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Apple Watch review round-up: Classy, slightly annoying, but not essential

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Apple Watch review round-up: Classy, slightly annoying, but not essential
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Lots and lots of reviews of the Apple Watch have just poured in like a million notifications, all bleeping at us at once.

Most of them have spent the past week with it and have written up similar impressions of the high-tech wristwear. Common criticism include it being expensive, fiddly to set-up, and can be very distracting when you don't want it to be.

But it's also described as being the best smartwatch right now. However, it's not good enough to convince anyone who doesn't want this latest wearable tech to invest in it.

No doubt you want to be informed as possible to what the general opinion of Apple's next piece of stylish tech is ahead of its April 24th launch.

So, to further help you out, we've picked out the most pertinent bits of the various reviews for you to read.

You'll find those below...

Apple Watch The New York Times

"What’s most thrilling about the Apple Watch, unlike other smartwatches I've tried, is the way it invests a user with a general sense of empowerment. If Google brought all of the world's digital information to our computers, and the iPhone brought it to us everywhere, the Watch builds the digital world directly into your skin. It takes some time getting used to, but once it clicks, this is a power you can't live without."

The Wall Street Journal

"The big reason many people—even many Apple fans—will skip the Apple Watch is that it’s too new. There isn't yet a world of apps and services beyond Apple’s own, with independent developers' sparks of genius showing us all the things a smartwatch can be."

Bloomberg

"The watch is not life-changing. It is, however, excellent. Apple will sell millions of these devices, and many people will love and obsess over them. It is a wonderful component of a big ecosystem that the company has carefully built over many years. It is more seamless and simple than any of its counterparts in the marketplace. It is, without question, the best smartwatch in the world."

Mashable

"Apple Watch does as much, maybe more, than competing smartwatches, but it doesn’t demand that you pay attention to it. It also succeeded in its most important task: Getting me to keep my iPhone in my pocket. That’s a pretty impressive feat."

The Verge

"There’s no question that the Apple Watch is the most capable smartwatch available today. It is one of the most ambitious products I've ever seen; it wants to do and change so much about how we interact with technology. But that ambition robs it of focus: it can do tiny bits of everything, instead of a few things extraordinarily well. For all of its technological marvel, the Apple Watch is still a smartwatch, and it’s not clear that anyone’s yet figured out what smartwatches are actually for."

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