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Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch

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Re: Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch

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Post by lelanthran »

slimebot80 wrote: post #32

Bought a watch to monitor fitness, then settles on a Casio that doesn't? Retro Casios look great, to be fair. But, IMO, knowing the time isn't something I need to be solved on my wrist anymore given everyone carries phones.

> But, IMO, knowing the time isn't something I need to be solved on my wrist anymore given everyone carries phones.

It varies; I like checking the time when my hands are full. Wristwatches got much more useful to me when my kid was born - with babies you almost never have a hand free to dip into your pocket just to check the time.

When I'm working on my car, or playing guitar, or just about anything interesting, my hands are full so it's nice to have the time on my wrist.

Re: Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch

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Post by zcw100 »

John23832 wrote: post #36

I really like my Apple Watch. I use it for what it is, a glorified fitness tracker with additional "communicator" tech. My only request would be that they make an "Apple bracelet" so that I can wear my nice mechanical watches. It's a pain to jump back and forth because the power reserves on the mechanicals will die, and resetting the time (or worst the date complication) is annoying.

Why don't you use a mechanical watch winder? https://www.amazon.com/s?k=automatic+wrist+watch+winder&hvad...

Re: Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch

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Post by zcw100 »

I don't get it. You need to charge your phone anyway. You just make that part of the phone charging routine. I have a MagSafe triple charger next to my bed that I throw my phone, watch and AirPods on before I go to bed and everything's good for the next day. I also have a compact MagSafe triple charger for traveling that I keep in my go bag.

Re: Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch

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Post by meyum33 »

Love the Apple Watch. But yeah battery is huge drag to the otherwise lovely experience. It's barely enough to start with. Now after three years, at 79% of original capacity, it's become annoying. I actually cannot think of a watchOS function that can't be done in monocrhome. I miss my old Fitbit which could be charged during a shower before lasting almost a week.

Re: Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch

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Post by sigilis »

John23832 wrote: post #36

I really like my Apple Watch. I use it for what it is, a glorified fitness tracker with additional "communicator" tech. My only request would be that they make an "Apple bracelet" so that I can wear my nice mechanical watches. It's a pain to jump back and forth because the power reserves on the mechanicals will die, and resetting the time (or worst the date complication) is annoying.

Wear two watches and your problems are largely solved. You can even take off the Apple one for fancy events where you want to look like less of a… two watch wearer.

Re: Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch

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Post by NoGravitas »

slimebot80 wrote: post #32

Bought a watch to monitor fitness, then settles on a Casio that doesn't? Retro Casios look great, to be fair. But, IMO, knowing the time isn't something I need to be solved on my wrist anymore given everyone carries phones.

There's a reason wrist watches largely displaced pocket watches, and as far as telling the time goes, a phone is basically a pocket watch. I would like a fitness monitoring watch, and used a PineTime for it for a while. But having a completely bulletproof timepiece is more important, and a retro Casio fulfills that need in spades.

Re: Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch

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Post by sigilis »

keymon-o wrote: post #10
ChatGTP wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a wireless charger next to my bed, I go into the shower, put it on there, come back and it's good for another day or so.

Forces you to shower in order to use a watch Nice feature

Plus the robot vacuum in the article forces you to clean up your floors instead of letting all the Lego bricks and objects build up.

The smart devices really help us improve our lives.

Re: Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch

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Post by tmottabr »

zcw100 wrote: post #43

I don't get it. You need to charge your phone anyway. You just make that part of the phone charging routine. I have a MagSafe triple charger next to my bed that I throw my phone, watch and AirPods on before I go to bed and everything's good for the next day. I also have a compact MagSafe triple charger for traveling that I keep in my go bag.

That is the ideal solution, but some people use it to track sleep, that require you to have it in your wrist while sleeping instead of charging.

For some time i used my older Serie 3 for sleep tracking while the serie 6 charged for the day, then the Serie 3 would charge during the day. That until they released the updated sleep tracker that was not available for the serie 3.

Now I personally charge mine while i am in the shower. But i have the battery run out on me some times.

Re: Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch

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Post by tzs »

tmottabr wrote: post #48
zcw100 wrote: post #43

I don't get it. You need to charge your phone anyway. You just make that part of the phone charging routine. I have a MagSafe triple charger next to my bed that I throw my phone, watch and AirPods on before I go to bed and everything's good for the next day. I also have a compact MagSafe triple charger for traveling that I keep in my go bag.

That is the ideal solution, but some people use it to track sleep, that require you to have it in your wrist while sleeping instead of charging. For some time i used my older Serie 3 for sleep tracking while the serie 6 charged for the day, then the Serie 3 would charge during the day. That until they released the updated sleep tracker that was not available for the serie 3. Now I personally charge mine while i am in…

I use my Series 4 for sleep tracking.

I normally have it in Theater Mode so that the display is off except when I explicitly touch it or press a button [1]. That saves a lot of power.

In the evening when I've finished dinner and sit down on the couch to do the NYT crossword puzzle, read a while, and maybe watch a little TV I put the watch on the charger which is next to the couch. It is usually in the 35-50% range when it goes onto the charger.

Sometime in the next hour or so I'll notice that it has finished charging and put it back on.

[1] There is a setting for that somewhere in the settings, but it is faster to just swipe up and tap the Theater Mode icon. That also turns on silent notifications, but the icon for that is right next to Theater Mode, so another tap on the same screen undoes that, leaving it just in Theater Mode.

Re: Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch

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Post by John23832 »

zcw100 wrote: post #42
John23832 wrote: post #36

I really like my Apple Watch. I use it for what it is, a glorified fitness tracker with additional "communicator" tech. My only request would be that they make an "Apple bracelet" so that I can wear my nice mechanical watches. It's a pain to jump back and forth because the power reserves on the mechanicals will die, and resetting the time (or worst the date complication) is annoying.

Why don't you use a mechanical watch winder? https://www.amazon.com/s?k=automatic+wrist+watch+winder&hvad...

I kind of feel like I'm agreeing with the original post... but it's just more junk/tech in my home that I don't want.
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