Oh, so a schmock is a schmuck? I thought it was some sort of lispy apron.
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Iām one of those people who hates (I canāt emphasize that word enough here) wearing a watch. I stopped wearing a watch several years before I got my first cell phone (1999 'cause I b Oldz), but getting that first phone ended all possibility that Iād ever wear one again. For the few years before getting the phone, I had the thing below attached to my purse or a belt-loop:
I enjoy how people retcon old tech reviews to match their current expectations.
People were excited about the ecosystem as it developed, there were smartphones before, but āI can get all the information I need by using multiple other products similar to thisā wasnāt a common dismissal, because the experience was poorer elsewhere.
I may have one of those squirreled away somewhereā¦
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Yeah, no. I had a Treo and I was pretty happy with it at first, and in fact rejected the first iPhone because I was used to interacting with the smartphone screen with a stylus and couldnāt imagine being able to use a smartphone with only my square, Kirbyesque fingers to do stuff like type on the onscreen keyboard. I started to change my mind around the time my Treo simply stopped being able to sync my info, in any way, and ever since I got the iPhone 3 I havenāt looked back, even when Palm came out with its terminally-overdue OS upgrade, despite my having been a Palm PDA owner/user for a solid decade. The iPhoneās predecessors only looked bad by comparison, but they looked really bad by that comparison.
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Well, I had a Samsung Blackjack and it was mediocre at best. The all-screen design is the ideal for small devices. Maximum UI.
I remember watching someone load up Stack Overflow on an iPhone and I was like damn, game changed. We built that with absolutely ZERO provision for āmobileā and it just worked ā albeit slowly, like everything else ā on the iPhone 1.
Basically, phones became real computers at that point.
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The foremost reason for the nurseās pinwatch is hygiene. Wearing anything on your hands or wrists is like a catch-all for microbes, so you wouldnāt wear a wristwatch if youāre in healthcare or if you work with food.
I usually carry my wristwatch in my pocket and only put it on my wrist when I need to keep track of time by the minute.
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