Apple Watch Series 6 - I bought all the Apple products to experience the ecosystem

In this video, I talk about my Deepavali/Diwali purchase of the last product which I had to buy to complete the essentials loop of the Apple ecosystem. It was my first Apple Watch purchase. I also talk about its features and my shopping for the Apple watch experience in Bengaluru, India.

Here is the timeline of the video

0:00 Intro with Watch faces 2:35 Shopping in the store 5:27 Unboxing in the store 8:03 Unboxing at Home 10:19 The Apple Ecosystem 11:31 Features in brief

My first smartwatch was an Android wear which is now called the Wear OS from Motorola, It was called the Moto 360n 2nd Generation smartwatch which was released in September 2015. The 1st moto 360 1st generation was the first round shaped Android smartwatch that was ever released in September 2014. I had ordered it from the Flipkart shopping website for Rs 19,000 and made an unboxing, overview and an in-depth review of the smartwatch. I have left the links to these videos below which you can watch for nostalgia purposes. 😊

Watch my Youtube video for my in-depth review of the moto 360 2nd gen Android wear smartwatch. I loved its luxurious look and feel and it was a sure attention grabber with its then exclusive always-on display which was not featured in the earlier Apple watches.

My next smartwatch purchase was just about a year ago which was the Fossil Gen5 carlyle HR which was also a great watch with an AMOLED display. I costed around Rs 20,000/-bought from the Amazon. It's a great watch for an android user with the capability to answer calls over the watch as it too features a nice speaker similar to the apple watch. In fact, I was using the watch for a good 3 weeks with my iPhone 12 as well. The only thing missing was that I could not reply back to SMS or WhatsApp messages using the Fossil watch. The Fossil watch is a Wear OS 2.0 based smartwatch with a great Google Fit app for fitness tracking. I felt that the Google fit had some cool functionalities to auto-detect the type of exercises or workouts. Apple Watch since Watch OS 5 offers automatic workout detection and will remind you to turn on the workout app.

The Apple Watch was released on April 24th, 2015 and due to its innovative design and the great user experience, it became the world's best-selling wearable device. People loved the interchangeable bands and their versatile personality.

Perhaps the best reason for people to buy the Apple smartwatch is that it works so well with the iPhones and its exclusivity. It makes a screaming fashion statement announcing that you own an iPhone. iPhone being an aspirational luxury product, the Apple watch allows people to flaunt their prized possession without having to flash their iPhones 💁🏻.

However things are now changing and Apple, in general, is changing as a company. No one would have ever thought that the best selling budget iPhone in America would be the iPhone SE 2020. Apple now offers iPhones and Apple watches for every budget. You have the iPhone SE & the Apple Watch Series 3 which is the cheapest offering from Apple. For the folks with deep pockets, they do have the newly launched iPhone Pro Max and the Apple watch series 6. 

Just to be clear, I am talking about smartwatches and not a fitness band or a watch.

Going by the books, a smartwatch must provide you with features beyond fitness tracking like step tracking, heart rate reading, exercise enablers, and so on. An ideal smartwatch must provide you with features such as push notifications, the ability to reply to messages from various apps, and the ability to answer calls when your phone is slightly away from you.

Honestly, the ECG & the Blood O2/Oxygen sensors and the apps are the bells and whistles of the Apple watch series 6. The always-on display is a very important feature that differentiates the series 6 from its other variants. Its USP comes from the interconnectivity it offers with the Macbook Pro. A simple example would be that if you are wearing an unlocked Apple watch, you do not need to type in your password or use touch id on your Macbook Pro! That's a neat trick. 

The Apple watch series 6 features the faster S6 SoC as compared to the S5 chip used in series 5 and the Watch SE. 

The other lovely feature is the functionality of making or answering calls over the Apple watch. Its an extension of the Apple ecosystem concept to be able to accept calls from any of the Apple devices like the Macbook, iPad, iPhone or the Apple Watch. (Apple Homepod too! well, that's one Apple device that I haven't got my hands on)

The below watch faces are another great example of how the Apple Watch takes advantage of its ecosystem. It can fetch the memoji's from your iPhone or iPad and set them as animated watchfaces on your Apple watch.

Really impressed with the way the Apple watch has been packaged in these big boxes with separate boxes for the watch and the watch straps. The watch straps have been placed without any folding, unlike other watch brands. The best thing was that a spare watch strap has also been provided for the people who wear the watch on their right hand as well.

This watch face can fetch all your photos from the iCloud and display them randomly whenever you glance at your watch.

The charging dock clings magnetically onto the watch and has some cool docking watch faces showing the time with the battery percentage.

It uses machine learning to detect your menstrual cycles using its cycle tracking app for the ladies. The watch also uses machine learning to detect if you are washing your hands, your fitness and exercise trends. The watch offers sedentary reminders and motivates you to stand every 1 hour and to close the move rings to help you stay fit and stay motivated to workout.

The watch also has a cool handwash detection feature which will give you a nice countdown for 20 seconds. It uses machine learning to detect if you are washing your hands with soap or just giving it a quick rinse :)

The funny thing was that it asked me if I was washing my hands when I was using sanitizer as well!

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