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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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Congratulations on your purchase of an Apple Watch, the only watch that watches and monitors you more than you watch it ("It's not just with you, it's on you", Tim Cook, Apple CEO).
By the way, after selling the information we gathered about you to one of our other customers they have asked us to advise you that your health insurance is now cancelled.
Have a nice day.
I don't want one because the Q99X2 don't have that kind of time.
Free yourself from the enslavement technology & tranhumanism agenda.
"Imannentize the Eschaton" agenda...
The stupid it burns still.....
I never wanted a timeX or a RollX.
While there is no federally developed national standard for safe levels of exposure to radiofrequency (RF) energy, many federal agencies have addressed this important issue. In addition to the Federal Communications Commission, federal health and safety agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) have been actively involved in monitoring and investigating issues related to RF exposure. For example, the FDA has issued guidelines for safe RF emission levels from microwave ovens, and it continues to monitor exposure issues related to the use of certain RF devices such as cellular telephones. NIOSH conducts investigations and health hazard assessments related to occupational RF exposure.
Federal, state and local government agencies and other organizations have generally relied on RF exposure standards developed by expert non-government organizations such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP). Since 1996, the FCC has required that all wireless communications devices sold in the United States meet its minimum guidelines for safe human exposure to radiofrequency (RF) energy. The FCC’s guidelines and rules regarding RF exposure are based upon standards developed by IEEE and NCRP and input from other federal agencies, such as those listed above. These guidelines specify exposure limits for hand-held wireless devices in terms of the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR). The SAR is a measure of the rate that RF energy is absorbed by the body. For exposure to RF energy from wireless devices, the allowable FCC SAR limit is 1.6 watts per kilogram (W/kg), as averaged over one gram of tissue.
All wireless devices sold in the US go through a formal FCC approval process to ensure that they do not exceed the maximum allowable SAR level when operating at the device’s highest possible power level. If the FCC learns that a device does not confirm with the test report upon which FCC approval is based – in essence, if the device in stores is not the device the FCC approved – the FCC can withdraw its approval and pursue enforcement action against the appropriate party.
Is this device in compliance? Do you care, morons who'll sleep with the damn thing attached to their body?
Tha NSA can turn the watch into a cancer causing weapon.
Does it come with a Magic 8 Ball emulation mode?
the "jump to conclusions" idea was actually healthier :-)
Some years agon, I bought a cell phone because I was told I needed it. After a couple of weeks of being annoyed, distracted, and interupted by it, I smashed it and threw it in the trash. Sure a cell phone can be convenient at times, but I don't find the convenience worth the aggravation.
I will stay with my gold 18k Patek Philippe complication, thank you very much.
I have got a Brietling 14K White accented with Diamonds.
But I need my 18K Concord repaired. One of the Coils is damaged and it needs to be replaced.
Mine is an Omega.
My manservant carries the phone, a human answering machine. Its the only way when one is a PTB.
Well in my dreams anyway :)
And, if the government required you to wear a tracking device that could also hear everything you said, read all your mail and see your most intimate secrets, well now, you would stand in line for one, wouldn't you? Line up by height!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHZ8ek-6ccc
Is being toothless and rich the new look at Apple?
Why I don't want an Apple watch?
Because only Bozos, idiots, morons, and complete nincompoops have Apple watches and I'm not one of those.
I'm waiting for the iCondom - When you just can't afford to miss that next tweet....
I'll tell you about a really good watch- Go to Overstock.com, look up a Seiko Kinetic Auto Relay watch. This thing has kept perfect time for five years now (I mean down to the second perfect) with no batteries or winding. It has a dynamo and capacitor deal that charges it as you move around. No spyware, stainless steel case and band, durable and tough. I ride my 100 cu in v-twin motorcycle and the shaking hasn't hurt it at all.
Waterproof to a hundred meters. Beat that, Apple arseholes.
It is fucking useless device that you can notice quicker which tossers have responded or liked your ShitFaceBook page.
A fashion tracking device to wear on the wrist instead of ankle like a cool criminal.
excellent article.
The most fun I have with any of my tech devices is once they bite the dust, or become obsolete, I take them out to the desert and use them for target practice. Nothing quite like setting up an old desktop PC and blasting it with a few rounds of dble aught. Once the outer casing is appropriately destroyed, if anything remains of the harddrive, you set that up and see if a .223 will go though and through. The iWatch will make a perfect target for a .22 at about 20-30 yards.
Yeah, I hate the saturation of smart products. Enough is enough. I say as I read the article on my 6P.
My first post. Rather timely:
"This article is the antidote to news. [...] Thanks to heavy news
consumption, many people have lost the reading habit and struggle to
absorb more than four pages straight. This article will show you how
to get out of this trap – if you are not already too deeply in it."
http://dobelli.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Avoid_News_Part1_TEXT.pdf
It would be interesting to see the behind the scenes NSA inquiries and findings into the "usefullness " of Apple devices, and while we're at it, Facebook, Twitter etc in creating and perfecting a social media prison for idiots which now encloses most Americans.
not to mention the thing looks like it was made for a fkn todler to wear. what a shit design.
not to mention the thing looks like it was made for a fkn todler to wear. what a shit design.
Can they embed that iShit watch into the Machead iZombies? That's what I'm waiting for. I want my chance to hack and control some iSheeple too, LOL. Now THAT would be some iSlave productivity.
This is the dumbest article i have ever seen on Zero Hedge - thanks for hipster ass point of view, you dont want a apple watch because it has too many functions. Okay grandpa .... lets get back to doom and gloom articles that predict the end of the world please.
I guess you're right... an Apple watch will make it much easier for spoilt Millenials to fiddle with themselves....
The iphone was first released in 2007, about the same time that Skype, Facebook and other chat really took off..... within a year the economy collapsed and never recovered.... I think that tells you all you need to know...
Good catch.
yep, I see this everywhere, people staring at their smartphones everywhere, I use a flip gophone and hardly use it, I don't listen to anything driving, no tv, ect. With all the shit filling peoples minds, no wonder insanity is rife.
I would spend $10k on a watch that produced a 3D holographic display.
No screen.
Too bad that technology is still classified by DARPA.
It has so many military applications that haven't yet been explored to their potential.
The Apple folks are still some of the best hucksters on the planet.
Cook has turned Steve's creation into a circus for the mentally impaired.
Apple is a freak show.
Rotten Apple brain dead nation of "smart" phone jabbing zombies in the oxymoron society of USeful idiot$.
$183 billion spare... and it's a Swatch, with the same naff plastic band.
Even the $10k version looks like it was designed by a muppet.
(Called it. Hilarious.)
Great, I get to spend another few hundred to buy it and who knows how much monthly for another NSA tracking device. They could even keep records of my vital signs! If they want me to wear it, the NSA should pay the bill.