Fighting it (Buying an Apple Watch)

[Flamingdeathbolts]

I been on the fence for 3 years. I love gadgets but can’t justify the purchase in my head when only use I would have is during jogging to avoid carrying my cellphone. Reading people’s comments in this thread I see the benefits has me thinking. Maybe next year though, my Black Friday purchase this year was AirPods Pro.

 

[Squiggles Chitter]

I am 14 and I use an AW se gen 1 as my primary phone as well as a device for tracking workouts.

 

[svish]

Have had an Apple watch for the last five years. Bought a Series 5 in 2019, did not buy it for the health features. Now can't be without one.

Just placed an order for Series 10 and am eagerly waiting for it to be delivered.

Watch SE is a good one to get to try out Apple watch. Will be able to get one at a good price right now. But it will be lacking an always on display.

 

[Howard2k]

Hi all,

It’s that time again when I feel like buying an Apple Watch. Apple sure knows how to market their products. Never owned one. Don’t need it. It would just be another gadget distracting me daily from more important things. How long did you fight against this unnecessary purchase? Or are you still fighting it? Or did you give in right away? Or did you *really* need it (like seriously)?

I’m looking at the SE model myself. That way, I’d lose the least amount of money if I end up losing this battle.

Just buy it.

You know you want to.

 

[Allen_Wentz]

Have had an Apple watch for the last five years. Bought a Series 5 in 2019, did not buy it for the health features. Now can't be without one.

Just placed an order for Series 10 and am eagerly waiting for it to be delivered.

Watch SE is a good one to get to try out Apple watch. Will be able to get one at a good price right now. But it will be lacking an always on display.

Personally after using it I find the always-on display now to be a mandatory feature.

 

[CharlesShaw]

Personally after using it I find the always-on display now to be a mandatory feature.

I thought I'd love always-on, but seeing it on reminds me of my father when I was kid, turning off lights in the rooms I'd left on, which then reminds me that batteries don't live forever, and I need to conserve the beloved AWU 1, purchased on launch weekend while thinking OMFG, going to the Apple Store is great fun, don't tell anyone, but I just spent $800 to replace a series 4 that still had some life left in it (that keynote "this is not for you" psychology was twisted, amirite?), so this battery needs to last, especially now that this fool finally subscribed to the Don't purchase Apple Care or other extended warranties, and pool the saved money into a "just in case" fund. [ Sigh] I'm resisting the temptation to buy AC+ for the new Mac mini I'm using to type this, so I'll be fine once the purchase window has closed. [Deep breath.]

ADD: by all means, I don't want to discourage anyone from buying an Apple Watch based on worrying about batteries eventually no longer holding an acceptable charge, so here are the rest of my reasons for never dreaming of being without one:

💰Apple Pay, especially if you ever need to pay for things while wearing a coat and gloves.
💪🏻Leaving your phone at home if you purchased a cellular AW and have a cellular plan that is affordable, like T-Mobile's plan.
💪🏻Leaving your phone at home or in your locker at the gym while you listen to your streaming or stored playlists on your AirPods or other BT headphones while the dude next to you on the treadmill is using an iPhone Max in an effing harness on his upper arm. (My bad, he cannot tolerate compressed audio)
😀Cellular: Peace of mind from: fall detection if you're biking or whatever, you won't be on the local news if your watch called for emergency services because they found you before you died!
😁Cellular: Peace of mind from: having your iPhone stolen while you're away from home and voila, you can still call and text.

 

[LionTeeth]

I went through all of them. Fitbit, polar, apple, and have landed on Garmin. To me the Apple Watch just felt like another smaller phone. TOO much smartwatch. I felt like Gadget Man.

Garmin is perfect as mostly it looks like a watch. It also does what I want. Tracks health metrics, tells the time, sends me notifications to see if I need to dig further into my phone.

However I’ve become disillusioned with it as well and am going back to normal mechanical watches. I’m about 50/50 right now. Although I still dig out my old series 3 and play with it sometimes. Neat stuff is still neat.

 

[Tago]

I went through all of them. Fitbit, polar, apple, and have landed on Garmin. To me the Apple Watch just felt like another smaller phone. TOO much smartwatch. I felt like Gadget Man.

Garmin is perfect as mostly it looks like a watch. It also does what I want. Tracks health metrics, tells the time, sends me notifications to see if I need to dig further into my phone.

However I’ve become disillusioned with it as well and am going back to normal mechanical watches. I’m about 50/50 right now. Although I still dig out my old series 3 and play with it sometimes. Neat stuff is still neat.

The Ultra caught my attention, pretty much got the right functionality, but the battery time won`t cut it for the usage they outline and the criteria I use for those activities. The closest would be Suunto Vertical solar, but I decided to opt for mechanical too, and have no regrets.

