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BB and MWC you are much more hard core runners. I am not. I am interested in AppleWatch for other reasons. I am getting forgetful. The less I hold in my hand, the better my life will be.
I agree about the inaccuracy of the FitBit, but since I am using it to track activity, I am fine with the inaccuracy. I know that it does not log the distance of my daily five mile walk, but I figure that as long as it is consistent in its inaccuracy, I am fine!
I really wanted to like the Watch enough to buy it, but knew I wouldn’t utilize its functionality. Waiting to hear rave reports of those who have ordered one.
JYM—bummer about the FitBit Force. I have been thrilled with FitBit customer service, having them replace even parts that I lost. My Mac went out for repair with the FitBit dongle attached to the back. They were under no obligation to replace that! My thirteen month old Fit Bit One stopped holding a charge, and they shipped me a new one. And, the rubber tip on the end of the carrying case fell off so they sent me a new case. Overall, very happy, other than recent software update that has reported some massively incorrect information.
Didn’t Dick Tracy have one of those, back in the day?
Yes, and Tim Cook referred to it, I always wanted to do this talking to the watch.
Thanks, CT1417. I must admit I had a mixed experience with the fitbit customer support. When I first contacted them to tell them how many times the thing had fallen off, their response, when they did respond, was to send me a video on how to close the rubber “closure” (for lack of a better word- don’t know how to describe the 2 pronged “teeth” that fit into the band. Um, thanks. It was not due to lack of knowledge of how to open/close the thing. It was a poor design and anything even slightly pulling against it (the sleeve of a jacket, the arm of a chair, etc) would cause it to open and fall off.
[url=<a href=“http://recode.net/2015/04/20/health-and-fitness-on-apple-watch-a-solid-start-with-limitations/%5DHere’s%5B/url”>http://recode.net/2015/04/20/health-and-fitness-on-apple-watch-a-solid-start-with-limitations/]Here’s[/url] a fairly exhaustive review of the Watch as a fitness device.
Re: gps, here’s the part:
“the Apple Watch automatically calibrates to your stride during your first few runs, so that even if you later run without your iPhone, you’ll get a close-to-accurate reading on distance. I found this to be true when I ran a couple of my regular neighborhood routes, and when I ran a 5K road race on an unfamiliar route, without my iPhone. Apple Watch recorded my 5K race as 3.05 miles, just .05 shy of the actual distance.”
^^Actually, a 5k is closer to 3.11 miles, which would make the watch about 0.06 miles off. This would be a deal breaker for me; 0.05 miles over 3 miles is 0.25 miles over 15 miles. I can get that kind of accuracy for free just looking for mile marker posts arbitrarily scattered along the trail where I like to run. 
But as I said, for a person who runs for fun, give or take a few hundred yards, this would be a fun gizmo to play with. I just don’t see why the appleheads are trying hard to prove that the thing is as good as a GPS. It is not, but it has its own place.
Does anyone have one yet and can report in???
Most “lower-caste” appleheads will get theirs in May. I suspect it is when the real user reports will start pouring in. 
W must be really low in steerage. His won’t arrive til June. (In fairness, it was the fault of the concierge who didnt get the order in on time!)
I thought it wasn’t releasing until April 24.
Lergnom, do you work for Apple?
The preorders ( one million watches that sold out the same day --April 10) are shipping on 4-24. The rest of the preorders will not ship out till June. Oh the things you learn at the genius bar.
The article I linked to notes that anyone who swims, does triathlons, etc. would not use this Watch. I wouldn’t calculate anything from a line in an article; you don’t know how accurately he’s describing what happened.
I don’t work for Apple.
I doubt there are 1 million pre-orders in the US; the number was extrapolated by an analytics firm out of a certain number of transactions. But I do like that Apple has made clear you can’t buy in-store because they don’t want lines for stuff that needs a higher level of cachet.
Only seven stores (across the globe) will actually have the watch today. One is the very upscale Maxfields here in LA. www.maxfieldla.com They are doing their best to fight that certain “je ne dork pas” associated with computer watches.
.“But I do like that Apple has made clear you can’t buy in-store because they don’t want lines for stuff that needs a higher level of cachet.”
Apple tried. But I just saw the line winding around the block at Maxfield.(broadcast on TV) Filled with the ususal suspects. Cachet? Not so much.
and correction: Only five stores have the watch --they are in LA, Paris, London, Tokyo and Berlin.
Didn’t they sell out? How does anyone have a watch to sell?
" How does anyone have a watch to sell?" Because Apple planned this from the beginning of the marketing strategy. That only five exclusive boutiques would have around 500 each to sell. So that Beyonce, Anna Wintour and Karl Lagerfeld would have theirs before you. That’s the cachet.
Do people have subscribe a new phone line to use the watch?