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> Back home, I have to unlock the door, climb like 20 steps — it’s plenty of time to connect to the wifi. Then I have to take off my headphones before my sweaty

> Back home, I have to unlock the door, climb like 20 steps — it’s plenty of time to connect to the wifi. Then I have to take off my headphones before my sweaty t-shirt, so it would be great to just switch the current song to the living room airplay system, so that there’d be no interruption. I couldn’t do it, and don’t understand why switching between bluetooth and wifi shouldn’t just work I'm going to sound like an old fart but this whole post sounds like a parody to me.

bsaul 9y ago
Honestly, i didn’t even understand what this post was complaining about.. I’d hate to be on customer support for this kind of guy...
- milkytron 9y ago
  When I worked customer support, I didn't even care how big or small a problem was. It was all about the attitude of the person I was helping. I'd much prefer someone with a complex or difficult issue that had a respectful attitude than someone that had a simple problem but tried to force hell upon me while I tried to help.
sevensor 9y ago
Surely it is a parody, right? This can't possibly be a post by an actual serious person. I mean, if you want to hear the same music on your stereo as your headphones, find a radio station you like and leave the stereo on while you go for a run. But really, if you can't stand exercising without your music, maybe you don't actually like exercise and you should stop.
- Dylan16807 9y ago
  > I mean, if you want to hear the same music on your stereo as your headphones, find a radio station you like and leave the stereo on while you go for a run. So you agree that there is no point spending $500 here and the watch should be returned? > maybe you don't actually like exercise and you should stop What.
  - sevensor 9y ago
    > So you agree that there is no point spending $500 here and the watch should be returned? Why are we talking about a broad parody as if it's factual? The article's mixture of credulity and petulance is surely a send-up of West-Coast tech industry narcissism. > > maybe you don't actually like exercise and you should stop > What. Yup.
    - Dylan16807 9y ago
      None of the complaints in the article are more unreasonable than the act of buying a smart watch. If you are going to pay hundreds of dollars for a watch, it had better do its very simple job without breaking. It doesn't matter if the complaints are minor in the grand scheme of things. The need for a smartwatch is equally minor. Exercise is important, even if you don't whole-heartedly enjoy it. I remain baffled.
      - sevensor 9y ago
        The way I see it, if you can't stand to be alone with your exercise for one minute, it's not a healthful practice, it's mortification of the flesh. Exercise should, if it does not feel good, at least feel right, and if it doesn't you're probably going to hurt yourself. To me, it's beside the point whether it's reasonable for the cartoon character portrayed in this blog post to return his expensive trinket. Reason went out the window when the thing was purchased in the first place. At any rate, it's not like we're talking about a real person here.
        Dylan16807 9y ago
        > if you can't stand to be alone with your exercise for one minute If something breaks for a full minute every time you touch it, that gets really frustrating, even if you have no problem at all with a minute of silence. But more importantly, the original goalpost was having music at all, during the entire exercise session. Exercise can feel perfectly 'right' while also being plenty boring if you're running in utter silence for an hour. And I don't know. This might be a real person being jokey about their legitimate issues with the device, or some kind of parody that shows someone overreacting to... legitimate issues with the device.
megaman22 9y ago
> I couldn’t do it, and don’t understand why switching between bluetooth and wifi shouldn’t just work Expecting Bluetooth to just work? Ahahahahahaha.

bsaul 9y ago

Honestly, i didn’t even understand what this post was complaining about.. I’d hate to be on customer support for this kind of guy...

milkytron 9y ago
When I worked customer support, I didn't even care how big or small a problem was. It was all about the attitude of the person I was helping. I'd much prefer someone with a complex or difficult issue that had a respectful attitude than someone that had a simple problem but tried to force hell upon me while I tried to help.

sevensor 9y ago

Surely it is a parody, right? This can't possibly be a post by an actual serious person. I mean, if you want to hear the same music on your stereo as your headphones, find a radio station you like and leave the stereo on while you go for a run. But really, if you can't stand exercising without your music, maybe you don't actually like exercise and you should stop.

Dylan16807 9y ago
> I mean, if you want to hear the same music on your stereo as your headphones, find a radio station you like and leave the stereo on while you go for a run. So you agree that there is no point spending $500 here and the watch should be returned? > maybe you don't actually like exercise and you should stop What.
- sevensor 9y ago
  > So you agree that there is no point spending $500 here and the watch should be returned? Why are we talking about a broad parody as if it's factual? The article's mixture of credulity and petulance is surely a send-up of West-Coast tech industry narcissism. > > maybe you don't actually like exercise and you should stop > What. Yup.
  - Dylan16807 9y ago
    None of the complaints in the article are more unreasonable than the act of buying a smart watch. If you are going to pay hundreds of dollars for a watch, it had better do its very simple job without breaking. It doesn't matter if the complaints are minor in the grand scheme of things. The need for a smartwatch is equally minor. Exercise is important, even if you don't whole-heartedly enjoy it. I remain baffled.
    - sevensor 9y ago
      The way I see it, if you can't stand to be alone with your exercise for one minute, it's not a healthful practice, it's mortification of the flesh. Exercise should, if it does not feel good, at least feel right, and if it doesn't you're probably going to hurt yourself. To me, it's beside the point whether it's reasonable for the cartoon character portrayed in this blog post to return his expensive trinket. Reason went out the window when the thing was purchased in the first place. At any rate, it's not like we're talking about a real person here.
      - Dylan16807 9y ago
        > if you can't stand to be alone with your exercise for one minute If something breaks for a full minute every time you touch it, that gets really frustrating, even if you have no problem at all with a minute of silence. But more importantly, the original goalpost was having music at all, during the entire exercise session. Exercise can feel perfectly 'right' while also being plenty boring if you're running in utter silence for an hour. And I don't know. This might be a real person being jokey about their legitimate issues with the device, or some kind of parody that shows someone overreacting to... legitimate issues with the device.

megaman22 9y ago

> I couldn’t do it, and don’t understand why switching between bluetooth and wifi shouldn’t just work Expecting Bluetooth to just work? Ahahahahahaha.