tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164588272845310569.post2107689756529241887..comments2023-08-28T07:04:55.848-04:00Comments on The Poptart Manifesto by Rick Gualtieri: Who Watches the Apple Watch?Rick Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07703091917685458099noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164588272845310569.post-37695607708531743862018-05-28T00:27:15.000-04:002018-05-28T00:27:15.000-04:00I simply had to say thanks again. I am not sure th...I simply had to say thanks again. I am not sure the things that I could possibly have carried out without these ways shared by you on my area. It was a very daunting dilemma in my view, however , encountering your professional manner you treated that made me to weep for contentment. I am thankful for the help and expect you comprehend what an amazing job that you’re putting in educating many people through a blog. Most likely you haven’t met any of us. <a href="https://ultrajewels.com/tienda/" rel="nofollow">Ultrajewels</a><br />Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14868641235488304338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164588272845310569.post-79508093593163338842016-12-01T15:32:22.578-05:002016-12-01T15:32:22.578-05:00I love my watch!! Do you use the share activity??...I love my watch!! Do you use the share activity?? I think it's a fantastic motivator. Konica Crofthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04162246696228753397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164588272845310569.post-12699799193726830372016-11-30T03:46:18.478-05:002016-11-30T03:46:18.478-05:00I am both a little sad and greatly relieved that a...I am both a little sad and greatly relieved that at no time in my life, past present or future, would I be able to finish a sentence "the fitness nuts among us".<br /><br />I am going to have to hold out a little longer for the smart watch. I remember in the 1970s getting very excited about a huge lump of chrome which displayed the time in faint red digits when you pressed the appropriate button. Of course you had to replace the battery every seventeen minutes, and it's surprising how often you really don't have both hands available to tell the time.<br /><br />I was even more excited, years later, to get my first LCD watch - a Seiko, no less. At last, battery life measured in months, not days, and I could find out the time when one hand was otherwise engaged. Well, I was a teenage boy.<br /><br />When I worked in various businesses, mainly for US companies, I nearly fell into the statement watch trap. I noticed how many men - I think it is always men - took a surreptitious glance at the wrist of any person joining the group. Suddenly I started thinking that a Breitling, a Tag Heuer or an Omega might say more about me than my Corporate AMEX ever could. There were times I could have (nearly) afforded to jump on this bandwagon, but whenever I came close I always ended up thinking of all the other things I could do with the money - purchase a small car, perhaps, or acquire a third kidney - and I kept coming back to the fact that, well, all the thing could do was tell the time. And perhaps the date, but usually only if I remembered which months had less than 31 days in them.<br /><br />Later, when I became a cop, I had a genuine technical need. A watch that was accurate, instantly readable, waterproof, wallop-proof, subtle enough to read in low light but not garish enough to give my position away, and - most importantly - it had to be cheap enough so that when smashed, torn off my wrist etc. it didn't initiate six months of mourning. I remember asking a particularly irritating little arrestee about his rather unfortunate baseball cap and he remarked "I bet my hat cost more than your watch". I was forced to admit that he would win that bet, as the watch I was wearing at that moment was a Timex with a plastic case that had cost me UKP9.99 (it's only defect was an irritating and unnecessary ticking sound).<br /><br />Now, in preparation for my dotage, I find myself considering watches once more. The Pulsar on my wrist follows a simple military style, with a black analogue face and no need to ever change a battery (some sort of perpetual motion device lurks within). It works, and it's "NATO" nylon strap is tough, cleanable, and if I ever find myself having to don an armoured exo-skeleton, capable of expanding considerbaly to accommodate cyborg wrists. I like to thing it's the watch that Wade Wilson might have chosen, were he on a budget.<br /><br />And yet. And yet I can hear another timepiece singing to me. It's the Omega Speedmaster "Dark Side of the Moon", the Pitch Black edition. It's not an Apple watch, and it certainly doesn't let me answer my phone from a distance. "What does it do?" I can hear my wife asking, my response being a slightly embarrassed, "Er, it tells the time, but really well." Then I would have to explain it costs over $11,000, and suffer further discomfort as her supplementary questions include, "Can I drive it to work?", "How will the children benefit?" and "Will it produce urine for you when your kidneys fail?"<br /><br />One of my wife's great talents is that she can produce this sort of dialogue in my head well before I get anywhere near handing a credit card over a counter. And so I occasionally Google the watch, check the current price and admire its unique look, and imagine how those old colleagues of mine would be amazed to see it on my wrist, and advertisement that I too had more money than sense.<br /><br />[Sigh!}Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03377541576430259724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5164588272845310569.post-60658523847879864202016-11-26T12:38:28.612-05:002016-11-26T12:38:28.612-05:00I have the Moto360 (first generation) and you are ...I have the Moto360 (first generation) and you are correct. It's a really nice to have item, a MUST to pair with a phone, else why aren't you wearing a Casio.<br />But, being able to read texts/emails without grabbing the phone, the fitness reminders, etc. is really cool.<br />Snowdog1967https://www.blogger.com/profile/06883259171315187008noreply@blogger.com