apple watch experiment – update

Elegant Apple Watch with a sleek, modern design on a weathered wooden surface, showcasing digital time, date, and weather information, highlighting wearable technology and health tracking features.

I’m about 2 months into my apple watch experiment, and to be honest, I’m not wearing it now. I haven’t worn it on a daily basis for a few weeks. It is upstairs, on my bedside cabinet happily charging away.

To start with I really enjoyed wearing it, the technology seemed great, notifications were handy and even though I had to squint slightly, I could use it without glasses.

The first issue was notifications, they annoyed me so they all got turned off. I really hate when people lift their wrist to look at a watch notification when I am speaking with them. I found myself doing this, so tried to stop. This created almost an internal stress – a notification was there but I needed to wait. Notifications went.

The next was charging, getting a notification that you needed to charge the thing just seemed really frustrating. I know it is an amazing bit of tech, and for the size it lasts well. I think I have a limit for the number of things I have to keep charged, the watch tipped me over the limit.

I do still occasionally use the watch in the gym and to record runs, but apart from heart rate it doesn’t really add much to what I need– I’m not a health data nerd, or an athlete training for an ultra marathon so much of the cool health stuff just isn’t relevant.

Finally, I missed my traditional watches, the Apple Watch just didn’t feel as nice on my arm – bit too bulky, bit too complex, a bit too much for me.

I’ll keep using it now and again, perhaps I’ll use it more in future – I’m not too sure.


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