In the last month - I put my Apple Watch through hell - took it swimming every day for 1 hour on vacation in a salt water pool. Spend 7 days in the furnace that is a Vegas summer. Spend a weekend cleaning out a horders house where the white band got covered in black "dirt". It never once failed me. A little dish soap and my fingers to clean the band and it's as white as the day I got it. If I did that to my Tagg Heuer watch I'd spend 2 hours with q-tips and jewelry cleaner trying to get it clean.
Plus - it let me check notifications, answer phone calls and the time without taking my phone into the pool; or without getting my phone dirty while cleaning out the house. It was get answering a phone call while in the pool and my phone was on a lounge chair 20 feet away.
I can't wash my phone; I can't take it in the pool and nor do I want to touch it when my hands are dirty. It's an incredible piece of electronics. So what - I charge it every night. Show me a real iPhone user that doesn't charge their phone every night - and if they don't, their charging it as soon as they wake up.
... This is Tim Cook's Apple now - and I think Tim Cook is doing a lot of things Steve Jobs didn't want to do (the iPad Pro stylus, the keyboard, 6plus, iPad multitasking, etc...) So there will for sure be a bit of catch-up to be done.
It's not who does it first. It's who does it better.