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I don't wear a watch and haven't for many years. I've tried the Apple Watch and wanted to like it, but it just wasn't compelling enough for me to make up for th

• gumby 6y ago
  Everyone's milage varies. I stopped wearing a watch when I started carrying a keitai (mobile phone) in the early 90s. This was a switch from at least 15 years of continuous watch wearing. I bought an Apple Watch 0 shortly after they came out just to see what all the fuss was. My intent was to get a feeling for it, return it within the free return window, and then buy v3 or so when they "got it right" and I thought of something I'd like to write for it. On day three or four I started driving to work without the watch -- wearing one wasn't muscle memory. When I realized it I turned around and went and got it. It was already that important. That's when I realized it would be a big deal. In my case I was in a job where I had lots of meetings and calls; so I could use the silent reminders, check (filtered) messages in a meeting without pulling out my phone, and screen calls the same way. I was a single parent so couldn't just leave my phone at my desk when in a meeting. In the pandemic I've been at home and have a different job where I don't have many appointments. For that case the watch would be less useful....except I'm a convert to the exercise features, and I often run out to the shops without phone, wallet or keys. But, as it sounds for you too, those later features only work because I was already a convert.