Apple Watch: Phone calls, SMS, notifications ... no thanks!

WE’RE all very impressed with the new Apple Watch. But that doesn’t mean we all want to buy it. Here’s why one customer will be giving it a miss.

COMMENT

Like most people, I love my devices. Love my iPhone, my iPad, my MacBook and use them just about all day, every day.

But could I — would I — get to love the new Apple Watch? I don’t think so.

I want my watch to do one thing and one thing only: just tell me the time.

I don’t want my watch to be doing all those things that can already be done on just about every other device.

Who wants their wrist to be home to a technically-brilliant trumped-up version of an 80s digital watch?

As for the super-duper Edition version, which Apple are going to be selling for 14 thousand bucks? You have got to be absolutely kidding me.

I’d rather put that kind of cash into a much-lusted after classic. You know, the type that will stand the test of time and not be ‘out’ in 12 months time.

Just tell me the damn time.

I’ve already turned off notifications for most social media platforms, so I don’t need my watch telling me I have a new Facebook message, a text or a news update.

Hello, that’s why I have a smartphone.

Sure, I can see that taking your heart rate or getting a workout reminder or checking your Insta or ordering an Uber or using your watch as a boarding pass are terrific features. And we all have to hand it to Apple for achieving such technical wonderment.

But do I want or need my watch to be doing this for me? A big, fat no.

As for walking down the street talking into your watch? How utterly hilarious is it going to be to see a whole lot of Apple acolytes talking into their wrists, making like Dick Tracy. (Okay, Google him.)

Walk down the street talking into my wrist? I don’t think so.

To me, a watch is probably the last bastion of showing pure, individual style.

Most of us have chosen a watch because it says something about our own innate taste.

Whether Seiko or Cartier, Tag-Heuer or Omega, your wrist makes its own fashion statement with your choice of timepiece.

Okay, am sure this all sounds soooo old-school, but hey, we still need to keep some parts of our body device free.

My first watch was a Casio digital — I loved it back then — but that is the first and last time I want to see digitised numbers and letters on my wrist.

On the other hand, I am going to an 80s party on Friday night, so the new Apple Watch may fit right in there.

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