At first glance: Initial thoughts after my first 96 hours with the Apple Watch

When the UPS driver dropped the package off at my home last Tuesday, I immediately became so filled with anxiety that I decided to wait a day before unboxing and configuring my new smartwatch.

Call it a 24-hour ‘cooling off’ period — as if the five week-wait for Apple to process and ship my 42mm Milanese Loop thanks to a lengthy backorder wasn’t enough. I suppose I wanted to take just a bit longer to fully contemplate this new marriage I was about to leap into.

Albeit an arranged marriage of sorts.

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Victor Hernandez  
   
Nonresidential fellow

Victor Hernandez devoted eight months to exploring the impact of wearable technology on newsrooms as a 2015-2016 RJI Fellow.