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My watch runs for years from a coin cell. There's no way that I'm replacing it with an internet connected spy device that constantly needs to be charged.
Tell that to the Apple Watch wearers.
Mine runs on me. It especially likes me wanking.
The thought of a low battery alert saying “fancy a wank. M8?” got a laugh out of me
Good ol' wank-o-clock.
I've got 20 watches and only ever change the Swatch batteries. They're laughably inefficient. One is an old smart watch, but it needs charged daily and I'm not up to all that.
If it ever comes to this, I'm going to "forget" to charge mine. Every day since it comes out of the box. I might wear it so that I don't get stopped in public but this is going to be a brick.
I'm sure soon enough we'll be "wearing" them inside our bodies so we don't have to be troubled to make sure they're working. Hasn't that been the Big Tech dream for decades now?