I think there’s a difference between knowing you’re doing something wrong and not caring, and not even knowing you’re doing anything wrong. What you’re describing is usually the latter.

They definitely get glares and annoyed looks from fellow passengers. And they must be oblivious if they’ve never noticed other people distractingly listening to music next to them or whatever.

Love this. I had something almost identical on my Commodore 64 40 years ago that you could use with the joystick or KoalaPad.

You said a bunch of statements about yourself, and then made a statement about me.

You should have concluded "I don't need a smartwatch."

Not everyone has the same needs.

> Not everyone has the same needs.

True, but almost all of the people don't really need a smartwatch :)

One saved my aunt's life. But I suppose I didn't really need an aunt, right?

And even if it weren't super weird and creepy, it's 15 seconds, right? So what, that waitress rolledup, read the menu for less than 10 seconds, and then zoomed away, giving you a couple of seconds to get to and run the replay?

I've definitely had situations where I zoned out for a few seconds during a meeting or seminar, and want to see what was just spoken. That seems like a much stronger use case where you wouldn't want to interrupt the whole room to ask what was just spoken.

That doesn't seem to be a use case that I would use - now assuming someone is still speaking, you look at your watch (just bad form to me) you will very likely miss what is being talked about while reading what you previously missed. At least my one channel brain would.

This happens to me too and I enable 'Live Captions' (not meeting transcriptions) so that I always have a scroll back in case I miss something.

It's built into the meeting software I use and probably in most mainstream ones.

I tried OS transcription but those don't split out who's talking (since it's a single audio stream) so much less useful.

Anyways all that to say that at least in online meetings this problem is solved and addressing this problem in a stack that doesn't have meeting context is going to result in a worse experience.

It's gonna make a loud ass chime when you do that, so I don't think that's the use case Apple was imagining.

Life saving feature for ppl with ADHD. M

Is it super weird and creepy if you I tell you I remember the last 15 seconds of what you said?

If I wasn’t talking to you, but you were eavesdropping and taking notes of everything I was saying to another person, yes.

That’s what the wrist computer is doing.

If I wasn't talking to you and you were just listening to me in public, yes.

Me. I love my Pro, and this year I'm switching to Max. My eyes (at 48) aren't what they used to be.

Why don't you try an increased font size with the display size you already got?

Because then less stuff fits on my screen? What a question

It was a genuine question. I also suffer from eye issues and a bigger font and warmer colours really help, with no need for a bigger screen in my experience.

Absolutely no need to be rude.

Felt like you hurt his ego I think you made him feel stupid, lol. Bet he didn’t realise you could do that or sommat.

Was this made by someone who hasn't actually used any of these tools in over a year?

My guess is absolutely nobody on the team that made this is even old enough to remember Microsoft Bob.

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Literally everything you said is also true about me! and my name is also Daniel!

> far too much emphasis on the places you are not going

I have this issue with literally every modern nav system. They all make their fundamental display a line marked on a map, and most of the information on that map is irrelevant.

More than 20 years ago I had some kind of Verizon flip-open phone with a QWERTY keyboard. No idea what model, but it had this fabulous nav interface that just showed big arrows showing your next two turns and a schematic diagram of what the next turn would look like. I wish I could get something like that, but with Google's data as the back end.