• @[email protected]
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    2510 months ago

    The pixel watch is so bad that if you crack the screen, Google tells you to throw it away and buy a new one. Apparently even Google themselves can’t repair that.

      • Flying Squid
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        810 months ago

        I can’t remember who made it, but some years ago before the big smartwatch boom, someone put out a watch that had a standard mechanism, but also a tiny one-line screen that would show information like texts to you. That seemed like a good middle ground. But I don’t see a lot of watches that fit that middle ground anymore.

      • @ilinamorato
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        210 months ago

        If they made a mechanical watch that could control my podcasts and show me notifications without me taking my phone out of my pocket, I’d buy it.

        • @veni_vedi_veni
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          110 months ago

          Sometimes you have to kobayashi maru things in life.

          Part of being a conscious consumer is having the willpower to forgo convience for something bigger.

          Unfortunately, we are in hyper simulated/consumerist society, so I really only see this trend getting exacerbated until some global calamity happening.

          • @ilinamorato
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            110 months ago

            Nah, I’m not willing to put a moral value on whether or not I own a smartwatch. Especially when a family member purchased it for me as a gift.

    • Flying Squid
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      610 months ago

      That said, it makes Google a hell of a lot more money if you keep buying new watches than if they have to keep repairing the old ones.

      • @[email protected]
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        810 months ago

        That’s the logic behind every one of those decisions that made things harder to repair. The only fix really is government intervention, because capitalist logic by itself dictates that this is how you make more profit.

      • Final Remix
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        510 months ago

        Knock on wood, but I’m still rocking a fuckin’ Pebble. The build quality on these is fantastic.

        • Flying Squid
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          010 months ago

          I know a couple of people who got them and swore by them. I didn’t realize they still were compatible with modern phones.