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Why I Don't Want An Apple Watch (And It's Not Battery Life)
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,
Being connected is a sure way to destroy productivity.
The reason I don't want an Apple Watch has nothing to do with its look, functionality, price or battery life. The reason I have no interest in an Apple Watch (or any of its competitors) is I can't afford to be connected to a device that destroys my productivity with an endless stream of chirps, beeps, buzzes or vibrations every time an email, tweet, text, etc. arrives.
Stated very simply: the Apple Watch, like every other enslaving you to the network device, is a productivity destroyer.
A number of readers sent me this article on the luxury status of quietude: The Cost of Paying Attention: Silence is now offered as a luxury good.
Why is quietude now a luxury? There are two reasons:
1. Being chained to the network is now the default. Everyone on the bus is either talking on a mobile phone or staring at a mobile device. Whatever status there once was in being connected has completely evaporated. As I have noted here before, the highest possible status now is reserved for those who cannot waste their valuable time being accessible to everyone with a network connection.
2. Thinking clearly and productively is impossible when a train of thought is constantly interrupted by incoming messages and notifications.
Being constantly interrupted and distracted is fine if your work is routine and doesn't require any concentrated thought or creativity, and this is why the heavily-hyped myth that being connected boosts your productivity is so risible: the Apple Watch certainly notifies you of your meeting in Cupertino in an hour, but since you've been connected to the network every waking hour of every day, you've had no mental space to come up with any ideas worthy of a meeting in Cupertino.
It's ironic, isn't it? All these networked devices are supposed to boost your productivity by flooding you with mostly useless/trivial messages and notifications, when the reality is being connected is a sure way to destroy productivity.
Yes, salespeople have to be connected 24/7 to respond to customers, but outside of sales and on-call workers, being connected offers diminishing returns that are directly correlated to the concentration required to get the work done. The need to concentrate is just as high in skilled manual trades as it is for creative-content work.
Some form of derangement or collapse of productivity is the inevitable consequence of being constantly distracted and interrupted.
Getting a message or notification of any kind feeds our desire to appear worthy and important, but the ubiquity of messages and notifications now matches the ubiquity of adverts. The status value of being connected is now zero. The status value is in being unconnected.
If Apple offers a watch that can only display time and date, I am interested--at $40 or less. I like the look of the Apple Watch, and as an accessory that displays time and date, it is functional to me, because I leave phones and other devices off to avoid being distracted. A watch that cannot interrupt or distract me is the only watch with any productive value.
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iM going iNsane with this iShiT
I need that sweep second hand, thank you.
Think about this for a min. First it was brick cell phones, then smaller flip phones, then "smart" phones, "smart" glasses, now smaller "smart" watches, next "smart" implants....that's where it's headed folks
And of course the mentally enslved mellinial morons will be the first to line up to be even bigger slaves....
But the trend now is to larger phones, not smaller. Everyone I know has those near-tablet sized cell phones.
Sorry, you are wrong...it's about convienance and smartness, already happening bro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcHQGno4EHQ
Look up !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3P7382VPtE
Im gonna put it on my wrist and punch one out. How's that for exercise!
Maybe Siri can put on some mood music when a certain motion is made?
This thing might rock!
pods
I think the NSA is getting frustrated with everyone putting their phones in their pockets. They can't hear a damn thing when you do that! So the watch is perfect, it will pick up every word you say.
i don't want one cuz i don't want to look like a FUCKING HIPSTER POSER TOOLBAG !!
Hilarious and satirical interviews with a toothless Apple 'engineer:' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUY2fOeQMrQ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHZ8ek-6ccc
"Sometimes I wonder why we're still in business."
I've had the same watch for nearly a decade. I spent $70 on it, but it has lasted. In fact, I spent that much because I knew that it was designed to last. It tells me the time. It recharges itself via solar. It has alarm function and a stopwatch. If I had to, I could take it off and beat somebody to death with it. I also expect it to last another 5 or 10 years, and I'm hard on watches. Why the fuck does anybody need an Apple Watch that needs a cell phone that has the same functionality, but with a bigger screen? The shark has been jumped.
