Primary functionality for other people, not for me. A watch is supposed to tell time, or perform time-related functions. Alarm, timer, stopwatch. Thats it. Anything else is just a bonus.
Again, then the Apple Watch doesn’t appear to be for you (Which perhaps you just don’t want to accept that given you own one). The features included are _not_ a bonus, it’s a watch that is meant to bring a variety of convenience tools and health monitoring in the technological era that we live in. Rather you choose to utilize those tools or not is your own prerogative, however; it’s exactly how Apple intended it to be.
I don't need to use it to pay bills or buy things (thats what cash is for, and cash does not contribute anything towards learning databases that parse my purchase history).
You’re misinformed. Apple Pay Doesn’t ‘parse’ anything. It’s a completely secure form of payment with data encryption standards through randomized code. Not everyone carries cash with them, we live in an era where I suspect the majority resort to using a debit/credit card for payments when in public places, Apple Pay is a completely secure network. If you choose to pay cash for your items, that’s your prerogative, you don’t have to use Apple Pay, even though I trust Apple Pay over using my debit card, due to which has a higher potential that _could_ be skimmed.
I don't need a watch that can control my home.
I don't have locks that I (and anyone else) can open remotely. If I'm not at my home, those doors don't need to be opened
I don't have cameras pointed around my house, giving up every last shred of my personal life and conversations to a cloud server.
I don't have a thermostat set up to monitor when I'm home and report the details .
I don't have my phone or my watch set up to tell my house (and the server in between) that I'm leaving that house, on my way to the house, or on the other side of the state away from my house. No one needs to know that information..
Based on these five post(s) above, this goes well beyond the logic as you make it appear ‘
I don’t like certain features on my Apple Watch’, when you appear to be the type of individual that believes the ‘
world is out to get me’ from my perspective. If I were you, I’d be far more concerned about all the other ways your information could be potentially abducted versus owning an Apple Watch with certain features that you choose not to use. There seems to be a lot of details that are not mutually exclusive from your concerns in your posts versus what an Apple Watch has the
option of using.
I think there is a concerted push in the tech world to make people comfortable with giving up the details of their lives in return for technological convenience. These companies want to know everything about us, every last detail
When you use the word ‘companies’, I don’t think it’s necessary to group Apple into that specific category. Yes, there are ‘companies’ that do extract data, but I don’t believe Apple is one of those companies to the extreme of ‘They want to know every last detail about us’, especially when they value
your privacy more than any other tech company in retrospect. If there was one company that I do trust my information with, it would be Apple. It’s good to be guarded and self aware, but I definitely believe you have very misguided logic when you’re saying ‘
every last detail’.
Based on your posts, you're obviously quite happy with it
The Apple Watch is a good experience for what it offers, I find the fitness features and the health monitoring to be mature and dynamic. But since you’re visiting an Apple Watch forum, I also gather almost 99% the users are here are ‘happy’ with Apple Watch, not just me.
You don't need to respond any further here.
This is completely unnecessary. You’re involved in a discussion, you replied to
my post, you telling me ‘not to respond any further here’ is inappropriate and really would be the complete opposite of why you’re participating in your own thread if you’re telling others not to respond.
BTW: "pedantically"? You misapplied the word. I think you meant "irrationally". but you ended up projecting instead.
Nope. I was projecting, but not overly. Irrationally is not the word that would be appropriate in your situation,
pedantically easily describes your thought process on the Apple Watch and how you believe your information could be potentially hijacked:
Here is a more literal example:
{‘Sill’ is
pedantically worried using certain features on the Apple Watch will allow their information to be potentially hacked/stolen/abducted/infiltrated due to companies that want to ‘know every last detail about them’.}
