Why the hate for Apple Watches??
I’ve thought about this for a while! Do we dislike these watches because of confirmation bias? If enough people tell you there awful you will believe it too!
Or is it something more then that?
As always opinions are subjective but below are the reasons I dislike the watch, why I think people buy them and why I don’t like what they represent.
It’s fucking ugly!!! That’s my first reaction to an Apple Watch! It’s looks like a slab of onyx on a cheap bracelet. Much like looking into the eyes of a dead man it has no soul! It’s devoid of life for the most part until a flick of the wrist wakes it up! Do we see a beautiful patterned dial with gorgeous Breuget style hands and numerals??…… no we get a fucking slobbery Labrador holding the remains of a frisbee staring back at us with a digital time clock, or someone’s toothless grinning child holding a frog in its hand!
I just don’t get it, it’s not a watch, it shouldn’t have watch in its title. It’s a wrist monitor! And I don’t get the appeal. I think when they first came out people bought them who couldn’t use their phone at work so thought they could sneak a look at their messages this way. As they have evolved the wrist monitor can do a lot and has some helpful apps when it comes to heart rate monitoring, oxygen levels etc. but if your into stats get a whoop that is far more detailed.
Now I do have a smart watch, a garmin fenix that I use for running and going to the gym but it comes off after those activities. I don’t think it’s an attractive watch, I bought it to track progress! The wrist monitor however is trying to be a jack of all trades to make the wrist watch a defunct item. I mean in reality it is. Who needs a watch really?? We all have the time on our phone, in our car, on our god damn microwave! There is really no reason to have one, and yet we do! Why? Because we appreciate the craft, that fact that cogs and springs and bridges and jewels and screws and hands and crowns can all come together to make something that tells the time pretty accurately! Something a wrist monitor can never give.
Most of my friends have wrist monitors and love them. One of them got so excited I thought he was gonna pull his plonker there and then gushing over the ultra. This coming from a grown man who has a speedy 🤦♂️.
I don’t like what they represent! The future! Corporatism! You can go to work with your airpad in your work bag as you catch the train with your IPhone in your pocket listening to iTunes through your air pods where you go to work and use your apple Mac! No fucking thankyou!
But what about you guys? Are you a fan or do you stay well clear of that??
Happy Friday everyone 🍻 🍻
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Apple watches are great!
I bought one when they were first introduced because I liked the feature of different "dial" options. I never used it for anything other than to tell time. (usually with the Mickey Mouse dial) So in my case it was a watch. Sure it has other functions but I never used them. Other watches also have non time keeping functions (altimeter, barometer, compass, thermometer) and they're still considered to be watches.
I’m sure they have their uses. And I’m sure I don’t have any use for them.
I don’t understand their purpose. I’ve fiddled with one but I really struggle to find a use. It’s not really a replacement for a phone, since it needs a phone to link to. As a watch, it’s overpriced and fragile.
I don't hate them, but I'm not interested in them. I actively do not want a lot of their features on my wrist, but the only annoying part about them for me is when I look to see if someone has an interesting watch on and find them. If people want to wear them, go ahead.
I dont hate them, I despise them greatly 😅.
Here is the next generation, bigger display, more flexible band. Oh yes, just what we want, wearing a full computer on our wrist. May as well be a tracking device.
Tribe mentality.
I wore mine this morning for my run to track heart rate and miles as well as adjust music.
I’ll also be sleeping with it to track my sleep.
In between? Bulova Lunar Pilot
I don’t understand their purpose. I’ve fiddled with one but I really struggle to find a use. It’s not really a replacement for a phone, since it needs a phone to link to. As a watch, it’s overpriced and fragile.
Sometimes I use my watch to make sure the wife isn’t calling or texting while I’m napping with the baby and my phone is charging.
You can also use it as a two factor format for certain apps so you don’t have to fully whip out your pants.
Just not my bag.
I consider watches as jewellery.
A smart watch is not jewellery in my eyes. It is a purely functional device.
