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by DigitallyFidget 1959 days ago
As someone who uses a phone for a tool, I found this article incredibly arrogant. I actually went for the dumbest smartwatch I could get. It doesn't have a speaker or mic, it doesn't have a touch screen (or even colour for that matter), and you can't install apps on it, but it does show the time, date, notifications from my phone, and physical buttons so you don't fat finger and press everything you weren't meaning to touch. It does exactly what I need, lets me see if the call, email, or message my phone received is important at just a quick glance.

My phone I use for geo-recording points for ArcGIS, reading server status and data in realtime, testing network connections, thermal camera, and more. Not everyone lives in the land of sitting in an office all day and going to meetings, some people physically work for a living.

Good for the person in the article loving their tech, but it's not the future for everyone.