Jean-Louis Gassée, writing for Monday Note:

Laying out the Apple Watch Concepts and Facilities isn’t hard. Borrowing from Horace Dediu’s The Battle For The Wrist and Ben Thompson’s Apple Watch And Continuous Computing, and having followed a path similar to Farhad Manjoo’s Bliss, but Only After a Steep Learning Curve, I now have a structured mental picture:

• The watch face and its “complications” (a term inherited from traditional watchmaking) showing additional information such as activity level, weather or calendar.
• Notifications, pings from applications from apps such as Messages, voice-mail or Uber
• Glances at the bottom of the screen: a series of quickly accessed views into things such as heart rate, stocks, schedule, a world clock or music playing.
• The Applications layer accessed with one click of the Watch crown, they range from monitoring one’s physical activity to Maps, Messages, Mail, Twitter, Uber, Yelp and others.
• And under everything Siri allows input into activities hard to access through the small screen, such as dialing a call, looking for a place on the map or replying to a message.

Through trial and error, I got the hang of the key building blocks and their customization through the companion app on the iPhone. Once I got there, life became pleasant.

There’s lots to process here. There’s both good and bad, but mostly good, and always interesting.