![]() I don’t use it to open my garage door, it isn’t built into my home automation system (because I don’t have one), and there’s not a single third-party app that makes any meaningful appearance on my wrist. More importantly, beyond the standard first-party Apple Watch feature set, I don’t do anything else with it. I’ve grown used to notifications appearing on my wrist over the years, but as time has worn on, I’ve become less reliant on them and, conversely, rather irritated by their consistency. ![]() I track workouts but rarely check the data thereafter, and I use it to track my sleep but, well, you guessed it – I never really pay any attention to what it tells me about my time in the Land of Nod. Firstly, I’ve never been an Apple Watch power user. I think there are several reasons for this. Having owned and worn an Apple Watch since the launch of the first version in 2015, how on earth could I live without it? It remains the most interesting, exciting product Apple launched in 2022 and is a genuine technical marvel. I was convinced I’d miss the Apple Watch Ultra. And the Fenix 7 Pro is still on my wrist. My usual timepiece – the Apple Watch Ultra – has lay dormant on the kitchen table for that entire time. I was wrong about the Apple Watchįor the last month, I’ve been exclusively wearing a Garmin Fenix 7 Pro smartwatch. But they are there and I’ve recently discovered one of the biggest in the form of the reliance I thought I had on the Apple Watch. It’s obviously not intentional, and these errors in Apple’s master plan are only discoverable if you dare to venture outside of the aforementioned walled garden. It’s how they ‘get’ people like me and force us to stay within their walled garden. These are the least flashy, exciting, or marketable elements of the Apple ecosystem, but Apple knows exactly what it’s doing. My friend said the same without his iPhone, the inability to AirDrop stuff between his colleagues becomes a real issue. Without my iPhone in tow, my productivity dips simply because I spend more time faffing about transferring things between devices (be it the aforementioned clipboard, or images and web addresses). As it turns out, we’re both as stupidly reliant on it as each other.īy ‘stupidly’, I mean that we are, literally trapped and for the silliest of reasons.įor me, it’s the ability to copy and paste seamlessly between my Apple devices. During a coffee with a friend this morning, we talked about the brilliance of the Apple ecosystem.
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