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[mongers]

Tomorrow is month 7 sans cigarettes.  I pop the occasional nicotine lozenge every now and then, but that's every few days to take the edge off something, or when I'm dealing with my mother.


Other than that, lung capacity and sense of taste and smell: better.  Waistline: not.

Breath easy now. 

[Ideologue]

Tomorrow is month 7 sans cigarettes.  I pop the occasional nicotine lozenge every now and then, but that's every few days to take the edge off something, or when I'm dealing with my mother.


Other than that, lung capacity and sense of taste and smell: better.  Waistline: not.

Yep, that--well, that and serious depressive episode--are what knocked me off the wagon.

[garbon]

I keep seeing that being pushed and wonder who the audience is. People too lazy to take their phones out of their pockets?

I'm thinking gadget fetishists, people who like tech status symbols, and uh... dunno.

Still, if people transitioned from fob watches to wrist watches, a similar transition for smart-phones doesn't seem that far fetched.

Basically, if the kids like them it'll work. Then you'll turn into CdM, crankily complaining about young people and their silly affectations.

I guess so. It just seems to me apart from the status symbol of expensive ones, the watch is an outmoded technology (and efforts to combine them with smartphones as an effort to shore up the declining market). Why wear one when your phone does that well enough for you? I could almost see it if it worked independently but I feel like the ones I read about always needed tethering to a smartphone.

[PDH]

I guess so. It just seems to me apart from the status symbol of expensive ones, the watch is an outmoded technology (and efforts to combine them with smartphones as an effort to shore up the declining market). Why wear one when your phone does that well enough for you? I could almost see it if it worked independently but I feel like the ones I read about always needed tethering to a smartphone.

And the damn kids these days have no respect for what is good.  I remember back in '09 when I got my first smartphone.  Try to tell kids that these days and they just shake their heads.

[mongers]

Do any smartphones/smart watches come with a 10 year, no charge, battery life?

[garbon]

I guess so. It just seems to me apart from the status symbol of expensive ones, the watch is an outmoded technology (and efforts to combine them with smartphones as an effort to shore up the declining market). Why wear one when your phone does that well enough for you? I could almost see it if it worked independently but I feel like the ones I read about always needed tethering to a smartphone.

And the damn kids these days have no respect for what is good.  I remember back in '09 when I got my first smartphone.  Try to tell kids that these days and they just shake their heads.

I got my first smartphone last year from my work.

[PDH]

I got my first smartphone last year from my work.

  luddite

[Josquius]

I've no clue about watches.
The fancy jewelry sort silvery ones just don't seem right when you're not dressed up.
And sports watches seem a little bit childish.
I always used to wear a watch when I was younger but...yes. My phone has taken over- alas in these days of smart phones and their 2 minute battery life that is a dodgy thing.

[garbon]

I got my first smartphone last year from my work.

  luddite

I think I posted about how AT&T gave me a new phone this year for free (no add'l contract time) as they were concerned my phone wouldn't work on their upgraded network.

[DGuller]

I'm all for utilitarianism, but for some reason the one old-fashioned habit I haven't managed to kick is wearing a watch.  And not a practical digital watch either, but a shiny one with rotating arrows.

[Capetan Mihali]

I can't live without my watch.  I rotated through different digital cheapies, picking the least "Ironman"-looking ones, and stuck with one for a while that I bought from a seedy jewelery store on Fulton Market in Brooklyn. 

But then 6 or 7 years ago, I got an analog watch that I love, and have replaced a couple of times since it's so inexpensive.  It's perfect since I can actually tell the time on it (since it uses big Arabic numerals), is thin with a leather band, has the date, water resistant, and doesn't look very conspicuous or fancy.  Only problem is that the ticking is loud enough that it drives me insane when I'm trying to sleep, so I have to put it under a big paperback or in another room at night.

I feel compelled to check the time frequently, and digging a cell phone out of my pocket just doesn't cut it.  And of course I started wearing a watch long before I had a cell phone, so the habit was there.

[garbon]

That sounds a little nuts.

[CountDeMoney]

That sounds a little nuts.

I have a Mr. Jones' "Accurate".

[alfred russel]

You do tip at hairdressers, right?

I tip when I pay at the end...I guess she gets some of it?

[Syt]

I like my watch. It's a Citizen, titanium, solar powered, radio controlled. Meaning it's lightweight and extremely sturdy, I never have to buy batteries, and I never have to set it to the correct time.