{"id":1671,"date":"2015-03-11T11:51:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T18:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2015-03-11T11:51:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T18:51:46","slug":"the-apple-watch-what-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1671","title":{"rendered":"The Apple Watch: What a Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/apple-watch-battery-life\/\">This<\/a> is all you need to know to be sure of the statement in the title above.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Up to&#8221; is sales-speak for &#8220;no more than&#8221;. So the thing has a maximum up time of 18 hours, tops.<\/p>\n<p>100 years ago, the standard &#8220;up time&#8221; for a mechanical pocket watch was 30 hours. And that&#8217;s a conservative 30 hours; many last more like 36. I know, I use a 100-year-old pocket watch. And when a mechanical watch runs down, it takes well under a minute to rewind it.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, the Apple Watch \u2014 which runs for about half as long as my pocket watch \u2014 doubtless takes <em>hours<\/em> to recharge. It has to. It runs on a rechargeable battery, and batteries don&#8217;t instantly recharge.<\/p>\n<p>So the Apple Watch not only limited in its functionality, it&#8217;s unforgiving and domineering as well. It basically says: You <em>will<\/em> remember to charge me <em>before you go to bed<\/em> (and not at any other time), human, or I will punish you by refusing to work the next day. Obey my whim or suffer the consequences.<\/p>\n<p>It is precisely such finicky design that makes me dislike so many applications of high technology. It&#8217;s a mystery to me how anyone can be so seduced by consumerism as to want such poorly-designed yet expensive crap in their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is all you need to know to be sure of the statement in the title above. &#8220;Up to&#8221; is sales-speak for &#8220;no more than&#8221;. So the thing has a maximum up time of 18 hours, tops. 100 years ago, the standard &#8220;up time&#8221; for a mechanical pocket watch was 30 hours. And that&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}