For my cycling I pretty much used my iPhone and for a short time my iPad, stuffed in my drinking bag, logging times as I know the area very well and don`t need it for navigation. Come summer and I`ll use an iPhone again. I kind of like to have 1 - one - device I can carry without bringing a tracker. I don`t share my trails as some spots are better off without suggestive public registration of traffic, Tends to magnify the volume like SoMe "postcards".

 

[Pakaku]

Or did you *really* need it (like seriously)?

I've lived this long without a smartwatch, so far I've never had any serious reason to need one, and I can think of better things to spend several hundred dollars on

If anything, I may return to wearing my iPod nano 6g as a watch again, now that it's cold weather season again and I can hide headphone cables up my sleeves

 

[svish]

Personally after using it I find the always-on display now to be a mandatory feature.

Yes. I definitely need this one. In fact this was the one main feature which pushed me to buy the Series 5 in 2019. Cannot do without the always on display of Apple watch.

 

[JapanApple]

I had to upgrade this time from a series 4. Because the battery is 69 percent Upgrade series 10 Hermes. very happy.

 

[Tdude96]

Hi all,

It’s that time again when I feel like buying an Apple Watch. Apple sure knows how to market their products. Never owned one. Don’t need it. It would just be another gadget distracting me daily from more important things. How long did you fight against this unnecessary purchase? Or are you still fighting it? Or did you give in right away? Or did you *really* need it (like seriously)?

I’m looking at the SE model myself. That way, I’d lose the least amount of money if I end up losing this battle.

It was about two and a half years. Someone I knew got a Series 2 and I was envious for awhile, but it faded. Finally got myself a Series 4 as a little reward to myself for a promotion. I hadn't worn a watch since I was a kid, so I wasn't used to it and was getting a good way through the return period thinking the thing was going to go back to the store when it finally clicked for me: The use in the watch wasn't in what I could do with it. Lots of stuff. It was what I wasn't doing anymore, which was picking up my phone all the time and carrying it everywhere. The watch largely freed me from my phone, even without cellular service - it was just the GPS model. And that extra freedom was huge to me. I've had one ever since.

 

[stanza.richi]

My experience as someone that has worn a watch since pre-adolescence. In 2017 I bought a Series 2 Aluminium and found it a great device. Updated to a Series 4 Stainless Steel with Apple Milanese Loop in 2020 (found it for a good discount price on Amazon). I used 365 on 365 AW since Easter 2021 when my grandfather gifted to me his old Longines: while searching info about it, I felt into a Watches’ addicted forum and I decided that I want some beautiful mechanical watches for me. Started with an Orient Kamasu green, than tried two Submariner homages, ended buying a Rolex Submariner 124060 for the birth of my son in 2022. Since January 2022 I wear my Rolex daily, trying to use my AW only for physical activities and sleep monitoring. But at some point of 2023 I decided to double wristing: Rolex on my left wrist, AW on the right one.

And I’m doing the same now with my Ultra 2. I found that have on the wrist notifications, timers, Apple Pay, mindfulness, weather, to do list, calendar it’s really comfortable. But at the same time I can’t give up about a beautiful mechanical piece. This week my wife gifted to me a beautiful Tissot Gentleman Powermatic 80 with green dial that I’m using with my AW2 with orange ocean band

 

[GerritV]

Hi all,

It’s that time again when I feel like buying an Apple Watch. Apple sure knows how to market their products. Never owned one. Don’t need it. It would just be another gadget distracting me daily from more important things. How long did you fight against this unnecessary purchase? Or are you still fighting it? Or did you give in right away? Or did you *really* need it (like seriously)?

I’m looking at the SE model myself. That way, I’d lose the least amount of money if I end up losing this battle.

If you don't need an AW, don't buy it.
I went through the same train of thoughts than you and regretted my purchase after about a year.
My AW SE is now gathering dust in some drawer, I won't wear it again - ever.

 

[Infinitewisdom]

I’ve had one since the first generation. If you use it for things like health and sleep tracking, it becomes indispensable.

 

[Tago]

This week my wife gifted to me a beautiful Tissot Gentleman Powermatic 80 with green dial that I’m using with my AW2 with orange ocean band

Congratulations, looks good on your wrist, enjoy!

Believe Tissots have the advantage of longer service intervals as they have opted for using the synthetic fork, at least for many of their watches. You should expect great precision, between +1 and -1 sec a day, which probably is the most precise movement to be had at this level. They are pretty reliable too. You can get this kind of precision from other movements at this level, but with yours, you can, with good reason, expect such performance. Good choice, my compliments to your wife.

 

[Zest28]

Hi all,

It’s that time again when I feel like buying an Apple Watch. Apple sure knows how to market their products. Never owned one. Don’t need it. It would just be another gadget distracting me daily from more important things. How long did you fight against this unnecessary purchase? Or are you still fighting it? Or did you give in right away? Or did you *really* need it (like seriously)?

I’m looking at the SE model myself. That way, I’d lose the least amount of money if I end up losing this battle.

I never had any interest in a new Apple Watch because my Series 6 has the same chip as the Series 7, Series 8 and the Apple Watch Ultra 1.

