Apple Watch 5 Review: Three Months Later
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 Published On Dec 21, 2019

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I’ve been using the Apple Watch Series 5 since just after Apple introduced it back in September of this year. In that time, I’ve used it awake and asleep, at home and while traveling, for movie tickets and boarding passes, to track physical activity and hydration, to control my home and stay in touch with the people I love, and to demonstrate its safety features probably more often than I should.

And, I’ve come to a few conclusions in that time.

I know, I know — conclusions are supposed to come at the end of a re-review, and not at the beginning, but just give this to me this one time.

It took Apple 5 years to nail the original iPhone concept. It would have been 4, but the new antenna system was better enough to push it to 5 for me.

I likewise, it took Apple 5 years to nail the original Watch concept. It also would have been 4, but the always-on display was, again, pivotal enough to push it for me.

In my Apple Watch Series 5 review, I said that the addition of always-on took it from being the best smartwatch in the world to being the best damn watch period. And, three months later, I stand by that. Absolutely. 100 percent.

But, it’s also something more: Not just the best watch of the year, but the best gadget of the decade.

Wait. I can feel your fingers just slamming into those comments. So, just wait.

I know some of you will argue the iPad, and that’s a really close second for me. But it’s more of an escalation when it comes to ultra-personal computing, not a revelation. Same for the iPhone 4 or 4s. Others will argue Alexa or Tesla, but those are still limited and problematic in as many ways as they’re miraculous. Still others, maybe AirPods, but I think those really have their most important decade ahead of them.

The Apple Watch was not only born smack dab in the middle of this decade, but constantly iterated and improved over the last five years with better performance, connectivity, edge-to-edgier display, and now… an always-on display. All of which are important. But more importantly. Most importantly. It does something no other piece of personal computing technology has done before, specifically, purposefully — it saves lives.

PCs, phones, tablets, all of them can and are used to save lives, of course, every day. But the Apple Watch was designed to save lives. It’s a main area of focus, a primary function, an industry-leading technology-as-health-empowerment.

Not just heart-rate monitoring. Not just fall detection. Not just all the research projects. Not just ECG or International SOS. Not any one feature but all of them. All… by… design. Which, to me, makes it stand out above and beyond, even by and from the company that gave us the iPhone.

And that’s why the Apple Watch, from inception to current culminating in Series 5, is the gadget of the decade, and the most important device Apple has ever made.

But… that doesn’t mean there aren’t still aspects left for me to complain about. The opposite, in fact. Because that’s what’ll lead Apple Watch to get even better in the next decade.

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Apple Watch 5 Review:    • Apple Watch Series 5 Review  

Apple Watch 5 One Month Later:    • Apple Watch 5 Review: One Month Later  

Apple Watch 3 in 2019:    • Apple Watch 3 Review in 2019  

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