be simplified. These activities involve checking the time much faster instead of bringing up the phone (which was already possible with a normal watch), taking a look at notifications and deciding rather they’re important and take care of them or leave them for another moment. Even answering phone calls without having to do so from the iPhone itself is a nice improvement.
One of the cool little tweaks that I consider useful is being able to emit a sound on the iPhone in order to find it around the house. Also, not only answering but making a call is as simple as saying “hey Siri call…” and Siri will do that for you without even touching the screen on the watch.
People have asked me weather it’s really worth it or it’s just stupid having a gadget like the Apple Watch and the truth is, the watch is part of my normal day where I receive notifications first on it and afterwards decide whether addressing them at the moment or later. I consider the watch as a personal accessory that works and interacts seamlessly with the iPhone and at those days when I forget to put it on or charge it at night, it feels like something is missing on my wrist and having to look at my phone just for dumb messages is annoying after being able to ignore them when having the watch.
Apple has now 
introduced a second generation of the watch named the Apple Watch Series 2 including features like waterproofing up to 50 meters, built-in gps and a dual-core processor.
A special edition was also unveiled, showing a peculiar partnership between Apple and the sports brand Nike that ended up with the Apple Watch Nike+. Also, with the release of the Series 2, the original model was polished and is still available for sale with the inclusion of the dual core processor at a cheaper price. The prices vary from $369 up to $1399 in the Series 2 version and for the Series 1, prices start at $269 up to $299 only in the sport versions.
