Apple Watch Series 3

Apple Series 3 owner for about 9 years. 1. Notifications. Most useful in noisy environments such as grocery stores, airports, shop floors, or any place you may be wearing hearing protection. Also great while working with your hands, like car work or cooking and directions while driving. It’s best to limit them to the apps that matter, and only when you need them. 2. Biometrics. However, after this watch finally dies, I don’t think I will be going back. Big reason is smart watches are not stylish at all. For men watches are our only fashion accessory that we can freely wear in all occasions. No matter what band or watch face you use you are stuck with a black square attached to your wrist. Also smart watch battery life is a bit of a bummer, it’s hard to beat self winding or solar powered watches that you never think about changing as long as you wear them.

My Apple Watch 3 was suppose to be safe to swim in. But it did mess up after going swimming in it a few times. Admittedly, this was last year and the watch was already 4 years old.

I have somewhat different store. Moved to Garmin (for sports and outdoor activities) and Mido as an everyday watch from Apple Watch (had 3 and 7 versions). Can't really imagine going back. I guess I was sold the idea that I neeed notifications, weather and all this bullshit on my wrist all the time. At some point I realized I've disabled notifications completely and basically the only thing I was using my Apple watch was paranoidal heart rate monitoring. >Swiss mechanical movement yada yada yada... Most swiss mechanical movements cost 50-100$ though.

> Contactless payments up to £1000 mean I can pay for basically everything without touching anything. This feels like a good opportunity to reflect on the Apple Watch, and security around contactless payments. Try taking off your apple watch, but keeping your fingers pressed against the back of the watch as you do. If you time it right (it's really not difficult to time it right), you can take off someone's watch and place it on your own wrist, without triggering the lock. If you have a debit or credit card associated with your watch, you're now at risk of a supposedly authenticated card payment occurring. (I removed all my cards from my Apple Watch S3 when I realised this vulnerability)

I had an Apple Watch Series 3 back when they came out and ended up returning it. It actually had a fault too, but I chose to take the refund rather than a replacement because I didn't find myself liking it so much. I initially went for it for stuff like notifications and hoping it would make me more productive and help me track my time better. Ultimately, I think the ecosystem has potential but it's in its infancy currently. Main good points, though: - Fitness tracking. If you do things like running or swimming you'll benefit from the watches. Most useful functionality is for fitness. - Elderly people. I think the functionality for falls, although it seemed like a joke to some, can actually be pretty useful for older people and encourage more independence. I think it has the potential to be useful in more areas: - Health. I think the heart rate and ECG is genuinely beneficial. Many people have cardiovascular conditions or are on medication and doctors advise them to take regular checks of heart rate, blood pressure, etc. But in my experience with the Series 3, the heart rate functionality was a mess. My HR was around 65, whenever I opened the app on my watch it would start at 120bpm and slowly go down to my actual HR. It would log all the results in the watch app, even the very incorrect readings of 120bpm. I hope they fixed this since. - Sleep tracking. The Apple Watch doesn't currently have native sleep tracking, though 3rd party apps exist that I've never tried (they may b