Apple Watch Launches

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The Apple Watch's release date has arrived: retailers around the world have quietly begun putting them on their shelves (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/24/us-apple-watch-launch-idUSKBN0NE2M020150424), and customers are beginning to receive their shipments. Reviews have been out for a while, including thoughtful ones from John Gruber (https://daringfireball.net/2015/04/the_apple_watch) and Nilay Patel (http://www.theverge.com/a/apple-watch-review). Apple has published a full user guide (http://help.apple.com/watch/) for the software, and iFixit has put up a full teardown to take a look at the hardware (https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Apple+Watch+Teardown/40655). They give it a repairability score of 5 out of 10, saying that the screen and battery are easily replaced, but not much else is. Though Apple designated the watch "water-resistant" rather than "waterproof", early tests show it's able to withstand a shower and a swim in the pool (http://9to5mac.com/2015/04/24/apple-watch-waterproofness-tested-unaffected-by-15-minutes-of-submersion-video/) without failing. Ars has an article about the difficulty of making games for the Apple Watch (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/04/microgames-the-promise-and-huge-challenge-of-developing-on-the-apple-watch/), and Wired has a piece detailing its creation (http://www.wired.com/2015/04/the-apple-watch/).

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