Smartwatch software support lags well behind smartphone pledges, even from Google and Samsung, but this really shouldn’t be the case.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Start demanding or refusing to purchase. You don’t need these things, we need to break this flawed cycle.

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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      3 months ago

      Completely agree. My main watches are a Casio G-shock, 10 year battery, 200m waterproof (Mine dived with me to 32 m two days ago), A Cressi Diver’s dual time (I have had to replace the battery after 4 years), and the iconic Seiko sknx007 Diver’s automatic.

      My watch is a tough, good looking, and well engineered device to give me the time, and in my case a rotating bezel to time the dive.

      I hate the idea of a prissy thing you can’t take for a swim in the pool, with a battery life measured in days, and that mostly replicates functions in the phone already in my pocket.

      No thanks.