anyone who made fun of people for tech paranoia should be feeling pretty ashamed of themselves right about now for what we've allowed to become commonplace,
while simultaneously acknowledging it's only enabled by society ghosting its responsibility to learn tech.
Like, dear watch, how's my sex, birthday, size and weight gonna help you do your job?
I got you to 1) show the time 2) have alarms that I can set without using the phone, like in bed 3) monitor my sleep 4) check my heartrate and saturation when I exercise.
There's literally 0 reason to have my birthday, so I went by january 1st :)
But it shouldn't even have been asked in the 1st place.
> what we've allowed to become commonplace
We should not allow it anymore. A smart device that insist on having an app on a phone to be usable won't get my $$$.
Come on. Every single one of those is an input for modelling calorie burn. If you don't want your watch to try and estimate that, that's fine - but it's pretty obvious why a fitness tracker would have those features.