content: For a lot of people it certainly is.  Those are t  7000  he people who go with the flashier upscale models. For me, I have had a kickstarter pebble for a couple of years.  Notifications on the wrist are the killer app (well besides checking the time) Everything else is just icing to me.  I've had a Space Gray Sport in 42mm for over a month now.  $400 isn't crazy expensive in terms of watches or gadgets.  It's pretty subdued and hasn't attracted any more attention than my black kickstarter pebble did.    The battery life is kind of lame when you are used to only charging once a week.  But the additional functionality is IMO worth it. That added functionality is still rather paltry, there aren't many good apps yet and most of the apps available at launch were developed by people who had never seen the thing in person before releasing them. But the potential is there, and even with the current paltry features it's still more feature rich than the pebble.  Some of this (better notification interaction/support) is due to Apple having deeper access to the phone OS than pebble ever had. The biggest improvement to me over the pebble is the voice control functionality.  Siri on the watch for whatever reason is way more accurate in my experience than on the phone and others have mentioned this as well.  Other than that the other biggest differentiator is the Apple Pay stuff; that shit seems like a gimmick but it's actually very handy and incredibly convenient. There are other little things that seem kinda useless but prove themselves to occasionally be quite handy as well like taking (very quick) calls on the wrist. So no, it's not a totally useless bauble, but it's not what it could be yet either. I have the precious status symbol!  AMA.