I don't see them as watches. They're little computers on your wrist. I have a computer in my pocket in the form of a cell phone. I don't want one on my wrist as well.
Suspect this is the wrong forum to drum up wild enthusiasm for an Apple Watch.
Nothing against them - they are fit for purpose and more but suspect the majority here enthuse much about the soul and heritage of earlier watches.
I don't "hate" apple watches or any smart watches. I prefer actual watches because unlike smart watches, they will last indefinitely if you take care of them. Smart watches are always being updated and changed and things like the Apple watch become obsolete with in a year or two. I can go by a vintage watch and it still does the same thing a watch today does
I don’t hate them. It I feel like it is more like a computer than watch. Also, I really don’t want the added interruption of texts. Plus, and I’m just being honest, I think it’s just another way for corporations to get ever more information to push marketing at us.
I only use a smart watch for running so I don't have to carry my phone during. Otherwise, I don't have a use for it. My phone is always near me, so having to check my wrist then phone is just an extra step.
Here is the next generation, bigger display, more flexible band. Oh yes, just what we want, wearing a full computer on our wrist. May as well be a tracking device.
Do you sell it? 😅
I don't hate the Apple Watch or similar devices, I just don't prefer them.
Sleep monitoring is a stupid feature. When I wake up I already know if I slept well 🤣. Also I don't want another item to charge.
They are ugly.
I don't see them as watches. I see them as wrist phones. As a tool for communication they are fine. I don't own one, I get enough notifications from my phone.
My dislike is for the company and goes back decades. This does affect my view of their products... But so does how truly awful they are.😎
They are fine things, but just not what I want in a mechanical watch.
And it takes up valuable wrist space
The one thing that's putting me off is the battery - it needs to be changed every day, and it makes that thing disposable if it fails, the "watch" transforms to an old sock with too many holes in it 😅. And Apple is well known for "serviceability" of it's products. I am old-school and hope I will newer stop riding my bike using the Garmin edge, or HRM belt paired to any type of phone for other activities - every action in life needs a right tool!
They are just a tiny phone.
Its not made for me so I don’t want/wear/buy one. It does affect me in that, it’ll mean there is a mechanical watch industry in (my lifetime) at least so I don’t hate/dislike it. In the same way those ‘cheap’ plastic quartz Swatches kept the industry going by making people who weren’t interested in mechanical watches buy a mechanical watch in later - by virtue of the fact that they were ‘used’ to having a device on their wrist. Apple didn’t set about making a watch to pi55 me off (pretty sure of that!).
Just because I’m not the ‘target consumer’ doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate it’s importance in the grander scheme of things. IMO no other current watch manufacturer has done more for the future of mechanical watch sales than Apple and they should Thank them for it. Of course, this is all just a prediction of future events, so it’s all conjecture on my part
Ive had the first generation with milanaise band. The band was very innovative and cool but the notifications annoyed me so ive got rid of it after a couple months
To me I see watches like cars. I consider the Apple Macintosh Watch to a Tesla. It is what they say it is, a watch/car a functional product full of tech and serves a purpose. but it is soulless, has no character and is disposable. What it isn’t is, something analogue with moving parts that oozes style and grace… like an 80s/90s v6/v8 coupe. And I do own a iclone watch… just for swimming and exercise. As soon as I’m done with the exercise that V6/V8 goes back on my wrist!
It’s funny that many watch people will give G-Shocks their due but can’t do the same with smart watches which objectively outperform automatics in nearly every way. I’d even argue that the smart watch is the tool watch of the information age. Acknowledging this doesn’t take away from the feeling I get wearing a well designed precision mechanical device on my wrist.
To me smart watches are an evolution of the digital watch of old. But like any watch, its purpose is to feed the narcissistic ego of the people who wear them, either to flex or maybe just fear of missing out on the latest notification. I tried a traditional watch after half a decade with Apple Watch and have never looked back, but that doesn’t mean my motivations for having wrist jewellery is any different than those who like their wrist monitor.