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Smartwatches can easily last seven years; I want software support to match (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Smartwatch software support lags well behind smartphone pledges, even from Google and Samsung, but this really shouldn't be the case.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Days of battery life...

My casio G-shock, a no-bullshit über-tough, good looking, practical time-telling device, is on YEAR SIX of the original battery, and comes scuba diving with me.

Keep your days-of-battery watch, I'll keep mine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No one is asking you to switch your watch. Different people have different needs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My post says precisely that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It clearly comes off as a dig at watches like mine, oddly hostile

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That's cool. I'll revise my statement too.

I get weeks of battery if I never used it for gps tracking, sports stuff.

Days if I go on a run or a hike every day, which I usually do.

Totally different machines