Gotta love all these naysayers here using highly connected devices on an online forum complaining about how useless the Watch is.
Yes, yes. Back in ancient Sumer, people were fit and trim and paid their bills on time — and the hourglass hadn’t even been invented yet, let alone the Rolex.
So, no, of course nobody needs such a thing. But, of course, nobody needs a phone or a computer … or, for that matter, shoes and clothes. Real manly he-men of manliness just glare in a manly way at small furry critters and the critters leap into a truly manly man’s manly man’s mouth to be eaten.
For those of us who aren’t quite so ugh ur ugachuka …
… for me, my Ultra is my smartphone and my 13 mini is a small tablet plus camera. The Ultra is a significantly superior smartphone to the original iPhone — which, let’s not forget, was a groundbreaking smartphone back in the day. So I wind up using the watch for most classical smartphone-type things, and mostly only dig out the iPhone when I want to read something or take pictures.
And, “oh-by-the-way,” it’s a great activity tracker / motivator. One of my most-used Watch apps is WorkOutDoors, which is perfect for pacing my bodyweight workouts and shows me a pretty map when I go on a walk.
While a Manly Man’s Man might enjoy shouting out the seconds of an interval workout to his own perfect Manly Mental Metronome, I’m quite happy to have the watch call out, “Wide-grip pullups for 30 seconds … 20 seconds … 10 seconds … 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, rest for 10 seconds … one-legged squats for 30 seconds ….”
When the watch was new to me, I made a point of making Siri happy by closing my rings as much as possible. I’ve since found a rhythm / pacing that works well for me; I could certainly keep the routine going now without the watch. But, honestly? I’m not at all confident I’d have found that rhythm in the first pace. And there’ve been plenty of times when “life happens” and I fall out of the rhythm … and it’s been the Watch that’s nudged me back into the rhythm.
So … yeah. Nobody needs any of these gadgets. But, honestly? If I had to pick just one to keep, it just might be the Ultra.
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