What cheeses me off

[love_the_life]

My Apple Watch needs to be charged daily

I know and it annoys the heck out of me (can get a day and a half mostly but charge every night anyway). The watch is linked to my other Apple products and is seamless just cough battery life.

 

[Quickstatus]

Whats the point of wearing a watch?

 

[VPS]

Whats the point of wearing a watch?

I like it so I don’t have to look at my phone all the time, especially if I’m out
It tracks my steps and I don’t always have a phone with me

The Apple Watch is great when you’re driving somewhere new because it vibrates differently for turning left or right

 

[jkbaus]

So bought Garmin Lily 2 on sale $348
I think it has an emergency function. Gotta finish setup.

Please let me know how you go.

I have a tiny arthritic wrist but would like smart watch functions including ability to use it to pay when out as well as fall alert for home.

Think I would have to carry my phone and link via Bluetooth.

I use pixel phone with prepaid sim.
Unfortunately telcos in Australia won't let me use a sim in a phone unless I am on a phone plan as well

 

[Pushka]

Whats the point of wearing a watch?

I wear a bracelet watch - citizen eco drive powered by sun and love it. Gave up wearing it a few years ago as its tiny but then got cataracts done and all is good again. Found it at the back of the drawer and forgotten about. Bought it on a cruise years ago. I had an Apple Watch, now it's been abandoned somewhere as I just found it too big. Rubbish battery.

 

[DejaBrew]

Latest gen Apple Watches are getting about 2 days’ worth of battery life with all the bells and whistles fully activated and functioning - even longer if you’re more selective about the features you use. 15 minutes on the charger gets you around 12 hours’ worth of additional battery life.

 

[JohnM]

Whats the point of wearing a watch?

I find it useful to tell me the time...

Seriously, though, I particularly like my Apple watch for making payments on EFTPOS machines. No messing about pulling my phone out of my pocket, a CC out of my wallet or keying a PIN; your identity on the watch is biometrically secured through your phone.

Also for quickly seeing the basics of emails and text messages without having to pull my phone out of my pocket.

 

[Katie]

Driving in the Brisbane storm yesterday afternoon, around 3pm, we'd left Manly and were heading for Wynnum Plaza to try to get undercover (we had been at the Manly Boathouse post family-only goodbyes before FIL was being cremated) and of the four passengers in my car, I had three all trying to give me driving instructions. At the same time.

Not only was I trying to get off the road with rain bucketing down, windscreen wipers on highest setting, wondering if hail would start belting us and potentially fly through the rear screen and kill my family members, but three flipping backseat drivers telling me what to do.

 

[dajop]

Seriously, though, I particularly like my Apple watch for making payments on EFTPOS machines. No messing about pulling my phone out of my pocket, a CC out of my wallet or keying a PIN; your identity on the watch is biometrically secured through your phone.

This is also useful public transport, works well on readers here in Singapore (or I did until it stopped working properly). The only thing I swapped from wearing my watch on the left hand to right hand, partly because the readers at train stations are on the right.

 

[n7of9]

WCMO - signed up for Britbox, cancelled with 24 hours. They charged me and are refusing a refund, even though they have 7 day free trial. They say the link I used did not include a trial period, even though all their advertising says they do. I asked for proof, they said they can't give it to me. Chargeback on MCard wants proof of cancellation...there is none, I cancelled from within my account. I am cheesed off!

 

[Quickstatus]

I like it so I don’t have to look at my phone all the time,

But you still have to look at something to tell the time

The Apple Watch is great when you’re driving somewhere new because it vibrates differently for turning left or right

Don't you have sat nav that tells you when to turn?

I find it useful to tell me the time.

Interesting

........

I cant see why pulling phone out of pocket is so difficult to make payments - especially when different CC are in play

 

[JohnM]

This is also useful public transport, works well on readers here in Singapore (or I did until it stopped working properly). The only thing I swapped from wearing my watch on the left hand to right hand, partly because the readers at train stations are on the right.

Yes. I have a Smartrider card at home in Perth, but when I go to Sydney, for example, it's easy to ping my Apple watch to the public transport readers.

I cant see why pulling phone out of pocket is so difficult to make payments - especially when different CC are in play

It's not difficult to do that. It's just quicker and easier to use the watch to pay (and to scan rewards cards).

Personal preference, but I'd suggest that once a watch is used for these sorts of tasks, there is no going back.

 

[Quickstatus]

I think the time it takes to put on take off plus management of additional device, I think might as well just have a phone.

 

[DejaBrew]

I think the time it takes to put on take off plus management of additional device, I think might as well just have a phone.

Each to their own. My wrist feels naked without a watch.

 

[kookaburra75]

Each to their own. My wrist feels naked without a watch.

Same here, but I have a dumb watch - Casio Duros, which I can go diving with, swimming, and can take knocks. I can't take a "smart" watch into some of my work places, so it's a lot easier.
But WCMO is when I'm having a conversation with someone wearing a so-called "smart" watch, is when they stop engaging with me and look down at their watch to read the message or email that had just arrived. To wait 30 seconds won't kill you

 

[Aeryn]

I dont like to be glued to my phone, so if i didnt have a smart watch I would still wear a watch (in fact pre smart watch I wore my HRM watch). One benefit is unlike my old Polar HRM I dont have to tell smart watch to start recording activity, it all happens automatically.

 

[TheRealTMA]

But you still have to look at something to tell the time

Na. It can speak to you!

"enable the "Speak Time" feature in the Clock settings, then place two fingers on the watch face to have it spoken aloud"