I am looking for an automatic that recharges the Battery though Arm Motion.
If I remember Seiko marketed one of those some years back. They would have dropped in price on the Secondary market by now. Sooner or later one will walk through my door.
Solar Power? Who made it?
It's a Casio G-Shock. They still make the same model, but I looked about an hour ago and the cheapest I saw it going for was $90, and most places had them going for more than that.
From way upchain : " now smaller "smart" watches, next "smart" implants....that's where it's headed folks "
I beg to differ, I think the iBillboard is the next big thing, where advertising will start doing fun things like shown here :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7acaIFB__SQ
This article is correct. The new status symbol is being one of the few who don't have a smart device. Refusing to be at the beck and call of someone else is manly. Having to jump every time someone buzzes you is wussy.
Apple customers don't just look like doughy vagina boys, they actually are wussified.
I prefer the resonating tone produced by the tuning forks inside of my Bulova Accutron, thank you.
A timepiece run by the vibration of a couple of Tuning Forks with Coils inside. Who'd have thought???
And it is still operational.
Not exactly affordable but the last watch you will ever buy is a Rolex stainless steel Submariner self winding.
Yer avatar sez otherwise! :>D
Actually, you'd freak on exactly how sensitive cell phone mikes really are especially in a quiet environment.
If you're normal paranoid, then place your cell phone right next to a radio speaker. You'd be surprised how low of a volume it takes to camouflage a room conversation when its mike is placed right next to the speaker.
If you're super paranoid, then put your cell phone in a box with a random tone generator preferably in the normal frequency ranges of a human voice and multiples of those frequencies. It'll make Fourier transform extraction of the external audio wave forms way more difficult.
"Everyone I know has those near-tablet sized cell phones." Also, it's time for some new friends.
To be fair, there's a difference between owning and carrying a tablet-sized smart phone, and being unable to ignore said tablet-sized smart phone.
People absorbed in their portable screens is the scourge, not the tool itself.
I refuse to be friends with someone that own's a "smart" phone, call me a hater but I like thinkers
There's plenty of use a thinker can get from a smart phone. Again, you're blaming the tool, just like anti-gun people blame the gun rather than the nut who shot someone.
It's a tool of the elite, I will not be a part of the dumming down of america, sorry
Self detonation in arguments is the reason I love ZH. Thank you.
"Keeping up with the Technology", hmmm why does that sound so familiar...."Keeping up with the Kardasians"...
It comes down to discipline, do you have the discipline to only check yer emails once a day?
I make money trading on my smart phone. I get alerts about stocks and currencies hitting a particular buy or sell point and execute the trade on my phone
To all that cannot except that the people kill, not the gun. think about this. Is it the US military guns that kill or the people behind them?
Is it the Drone that kills or O bama behind the Drone?
It is on the orders of the president that the military uses it's weapons to kill.
Haha! Easy to refuse if you aren't given the option!
3 milineials were offended, lol
It's because our eyes are going and those tiny screens are a goddamn nightmare to read.
Apple Watch is just another electro-spy slave device that will eventually give you bone cancer. Avoid.
I don't wear watches, but if you must make a watch statement, go old school, go mechanical. Enjoy the craftsmanship.
I don't need a watch to tell me the time. If it's light, it's daytime. If dark, it's night-time. Easy.
Full disclosure: I'm also retired (or 'retarded', as I like to call it).
The only watch that I know of that glows in the dark...
Its all about new.....they just want the new one....does not matter what size it is....status
Heh. They're called "phablets".
Some would suggest that's a combination of 'phone' and 'tablet' -- but others would say, it's because it's .. PhaBuLouSSS!!
Don't kid yourself - you'll be the first kid on your block to have one.
