{"id":3833,"date":"2016-07-15T04:28:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T09:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/?p=3833"},"modified":"2016-07-12T10:45:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T15:45:51","slug":"apple-watch-whole-new-ballgame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/apple-watch-whole-new-ballgame\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Watch &#8211; A Whole New Ballgame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many other folks, I watched the recent Apple WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference) Keynote address with a great deal of anticipation. History (and pretty much every pundit out there) told us that there would be one or more hardware announcements. Maybe it was a refresh of the MacBook Pro line. Maybe a new MacBook. Maybe the Apple Watch 2, or at the very least the Apple Watch S.<\/p>\n<p>That last one had me rabid with anticipation. I&#8217;ve wanted an <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/29EQgbG\">Apple Watch<\/a> since the day they were announced. Sure, I knew it was a first generation product. I&#8217;ve had my share of those&#8230;heck, I&#8217;ve got boxes full of them in my basement. Great ideas, half-baked implementations. The kind of thing that was supplanted with an iteration of the product as it should have been at launch.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, I wanted one.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll freely admit that I didn&#8217;t\u00a0<em>need<\/em> an <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/29EQgbG\">Apple Watch<\/a>. I had a perfectly functional Armitron sport watch from Wal-Mart. It was the third iteration\u00a0of this same model, and it cost me all of $16. I could tell time on the watch and it has a stopwatch feature. Those are the two things that I\u00a0<em>need<\/em> a watch to do. Oh, and it has the day and date displayed in a large enough size that I could actually read them. Even with my glasses off. That&#8217;s a big deal to me. So I had everything that I\u00a0<em>need<\/em> in a watch.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, I wanted an Apple Watch.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, they weren&#8217;t shipping\u00a0the day they were originally\u00a0announced, so I was able to convince myself to wait. Then as the months dragged on, I kept trying to convince myself that I didn&#8217;t want one. But I knew I was lying to myself. Even as reports came in that it was slow, clunky, and\u00a0<em>not so great<\/em>, I wanted an <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/29EQgbG\">Apple Watch<\/a>. Then the rumors started to arise that a new watch would be announced in 2016, maybe in March at the Apple event. So I bided my time. Then the event day came&#8230;and all we heard about were new watch bands. What the heck good were watch bands to somebody who didn&#8217;t have an Apple Watch? Not much good at all! But new rumors started immediately. The Apple Watch 2 was coming later in the year.\u00a0<em>Probably<\/em> at WWDC. That was just a few months away, so I held off buying an Apple Watch. I read everything I could about the impending announcement. Like so many others, I was convinced that WWDC would be it&#8230;the new watch would be announced. I had slowly been scraping together my pennies and nickels and I had enough to buy one. At least I hoped I had enough&#8230;since we never\u00a0<em>really know<\/em> how much a new Apple device is going to cost until the day it&#8217;s announced.<\/p>\n<p>As the keynote began, I was giddy. I was so ready to hear about the Apple Watch 2. I just\u00a0<em>knew<\/em> that I was going to hear about the most amazing new piece of technology. And I was ready to place my order.<\/p>\n<p>But this was the Worldwide\u00a0<strong>DEVELOPER<\/strong> Conference. And it figures that Apple picked 2016 as the year to get back to their roots and not announce new hardware at this event. They talked about the new watchOS&#8230;and I was practically salivating. So amazing and wonderful. What I read on Twitter from folks who had a watch, this was like the second coming. The hardware was OK, but the new watchOS was going to make that hardware shine. And the keynote droned on&#8230;with no hardware announcements. No MacBook Pros. No new MacBook. No new Apple Watch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/29EQgbG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3850 size-post-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Apple-Watch-Images.jpg?resize=400%2C229&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Apple Watch Images\" width=\"400\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Apple-Watch-Images.jpg?resize=400%2C229&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Apple-Watch-Images.jpg?resize=300%2C172&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Apple-Watch-Images.jpg?resize=768%2C439&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Apple-Watch-Images.jpg?resize=1024%2C585&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Apple-Watch-Images.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>So I had to make a decision: Should I wait until a <em>possible announcement<\/em> of a new watch in September? What if it took months before they were shipping. It was the right thing to do. Don&#8217;t buy generation 1 when the next generation couldn&#8217;t be that far off. So I resigned myself to waiting.<\/p>\n<p>And honestly, I felt like crap about it.<\/p>\n<p>I messaged with a couple of my kids and said they&#8217;d have to find something else to get me for Father&#8217;s Day&#8230;half-joking, half-honest. And I moped.<\/p>\n<p>Then\u00a0I made a decision. I decided that I was going to order an <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/29EQgbG\">Apple Watch Sport<\/a>. So I did. Right then. I didn&#8217;t pay for next-day shipping, although I seriously considered it. Was the purchase indulgent&#8230;yup. While I can use all sorts of different methods to justify it (heck, I&#8217;m a diabetic so the health tracking benefits alone are potentially worth it), this is a luxury purchase. But I decided that, for once, I was going to do this sort of thing for myself.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m now the proud owner of an <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/29EQgbG\">Apple Watch Sport<\/a>. I&#8217;ve had it for all of 24 hours and already I&#8217;m loving it. While I&#8217;m going to save that for a future blog post, suffice it to say that this thing has already been life-changing for me. I know that&#8217;s a big statement, and I&#8217;m kind of leaving you with a cliffhanger&#8230;but that&#8217;s where I&#8217;m leaving things.<\/p>\n<p>In short, my <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/29EQgbG\">Apple Watch<\/a> has already been a life changer in just 24 hours!<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more info&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/29EQgbG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3838 size-post-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2255.jpg?resize=400%2C562&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"My Apple Watch\" width=\"400\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2255.jpg?resize=400%2C562&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2255.jpg?resize=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1 214w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_2255.jpg?w=432&amp;ssl=1 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many other folks, I watched the recent Apple WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference) Keynote address with a great deal of anticipation. 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