After Apple's latest sermon showing off all their new trinkets and gadgets, they unleashed their new watch on the assembled tech press to give them a feel for how it would work. What happened instead was the world's journalists all standing in a line so that a well-briefed Apple employee could show them how to actually operate the thing. \ The interface is largely touchscreen, but aided by a spinning wheel similar to the early iPod's trackwheel called a "digital crown", and a home button. Both are placed right next to each other and are virtually impossible to differentiate in terms of use. Early reviews consist of people not having a clue what one does that the other doesn't, and simply pressing them both in the hope it'll have the desired effect. The beauty of Apple previous products was that anybody could pick them up and immediately start using them, but so far their watch effort looks like it's going to need a set of instructions you can carry around if you want to get the most out of it.
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