Nope I still have a flip phone
So you still have an NSA Tracking Device?
Just because they are not a "Smartphone" does not mean that the Camera, the Speakers, and the Microphone cannot be remotely activated. Although it was not as well publicized those features are still there...along with GPS tracking and Cell Phone Tower triangulation.
In your posts above you claim that you will not participate in the Elitist paradigm.
And you own a Cell Phone?
And you pay a Corporation to give your conversations to the NSA?
You might as well have a God damned Smartphone.
Your statements are either the epitome of hypocrisy or stupidity. Which one of those is to yet be discerned.
Personally the only Cell Phones which I own are destined for destruction to recover and refine the Plaidium and the Gold and then refine it.
I REFUSE TO PAY ANY CORPORATION TO HELP THE GOVERNMENT TO VIOLATE MY FOURTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS. I refuse to own any Cell Phone for outgoing and incoming calls. Furthermore I cancelled my landline many years ago.
I do just fine without one. People actually visit..in person.
Over 130 NSA Tracking Devices are destroyed and counting...Anything that I can do to help the cause. It has cost me $130 and I will garner that in returns for the Precious Metals recovered and refined...if not more.
OPT OUT. Your level of complicity is up to you. I choose to minimize my complicity. It may be a "sacrifice" but I am willing to make that.
FUCK THE NSA.
Good for you. I know how to take the battery out btw. Also, when you own 3 businesses, I have no choice but to use a cell phone, gotta do what you can when you are a baller.
Tearing as many of these apart as I have there is a small Button Battery that is soldiered to the board.
As the Tantalum Capacitors do not suffer from bleed off as much as Aluminum Capacitors and they store High Potential for extended lengths...
Taking the Battery out may not disable the tracking.
Shit. Three fuckin' businesses?
Shit. Sell them and retire before this whole God damned economy goes down the drain.
Retirement is virtually impossible without a residual income stream.
Living a short life is not a problem but living too long is
Provocative as usual. Hey I have some old phones. I'd like to locate a local to buy the precious metal inside them. All I am aware of is a vending machine that does buy backs of modern phones.
I live in small town type city area. We are big enough for 3 or more Wall Marts and 3 or more malls.
I'd guess I should look to some local computer repair tech guys or call the Auto Salvage guys. Then maybe some phone stores. Probably I will lose huge on even a scrap metal rate.
Oh well I have to do my own work.
I watched a movie the other night "Paranoia" where in a meeting they all removed the battreies from their cell phones so as no-one could listen in.
Hmmm is it a coincedence that we cannot remove the batteries anymore?
Most of the older phones I had, drop them once and the weight of the battery would break the closure tab that held the battery in.
We should all request phones that we can remove the battery from.
Where is it going.
How about in suppository form, seeing as how we are all going to end up taking it up the ass anyway?
Reggie Middleton; "... I personally do not see Apple's pipeline as comparable to its major competitors. Apple's anticipated larger screen phones are playing catch-up with the Android competition from three years ago, and their stock buybacks, Beats purchase and apparent dearth in innovative products (iWatch, 4.5 inch screens do not make the cut) pale in comparison to the pipelines from Google (Glass, self-driving cars, Project Ara $50 Modular Smartphone, etc.) and Samsung (flexible phones, foldable screens, quarterly hardware updates, etc.)..."
Apple currently makes about 85% of the profit in cell phone sales.
Anyone seen Reggie lately..??
They've had a good run...
mdb, fuck you for going out of character. i put up with your shit for years and now NOW ? YOU GO OUT OF CHARACTER?
that's a fake MBD dumbass
Reread the name.
No kidding... I was trying to bet Reggie on that Google vs Apple squabble. Crickets.
The AppleWatch is purely fashion, medical, and fun. And yes, you can turn off notifications and the like. But as a developer, I am loving the new language Swift, and the new frameworks too. But then again I see under the hood of these technologies and developers love Apple.
