Now I have an Apple Watch icon that I CANNOT delete! I have less than no interest in an Apple watch. I hope Apple does a huge face plant with this watch. IMO, people are going to be more distracted while driving if they wear one because it will be right there next to the steering wheel and I suspect it will take two hands to do things with it and it certainly will require the user to look at it.
Besides that it starts at 350.00 and goes up to 17,000.00 so the people, especially kids whose parents get them one will always feel inferior because there will always be those few parents who want their kid to have the best. It will add to the caste or class system that comes so natural to the young. It is just a bad idea IMO. Not to mention that you could spent 2k on a really nice watch that will not become obsolete... and if you spent 10k or more on a watch it certainly would not need to be charged every 15 hours or so and certainly wouldn't lose value, well maybe some, I don't really know but when a new Apple Watch comes out the old ones will need to be replaced... I don't know but I think that this business model can only be stretched so far before people get fed up with it, except for some who will like anything with a bitten piece of fruit on it.
There is something else I don't like about it but I can't seem to put my finger on it or put it into words... it just seems wrong to me.
 
Oh, and then there is the inherent danger of wearing a high end Apple Watch. You think you could get mugged for your new Air Jordans??? This will be worse. IMO.
It is just a bad idea generally. Probably a good idea for Apple's bottom line, but I really hope not. They are talking about 300 grams of gold on and in some of these watches. That is nearly 11 OZ of gold, that is nearly 3/4 of a pound or a little under 1/3 kilo of gold?? Really? Who would wear over a half pound of gold on their wrist? That is like walking around with 10k in 100 dollar bills sticking out of your shirt pocket. Seems stupid and dangerous to me but what do I know?
Maybe if they come out with a Boyd Crowder tribute pocket watch, I'll be interested... in the nickel model.
 
I'll have to search to see if I can get this AW icon OFF my phone, I do not want to look at it. It is like they put an AD on my phone desktop that I cannot remove. I know I don't have to open it but I still have to see it sitting there.
 
OK, rant over!
 

I can't bring myself to get worked up about it. Personally I hate wearing anything on my wrist and my phone is perfectly adequate for my communication and mobile computing needs. If I found myself buying a smart watch just so I wouldn't have to reach into my bag or pocket for a phone then I'd probably think about reevaluating my life. 
 
People have been wearing expensive designer watches since forever and I don't recall them ever sparking an epidemic of violent crime, no more than anything else that's worth pinching. But I probably wouldn't walk around the South Bronx with one. 
 
The bottom line is that some people will find a use for these, buy them and be happy. There will be some people who buy them for the status - a fool and their money are soon parted, and I have no problem with that whatsoever. Others like you and me will give them a miss and spend our hard earned wonga on something way more interesting, like yet another vintage compressor we probably don't need. 
 
As for the icon - do you not have a "crap" folder hidden away on screen 3 or 4, into which you put all of your undeletable icons? I've got 'em all in there. Doesn't bother me because it's on the third screen and all the apps I ever need are on screens 1 and 2 (I have the giant iPhone now so I can get a lot more icons on the home screen). 

I remember watching a Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson movie a little while ago about those two guys who are somewhat left behind in terms of technology - the movie opens up w/ them trying to sell the idea of a watch to the CEO of a big company and him pointing out just how obsolete watches are nowadays... Funny thing is that they end up w/ an internship at Google.
 
I have Macs, Apple TV and iPhones but I don't get the idea of a watch. People already have everything on their phones, which rarely ever leaves them in most cases. A watch is redundant.  And Apple themselves kind of acknowledged that people wanted bigger devices with the new iPhone.
 
Me I am just a dinosaur. My phone stays at home 99% of the time if I get out. I don't even carry it around in the house. If I'm out in the backyard with a book, I am 100% disconnected.
 
I remember fondly the days where there was one phone in the house, and if you drove off on the weekend, there was essentially no mean to reach you. No answering machine, no e-mail, no nothing. People just called back at another time. What a great concept! 
 
I don't know, I'm just not getting the point.
 
I am not sure whether it will increase distraction on the road or just diversify the sources. I still see people texting and talking on their phone every time we get out. Cars themselves are not helping. Our new jeep comes with a color screen that's almost as big as my first tv - the whole media center, with GPS and Yelp reviews and whatever it is you can imagine. There's enough menus and submenus in there to spend hours.
 

sharke
As for the icon - do you not have a "crap" folder hidden away on screen 3 or 4, into which you put all of your undeletable icons? I've got 'em all in there.

 
^This
 
 
As to the watch, if I wanted to go the smart watch route I'd get the new Pebble that's coming out over the Apple:
 
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-time-awesome-smartwatch-no-compromises?
 

How soon before someone gets fined for using a smart watch behind the wheel?
 
https://www.gov.uk/using-mobile-phones-when-driving-the-law

Shambler
How soon before someone gets fined for using a smart watch behind the wheel?
 
https://www.gov.uk/using-mobile-phones-when-driving-the-law

Not soon enough I'm afraid. I see people using their phones behind the wheel ALL the time. It's not as if they had any attention/faculties to spare in the first place...

Rain
 
I remember fondly the days where there was one phone in the house, and if you drove off on the weekend, there was essentially no mean to reach you. No answering machine, no e-mail, no nothing. People just called back at another time. What a great concept! 
 
I don't know, I'm just not getting the point.
 
 

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Me too. I ran a business for years without computers or cellphones. If I was 'out', the office would say 'James is out, he'll call you back later''. Everything was fine. I don't get this need to be contactable, every minute of the day.
 
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My iPhone replaced my watch and I see no sense in carrying both. I have gotten very used to not having something strapped to my wrist.

Yep, voice mail works great.

The other thing that I don't get these days is when you put your "out of office" on, saying you are on vacation...and then people act surprised that you are not responding to them. People have no patience any more.

In some lines of work you have to have instant communication to stay competitive. I get emails requesting quotes and if I don't answer within 5 minutes, they'll go with someone who contacted them straight away. I also get job requests through the Thumbtack website which allows 5 companies to respond to a quote request. I swear I have sometimes responded in 2 minutes and have been told "This person has already received 5 quotes."

I wish I could be more laid back about email and phone calls but these days I'd go out of business if I left my phone at home.