Why I Threw Away My Apple Watch

I genuinely don’t understand why this is a problem for some people. It charges in under 15 minutes while I shower each morning. When I’m traveling I do always forget the charger however.<p>Robot vacuums on the other hand are awful for me. I always leave small cables and things on the floor like a jacket on the back of a chair. Also it does a poor job of transitioning from a hardwood surface to a thick rug. It frequently fails to charge even sitting on the dock. Also it is louder than even my shop vac.

Somehow, this really resonates with me. I have used an Apple Watch off and on the last three years. While I have no problem keeping it charged, doing so is still a chore. When I wake up, I remove my iPhone, AirPods and Apple Watch from the charger. Some mornings it feels like my sole purpose in life is to dress myself in technology and while keeping the various integrated batteries topped off. I got the watch for the fitness functions and because I love technology. And the fitness functions are really good, closing rings have had me exercise more than I would otherwise. The problem I have with the Apple Watch is that it makes it really awkward to wear a real watch, one of the few pieces of jewellery that I as a feel confident wearing. Double wristing is not for me. It is a marvellous piece of technology can be really useful, but it limits me more than it enables me.

I understand the issues you experience. I don’t get the point you are trying to make.<p>I have a cheaper smartwatch and a dirty cheap robot cleaner.<p>Cheaper smartwatch has e-ink screen, notifications, payment, health monitors, etc. It doesn’t have all possible smart features, but in return I got 30d battery life.<p>Cheap robot vacuum cleaner is based on basic sensors, no lidar or recognition systems. It gets stuck in cables, it misses 10% of spots, but it captures 2 cup sized ball of dust every day.<p>I am happy with both. Especially because I researched and found what works for me. Maybe the ‘best’, ‘smartest’ and most expensive products in the market isn’t neccesaary what everybody needs?

Bought a watch to monitor fitness, then settles on a Casio that doesn&#x27;t?<p>Retro Casios look great, to be fair. But, IMO, knowing the time isn&#x27;t something I need to be solved on my wrist anymore given everyone carries phones.

I got rid of mine because of the battery as well. The benefits didn&#x27;t outweigh the extra mental overhead of having one more thing to manage daily.<p>Except for times when I want to capture health data, or when I&#x27;m exercising, I wear nothing. After all, I always have my phone with me, so I always know what time it is.<p>But when I want to wear a watch, my Garmin Venu SQ2 provides nearly as good activity and health tracking as the Apple watch, plus more sports tracking features... and its battery lasts days. It&#x27;s also lighter and cheaper, so if I break it I won&#x27;t be as upset.

$40 smart watch from Amazon does most of what the Apple Watch does and battery lasts a week even wearing it all night. I occasionaly charge it while showering

I really like my Apple Watch. I use it for what it is, a glorified fitness tracker with additional &quot;communicator&quot; tech.<p>My only request would be that they make an &quot;Apple bracelet&quot; so that I can wear my nice mechanical watches. It&#x27;s a pain to jump back and forth because the power reserves on the mechanicals will die, and resetting the time (or worst the date complication) is annoying.

Love the Apple Watch. But yeah battery is huge drag to the otherwise lovely experience. It&#x27;s barely enough to start with. Now after three years, at 79% of original capacity, it&#x27;s become annoying. I actually cannot think of a watchOS function that can&#x27;t be done in monocrhome. I miss my old Fitbit which could be charged during a shower before lasting almost a week.

I don&#x27;t get it. You need to charge your phone anyway. You just make that part of the phone charging routine. I have a MagSafe triple charger next to my bed that I throw my phone, watch and AirPods on before I go to bed and everything&#x27;s good for the next day. I also have a compact MagSafe triple charger for traveling that I keep in my go bag.

TL;DR Author threw away watch because they keep forgetting to charge it and managing charging cable was difficult.<p>There must be reasonably easy solutions to both of these problems.

Some things require routines. If you don&#x27;t take daily shower you will forget to charge your watch, if you don&#x27;t tidy up then cleaning robot will not do its job.<p>I would not get a cleaning robot for the same reason (I&#x27;m a messy person and my place is too small) but I know people for whom it works really well

This is why I use a whoop. I just want a health tracker without charging and mental overhead.

&gt; Before our robot could start his work, I had to clean the floors.<p>Typical