With the return to the iPhone I’m also able to return to wearing my iWatch, which completes my iLife iSuppose.
Before I could set up the watch with the new phone I had to download and install a big OS update on the watch, which took most of an hour…
An OS update – for a watch. The future is weird.
Anyway, it’s been a few months since I last interfaced with the watch, and even longer since I’d seen one in a default configuration… So I’d forgotten just how much attention budget the thing burns in its out of the box state.
For example, it will interrupt me to remind me to be ‘mindful of the moment’, which, at that moment, tends to be ‘why are you pestering me? I have to get this done ten minutes ago…’ It also likes to remind me to breathe and relax, which invariably happens in the middle of some emergency and only serves to increase my stress. Then there’s the ‘get up and move’ which is guaranteed to happen several times in the middle of a whirlwind session of deep concentration in whatever IDE I’m spending the day with.
I can, of course, turn this stuff off – and I will. I just find it interesting that this is the default state for the most worn digital accessory on the planet, so I get to thinking about it; am I an outlier who is simply too busy of a day for all of the hippy dippy built into the watch? Or does it bug a lot of people?
Listening to "The Finer Things" by Steve Winwood