| ▲ | IAmGraydon 7 hours ago | |||||||
I also love them and wear an analog watch every day. Something funny I've noticed (anecdote warning) is that a lot of tech-savvy people I know wear an analog watch, and a lot of people who are not really tech savvy love to wear every digital gadget they can get their hands on, including smart watches. | ||||||||
| ▲ | unclad5968 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
I encourage people to wear non-smartwatches, and the biggest rebuttal I get is fear of missing messages and calls. | ||||||||
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| ▲ | zeroCalories 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
A lot of people view tech as magic and are wow'd by it. But many people that work in tech, based on their experience working with it, view it more as an eldritch horror. There's something comforting about a mechanical watch that people have been making by hand for hundreds of years. | ||||||||
| ▲ | warkdarrior 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
And since there are more non-tech-savvy people than tech-savvy people, the market for smartwatches is booming. | ||||||||