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by KyleBrandt 2705 days ago
One other common terminology, any additional features are often called "complications".

In particular others like me might enjoy the UTC/GMT complication, which often has a hand that goes around the watch once every 24 hours and can be set to another timezone like UTC.

On another pro-watch note, I've discovered that a non-smartwatch has an pretty amazing feature: the ability to check the time without seeing any sort of notification.

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Now I know why Apple watch features are called 'complications', thank you.
I didn't know that. Seems like quite a brave decision to name them that way, as "complication" is likely to have a pejorative meaning for many users. Imagine if web apps were called complications.
Yes, a brave decision indeed; I was wondering how it was approved till I read the connection today.