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Google releases smart watch for kids
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#92> You have control over when they can play on their Fitbit Ace LTE. Set downtimes during the day, while still letting them get in touch with you if they need to. This sounds like a great feature. I want my kid to be able to reach me in an emergency, but I want there to be zero distractions during the school day. Hopefully Apple implements this on Apple Watches that use Family Setup.
There's been "School Mode" on apple watches for years now. It's a distraction-free mode.
Cool, good to know. Seems like the discussion forums have several requests for preventing the kid from exiting the school mode, or only allowing exit in order to send a message or call an approved contact. I'll be interested to see how the different school modes evolve. It sounds like some schools don't allow watches where the kid can exit school mode except to make an emergency call, which makes sense. I wouldn't want to be a teacher trying to catch kids slipping in and out of school mode!
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#93The communication part is a good idea but games? Would hate to watch my kid stare a smart watch to figure out what to do with herself.
The "games" appear to be gamified exercise apps.
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#94Requires a $10/mo data plan. So that is 2x of the many $5/mo plans you can get for a standalone-setup apple watch SE. Price is $70 less than the SE. Ok, so that crosses over in just over a year.
But, I know the apple watch will be supported for 7 years or so. This is a google product, so I expect it to be EOLed tomorrow. No thanks. Fool me 100 times, shame on you, fool me 101 times, shame on me, google!
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does anyone else feel uneasy about the idea of children having to curb their behavior because they know they're being constantly monitored by their parents? This product concerns me not only due to corporate advertising surveillance but also parental spying.
And then when they finally break free they don't have any feedback mechanism that they had since childhood. This can go both ways. They might turn out to be model citizen or your worst nightmare. People raised children for 1000s of years without any technology. I bet we can do that too.
I don't disagree, but we didn't had a choice and now we have. How much guilt is a parent going to have in, the unlikely situation, that something unfortunate happens and that it could have been prevented by this device?
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#96I think we are crossing a boundary. If our world gets so broken, that parents need this, we should start changing our world
You’re preaching to the wrong crowd. They’re salivating in this thread to attach a corporate surveillance tracker to their kids.
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#97Smartwatches may be an overlooked answer to the kid phone conundrum. Watches have the communication and location tracking that parents demand without the distraction of phones.
I got an Apple watch for my 11-year-old for precisely this reason - he can text, call, and play some games on it.
Subscription to cellular is $10/month.
And it let me set parental controls on it. No way was I getting him a phone, it's already way too distracting with the other devices he has access to at home.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's privacy-protecting; their location will be private, only you can track them all the time, the apps installed, Google and their SREs, the US government if they want to (but they most likely need to ask), etc.
> the apps installed, Google and their SREs, the US government Overseas contractors, third party apps that are used by said contractors, other cloud services and their contractors etc etc.
mhhh, and the phone operator too
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#99Re: Google releases smart watch for kids
#100In next year: Google EOL watch for kids, closes servers rendering watches useless.
Exactly. Anyone in the tech industry who buys this is a fool. But I feel sorry for everyone who doesn't keep up with tech news to know everything Google releases is dead in the water and gets duped by this and the inevitable shutdown.
If this lasts as long as Stadia it will shut down on Thursday the 5th of August 2027.