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0 pointsyonaguska3y ago0 comments

And it had an insanely long battery life, I could respond to, and read text messages without opening my phone. It didn't have unnecessary stuff- it was simple and met my watch needs. I don't have a smartwatch now, because I'm not interested in having yet another computer on my wrist. I guess I've just decided to settle for a gimmicky automatic watch, it doesn't even have an alarm! And it dies if I stop using it for a few days.

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robertlagrant3y ago

Yeah I really liked mine. Still have it, I just don't get on with wearing any watch that much. I like how it had voice commands way back when.

maratc3y ago

> settle for a gimmicky automatic watch

You probably mean the marvel of mechanical engineering that has zero dependency on the outside world, needs no software updates, and will still continue running as new for years after all the smart watches will turn into useless pucks?

adregan3y ago

Minimal dependency: you will have to get it serviced from time to time, but I find that charming—like getting a pair of shoes resoled or renewing a piece of wooden furniture. You’re extending the life of the object, some beyond your own lifespan.

benj1113y ago

>And it had an insanely long battery life.

Is there a term for complementing something that is objectively much worse than what came before only because it's better than what we have now.

Stockholm syndrome?

Watch batteries used to last month's/ years / didn't need batteries at all.

It's the same with phones, they used to last a week easily, now we get excited when they last 2 days.

scambier3y ago

> Is there a term for complementing something that is objectively much worse than what came before only because it's better than what we have now.

What kind of smartwatch came before it, that had a battery that held for more than a week? And no, a simple watch is not a smartwatch, so that doesn't count.

stinkytaco3y ago

I don't think these are apples to apples comparisons. Yes, watches had much longer batteries, but they didn't have smart features. So you're really comparing the Pebble to something with a comparable feature set, like another smart watch.

Phones used to be powered directly from the wire and work even during a power outage and now they have batteries and die, but I'm still willing to trade that feature to have a GPS and text messaging.

benj1113y ago

Well it's less featured than a modern smart watch so it's not an apples to apples comparison there, but the comparison was still made.

Further Casio made a range of smartish watches back in the day. I don't know battery life's but they weren't measured in days.

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MereInterest3y ago

I don't know of any official name, but it would be adjacent to the Rachet Effect [0]. Where the Rachet Effect is a steady increase in expectations, rather than a steady decrease, they both derive from the same limited time frame used for comparisons.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet_effect

yonaguskaOP3y ago

For me, I didn't wear watches before. Pebble got me into it. And now I wear watches with no batteries, so maybe reverse Stockholm syndrome?

I loved my Garmin, but I hated the notifications. And I couldn't disable the fitness related notifications. I'm at a point where I hate all notifications though, and have them only enabled for work and my wife. Everyone/everything else can wait.

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robertlagrant3y ago

Yeah I really liked mine. Still have it, I just don't get on with wearing any watch that much. I like how it had voice commands way back when.

maratc3y ago

> settle for a gimmicky automatic watch

adregan3y ago

benj1113y ago

>And it had an insanely long battery life.

Is there a term for complementing something that is objectively much worse than what came before only because it's better than what we have now.

Stockholm syndrome?

Watch batteries used to last month's/ years / didn't need batteries at all.

It's the same with phones, they used to last a week easily, now we get excited when they last 2 days.

scambier3y ago

> Is there a term for complementing something that is objectively much worse than what came before only because it's better than what we have now.

What kind of smartwatch came before it, that had a battery that held for more than a week? And no, a simple watch is not a smartwatch, so that doesn't count.

stinkytaco3y ago

Phones used to be powered directly from the wire and work even during a power outage and now they have batteries and die, but I'm still willing to trade that feature to have a GPS and text messaging.

benj1113y ago

Well it's less featured than a modern smart watch so it's not an apples to apples comparison there, but the comparison was still made.

Further Casio made a range of smartish watches back in the day. I don't know battery life's but they weren't measured in days.

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MereInterest3y ago

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet_effect

yonaguskaOP3y ago

For me, I didn't wear watches before. Pebble got me into it. And now I wear watches with no batteries, so maybe reverse Stockholm syndrome?

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