“Which Apple Watch are you going to get?” Lately, that’s the question most folks I know ask me, assuming that I’m such an ardent Apple fan I will surely get one.
Well, I doubt very much that I will ever again purchase any wrist watch, even one as fashionable and innovative as those designed by Apple.
I might consider an Apple watch, however, if, instead of wearing it on my wrist, I could dangle it from a necklace around my neck, somewhat like the “watch on a chain” displayed on this page. (NOTE: The illustration is not of a real watch or even a prototype of one. It’s merely two different images that I screenshot and pieced together.) Of course, I would expect Jony Ive to design a much more elegant chain for the watch than the “mockup” you see on this page.
Years ago, I had a watch on a chain and I loved it. I wore it almost every day. Finally, after several years and many new battery implants, it stopped working. I never found a
replacement for it that I liked, although I kept looking. Meanwhile, I needed to have something portable to tell me what time it was. And so I reverted to wearing wrist watches.
I abhorred them.
Invariably, the watch crystals broke because they kept colliding with other objects. Moreover, not all of them were waterproof and so I had to remember to take them off when I washed my hands or rinsed dishes. Sometimes, I forgot and their insides died by drowning. Occasionally, I forgot to put them on again and, consequently, I left a few of them in public washrooms. (BTW, did you know that AppleWatches aren’t waterproof—only water-resistant.) Some I lost because I hadn’t secured them on my wrist properly and they fell off.
And, then, along came the iPhone. Who needs a timepiece if you have an iPhone? From what I have heard or read, there is little that an AppleWatch can do or that I want it to do that my iPhone already does.
No, you won’t see me with an expensive AppleWatch wrapped around my wrist, especially when, every year or sooner, Apple will launch a new model that will be even more stylish, more innovative, and still very pricey. Just let me hang onto my iPhone.
At least, that’s what I’m thinking…for now.
