Philip Houska It's been more than a year, or rather autumn 2016, when I decided to buy an Apple Watch, specifically the Series 1 model line. Although it may not seem like it, buying a watch as such was a big and unusual step for me, because I have the thing in my hands he never indulged much (not counting his tender childhood years). To tell the time, I've always had to use an iPhone, that is, another phone, or someone close to me standing next to me. I have operated this way for many years without the slightest problem.
Even at the time when the first series of Apple watches came out, i.e. during 2015, they left me completely cold and I did not deal with them at all. After all, I didn't even like the Apple Watch. However, as is often the case (especially with me), I began to reevaluate my opinion on them after we started discussing them in more depth with someone. The key person in this case was my brother, who glanced at them. And it was he who basically convinced me to buy.
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Apple picker At the time, I didn't have any workflow in mind for how I would use the Apple Watch. The main factor was rather curiosity and the vision that one day I could deal with a number of common things such as messages, phone calls or reminders straight from the watch without having to pull out the iPhone for them. From unboxing the watch and then testing it for a few weeks, I found that it can work. I was excited, but only until winter came.
Winter outdoor weather as a killer of Apple Watch use
Now you may be wondering why my maximum satisfaction dropped after it started to get cold outside. I hate winter as such on principle, but once I had to put on a winter jacket before going outside, the hatred started to escalate.
My problem is that once I have the watch covered with a jacket (and a sweatshirt, for heaven's sake), which also has fabric sewn into the sleeves to prevent snow from blowing in or getting into the sleeves, it becomes more complicated to use. The sleeve of the jacket does not just roll up after turning the hand, so I have to use the other hand to pull out the jacket layer (including the sweatshirt and two layers) and only then look at the watch. At this moment, it is significantly more convenient for me, especially in terms of time, to take the iPhone out of my pocket and handle the necessary notifications directly from the phone.
On the other hand, in this scenario, the watch serves me as a kind of vibration on my hand, thanks to which I know that I should take out my phone. From April to October, I usually solve 80 percent of notifications directly on the watch, mainly because I don't have so many layers of clothes on that would significantly overlap the Apple Watch. As soon as it gets cold, I turn up the vibrations and do everything (including simple time-keeping) on my iPhone. Despite the fact that my watch is much harder to control in the winter, which is due to, for example, frozen fingers and sometimes slower software responses.
Well, the jacket covers the watch, who would have thought! And the thieves from Apple are hiding that from us on purpose, otherwise no one would buy it
I'm considering filing a class action lawsuit, will you join? :D
Interesting case, I didn't even notice it much in my case. I use a Garmin watch for sports measurements and only a little for notifications. Just like you, I don't like the winter very much, so I do most of my activities outside in the summer, the last file is in a hall.
Personally, for me, the problem with Apple watches is durability. I want to measure all my activities with a watch, so when I go on a tour for the whole day, I want to be on the GPS (8-10 hours), 2-3 hours on the bike is also quite normal for me. So as long as they don't last at least 10 hours on GPS, they're good for me.
I would be most interested in being called. I quite like to call when I'm going somewhere, because I have time to think about everything and I don't want to hold my cell phone in my hand (or I don't have an empty one ;-) ). Garmin watches can't do that (Skoda).
And what will I find out... The fact that Mr. Editor never liked watches really doesn't interest me... After that, any kind of watch is useless to him....
I don't understand why such strange and bizarre articles are created
I look with my mouth open in disbelief... no, does one have to wear gloves in the winter? And rolling them away is more difficult than taking the phone out of your pocket? God, who wrote this? You owe me a few minutes of your life...
This article insults the intelligence of even the average internet reader like me…
Perhaps the editors could think a little about whether this is really the way to go. One more article like this and you've lost a loyal reader of several years.
I won't primarily berate the author, rather I would ask what is the message of this article supposed to be? When I clicked on it, I thought it might be interesting, but in the end I didn't learn anything at all, or rather didn't get the idea...
Who among you wears an Apple Watch? I've had them for the second year and I'm dealing with a similar problem exactly in the winter - apparently because of their thickness, they're harder to access and it's definitely faster to pull out my phone in many cases. In the mountains, when you wear a lot of layers, it is especially "yummy" if you want to track your rides.
Well, it bothers me that I have the first version (0 series) in both 42 and 38mm and now, after about two years of use, it doesn't even last a day on my hand. I put it on at 7:15 a.m. and at 8:8.000 p.m. they are dead, just wait 3.000 hours :(. Czech service exchanges watches for new ones for about XNUMX CZK, other services exchange batteries for XNUMX CZK, even so it seems unreasonably expensive to me. apple disappointed. :(
This will probably be a defective piece. I've had them for two years, and when I put them on the charger in the evening, they still have about 45% battery.