I've found the overall utility to be pretty huge, at least for me. 1. My default face includes my next appointment from my calendar. This is really useful. 2.

I've found the overall utility to be pretty huge, at least for me. 1. My default face includes my next appointment from my calendar. This is really useful. 2. Notifications are GREAT. Meeting coming up? Call coming in? Text? Important email? Something else (yeah, okay, I even let a game send me watch notifications)? It's useful to me to have this on my wrist. 3. Even better: Being able to easily acknowledge or even reply to texts from the watch is super, super useful to me. A good chunk of the appeal here is that I'm a cyclist, so I can do this at a stop light without needing to pull my phone out of my jersey pocket, but it's also great generally. 4. Quick access to things like timers, weather forecasts, my calendar, etc -- again, without reaching for my phone -- is a real boon. The way Apple has implemented this is natural and easy. 5. My initial use case was running + bike notifications, because my OG Pebble had died (which I always used when riding) and I was training for a half. I tried a lower-end Garmin, but it was pants. The S0 Apple Watch + the Strava app was GREAT for this, though. 6. It's hard to overstate how useful the watch is for remote control of music on the phone. I use this the most when I'm on my cycling trainer, but it's also great just generally, because it's always RIGHT THERE. 7. Finally, I will admit that I use the "make your phone emit a pinging sound" feature VERY often, because I tend to misplace it in my house. My wife, bless her heart, is very nice about not pointing out how often the resulting chime turns out to come from one of my pockets. 8. Ah, forgot about ApplePay! It's SO convenient from the watch. Using it from the phone is good, and still faster than a chip card (US), but paying from the watch is nearly frictionless. I love it.