Is the Apple Watch worth your time?

Apart from iPhone 6, the Apple Watch was also launched. Its chunky, comes with sapphire glass and has a heart-rate sensor. But is it worth replacing your credit card and wallet, finds out Rajiv Makhni.

Apple’s power to shock and surprise is becoming weaker and weaker. This isn’t entirely a failing of the company or its products (though it is a little of that), but it’s just the way Apple has grown.

It’s such a huge company now, with so many people developing the ecosystem around its products, that it’s quite impossible for them to keep anything under wraps anymore. Pictures, specs, features, exactly what they will announce with what name and price – it is known to almost everyone before the awesome event itself.

This, combined with the fact that expectations from Apple are always sky high, does lead to serious disappointment after the event is over. Not this time!

The event this time was different in many ways. It was staged at the Flint Center (their most iconic products have been launched there), it was live-streamed to the world (despite huge technical issues, including an intermittent Chinese translation voice-over that got streamed everywhere) and it finally had Tim Cook use Steve Jobs’s legendary phrase “one more thing” for the first time.

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