I Don't See the Point of Smartwatches

Yes, I love traditional watches. Guilty as charged. But even if I didn’t, I’d still think smartwatches are one of the dumbest tech trends out there.

Whether it’s Apple, Samsung, Google, Garmin, or any other smartwatch brand—they’re all utterly pointless as watches, in my opinion. Let’s call them what they are: not smart watches, but wrist phones.

You’re mid-conversation with someone, and they suddenly stop to check their wrist phone because it buzzed. So fucking rude.

Ask someone the time, and they spend 10 seconds tapping at their wrist phone just to wake the screen so they can maybe tell you the time. That’s assuming they can even find the time, buried beneath a mess of data, rings, and digital nonsense.

Want to track your sleep? Too bad, your bloody wrist phone needs charging every night.

Why track your sleep at all? If you’ve had a crap night, you’ll wake up tired. What more do you need to know?

You’re paying the same price for a wrist phone as you could for a beautiful automatic watch; one that will last a lifetime and can be passed down to your kids. Worse still, that stupid wrist phone will be e-waste in a few years, just like the rest.

What are they good for?

Activity tracking. That’s it.

I have an 8-year-old Garmin wrist phone that I use for running because it has GPS. I could easily use one of my many Casio watches, but I’ve got this wrist phone, so I’ll keep using it until it dies.

Once it does die, I’ll switch back to a digital watch—with a battery that lasts years, and a design that will never become obsolete. Unlike today’s disposable wrist phones. All for 1/20th the price of your Ultra wrist phone.

Smartwatches Wrist phones really are one of the most pointless, stupid inventions I’ve ever seen.

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