But when Apple launched the Apple Watch Ultra 2 with finally a new chip that was faster and also more energy efficient, that was the time to upgrade.

And it was a good upgrade. The Apple Watch Ultra 2 solved all my battery issues and the performance is very good.

Now, I have no itch to upgrade at all, unless Apple adds a glucose monitor.

 

[weather34]

My experience as someone that has worn a watch since pre-adolescence. In 2017 I bought a Series 2 Aluminium and found it a great device. Updated to a Series 4 Stainless Steel with Apple Milanese Loop in 2020 (found it for a good discount price on Amazon). I used 365 on 365 AW since Easter 2021 when my grandfather gifted to me his old Longines: while searching info about it, I felt into a Watches’ addicted forum and I decided that I want some beautiful mechanical watches for me. Started with an Orient Kamasu green, than tried two Submariner homages, ended buying a Rolex Submariner 124060 for the birth of my son in 2022. Since January 2022 I wear my Rolex daily, trying to use my AW only for physical activities and sleep monitoring. But at some point of 2023 I decided to double wristing: Rolex on my left wrist, AW on the right one.

And I’m doing the same now with my Ultra 2. I found that have on the wrist notifications, timers, Apple Pay, mindfulness, weather, to do list, calendar it’s really comfortable. But at the same time I can’t give up about a beautiful mechanical piece. This week my wife gifted to me a beautiful Tissot Gentleman Powermatic 80 with green dial that I’m using with my AW2 with orange ocean band

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a man who wears two watches never knows the correct time .. an old wise saying

 

[Howard2k]

a man who wears two watches never knows the correct time .. an old wise saying

We actually do, we know that the Apple Watch will be far more accurate and is conveniently placed on the other wrist so correcting the the time on the non-Apple watch is easy-peasy.

 

[stanza.richi]

a man who wears two watches never knows the correct time .. an old wise saying

Well my mechanicals are all +/- 1 sec/day. So every two months they lost 1 minute in the worst scenario. It’s something that I can afford 😝

 

[Tago]

Well my mechanicals are all +/- 1 sec/day. So every two months they lost 1 minute in the worst scenario. It’s something that I can afford 😝

Pretty great performance. Using one watch one year without setting it, one will still reach new year`s dinner timely. A bit tougher if carrying out the same experiment with a date on the dial

 

[chrono1081]

Hi all,

It’s that time again when I feel like buying an Apple Watch. Apple sure knows how to market their products. Never owned one. Don’t need it. It would just be another gadget distracting me daily from more important things. How long did you fight against this unnecessary purchase? Or are you still fighting it? Or did you give in right away? Or did you *really* need it (like seriously)?

I’m looking at the SE model myself. That way, I’d lose the least amount of money if I end up losing this battle.

I will start off by saying it isn't a product for everyone, but I personally use mine a lot more than I originally thought I would.

Some things I really like about it:

-Using it as a watch.

-Using Apple Pay with it. (Nice if you dont want to pull your phone out)

-Fitness tracking.

-Having notifications on my wrist away from my phone (you can turn them off but I like having notifications without my phone nearby so I don't start doom scrolling).

Some people I think buy it thinking of it as an "iPhone on your wrist" and that isn't quite what it is, apps are limited on what they can do on the watch but I personally find the Apple Watch very useful.

 

[Saturn007]

a man who wears two watches never knows the correct time .. an old wise saying

Just take the average! Unless, of course, they are wildly discrepant.

Then, again, if they are close, you already know just about what time it is!

 

[Jackbequickly]

Hi all,

It’s that time again when I feel like buying an Apple Watch. Apple sure knows how to market their products. Never owned one. Don’t need it. It would just be another gadget distracting me daily from more important things. How long did you fight against this unnecessary purchase? Or are you still fighting it? Or did you give in right away? Or did you *really* need it (like seriously)?

I’m looking at the SE model myself. That way, I’d lose the least amount of money if I end up losing this battle.

It a pretty logical choice if using an iPhone. Right now is a good time to buy and true it as you have an extended return period to make up your mind. I have been wearing since they first came out and love the fact that I lack having to take out my phone most of the time.

 

[Andrey84]

Hi all,

It’s that time again when I feel like buying an Apple Watch. Apple sure knows how to market their products. Never owned one. Don’t need it. It would just be another gadget distracting me daily from more important things. How long did you fight against this unnecessary purchase? Or are you still fighting it? Or did you give in right away? Or did you *really* need it (like seriously)?

I’m looking at the SE model myself. That way, I’d lose the least amount of money if I end up losing this battle.

Whenever a thought of buying the Apple Watch comes into my head, which is about once a year during the announcement, I remind myself it needs charging every day.

I don't even want the watch. If someone were to give it to me for free, I'd probably return it. I just don't want a computer on my wrist.

I bought a Xiaomi Smart Band 8 for £35 to track my heart rate when exercising. The battery lasts for a week.