The Apple Watch, launched on April 24, 2015, was not the first of its kind in fitness or smartphone watch applications, which had been around for over a few decades. It has, indeed, set an altogether new benchmark in the industry and reformed much of what fitness trackers are today. Tim Cook, when introducing the device, pitched the vision that he would create the best possible watch for the world.
Although ‘best’ is subjective, the Apple Watch has left its mark as the most desired world watch today- that’s both in terms of existing market share as well as units sold in its history. It is very likely that even Cook himself would have imagined the grand way in which Apple is transforming and transforming forever the concept of fitness-i.e. this becomes the must-have wearable for all those who want to measure and improve their health, fitness, and lifelong well-being.
Jay Blahnik, Apple’s vice president of fitness technologies responsible for developing fitness features across hardware, software, and services at Apple, reflects, “Looking back at its inception, we could never have predicted how far the watch would go in influencing people’s health.” But do not just believe that on the combative words of some Apple spokesperson.
As a veteran fitness editor who’ve worn an Apple Watch for practically all of its decade-long existence, I can vouch that, relying on the core features-and, indeed, powerfully design-within a framework based on behavioral psychology knowing human nature, the Apple Watch still is, in my opinion, the best fitness tracker out there and much of use to serious exercisers.
It might boast all sorts of complex metrics and accuracy, but it does not attend to the holistic well-being of its user. In the end, it is consistency, rather than the minutiae or intensity of your workouts, which will be the actual cornerstone of building fitness over a lifetime. Which is exactly why the Apple Watch should be the first piece of wearable tech anyone should get.
