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The Apple Watch Demo_  by [Jack Linshi](https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Mar 9, 2015 8:59 PM UTC  by [Jack Linshi](https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Mar 9, 2015 8:59 PM UTC Apple’s special event on Monday revealed a bunch of [new details about the Apple Watch](http://time.com/3736794/apple-watch-details/). But there’s one thing that we won’t know anytime soon: How successful will it be? Unlike sales of the iPhone 6, Apple Watch sales ([starting Apr. 24](http://time.com/3737714/apple-watch-release-date-april/)) are hard to forecast for two main reasons: the device is the first of its kind for Apple, and the smartwatch market itself is still developing. Just take a look at the latest [estimates for Apple Watch sales in 2015](http://fortune.com/2015/03/02/how-many-watches-will-apple-sell-in-2015-a-fortune-survey/), care of _Fortune’s_ Philip Elmer-DeWitt: Very smart people are guessing Apple will sell anywhere from 8 million units all the way to 41 million, with an average of 22.6 million. Consider the last time Apple entered a totally new product category: that was back in [Apr. 3, 2010, when the first iPad hit the market.](https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/03/05iPad-Available-in-US-on-April-3.html) At that time, the closest relatives of the highly-anticipated iPad (named [one of TIME’s 50 Best Inventions of 2010](http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2029497%5F2030652%5F2029804,00.html)) were really only distant cousins, like Microsoft’s ill-received slate-style Tablet PC. As a result, it was basically impossible to forecast iPad sales without understanding how the new device would actually fit into consumers’ lives—the central question surrounding the Apple Watch. With tablets, users have wound up keeping their iPads and other devices far longer than their smartphones — and later, users started buying big-screen smartphones instead of iPads. These [trends seem like no-brainers today,](http://time.com/3733866/apple-ipad-tablet/) but they weren’t so obvious without data to work from. So how far off were early iPad sales predictions? Months before the iPad’s April 2010 release, Elmer-DeWitt [surveyed analysts about their estimates for iPad sales in 2010 and 2011](http://fortune.com/2010/01/28/how-many-ipads-will-apple-sell/). It turns out their pre-release estimates were way off from Apple’s actual sales: Of course, analysts’ estimates improved after the iPad posted massive sales in [its first quarter (Q3 2010) on the market](http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/07/20Apple-Reports-Third-Quarter-Results.html). When Elmer-DeWitt polled analysts again for their [estimates of the iPad’s Q4 2010 sales](http://fortune.com/2010/10/05/how-many-ipads-has-apple-really-sold/), their estimates were way closer to Apple’s actual sales: So what does this means for the Apple Watch? As many people have said before, the [Apple Watch’s success is anyone’s guess](http://time.com/3737592/apple-watch-sales/) at this point. But if Apple Watch estimates play out like those of the iPad, then our current guesses might just be totally wrong. ### 11 Amazing Features of the Apple Watch  The Apple Watch is the company's' first entirely new product category since the original iPad. It's a huge gamble for Apple and a test of the still-nascent wearable market. Stephen Lam—Reuters/Corbis  The Watch is the most customizable and varied product Apple has likely ever launched. It'll come in three editions made of different metals and be available with multiple snap-in wrist bands. Prices start at $349. Justin Sullivan—Getty Images  The Watch has a touch interface that can sense the difference between a light touch and hard press. But it also has a "digital crown" that allows users to quickly scroll through lists without obscuring the screen. Justin Sullivan—Getty Images  The Watch must be paired with an iPhone for many of its functions. The device piggybacks on the phone's data and GPS connections to pipe in directions or incoming voice calls and text messages, for instance. Stephen Lam—Reuters  The Watch, like Apple's other iDevices, will have various independent apps. Examples include a Tesla app that shows the status of your electric car when it's charging and a Starwood app that lets the Watch act as your room key. Stephen Lam—Reuters  Apple's fitness app, one of the device's main selling points, tracks runs, walks and bike rides. Stephen Lam—Reuters  The Watch also can track your heart rate (while resting, while active) throughout the day thanks to these light sensors on the back. Koichi Mitsui—AFLO/Corbis  It also has Apple Pay, the company's digital payments platform. Swipe the Watch in front of a compatible kiosk and it will make an automatic online payment. Justin Sullivan—Getty Images  CEO Tim Cook has said the Watch will last about a day before it needs to be recharged. So far, battery life has been the biggest downside of most wearables. The Watch recharges through the magnetic system shown here. Justin Sullivan—Getty Images  The Watch will come with many customizable bands that slip on and click in place at the top and bottom of the device's body. Justin Sullivan—Getty Images  It also comes in two sizes, 38mm and 42mm, to fit on different size wrists. Monica Davey—EPA  Higher-end models of the watch could cost several thousands of dollars. Stephen Lam—Reuters  Apple is significantly expanding it's product reach. Justin Sullivan—Getty Images  And there's one more thing... David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty Images  It tells the