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> 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 art

> 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.
    - sevensor 9y ago
      Fair point. I'll concede it's possible this is a real person, although I hope it isn't!

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.
  - sevensor 9y ago
    Fair point. I'll concede it's possible this is a real person, although I hope it isn't!