Offer not valid if I do an hour of exercise during the day, or game heavily (I've been known to zone out on 2048 pretty hardcore), but for normal use, sure.

Apple Watch isn't trying to be anything other than a charge-daily device, it's honestly kind of incredible that something that small can be a full-fledged cell phone and still last a full day.

It charges pretty quickly; quickly enough in my experience that even if I forget to charge it one day and I find it dead at an inconvenient time, I can usually throw it in a charger for long enough to get through the rest of the day without much inconvenience. I’ve had my series 5 for about 18 months and in that time, only once have I had it die on me when I was trying to use it.

If I ever go back to working in an office, my use pattern might change, but for the most part I think the inconvenience of charging daily is overstated.

Edit: It also will notify you 1 hour before your configured bedtime if it doesn’t have enough juice to get through the night. I thought this was silly when they announced it but in practice it is great.

As of right now I usually don't use an alarm to wake up. I just wake up. Or I use a standard audio alarm on the phone. But I guess that's kind of a cop-out answer?

The vibration alarm was nice, not a must-have considering I had to wear something around my wrist when I slept: not as comfortable as not doing that.

I disagree with you about the concept of smartwatches that should be "thin terminals." The things I don't miss about my Pebble classic involve how basic it was.

I can totally understand someone wanting much more of a basic device with time, fitness tracking, basic notifications, long battery life, and that's about it. However, I think that in the scope of what is marketable to the general public, it's a more of a niche.

I think that most people:

1. Don't actually want to sleep with any jewelry (watches) on.

2. Aren't deep into fitness tracking beyond the basics, i.e. they wouldn't sleep with jewelry on just to get sleep tracking. For most people fitness tracking means a few graphs and figures that make them feel good about themselves for getting on a treadmill for 20 minutes.

3. Choose their watch based on the fact that it's a piece of jewelry. In my mind, Apple gained a lot of early traction (and high-margin revenue) by focusing on the fashion part of it with the way the bands are easily changeable.

Pebble wouldn't have folded if they had considered how high-margin the jewelry business usually is. The original Pebble should have been designed with replaceable bands like the Apple Watch. They shouldn't have said "oh hey these are standard sized bands, just buy your own!" They just surrendered revenue right out the gate!

4. Want something that's more of a general purpose extension of their smartphone.

In the long term, I don't see a huge amount of reason why smartwatches can't entirely replace the smartphone, at least for the people who aren't interested in content consumption, or to give people flexibility to leave their phone at home for evenings out or other situations.

Apple Watch does do sleep tracking. I've heard reports from people of success with just charging the Apple Watch while they're in the shower or getting ready every day. If you take something like 30 minutes to get ready you'll never need to charge the watch at night.