time. Marcio Jose Sanchez—AP ## Transcript I'm really excited to show you Apple Watch in action. And using Apple Watch during the day is really about brief interactions. Many of these are just a few seconds long. So to give you a sense of what it's like to use these apps on the watch we're going to use some moments in time, kind of like a day in the life of Apple Watch if you will. So let's start out at work. So here I am at work and I like to be able to look at my watch without pulling my phone out all the time. And I can see important notifications, messages from V- I- Ps, quick looks at information with glances. Some glances I might look at here, for example I can just swipe up from the bottom. I can see the current stock market. I can see some business information using Salesforce Wave here, I can look at sports scores using MLB. com's At Bat glance, and I can see, the top trend on Twitter, which is, I guess this event right now, which is great, and then this is the American Airlines glance so I can look at upcoming trips. So for example, I might be going to New York pretty soon, and I can see my departure information here. Now that actually reminds me, I've got some questions about New York, so I'm going to ask Siri here. I'll just start Siri by pressing the chrome. What's the temperature in New York? Oh, it's getting warmer there. Now I've I can also interact with Siri just using my voice, like this. Hey Siri, how about the rest of the week? Oh, it looks like I've got a good forecast here. It's pretty cloudy though so I'm going to remind myself to bring an umbrella. I'll use Siri for that too. Hey Siri, remind me to pack my umbrella when I get home. Great. It's creating a little reminder for me. And I can see that. So when I get home I will remember to pack the right thing. It's great to use Siri to make yourself remember things throughout the day like that. Oh, I see I've got a message coming in. I get messages with a variety of apps. This one is from We Chat. It's a friend of mine from China I'm going to be meeting for dinner. At it looks like he's picked a place, Fig & Olive. I can reply just by tapping on a button on the notification. It opens the WeChat app on my watch. And there's the thread. I can reply with a text message. Or WeChat has these great stickers. So I'm going to tap here to pick a sticker. They have a bunch of selections here. I like these. They're called ChewyHams. And they're pretty cool. Three butive as you can see. I think I will go with this one right here. So it's going to stick that right in the reply, I think that will, I get the message across. Now, when I'm at work, I tend to sit a lot while I'm working or in meetings and sometimes I forget to stand up. and Apple Watch will help me do that. You'll get a notification much like this one, you can turn these off if you like, but I have them on so I remember, and if you already get up and stand, of course it won't let you know. It knows that you did. So that's a really great way to interact with the watch while you're at work. Now if you go to lunch or wanna pick up dinner on the way home, you might go to Whole Foods. Well you can use Apple Watch to actually pay for things while you're checking out. I've got my credit cards right inside my watch. To bring one up all I have to do double tap the side button it brings up my credit card. And then I just put my watch near the merchant terminal and I've paid, that's it, I'm done. Super simple to pay with Apple Watch. Now since we're not actually at Whole Foods right now I have a merchant terminal right here. This is a little handheld one. So when you put your watch next to the scanner it'll do this. That's it, you're done, super easy to use Apple Watch. And you don't have to [ APPLAUSE ]. [ APPLAUSE ] It's a lot of fun to use. And you don't have to bring the watch face and touch the merchant terminal. As soon as you get close to it, you'll get the audible noise that you heard and you also get hepatic feedback on your wrist. So you know the transaction was done. Super super easy to do. Now when I'm going home I might want to put my phone down. And I like to be able to walk around my house. and I can still stay in touch with my Apple watch, and I don't have to have my phone with me all the time. I also like to change my watch face, and I can do that by just force pressing on the screen here and swipe over to another one. I like to use the Mickey face, so I'll select that one. There we go, that's a lot of fun. Now I can get notifications, of course, while I'm at home, or incoming photos from my friends. Or if I like I can just glance at that as well. I could just swipe up here and in just a second I can see some images, recent photos from my friends on Instagram. And if I'd like to see a little bit more I can tap on that glance. It takes me to the Instagram app on my Apple Watch. And here I can see some photos. Some really beautiful photos right on the watch face here. But I can use the crown to quickly scroll through them to see one that I might like. Oh, here's a nice forest photo. If I tap on that, I can see more information. This one's about Muir woods. You can see 54 people have liked it. I'll like it too, I just tap on the heart there. And now I've, I've liked that photo. So it's a lot of fun to use apps like Instagram right in your watch, super easy and, and quick. Now earlier today I left my dog for a haircut, and I'm expecting to get a call to see when he's ready. I don't wanna miss that call, of course so, so here comes a phone call right now. Bow Wow Meow. No I can answer this on my watch, or I can send a message and reply or answer on my iPhone if I'd