[apparent]

Fair, but that means you have to bring a special purpose charger with you anytime you go somewhere for more than ~36 hours. For me, that's the bigger issue. If I could charge inductively on the back of my iPhone, for example, I wouldn't mind as much.

[nicolaslem]

I hear you, personally grabbing the charger for overnight stays hasn't been a problem but there are a few compact/inexpensive third-party dongles that are like the official charging cable but without the cable[0]. They can be stay in a car, laptop bag, etc. and charge the watch from an iPhone or another usb-c power source.

[0] Random example for illustration https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CKV9JBR4

[apparent]

Huh interesting, I guess that would help somewhat. But for me, I prefer to pretty much never have to worry about charging my watch.

As a kid, I had watches that didn't need new batteries for years. As an adult, I was willing to trade off some battery life (down to a week or so) in order to get notifications my wrist, music controls, and activity tracking.

Although I can see some benefit in being able to see my Uber status in real time, or other app-related functionality, I am not interested in charging a wearable every day or two. I don't want to have to worry about whether I'm "using my watch too much" to be able to make it through a short trip, or until the end of my second day.

I know some people have different preferences on this, but for me a watch should be something that doesn't require any maintenance for weeks at a time.

[pjerem]

> As a kid, I had watches that didn't need new batteries for years.

Haha, my kid just got his first watch for Christmas. A Casio. He loves it.

On the box, it’s written « 10 years of autonomy » and I was like « oh, I forgot it was a thing ».

[mc3301]

I use a solar-powered Casio wave ceptor.

No batteries ever, and the time is always accurate. I haven't touched a button on the watch in years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_Wave_Ceptor

[wolvoleo]

Samsung had this reverse charging from the phone but they also dropped that function with the watch 7 :(

Having said that I did use it but it was terribly slow and both the phone and watch heated up too much. And the positioning was very finicky. A whole charge would last 3-4 hours where the official charger is 30-40 minutes.

Power banks with watch charging also exist and cheap aftermarket charging pucks. Not as fast as the included one but not bad.