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I gave up my Apple Watch after 9 years and feel free.
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I took off my Apple Watch 7 SS after three years and purchased a $44 timex indeglow and immediately found that not having to charge it 🤬 every day along with my other Apple products was a breath of fresh air. Some of the included Apple Watch complications, I never used or used very little and I was thinking why did I spend almost $800 for this darn thing three years ago and have to be almost a slave to it, charging it up each and every day? So I took it off, and got myself a Timex. Everything else I do with my iPhone. So far, I’m very happy.
Been using an Apple Watch since Series 0 launch. I cannot envision a day when I will ever NOT wear an Apple Watch.
The fact alone that I don't miss notifications on-the-go is reason enough. Combined with paying for most things these days at stores, how much I lean on it at the gym, etc.
The fact alone that I don't miss notifications on-the-go is reason enough. Combined with paying for most things these days at stores, how much I lean on it at the gym, etc.
I have a citizen bullhead from 1974 that still keeps perfect time, my Apple Watch will be done in five years.These are good points. I have a Seiko Kinetic I got in 1996-1997. Still not obsolete.
I am thinking about stopping using it for a while as I am always charging the thing.
I´ve had 2 AW, (the first one I managed to loose in a cliff dive, I had the Nike sports band, but that didn't stay locked of course). I replaced it and the main reason I have it is The WorkOutDoors app. I use it to track my bike rides, but by now my watch won't last until the afternoon if I use it on a 3 hour bike ride.
I´m also fed up of charging it, remember to bring a charger when traveling. The price of a new battery is 1/3 of the price of the watch. You feel the just make it so expensive to push you towards buying a new one. It really feels like disposable watch buy now, I find that just sad. I still use my mechanical watch I got as wedding present 20 years ago, I have a Swatch I got 30 years ago. I do appreciate all an AW is capable of, but still....
I´m also fed up of charging it, remember to bring a charger when traveling. The price of a new battery is 1/3 of the price of the watch. You feel the just make it so expensive to push you towards buying a new one. It really feels like disposable watch buy now, I find that just sad. I still use my mechanical watch I got as wedding present 20 years ago, I have a Swatch I got 30 years ago. I do appreciate all an AW is capable of, but still....
Your mechanical watch is a mechanical watch - it does one thing and doesnt try to be multiple things - your AW is really not a watch - it tells the time but so does your phone and unlike a 100 years ago the time is everywhere so the watch is much more than that - its an alarm clock, a payment device and a music player etc etc and its at the vagaries of tech - in all honesty how hard is to "perfect" a mechanical watch ?
At what point did battery life and accuracy hit peak for those devices ? - 5th gen , 10th ? You can buy a mechanical watch for what 20 quid ? And it will keep perfect time (for most users) and a battery that lasts years - I just dont really get the comparison.
I never wore any watch before getting a series 7 AW (as like most people under the age of 30 I was perfectly happy checking the time on my always-there phone) as i wanted it to pay for a coffee on the beach after my daily swim without bringing a phone or wallet for which it functions perfectly and I wanted the other tech bonuses that it came with and even that lovely unexpected bonus of the silent alarm....I also find the fact I can ditch my phone completely because of the watch liberating but then I dont ever spend hours on my phone anyway....
Plus electrification of any stuff brings inherent longevity based problems - my mates 1980 Lotus Esprit is still going and will probably still be going in 20 years - its hard to see how even something like a BMW i3 will be running in 10 years when a replacement battery pack is already 15k plus....
At what point did battery life and accuracy hit peak for those devices ? - 5th gen , 10th ? You can buy a mechanical watch for what 20 quid ? And it will keep perfect time (for most users) and a battery that lasts years - I just dont really get the comparison.
I never wore any watch before getting a series 7 AW (as like most people under the age of 30 I was perfectly happy checking the time on my always-there phone) as i wanted it to pay for a coffee on the beach after my daily swim without bringing a phone or wallet for which it functions perfectly and I wanted the other tech bonuses that it came with and even that lovely unexpected bonus of the silent alarm....I also find the fact I can ditch my phone completely because of the watch liberating but then I dont ever spend hours on my phone anyway....
