I can't always feel my phone buzz in my pants pocket while active outdoors (I never have the ringer on), so it's nice to not miss a text or phone call.
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If you were to stop wearing an Apple Watch, what feature/s would you miss most?
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It's a personal thing - I'm a big believer in my tech being silent in public. Ringers don't actually bother me, but it drives me nuts when people use their speakerphone or watch content in public without headphones. Guess I'm becoming an old man, because I see it more and more these days!
I need it to tell time so I can know if I'm about to be late for work (or, how soon until I can get off work).
...also, for checking notifications while I'm stuck at meetings.
...also, for checking notifications while I'm stuck at meetings.
Fitness tracking. Various apps help me with this but closing the rings is the main thing.
Apple Pay. Ridiculously convenient to be able to pay with a double press of a button on something that's always on my wrist.
Calendar. I know, it sounds weird, but ... I have 10-20 meetings during the week, each with anywhere from 1-20 clients. I put the names of the attendees as a note on my calendar entry, just to remind myself. Sometimes I'll glance at my watch literally seconds before I enter the room, but being able to greet everyone by name - even if I haven't seen them in a while - is awesome.
It's a personal thing - I'm a big believer in my tech being silent in public. Ringers don't actually bother me, but it drives me nuts when people use their speakerphone or watch content in public without headphones. Guess I'm becoming an old man, because I see it more and more these days!
So if they don’t use speaker phone you still hear half the conversation, I never got how hearing the other half changed the bother level 🤷♂️
Having the next bus and train times just a click away is handy, and I've used all the fitness stuff a lot more than I thought I would. Knowing I could easily pay for transport home and other things if I lost my wallet is handy as well. Message notifications is good because half the time I never felt my phone vibrate in my pocket.
The overall feeling of quality, the health and fitness tracking and Apple Pay, which is extremely handy.
I stopped 4 years ago and haven't looked back. I don't miss the personal overhead of extra devices (purchase, setup, firmware maintenance, usage, tech support, even more chargers) or the cost of their eventual obligatory replacement.
I did miss mechanical watches.
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One maintenance event on a mechanical buys a few Apple Watches lol, plus resetting the time, major overhead of the price, I got a few, but if “overhead” even enters the conversation the quartz citizen or seiko is the only logical answer