Whoa there folks. That was Bogus, not bonus. So not out of character.
One thing Android, PC or any other operating system or company will achieve will be their religious cult following. I think they make great products but buying aapl products is like a fucking goddamn tithe.
I was going to make a comment but, hold on, ,,,, huh? Oh yeah, I was going to make a comment but, what? Hold on,,,,, Huh?
I dont need a watch, I have a phone.
same reason I don't lift my pinky when I drink a beer
this Iwatch looks about as dependable as my Hong Kong Rolex !!
I might have to slap the first asshole i see wearing one, and I'm usually a pretty nice guy...
iSnatch is the future.The really could fuck apple.j
... not to mention NSA or other agency tab on you.
Maybe you are not a "terrorist" today, but maybe you decide to be one in about 20 years and they will have all your history on file.
or maybe if you become politically inconvenient you will suddenly find despite no intention of causing/promoting violence your post/search/etc history is conviently consistent with the "profile" of a terrorist...
the other (/bigger) concern I have is unintentional false positives by law enforcement in run of the mill "non-terrorist" cases. unlimited data/survellience means every unsolved crime will have at least one Tim Masters, Cameron Willingham, etc that most strongly correllates. combine that with the fact that there's rarely any adverse consequences (& when there is never proportionate) to prosecutors convicting innocent people & you have a recipe for a lot of bad outcomes. personally, I'd give at least even $ the Justin Harris case here in atl is one...
*sigh*
I wish people understood how 99% accuracy can still lead to far, far more false positives than supposed criminals actually caught. +1000 on that.
Excellent post Charles. !!
Ask youself: iLifetm or my life?
EAT the APPLE!!!!!
Amen!
-sent from my ipad, during coffee break at work
Yes, you say you were on coffee break.
That's okay, 99.99% of the rest of the world likely agrees with you.
Not a major fan of a lot of Charles' articles but I couldn't agree more with this one.
What?
Does this fossil realize that you can control all those "chirps, beeps, and buzzes"?
He already did.
Wait until the increased incidence of various tumors and cancers start to "inexplicably" emerge as we slowly cook our brains and other body parts constantly exposed to low dose radiation - a subject rarely dealt with by the MSM.
Some things are best kept a secret....bad for business, bad for those 401k, etc. Besides lowering inteligence with a few cooked brain cells is best for control and proproganga.
What I don't undestand is why women have these damn things glued to their heads damn near every waking moment of the day...shower, driving, shopping, you name it. What the hell is there to chat about? I heard one woman in the grocery the other day telling someone on the phone that she 'WAS PICKING UP A CAN OF SOUP' and putting it in the cart. WTF?
Yep...microwaves, gamma waves, x-rays, high energy waves in general..... will boil water.
When you're not talking to someone else, there's only that little voice in yer haid to talk to -- WHO wants to talk to that boring idjut?
Buy a watch, get a free iTumor, but the USB cord costs extra.
But hey...it will alert your doctor that you have one..so Obamacare can see if you make the cut for treatment..or if you just get the Asprin for the future pain......
i don't need a useless, overpriced gadget to impress people... especially when i have other devices that can already do everything the watch does, at a much more comfortable scale.
the iWatch will be a gadget fail. People will be much more inclined to use their smart phones or tablets instead.
APPL is one of the few companies that could actually sell a polished or unpolished turd to it's customers, and they would gladly sleep on a sidewalk to buy one.
Yes... and don't forget that they now cum in colors...(not a typo).
Apple Watch signals 'peak Apple' here.
Steve Jobs leaving signaled that.
