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_refugee_  ·  3728 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Watches, Wearables & You (and me)

I would destroy the Apple watch. I don't care how non-destructible they say it is. I tend to destroy things, especially things I wear, and very certainly watches (which I like to wear nurse-style, face on the inside of my wrist, because veins make me ucky and nothing I can articulately explain, but anyway, wearing a watch nurse-style ensures that I scratch the fuck out of the face, but because my watch-wearing preference is based in physical feeling and the lizard-part of my brain, this is unlikely to change). I'm rough on things I use a lot. That's not a bad thing - the things I have I use - but it does mean I'm not good with fragile things on the everyday, and especially not as jewelry.

I haven't watched the ads or the show. Is it water-proof? One would certainly hope so, or at least water-resistant.

I would destroy the Apple watch. As a result it strikes me as both uninteresting and impractical. Also, talk about forgetting that ish places.





kleinbl00  ·  3728 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Best buddy of mine got the watchband that allowed him to wear an iPod Nano on his wrist. That lasted about long enough for him to wash his hands at a restaurant.

If they're selling a "sport" model it's gotta be waterproof. There's "you're holding it wrong" and then there's "sports trackers bloody well better be sweat-resistant."

But then, I don't even take my Apple headphones out of the box. I can sweat through those fuckers in about a week.

_refugee_  ·  3728 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Once I broke a phone by crying into it. That was a flip phone, though, not an Apple. That was before the days of iPhones.

It's just like, "Dude, you wash your hands, right?"

I think they should introduce a device on a lanyard next. Nerdy, but more useful.