like. I'm going to answer right on my Apple watch. Hi, this is Kevin. Hi Kevin this is Sarah calling from Bow Wow Meow, your dog food is ready to be picked up. Okay, great. I'll be right over as the soon as the event is done. Okay. [ LAUGH ] Okay, see you soon. Bye. Okay, thank you. [ LAUGH ] Bye. Bye. [ APPLAUSE ]. [ APPLAUSE ] Really easy to take those calls wherever you are. And the great thing is that Apple Watch communicates with your iPhone over WiFi as well as Bluetooth so when you're home you don't have to be within Bluetooth range of your phone. You can be anywhere in your house and still get all of your messages and take your phone calls just like that. Super cool. Now, if I was going to go to the airport, I might wanna call a car, so let's look at doing that with Uber. So I just press the crown to go to my home screen, and over here I have an Uber app. And it will show me, I've got a car within two minutes, I'll press Request and it's going to actually summon a car right here from watch, at the corner of 20th and Dolores here in San Francisco. Looks like there's one right around the corner. My driver's name is Scott. He's pretty close so I think we're going to get a notification in a second here about him arriving. There it is. So you just get the notification on your wrist, it taps you to let you know the car is coming, and the notification has the license plate number, a photo of the car. So you know you're getting in the right car when he arrives. So a lot of fun to be able to call a car like that. Now, what I also like is when I'm traveling to an airport I can use my Apple watch to get through security. So when I get near the airport my boarding pass will just show up right here in my notifications. There's one from American. If I tap on it you can see my flight information, my seat number, everything you need to check in, including a bar code that I can use to just wave in front of the scanner and get through security. [ APPLAUSE ] That's really great, because that's one less thing to hold on to, you know, when you're trying to get through the airport. Now, when I'm leaving, I also like to send my wife a, a little goodbye note. So I'm going to do that with Digital Touch. So I'll just press the side button here. And it brings up my friends. I can use the crown here to select, somebody to send a note to. There's my wife. Now I can call her, send a message or I can use Digital Touch. I'm going to draw a little photo, picture for her. So I'll pick a nice color, and I'm gonna draw a nice little flower. So that way, she knows I'm thinking of her as I'm flying. All right, so that's sent off to my wife now. Now, when I arrive at my hotel room, I'll also get a notification when I get near hotels. Like Spg's W hotel. And here's my reservation for the hotel room right here. So you can see it's got all the information I need to check in, my confirmation number, my room number. You can see these are really rich notifications. They have images, they have great typography, a rich layout and this not only looks great and reflects. Reflects the brand of a company. But it also makes it easier for you to understand very quickly. And you can act on these. In this case, I can use this to unlock my door right from the notification on my watch. So I press unlock your door, and I can bypass the front desk entirely, go directly to my room, and then my watch is my room key. I just wave it in front of the door, and I go into my room. Isn't that cool? [ APPLAUSE ] [ MUSIC ] Now when I go into my room, sometimes, you know, they having music playing when you walk into a hotel room. So this one has some music playing and I'm what the song is. So I'm going to find out using my watch and Shazam on my watch. [ MUSIC ] [ APPLAUSE ] Isn't that cool? [ APPLAUSE ] So it's a simple press of the Shazam button. I see the song, the album art, I can see the lyrics. The lyrics are in sync with the song that's being played right now. Really super cool, and super easy to do. Now when I'm travelling, I might receive some messages as well. And here's one coming in from Maddie. Saying that she's forgot her key and can't get in the house. Now I can actually take care of this from my watch. So I'm gonna reply, and say, it's going to be okay. I'll use dictation to do that. It's okay, I'll open the garage door for you. I can send that back to Maddie. now I can send that as an audio of my voice actually speaking or I can send it back as the text, I'll send the text. So that's gone off to Maddie now, and now I can actually control the garage door remotely with my watch. I've got this great app from Alarm. com. And, my garage door is hooked up there, and you can I've got my information about my house. The locks are locked, the garage door is closed right now. if I'd like to change this, I can just tap on the garage area here, and, act, I have a camera, as well, pointed at the garage door, and I'm seeing a live feed of the garage door here, right now. Well, it's an Open button. So let's open the door for Mandy. So open the door. It's gonna send the command to my garage door and it should open. There it goes. Live feed. [ APPLAUSE ] [ APPLAUSE ] It looks like Betty has a friend with her right now and she's able to get inside. That's great. So, these are just a few examples of the great apps being made for Apple Watch. And a really big focus of our time here has been on saving you time in these moments in your life. When you're using the watch to make it really delightful. And we're super excited to see what developers are gonna do with this great new platform. Thank you very much. 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