How to Lose Friends and Alienate People: Apple Watch Edition
newsweek.com
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I bought it with Google Glass because it was ugly and pointed a camera at someone's face, all the time. But the iPod, the iPhone -- these were also expensive goods that cried out "pretentious consumer" at the time in comparison to alternatives.
Many watches cost much more money than the sport/watch editions of the apple watch.
What's happened is: people got lazy at their notifications on their watch. Then they bought the Apple Watch (or rather, journalists got a review unit), and then they get lots of notifications on their wrist rather than on their phone and they complain about all the notifications.
Same thing happens with the Pebble and others I'm sure: you just have to take a minute and set up the notifications right so that your wrist buzzes when it's actually worthy of your immediate attention. When is that?
For me it's when one of eight people call me, my wife texts me, or when I get an email from one of three people. Those are the things that make me go "ok, sorry person I am talking to, but this thing has happened and I have to check it out."
These things happen maybe once or twice a day. Not once or twice an hour.
True, but most people can't recognize "nice watch" and "omg look at me I'm rich! watch".
Apple Watch is instantly recognizable.
Rich people know their own. Expensive watches ($40k and up found at Basel World) are meant as signaling devices to other rich people, not us lowly peons.
I think the difference between the phone and the watch is that you have to actively go out of your way to make people notice you on your phone. The watch is pretty visible to everyone all the time; coupled with the fact that it's hard to resist responding to it and that you're now constantly looking at it does seem like it sends a rude message to those around you.
When the watch is new, there will be a period of time where early possessors are seen as douche because of from those that want but don't have yet. However, in a few months, it will just become another watch that you either have if you want, or just don't want.
“the Apple Watch inherently combines two of the rudest things you can do among friends—check your watch and look at your phone—and suggests that you do them incessantly.”
The best metaphor for the flood of notifications I've ever seen.
No Apple Watch needed..
Get uBlock Origin and default deny third party js requests. Greylist on a per-site basis. The uBlock docs tell you how, though it is somewhat buried. Click the lock after every change to persist settings (this bit me many times).
I believe this, but I'd like to read more about their effectiveness. Is there a particularly good article on the topic?
So I am guessing never. Unlike pop-up windows, these thing can, from a browser/adblocker point of view look like basically anything.