Plus electrification of any stuff brings inherent longevity based problems - my mates 1980 Lotus Esprit is still going and will probably still be going in 20 years - its hard to see how even something like a BMW i3 will be running in 10 years when a replacement battery pack is already 15k plus....
No comparison per se, but more venting of frustration. Getting fed up by a watch/tool that don´t last a full day, that and having to charge it every night. So now it's relegated to just a fitness tool I put on for a bike ride (if I remember before I leave the house). If it was 30 bucks to change the battery, fine, but it's 130 bucks here.
The Nike sports band? The one with the holes and an end flap that tucks in beneath the band? How does that come loose, unless you didn't tuck the end in? Or maybe the band was too small for your wrist, and the flap didn't tuck in securely? If so you should have gotten the longer size band. They come in 2 lengths, for this reason.
Well, if you're talking about a $20 mechanical watch, then sure, there isn't much care or craftsmanship involved, but the ones that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars, those are finely made, well-crafted things. Not my thing, but I can understand why people value and treasure them.
It was tucked in and the right length. Guess it's because it's only that peg actually locking it, and the band is made from rubber so it can stretch. It wasn't even that high a dive (not a jump) 5 meters or so (15 feet). I was quite disappointed that it came loose. Its a sports band after all....
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Y'all are dramatic AF just turn off notifications and use it as a watch instead of spending £5,000 on an Omega lol.
An Omega does not need charging ever day. I know what I would prefer to spend my money on.
That omega will still be running when the Apple Watch is a recycled Pepsi can.
I have a Tudor Black Bay 58 so you don't need to try and justify it to me as I am well aware a mechanical will last as long as you look after it.
Pretending that an Apple Watch is some kind of mental prison that you need to break free from is where I have to laugh.
I agree that the peg is the only thing locking the band in place, but I'm having trouble figuring out how it could come loose. You'd have to snag the band at a pretty exact spot for the peg to come off. (I'm wearing the Nike band right now, and tugging this way and that To see if I can get the peg loose.) Not that I'd ever go diving/jumping, so I don't know what exactly conditions are like when you do that. But seems to me like a pretty freak accident.
Some of my favourites have been:
* Your customer is less likely to do business with you if you wear an Apple Watch Ultra with a suit.
* You need AOD on because turning your wrist to activate the face and check the time in a meeting could get you fired.
* When you swipe to change watch faces and it shows 10:09 momentarily it's very disorienting.
We've had some good ones.
I haven't seen this effect myself, since I haven't updated my watch to the OS version where it happens. But it does sound annoying. Not to the degree that some people have made it out, but does feel like something Steve Jobs would have yelled at people to fix yesterday.
If you have the tap and hold, then swipe method for face changes activated it should do it. It'll quickly change the digits or swing the hands while the new face comes up.
I'm not sure if it's a bug of just a change in the memory handling. I suspect the latter but no idea.
I'm still on the version where you just swipe sideways to change faces.
In general, it often feels like the people who are designing Apple's OS nowadays aren't using the devices themselves. Like their getting rid of side swipe to switch faces then having to put it back when users complained. If someone on their UI design team actually used the watch, they'd have known side swipe to switch was a key usability feature.
I’ve had one since the first, and though I occasionally leave it on the desk for a day or two here and there, I like my AW. I was always a watch wearer though, and I just like having one that offers some other benefits.
I've gone back to wearing an Apple Watch full-time again. Have the S10 and it's been a really positive experience so far.
I think having a break from wearing a watch was the right call but now I'm back into closing rings again.
I think having a break from wearing a watch was the right call but now I'm back into closing rings again.
I use mine for exercise tracking and hiking but otherwise shut off notifications and all the other features which I really don't find much use for.
I'd be fine with Garmin if they changed their bands, which make me break out.
Now that I have a bike GPS I could probably ditch the watch as it is heart rate monitor compatible.
I'd be fine with Garmin if they changed their bands, which make me break out.
Now that I have a bike GPS I could probably ditch the watch as it is heart rate monitor compatible.