Highly recommend reading John Michael Greer's article
Peak Meaninglessness
snip
I can’t help but laugh when people insist that the internet is an information-rich environment. It’s quite the opposite, actually: all you get from it is the very narrow trickle of verbal, visual, and auditory information that can squeeze through the digital bottleneck and turn into little colored pictures on a glass screen. The best way to experience this is to engage in a media fast—a period in which you deliberately cut yourself off from all electronic media for a week or more, preferably in a quiet natural environment. If you do that, you’ll find that it can take two or three days, or even more, before your numbed and dazzled nervous system recovers far enough that you can begin to tap in to the ocean of sensory information and sensual delight that surrounds you at every moment. It’s only then, furthermore, that you can start to think your own thoughts and dream your own dreams, instead of just rehashing whatever the little colored pictures tell you.
snip
And also
The Externality Trap, or, How Progress Commits Suicide
Your name is rather fitting, given the article and where a lot of people who subscribe to these products find themselves these days. +1
Yes, thank you.
Desire, disillusionment, desire, disillusioniment......
"This is not my beautiful house, Well, How did I get here...."
Same as it ever was....
Thank you for posting the link to this site as noted above. Is that you? Your blog? No one really wants to hear the truth, not really...and it is 'their problem' not yours. But then, when the truth smacks them up-side-da-head, they stand there and ask why no one told them about it before. Listening and hearing are two different things, some choose not to permit either.
No, it's not me. But I have been reading him for a few years. He posts a weekly article on thursdays.
I really enjoy his writing and perspective. Doesn't own a tv, takes bus, grows food.....
Read a few of his older ones. The guy has read an amazing number of books. Incredible well referenced and great insights. Really good.
Todays is good also.
The Prosthetic ImaginationPlus One. One LifeTime
The
I drove to the corner store this am for cigarettes and beer and left my phone at home!...it was both a frightening and exciting adventure! I got a boner even over my intrepidness into the wilderness unarmed!
The absence of Apple Maps enabled you to actually get there this time.
A friend came to visit. Used his Apple brain-in-hand device to find his way here. The dumb shit drove his car into a canal because his Apple thing told him my house was straignt ahead. How did people get so stupid?
Me...a cheap phone for emergencies...no text, no chat, nada. Sadly I do read books, real ones on paper, so i must be doomed.
I'm gonna get one of these real soon... Books are really heavy and bulky, time to replace most of them with .pdf files.
Make no mistake, I'm still a bibliophile, and these books I'm gonna hang onto...
'Been dazed & confused for so long it's not true, wanted a shiny trinket, never bargained for you...'
The Casio Protrek range beats the iWatch hands down. Admittedly though they cannot do as much and are not so called smart watches although they've all got a tonne of useful features.
Whatever the case with Casio's pedigree it will be interesting to see what smart products they come up with over the next year or so.
These come highly recommended by Taranga Leela...
It will be as big as the announcement of Apple's LISA
(aw, you're too young.... )
Does it really come with that hideous, nausea-inducing lime green band? Or is that just an insulting shoop?
Because it's gay?
There will be a lot of fathers breaking out the scotch when their sons come home and show them their new watch
and it won't be because they are celebrating the genius of Apple or the purchasing power of their sons.
"I've got one that see..."
Fuck Apple - BWM products at Rolls Royce prices.
+1 for irony
Since 1998 Rolls Royce Motor Cars has been a subsidiary of BMW
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Motor_Cars
Good point.
The Apple watch perfectly fills a need that just is not there.
Watch it sell like hotcakes.
pods
You are being herded into an $800 iPhone 6 because it has a bigger screen yet you are being told you also need this watch that has a tiny screen...Moreover, the watch does not function unless you have your iPhone on you.
How idiotic does this sound?
Well if you are an Apple merchandiser targeting China perhaps not so idiotic. Recent data indicates that young Chinese now consider which device you carry to be of greater importance in terms of social status than hand jewelry. But the phones max out at $1000 USD. Now that Apple is selling a $17,000 USD gold watch, this short coming has been filled.
Obviously this is all about China because Americans could not give a flying fuck what watch you are wearing. In some circles a fancy watch is the mark of a douche bag.
Meanwhile: http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1736251/man-shot-during-robbe...
