Would love to know what you guys think and your reasoning for it. I’m starting to see a lot of Apple Watches/Fitbits/Galaxy Watches in my area compared to more traditional timepieces.
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Smartwatch. It’s very useful for triaging notifications (messages, email, phone calls, etc) and turning HomeKit devices on/off quickly or when my hands are full (Siri, open the garage door). Also extremely useful for fitness.
I see the appeal, having home automation on your wrist would be very convenient indeed.
Regular watch. I don’t need more things sending me notifications, and a nice watch makes me feel more confident.
Happy for you! If wearing a regular watch makes you feel better, then the value of that far outweighs any other option.
Regular watch. Other than my phone, I tend to want less technology on me.
My go to is an old Casio, the same one Dennis Nedry wears in Jurassic Park. It’s super weird seeing how expensive this watch has become on eBay.
You forgot the third option: None.
I got a smartphone, I don’t need a watch to tell the time.
I thought the same until I got a smartwatch. They add so much that I highly recommend them.
I’ve looked into them, but I just don’t see the benefit. They usually still need the phone nearby to be useful, except you have an extra SIM for them.
The only function I thought interesting could be the pulse sensor.
For everything else the display seems to be too small. No typing and for calls you can just use Bluetooth headphones.
What do you actually use the watch for besides telling the time?
Also, the last thing I want is another screen popping up notifications at me.
Most of the time, wrist watch (non smart) is more worn as a accessory to the look that a time teller.
Absolutely, but then you could also just wear a bracelet :)
Or both. I wear a normal watch and 4 bracelets
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I wore a standard wristwatch all the time until about 25 years ago. I began noticing that I was conscious of feeling something on my wrist and I couldn’t stand it.
I then carried a nice pocket-watch around for a while until I got my first cell phone.
Regular watch. I already often find it stressfull to be constantly connected and available with just a phone, I don’t want to be even more available.
You also forgot the fourth option: Both.
I always wear a real watch because I collect them and they are the only jewellery I have and they complete your clothing style. They can gain value and I can give them to my kids one day (when I’ll learn how to make them). Also because as a Swiss I don’t really have a choice.
But I also wear an apple watch on the opposite arm, for sport reasons at first, then I got used to all the bullshit it have…
Hahaha, fair enough. If I was Swiss then it would be an easy choice for me as well.
I’ve a solar normal watch. Having to plug it in every week seems annoying to me.
I enjoyed having a smartwatch back in the pebble days. I was kind of addicted to notifications (especially from datadog) at the time. My Pebble time made me feel less stressed because glancing at my watch was less effort than pulling out my phone.
Then Pebble was killed off, web-scale infrastructure became more reliable, and I learned to recover from my notification addiction. Now I’m happily watchless again.
Pebble was so nice back in the day.
Now I just wear a Casio and it will be my forever watch.
A regular watch.
I’ve never seen the point of a smart watch, unless you’re using it for fitness.
I’ve always worn a watch. I got myself a smartwatch when my kids kept insisting on texting me, while I was cycling home - usually while I wasa half way up a hill. Much better than rummaging to get my phone only to find it was some bit of nonsense.
Subsequently bought an Apple Watch 4 which I still have today and wear daily. I find it very sndy for reminders, as a fitness tracker and like the Apple Maps haptic direction prompts
What timing! I am so pissed at my smartwatch right now.
I got a smart watch because I was having some sleep problems, and I found that some Apple watches can monitor your oxygen levels while sleeping. I suspected it was related to other things like stress, but I wanted to be a bit more comfortable and say that it’s probably not sleep apnea.
So, the point is that I must wear it when I’m sleeping. Also, like any reasonable person, I have my phone set up not to disturb me at night. But at least on Apple watches, this means that my alarm goes off only on my watch. I can’t figure out any way for it to not go off on my watch, and only go off on my phone, unless I simply take off the watch.
It’s the MOST ANNOYING THING. First, because it means that you can’t have your alarm go off across the room. You can always turn it off on your watch, which means that you can even turn it off without waking up. And then, you have no alarm at all. So, if I absolutely have to wake up for some meeting or airplane or something, I can’t wear my watch to bed.
Also, maybe this is just me, but I hate when my watch vibrates on my wrist. I hate the feeling. Every time it vibrates, I have the urge to smash the thing. If I had to choose a set up, I’d have my phone always vibrate, and my watch never vibrate. But I can’t figure out how to make that work on Apple.
This morning was an absolute nightmare, though. Now, I’m used to turning off my alarm on my watch, but when I went to turn it off this morning, the watch was deep in some shitty menu. I couldn’t figure out how to turn it off. And it was just vibrating on my wrist non-stop. Obviously, this was made much more difficult because I was just waking up.
I eventually figured it out, but the point is that the UI is obviously less refined than, for example, the phone UI, where this sort of alarm hiding has never happened in all of my years owning a smart phone.
Anyways, to answer your question, I prefer to wear a smart watch, because a regular watch doesn’t do anything for me. But goddamn do I hate my smart watch right now!
I use mine more as an mp3 player and I do find the vibration alarm feature very useful as sometimes a normal alarm clock doesn’t wake me. Apart from that don’t really see to much benifit over a normal watch.
It is nice to have things like maps etc on your wrist bit I can’t say I’ve ever actually used really used them.
Regular watch.
My good old Timex Ironman has survived tons of physical abuse over the decade or more ive had it, and it’s battery only needs my attention every few years. I doubt a smart watch would improve either of those scenarios.
Plus, I don’t see any value added to my life by having phone features on a smaller, harder to read screen. If I want to use phone features, my actual phone is less than a foot from my wrist.
Regular watch
I currently have a smartwatch but I don’t like how I can’t prevent it from getting my text and phonecalls which I find useless because my phone is on me 95% of the time. The only way is to keep it on Do Not Disturb. It also for some reason has trouble updating, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t. I just want it to tell time without all the fancy annoyances.
I stopped wearing a regular watch when I started carrying a phone around.
I started wearing a smart watch when I found one that I could take and make calls from, so that I didn’t have to carry my phone around.
