Comment by ramses0 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by ramses0 | Hacker News Reader

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The Apple Watch is such a terrible product. If it's "connected" to your phone, then any alerts that come through buzz your wrist (but don't turn on the watch screen), and also suppress the phone screen from turning on.

Use case of: "VPN authentication notification" coming through that I want to approve, and when I have the Apple Watch on my wrist, it's actively _harder_ to use both the phone and the wrist version of it.

Don't get me started on the screen and use of detailed touch in an area that it quite literally the size of two thumbs.

Pebble: "Back" => "Up, Select, Down" ... glorious utility! Nobody wants to make e-paper (ahem: transflective) watches, and they all want to make touch screens the mechanism for interaction. Ugh!

That's not true, at least not always. I have an Apple Watch and have to do the VPN authentication thing for work via a phone app. Both the phone and the watch display the notification (because I haven't turned that notification off on my watch). It doesn't hide it just because it shows up on one or the other. The only notifications, other than that, that I receive on either my phone or watch are messages (SMS/MMS, iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal, because we can't have enough messaging apps) and phone calls. They display on both devices. And I mean display, my phone display turns on and shows me the message, and my watch buzzes and shows it as well.

I'm wondering if there's a setting that would cause this.

I find the Apple watch to be super annoying. Out of the box it reminds you to breath, stand up, go to sleep, etc. Like I was never able to do these things before by myself. Once I turned everything off it's a bit more reasonable doing the only things I really needed, which was to tell time and maybe let me know my pace when running.

IMO, getting any notifications (VPN included) on a tiny 1 inch screen are stupid and that's what I have a phone for.

It really sounds like you bought the wrong device.

Even Garmin's less expensive GPS watches would give you exactly what you wanted for half the price (maybe even less) of the Apple Watch and without the notifications.

I got the watch because I don't want to use my phone.

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