But if I watch Kardashian on a one inch screen it makes her ass appear smaller!
Nothing can make that ass look smaller.
A friend is going to Armenia to participate in the 100th anniversary of the genocide. He told me the Kardashian's would be there. I told him there'd be plenty of room unless one of them turned around too fast.
Nothing in my world has a lower priority than "social status".
the watch does function without your iphone, some features do require it be paired, but the watch, fitness tracking, apple pay, etc doesn't need the iphone
http://www.techradar.com/us/news/wearables/can-the-apple-watch-work-with...
You think this is cool, just wait till you see the iVibrator.
As I understand it, the Japanese have the vibration technology industry totally locked up. And yes they have devices that are remotely controllable via the internet.
I can hear the ladies now..."Is it in yet?"...lol.
'Hal 9000' on a wrist, anyone?
Anyone? Buehler? Anyone?
"Sorry Dave (Jim), I'm tired of boxing with 'Winky, the one-eyed wonder worm!'"
ROFLMAO, I was all set to disagree with this article, but for once CHS has it right, the AppleWatch is heading for peak obnoxious.
But you vill vant vone in spite of that, resistance is futile. because the basic concept is much stronger than it looks right now. But give it a generation or two (6 to 30 months) to evolve, and then it will eat you, and you vill like it.
Duct taped my ipad to my wrist, this is the shit. My coworkers look at my like "Status" lol
TFF toofuckingfunny
a little furbiage on those knuckles?
Hobbits are everywhere.
"So simple a Caveman can do it!"
That guy has a really tiny arm.
overpriced
built in obsolescence
no actually useful functions
hard to read in direct sunlight
gay/metro looking
NSA tracking device including all audio conversations
Apple watch flop will exceed google glass flop
NSA gets video of owner scratching his ass.
Man, this would be a great time to be a woman or gay or something. A brand new product that lights up like a neon sign proclaiming "I AM A RICH AND SUGGESTIBLE IDIOT" in signs no one could misread.
facebook's cheaper ... regrettably they let the riff raff in :-)
Biggest issue imo is it's not water/shower proof.
They need to create an app for that ;-)
That was done on purpose as a tribute to Steve Jobs. He was also not water/shower proof. That's why he never took a shower.
i've heard they (apple) hav'nt lost any money underestimating there customers, er... willingness to, er... resist.
I threw off my shackle long ago. But you time slaves keep them on.
POLICE STATE - Garbage Man Jailed For 30 Days For Collecting Trash Too Early https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iINITUrfTaM
Of course I have an iwatch judge but it went out of power and then I saw the sun come up and I thought, let's go to work.
It's a fucked up world.
... come on you gays, lesbians, metro-sexuals of the world, unite and buy shit-load of iwatch and make aapl the first trillion market cap company!
Most devices have options allowing you to customize their behavior. Are we to believe that the iWatch cannot be optioned to behave like a simple watch at times? My smart phone has an "airplane" mode that essentially makes it impervious to outside interruptions. Did the iWatch designers decide not to offer a "watch" mode?
Anticipating the "why buy one if you just want a $10 watch"? the answer is "I control my agenda. There are times when my "being open to inputs" agenda item comes up and perhaps the iWatch facilitates that."
Extending the thinking driving this essay, one may be enticed to cut off their eyes, ears, nose, and tongue.
Oops, I've trapped myself. The human being designer didn't include a "no interruptions mode" either.
You can always close yer eyes and try to develop some right mindfulness...
"If Apple offers a watch that can only display time and date, I am interested--at $40 or less"
i only wanna be a slave if it costs less than $40? i set the clock on my wall to 5pm 7 yrs. ago, anyone who tries to impose time constraints on me is my enemy, and i let them know it
ps - that green granny smith apple might be good for grandma yellen no?
tic tic tic 9:11 tic tic tic
Time keeps on ticking ticking ticking in to the future - The Steve Miller Band / Fly Like An Eagle / Sugarman's Midnight Special
9:12pm- 2112 - RUSH / 1976 -the year 2112 arrives in 35,357 days, 7 hours, ...
