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It's hard to browse Twitter when your battery is 296 mAh and the screen is very small. I have found this is good for my mental well being.
Is there a non-wristband "mount" for an Apple Watch ? Which is to say, if I wanted to carry an apple watch in my pocket, and didn't want the sort of lame, and unifinished, aesthetic of bare/empty band connectors ... is there some pendant or medallion or ... something ... that you can attach the watch to that isn't a wristband ? OH, AND ALSO ... The op speaks of the necessary iphone that he leaves in his drawer, at ho…
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This wasn't mentioned in the article, but the newer cellular variants of the watch allow you to place and receive calls even without your phone nearby. You can also stream music, stream podcasts, etc. without the phone nearby, listening with a bluetooth headset. I suspect certain android ones do as well, though I don't know which ones. I like the idea of only carrying around a watch + headset. I'm actually thinking o…
Without phone nearby or without phone?
Instead of going watch-only, I went tablet-only for a while. That also discouraged doomscrolling as you’d have to dig the tablet from a bag instead of just grabbing a phone from a pocket. Sadly most tablets are not waterproof, and are quite awkward as cameras. Otherwise I’d probably still go without a phone (I have zero need for telephone calls or SMS)
Watches are waterproof, but the camera is a bit of an issue when you're outdoors. Having an apple watch with a camera would make you feel like James Bond.
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Ok. Google Assistant is available for iPhone. I'll try it. Thank you. Continuing my rant... I know that Siri is impaired by choices Apple's made wrt to privacy or some such. But why does local voice recognition fail so often? Like while hiking or I'm in the basement. Surely some hybrid is possible. Does Siri really need network access to process a stop playback command? (I do fuss with the Voice Control features ever…
Counterpoint: I recently switched from Android to iOS. On Android, Google Assistant and the likes were always the first apps I deleted. Google is just not a company that I trust at all with my personal data. On the iPhone, I have Siri enabled because I have the expectation that my personal data does not leave the phone when I use it with Siri. So when you say: > I know that Siri is impaired by choices Apple's made wr…
My phone I use for geo-recording points for ArcGIS, reading server status and data in realtime, testing network connections, thermal camera, and more. Not everyone lives in the land of sitting in an office all day and going to meetings, some people physically work for a living.
Good for the person in the article loving their tech, but it's not the future for everyone.