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have I given up on my Apple watch let me
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it Dave Taylor here and when the Apple
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watch came out I stayed up late and
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ordered it online the very first minute
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it was available and I was very excited
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to get it and I wore it on my wrist and
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I just sort of went through the whole
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experience of having an Apple Watch but
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you know what a year year and a half
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later it sits on my shelf and I'm
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wearing a different watch now I thought
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it'd be interesting for me to share with
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you my thought process and before you
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buy your own Apple watch you might want
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to consider some of the points I make
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first off 42 mm Apple watch um in Gray
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whatever the gray they call it is and I
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put a custom leather band on it so it's
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a little more attractive than the
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standard Apple watch bands and I've worn
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it for a long time and I have multiple
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charging stations I've figured out
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everything to do with how it works with
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my phone it gets lots of notifications
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there's lots to like about it it's very
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fun but what actually happened was I got
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a different watch so this is the Casio
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edifice and this watch just works so
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much better for me and as you can see
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it's just an analog watch now it has
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some secret digital smarts it
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synchronizes with the phone so that you
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can actually manage the world time there
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a little dial and so it's always in sync
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so it's always on time so my watch is
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always spoton but a lot of this is the
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aesthetic so let me show you here's my
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wrist with the Casio on and I just like
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the look of it it's a big masculine
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watch for my big wrist looks good now by
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contrast here's my wrist with the Apple
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watch on it and really pretty much
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regardless of what face I put on it it's
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just a less masculine appearance now now
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might not matter to you and that's okay
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but for me when I look down and want to
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check the time or something I like the
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appearance I like the feel of this and I
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will say I get a lot of compliments
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having just a regular old analog watch
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now there's another piece of this that's
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actually perhaps even more important and
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that is when I'm wearing the Apple watch
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it's constantly vibrating and notifying
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me so I'm really plugged in but that's
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not a positive thing what I find is that
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I'm really paying attention and and so
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my friends have learned and it's just
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annoying for them and I apologize guys
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but I'm you know when I have my Apple
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watch on I'm doing this I'm checking
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this I'm doing this instead of paying
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attention now it's really sort of the
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wrist version of what you see with a lot
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of teens where they're on their phones
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even though there'll be a group of them
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at a restaurant or at an ice cream
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parlor or something they're all in their
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little tiny individual digital worlds
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and if that's your thing then the Apple
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watch is fantastic because you're always
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plugged in you're always getting all the
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notifications every Facebook post every
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Instagram like every Snapchat that comes
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in boom you know about it instantly but
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for me I find that that's actually
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stressful and so after some period of
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time wearing the watch versus not
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wearing the Apple watch I'm calmer I
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actually seem to you know feel just a
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more calm person by not having all those
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notifications constantly vibrating on my
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wrist now there are other factors that
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make the Apple watch a hassle too not
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the least of which is charging so this
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Casio it's actually solar powered how
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cool is that all I have to do is for
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like 10 15 minutes a day have it in the
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sun and it's good to go now it's even
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better than that because actually I
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don't pay attention at all and it's been
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running perfectly well for months now so
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no issues I never have to take it off
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it's waterproof all those features now
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the Apple watch does have some water
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resistance and stuff but let's be frank
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you have to charge it all the time and
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every night you have to take it off your
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wrist and put it on a charging stand
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which means that it could theoretically
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be monitoring your sleep except for that
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pesky 24-hour battery thing and that's 2
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24 hours if you're lucky so if you're
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getting tons of notifications and using
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it it's not even that long so I really
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like the technology of the Apple watch
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but I have to say that after all this
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period of time of having it it's it's
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not on my wrist anymore and I'm just
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wearing a regular old analog watch that
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I probably could have bought 50 years
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ago and it would have been the same
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basic design so if you're poised to buy
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an Apple Watch or you have an Apple
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Watch I'll encourage you to really look
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at your options and if you do have an
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Apple Watch on your wrist right now take
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it off and give yourself a couple of
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days and just see what that feels like
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so this is Dave Taylor with the Apple
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watch and the Casio edifice and you can
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see which ones actually on my wrist and
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I hope this is Food For Thought I'll
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catch you in my next video
