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by WastingMyTime89
1166 days ago
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To give a counterpoint, I have worn watches every day for the past 20 years and own both a nice Bauhaus watch, a diver and a cheap field watch. I finally decided to buy an Apple Watch last year to mostly use as a running watch and see what the fuss was about. I’m never coming back. This thing cut my phone use like nothing before. Having access to notifications at a glance without taking your phone out is awesome. |
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I wish it had geofencing and other custom rules so I could say "give me these notifications all the time, and these other ones when I'm away from home, these when I'm in the office", etc.
Otherwise every notification I get during the average workday happens on my Mac, my iPhone, and my Watch at the same time. It's like sensory overload making every little thing seem like an emergency. So in conclusion I really don't enjoy the ding ding ding of my watch all the time. It makes it extremely hard to disconnect when even your watch is harassing you. I tried turning off all notifications, but then it's less functional than a normal watch.
The new DND custom features are almost there. Maybe in a couple years...
I'll admit it was nice when I was biking 40mi routes regularly or running for use with Strava or something, but I can just bring my phone...
Also trying to do any input on the watch is so painful.
Idea is great, execution is still so far away from where it should be.