While I understand, to a point, your comment, the fact remains that anyone only has those two options: buy it and live with the perceived shortcomings or buy something else. It really is a simple, albeit binary, choice.
If Apple does indeed "hear the roar of the crowd", those who purchased generation 1 are still stuck, as the root cause appears to be at least partly battery life.
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It feels like this is a high jack of the OP's thread, and I am a participant. I am not sure if my point is clearly being expressed based up your response. I am not debating that there are two choices in front of every consumer, essentially, to buy or not to buy (we all know that those are options). What I am discussing is a person going on an
internet thread in the hopes of gleaning information. The OP did not ask should he buy or not. He asked a sundry of questions and shared a frustration regarding the missing sleep tracking functionality. The responses did not address his questions or expand his knowledge in anyway.
Being stuck with a generation 1 product has no bearing in this situation because the watch was purchased knowing what it can and cannot do. If someone bought the watch and complained about a missing function, that would be silly on their part. If someone bought the watch and complains that the generation 2 is better, that would be a double dose of silly.
To answer the OP's most recent post.
I sure hope they will allow 3rd party apps. During the keynote they shared that they had 1000 apps seeking approval, maybe one of these uses the current sensors to track sleep. I also read that the sensors available on the IPhone are also on the watch, minus gps, which is why it is able to function with out the phone. I theorize that if the phone can track sleep with its current sensors so can the watch.
Will they allow an app that drains battery, or causes a concern for battery life, or battery complaints? I do not think a sleep tracker should cause significant battery life. I always understood that the screen and the radios are the main culprits in draining a battery. I believe (zero foundation) that Apple did not include the sleep tracker because the watch is listed for 18 hours. If they added that option I personally would complain "How can it track sleep if it dies, blah blah blah"?