In Big Tech’s attempt to create a smartwatch that can do it all, manufacturers like Samsung and Google standardized a watch that most people don’t really want or need. But there is a solution.
I needles. So I’m kind of pissed that my smartwatch comparison article, that’s about to criticize how half the industry is being run, led to me having a needle in my arm. But, in all honesty, it serves to prove my point, so just don’t forget: I gave to get my point across.
So, what ever could this point that I am so passionately trying to prove be? Smartwatches. More specifically: how I think that most of them . And I believe I know why: because all of these products from Big Tech companies are trying to be something that almost .
So the simple idea, which all of this started as, was to spend a month with each of the following smartwatches:
Sounds like a harmless experiment, right? Yes, but you’ll now get to read about how the first on the list, the 5 Pro, actually got me in a hospital.
Also, for the sake of my own sanity, I lowered the time requirement from “one month” to “however much I can stand without feeling like even God has become curious about what I am trying to prove”. So I open this sleek black, elongated box which reveals a thing of retrofuturistic beauty. Looking at the Watch 5 Pro, I feel like I am about to board some spacecraft straight out of “2001: A Space Odyssey”. And I felt in good hands, honestly.Oh, except for the band that the watch came with. That thing got me confused and I hope that I never have to use such a nightmarish contraption ever again. As a watch connoisseur, I hated bit of it. But I digress. Set-up was really easy, save for Samsung’s dumbfounding decision to segment all of its wearable tech into tiny little apps. Before I connected my watch, I had used the Galaxy Wearables app for my daily-driver earbuds: the Galaxy Buds 2. But the watch desired a module of its own.And now that the experiment is over, the result is that the app keeps telling me that my watch isn’t connected, despite it being reset a long time ago. After searching for ten minutes, I found no way to uninstall the module alone, so I guess that Samsung believes in its products so much that it expects each purchase to be a full-time commitment.Rewind, enter stage right: . Let me tell you a bit about me: I love digging into stuff and making stuff my own.