Time Stand Still - RUSH / 1987 - featuring Aimee Mann
Clockwork Angels - RUSH / 2012 - recorded at Blackbird Studio in Nashville
Stormy future???
The last damn thing I need is a device that does a poor job of functions I already have a number of devices to do well. I can't read documents or webpages on my smartphone, much less a screen 1/10th the size of that. I already have a watch (Seiko 5 automatic, no battery), an alarm clock, a laptop, a desktop, a tablet (all of which are better for certain things than others), a radio, an iPod, a stereo with CD player and turntable, a thermostat, controllers for TV, appliances I can have do what I want them to do, etc.
I got rid of a 4-button digital watch because it kept beeping at 2:00 AM and I had to read pages of instructions to figure out how to make it stop. Then I shoved my hand into my pants pocket to get something (none of your damned business), and whaddaya know, the fucking them started beeping at 2:00 AM again.
So now I need to spend a lot of money to buy something even more complicated to piss me off and do a worse job than the things I already have?
This is the kind of shit Marx saw as the inevitable outcome of finance capitalism. Too bad he was such a horseshit judge of human character. He would have appreciated the nearly-perfect worthlessness of this device, and its simultaneously irresistable allure to those so conditioned.
SWMNGUY + 1 for the seiko 5.
Only thing better is a "bellmatic"...
In the 80's, Harvard Square in Cambridge was occupied with lunatics left over from the 1960s. They'd hand out fliers about how the government was going to implant tracking devices the size of a grain of rice underneath our skin. Little did they know we would eventually pay for the honor and volunteer for that. Talk about a mind warp.
This is what I haven't figured out yet, since I came up with the concept of the "smartGlove™" four years ago:
Why not glue a strip of velcro to the back of your iPhone, get a strap with velcro on part of it, strap goes on wrist, iPhone connect with velcro, viola! and you can talk on it while driving - in states that enforce hands-free.
Seems rather simple to me, but what do I know. I don't even own a cell phone.
BTW: velcro is the best invention after duct tape, which was the best invention after toast. Oh, and bacon.
I usually leave my crackberry at home, which makes everyone mad.
Why so sad?
I will return their calls when I return to the ranch.
This shit all startred with those damn beepers back in the 80s.
(I do have a hi-power cb radio in the truck. When I am CONUS, the wife calls me on that from her hi-power base station if there is something really important.)
I kill a lot of productivity on ZH
Yes, yes, OMG yes, ZH needs an iWatch app!
Yeah just what I want interfacing technology with jewelry. Isn't there enough "keeping up with the Jones" with phones.? I think this is Silicon Valley meets Madison Avenue and bears a bastard child. Wrist envy just what kids need to go along with their Air Jordan's. Ah for the days when status was a car phone that remained in your car. No wonder there are all these Alaskan Wild "reality" shows mesmerizing the lower forty eight...it is because they dream of "no service" then they wake up and check their FB.
When they start mandatory tech implants it might be time to make it lead.
"...time to make it lead." Sorry, I cannot parse that.
"The status value is in being unconnected"
This is actually 100% accurate. As a millenial I can test, I've actually had more luck with the ladies lately because I've drastically withdrawn myself from social media and texts. In fact, one girl texted me and I called her. I explained that I dislike texting, and the fact that it was 9pm and we were both sitting in our respective living rooms...it simply made no sense to text. Needless to say, this "old-fashioned move (lol)" impressed her.
Charles raises another good point about how depressing it is on the bus, with everyone texting/staring at their phones. Not only has it started to peeve me as I've grown up a bit, but it also makes it hard to strike up a conversation with someone (preferably a cute girl).
I willingly admit I used to be a mindless social media golem, but I've started to wake up. I turn the phone off during work. Try it, its so liberating.