Apple Watch

[Yw-slayer]

Maybe one fifth.

[thesameguy]

I'm still struggling with why I need a watch when I have a device in my pocket that tells when I need to be somewhere without me looking. I check the clock maybe once a day at the most. If an alarm isn't going off, I don't care what time it is because I ain't sheeeeeeeeiiiiiittttt to do. I stopped wearing a watch in '94!

[Kchrpm]

Maybe a smartwatch isn't for you, then

I find it a lot easier to glance at my watch when it vibrates than to pull out my phone, turn it on and check the notification bar/shade. That's the normal daily functionality for me, and it gets better for travel, but it's *far* from a necessity.

[Yw-slayer]

I always check the time on a watch, rather than on my phone. There are places in HK where looking at a phone just isn't allowed, and I find it very off-putting when people pull out their phone to look at the time.

[Kchrpm]

There are places in HK where looking at a phone just isn't allowed

Do you mind expanding on that?

[thesameguy]

Maybe a smartwatch isn't for you, then

Like I said, I struggle with the concept.

[Blerpa]

I want to know about the verboten-places in HK as well!
It's like 13 years since I last used a wristwatch. Not going to happen again.

[Kchrpm]

The "eh, no thanks, I don't get it" response is what I get from most people who notice mine and want to ask about it (either because they don't care about what it does, or because they want it to do more, like play videos and take calls), but I'm honestly surprised that it's only maybe 70/30, if not 60/40. I thought it was going to be almost completely negative.

[thesameguy]

It's not smart watches I don't get, it's watches. I don't want more stuff on my person, I want less stuff. Until I can make phone calls, surf the net, and send emails from my watch I have to carry a phone, so the watch has gotta go. Actually, the watch went when I had to start carrying a pager.. but back then nobody could surf the net or make phone calls from a device in their pocket. IIRC, my 1994 cell phone didn't even have a clock in the first place.

[Blerpa]

Exactly what tsg said.
I've a phone, I don't need a watch.
Also I don't like Google Now at all (deactivated it on all of my devices), so an Android Wear smartwatch would be kinda useless on me, aside from notifications.