Gabriel enenche
@gabrielenenche958931
1 year ago

Why I’ve Broken Free From the Apple WatchDuring a coffee with a friend this morning, we talked about the brilliance of the Apple ecosystem. As it turns out, we’re both as stupidly reliant on it as each other.By ‘stupidly’, I mean that we are, literally trapped and for the silliest of reasons.For me, it’s the ability to copy and paste seamlessly between my Apple devices. Without my iPhone in tow, my productivity dips simply because I spend more time faffing about transferring things between devices (be it the aforementioned clipboard, or images and web addresses). My friend said the same; without his iPhone, the inability to AirDrop stuff between his colleagues becomes a real issueThese are the least flashy, exciting, or marketable elements of the Apple ecosystem, but Apple knows exactly what it’s doing. It’s how they ‘get’ people like me and force us to stay within their walled garden.Sometimes, however, they screw this up. It’s obviously not intentional, and these errors in Apple’s master plan are only discoverable if you dare to venture outside of the aforementioned walled garden. But they are there and I’ve recently discovered one of the biggest in the form of the reliance I thought I had on the Apple Watch.For the last month, I’ve been exclusively wearing a Garmin Fenix 7 Pro smartwatch. My usual timepiece — the Apple Watch Ultra — has lay dormant on the kitchen table for that entire time.It’s still there, in fact. And the Fenix 7 Pro is still on my wrist. And I don’t want to take it off.This has come as a huge surprise. I was convinced I’d miss the Apple Watch Ultra. It remains the most interesting, exciting product Apple launched in 2022 and is a genuine technical marvel. Having owned and worn an Apple Watch since the launch of the first version in 2015, how on earth could I live without it?Quite easily, as it turns out.

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