The joy of convergent devices

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1629186]

Comments

[dougs.livejournal.com]

My two answers to the second question each refer to the same device.

[makyo.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine recently mused on the evolutionary cycle of portable timepieces:

1. Pocket watch that you take out of your pocket, and have to press a button to find out the time.
2. Pocket watch that you take out of your pocket, and just look at to find out the time.
3. Wristwatch that you just look at to find out the time.
4. Mobile phone that you take out of your pocket, and just look at to find out the time.
5. Mobile phone that you take out of your pocket, and have to press a button to find out the time.

I have both options 3 and 5 open to me, but typically choose the former because it's much less bother.

[darkoshi]

I almost always wear a watch while out and about, but not while at home, and certainly not while sleeping. So technically my answer to the first question would be No, but I'm not sure if that is what is being asked.

[communicator.livejournal.com]

also, clock in my car and just generally keeping track in my head

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

I feel so old. I just had to unpack our family tent because I left my watch in it the last time we went camping, and have been suffering without it ever since. I don't know how people cope just using their phones. I check my watch several times a day in circumstances where I could not possibly check the time on a phone. Eg meetings, where it would be blindingly rude to look at the time on the phone but the watch is right there.

[andrewducker]

I knew I should have made this radio buttons!

[andrewducker]

Yeah - it's not enough bother for me to actually wear a watch in addition to me carrying a phone, but it's occasionally a bother.

[andrewducker]

Change "most" to be "most of the time when I am out of the house" if that makes it easier.

[andrewducker]

All of our meeting rooms have clocks on the wall. Presumably in order to encourage people not to go on and on until everyone dies of old age. This is not entirely successful.

[andrewducker]

Car would be "some other technological means at my disposal"

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

My watch very rarely runs out of battery. The same is not true of my phone.

[communicator.livejournal.com]

oh yeah

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

What amuses me is that in 1950s scifi, the device that had all the wizardry was a watch: it let you talk to people, zap aliens, etc. Now it's a phone.

[dougs.livejournal.com]

I look forward to the time when I can have 1024x768 pixels on my wrist.

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

I haven't worn a watch on a regular basis since the late 90s.

[andrewducker]

I want 1080x1920 in my eye. If not brain.

[a-pawson.livejournal.com]

I could tell the time from my phone, but it's quicker and easier to just glance at my wrist.

I always wear a watch unless in bed/shower/bath or lounging around the house. Have done since I can remember. Occasionally I forget to put it on and go out. As soon as I realise it isn't there, it feels odd. I can't explain why, it has nothing to do with knowing the time, it just feels weird.

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

should also be option "I don't go out and about"

[andrewducker]

I used to feel that way. And thus used to wear a watch, even when lounging around the house, in the shower, or the bath.

It took me a while to get used to it when I stopped.

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

Watches fail on me - they stop working, very very quickly, no matter how cheap or expensive. No idea why. And I refuse to own a mobile phone (I dislike any synchronous communication, such as IMs or telephones). So I either have to not keep track of time or I look at public clocks.

[dpolicar]

The most common answer is I don't keep track... or, more precisely, I keep a rough approximation of track in my head.

Most of the time it just doesn't matter what time it is; I'm doing what I'm doing and when I'm done doing that it will be time to do the next thing. Sure, having some notion of whether it's dinnertime or bedtime is important, but knowing whether it's 8:15 or 9:32 really isn't.

On occasions where it does matter, I check my phone.

[19-crows.livejournal.com]

I wear a watch partly to tell time and partly because I like the way it looks. I have several watches that are red or interesting looking in other ways. Also, I have trouble telling time on a dial and trust a digital timepiece more.

[wildeabandon.livejournal.com]

Mmm. I ticked "I wear a watch", but actually I have option 1 there, which is more bother, but gets admiring glances often enough to be worth it.

[makyo.livejournal.com]

I must say, I do rather like the idea of a proper option-1 pocket watch. Alas, I so rarely wear the sort of clothes that it would go well with.

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

Haven't you done this poll before?