I Don’t Wear My Apple Watch Everyday Anymore

Has it become my least favorite Apple device?

I have always loved watches.

That’s not an exaggeration; as a kid, you could find me in the watch section of Wal-Mart as often as you could find me in the toy section. I’ve got cabinets full of cheap, dead watches that I don’t wear but I’ve stopped short of throwing out. I’m not sure why I’ve always been fascinated by timepieces, and it has for a long time been true that more often than not, you can find me not wearing any watch at all, but none of that ever stopped me from buying a new wristwatch.

Now, I’m not one of those people who will spend thousands of dollars on watches; that, to me, is absurd, especially when I see how hum-drum plain some of those expensive watches appear; if I’m wearing a watch, I want it to be interesting, and I don’t care if it says Rolex on the inside. The most I’ve ever spent on a regular (read: non-smart) watch was around $200, and to me, that was an extravagance.

If you’ve read many of my previous works on Medium, you’ll know that one of my other big loves in life is technology. And naturally, when tech started to make watches do more than tell the time, I was intrigued. It didn’t take me long to get a Pebble watch when they first came out; after all, I’d spent many summer days as a…