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'Looks at perfectly functional Galaxy Watch 3 on my wrist'

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Pebble all over again.

I'm just not getting a smartwatch. I don't even trust Apple to keep supporting their watches after a couple of years.

Built-in obsolescence is bad enough. At the very least, these things should work until the hardware dies. Nope. Not anymore.

[–] lastweakness@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pebble is still going pretty well though, so I don't know if that's a good comparison

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Apart from a lack of an app store or online services...

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m still using an Apple Watch 3 that I got in a bundle with my iPhone X from my telco.

I need to charge it twice a day for ~30 minutes each, but it’s still chugging along.

I think I’ll finally upgrade to the new generation this year, but at that point it will be 7 years old - which is commendable for tech.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sure, but how long until Apple does a whole new OS for their watch and stops supporting the old watches that can't run it?

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There are a lot of legitimate reasons to hate on Apple, but not supporting their products long-term is not one of them.

Eventually they stop providing new OS updates, but they don’t brick/abandon devices.

Hell, I turned on my old iPhone 5 recently for the first time in over a decade and it happily connected to Apple’s servers and updated to the last supported OS version.

Even now that my Apple Watch isn’t receiving any more major OS updates, it can still interact with my up-to-date iPhone 14 without any issues.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I agree that's true... for now. But when every other company is doing it?

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If/when it happens, so be it - I’ll eat crow. But for the time being, Apple at least has long set/surpassed the standard for support lifetimes.

At some point, you just have to have a little bit of faith that not every company is going to immediately screw you over the first chance they get; otherwise you’ll never end up buying anything (new or otherwise), with the fear that the moment you do - they’ll drop support.

I mean, some companies do deserve that level of scepticism - but honestly, for all their other faults Apple is not one of them.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

At some point, you just have to have a little bit of faith that not every company is going to immediately screw you over the first chance they ge

We're talking about the same company that sold a monitor stand for $1000, right?

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Well, at least you can expect it to be a long supported, overpriced accessory! 🤣

[–] jdeath@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

the watches still work fine with an old OS. my son uses my old watch gen 1. it just doesn't have all the new features or whatever

[–] orientalsniper@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I just get a miband every two generations.

[–] assurancetourix@jlai.lu 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've used my Garmin for 2 years now and I'm really happy with it. In fact I have nothing to complain about it.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Dude, 2 years is nothing. Let's talk about 10 years.

[–] assurancetourix@jlai.lu 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fair comment. My point is that this watch will probably last 5+ years which in absolute in not that bad. Compared to Apple or Samsung, that's much better.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You should consider that bad. The average smartwatch is what, $250? Every 5 years? That's nuts. I realize we have to put up with it because we have no choice, but we shouldn't have to.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Paying $50/yr. for the value a smartwatch delivers is a fucking bargain.