Apple Watch is taking over my wrist

[don logan]

NDA said:

don logan said:

I meant the aggro factor / the bad feeling, not the few hundred quid!

I can’t believe a certain type of person (mugger) won’t see some value in an Apple watch

My Sister thought she was being “street smart” by getting an Apple watch, the Hermès edition…..

I would imagine you're more likely to be a target wearing a high value Rolex or Patek than you are an Apple watch. Obviously you could be mugged for your phone, wedding ring... any number of things. I guess it depends if there's more risk wearing £20k or £400.

I suppose I could commute totally naked.

I understand what you are saying but since a friend had his dry cleaning stolen I’m not sure what people won’t steal!

Now there’s an idea!

Tell us where and when please!! :-)

[PastelNata]

skilly1 said:

If you were going to buy a new Apple Watch, would you get the one with the Sim card or not. Can’t decide if I need the Sim card and the extra monthly costs, or will regret not getting it!

E-Sim is only £7/mth as an add-on to a regular mobile contract.

I bought my Apple Watch Ultra to replace carrying my iPhone when I'm cycling and out and about where carrying a phone can be an inconvenience.

It works really well; your mobile phone on your wrist. Mine is set to alert me to only what I want to be alerted about, obviously.

I don't wear jewellery or need a dedicated watch to tell me the time - I have expensive watches from before smartphones including an inherited Rolex that I keep for nostalgia but would never wear; they are 100% superseded ornaments. But the Apple Watch is useful in that it does most of what a smartphone can do - including taking calls, viewing emails and texts etc.

[RizzoTheRat]

Barchettaman said:

Those watches drive me round the bloody bend.

Colleagues who have them are constantly on them on the rehearsal stage, looking at messages/alerts when they should be concentrating on what the director/conductor is telling them to do. Bloody annoying and distracting.

Sounds like its your colleagues that drive you round the bend not the watches.

[S100HP]

The watch only does what the operator tells it to do. I have a Garmin Fenix as I do a bit of cycling, running, walking etc. All notifications are turned off on the watch. No messages, no email alerts, nothing. It probably helps that it's a dumb smart watch, with a primary function of being a sports watch, so notifications etc are basic in nature, but still, it's all off as I don't want notifications, my phone can do all that (incidentally most notifications are off on that too)

[James6112]

skilly1 said:

If you were going to buy a new Apple Watch, would you get the one with the Sim card or not. Can’t decide if I need the Sim card and the extra monthly costs, or will regret not getting it!

I have a Garmin for sports, but also Apple Watch as it’s better at most things & has Apple Pay (Garmin Pay is rubbish) & cellular
A month or so ago I bought a refurbed Apple Watch 7 Cellular for £289 on Amazon. Not a mark on it. The 8 only has a couple of extra features, neither of which I wanted!
I have a top mobile contract (heavily discounted via a friend) & the cellular add on is half price, £3.50 a month.
Used it a fair bit, after a bit of a faff setting it up.
I’d buy again.

[hungry_hog]

I had an apple watch for about 18 months, tbh I didn't get on with it

I already have/had a MacBook and iPhone
I found having another device overwhelming...the notifications are a distraction really. The phone is already distracting enough.

The fact you have to charge it daily I found crazy. I know you might have to with the phone but the phone does everything, apple watch is much more limited.

For the gym (weights) a normal Casio is better for timing sets, the apple watch interferes with playing music as when the timer expires the music stops, it's a pain really!

Sometimes things can be "too" intregrated

I went back to my Seamaster / G shock , latter being for gym, Omega for everything else.

[okgo]

don logan said:

Hi

Considering how outrageous phone thefts are in Central London, doesn’t that kind of crossover into Apple watches being something desireable to steal?

I ws thinking the same about Airpods

We may think - who would steal these things but if there is a market for them then there is a risk and it’s not so much about the financial loss with items (compared to an expensive watch) it’s about the bad experience

It's fking easy to steal a phone off someone, far more effort to steal a watch. My mate was attempted for his phone yesterday off Oxford Street, he see's it happen to people most days (he lives off Ox St), electric bike, wait for phone zombie (basically anyone under 30) walking along glued to the fking thing without taking in the world around them, and cycle past and grab it, you could do it hundreds of times a day around W1 without ever having to threaten anyone, get into an altercation or anything. You'd have to do that every time if you're nicking watches.

[GilletteFan]

don logan said:

Hi

Considering how outrageous phone thefts are in Central London, doesn’t that kind of crossover into Apple watches being something desireable to steal?

I ws thinking the same about Airpods

We may think - who would steal these things but if there is a market for them then there is a risk and it’s not so much about the financial loss with items (compared to an expensive watch) it’s about the bad experience

I'm sure this is happening, but it's probably more to do with victims making it a lot easier to have their goodies taken away from them. I can walk and talk on my phone on Oxford Street with no problem. I don't consider crime to be an issue there for the majority of people. And the people on their phones do not look concerned that they are on their phones at all.

The Apple Watch is totally awesome. I love the size, the strap options, the activity and fitness tracking capabilities and the design. I do not miss weighty gold watches and the large steel cases that have been churned out over the last two decades. I would be embarrassed to wear a Batman, Hulk or some other stupidly named watch. How square are the current owners, eh?

Fortunately, most people in my industry aren't showoff tools and have switched over to the Apple Watch many years ago. I avoid anyone who wears luxury watches now apart from those where they can pull it off tastefully.

[James6112]

Off topic but a lot can be done regarding phone theft.
Eg switch iphone to esim. Iphone can be tracked when turned off even if esim in use. Plus no sim to remove obviously.
So you can kill the phone, if you can’t send the boys around to get it back!

[GilletteFan]

James6112 said:

Off topic but a lot can be done regarding phone theft.
Eg switch iphone to esim. Iphone can be tracked when turned off even if esim in use. Plus no sim to remove obviously.
So you can kill the phone, if you can’t send the boys around to get it back!

People need to accept when things are gone. There's so much holding on going on in general.

If you lose something, or have it nicked, say goodbye. The chances of getting a recent iPhone back are slim to none. And more closer to none. If you are concerned about theft, I am not as no one has ever tried to rob me before, then exercise caution when out of your home. It is this simple. You cannot stop theft no matter how undesirable this is. It is part of living in a society that lacks equality.

[Flying machine]

GilletteFan said:

The Apple Watch is totally awesome. I love the size, the strap options, the activity and fitness tracking capabilities and the design. I do not miss weighty gold watches and the large steel cases that have been churned out over the last two decades. I would be embarrassed to wear a Batman, Hulk or some other stupidly named watch. How square are the current owners, eh?

Fortunately, most people in my industry aren't showoff tools and have switched over to the Apple Watch many years ago. I avoid anyone who wears luxury watches now apart from those where they can pull it off tastefully.

I'm not sure that I would agree that the Apple watch is 'awesome', and I think the design is dull and see no particular aesthetic merit in it.

Whatever industry you are in is clearly at odds with you, as you are a massive show off and attention seeker! Are you Nathan Barley?

[bordseye]

GilletteFan said:

. You cannot stop theft no matter how undesirable this is. It is part of living in a society that lacks equality.

That has to be right. If everyone had exactly the same things then there would be little or no theft because whatever you wanted to steal, you already had.

On the other hand if your version of equality simple means everyone being as well off then you are wildly wrong - most people spend their lives trying to be better off than their neighbour / friend / colleague.