Are you a smartwatch "power user"? 2 ▲ Terence Eden 1 hour ago · Tech · hide · 1 comments What do you use your smartwatch for? A few weeks ago, I overheard a conversation between someone on the Pixel Watch team and a woman I know. He was quizzing her at a party about her Pixel watch and what features she used. He'd ignored me when I said I had a non-Google watch. She thought for a moment and said, other than telling the time, all she used were pretty much the step counter and contactless payments. He looked a bit crestfallen at his impromptu user-research participant and somewhat dismissively sneered, "Well, you're not exactly a power user, are you?" I'm trying to imagine what being a "power user" of a watch is like. Can anyone enlighten me? I think smart-watches are much like Alexa. What the user wants to do with it is almost totally at odds with what the company is selling. Alexæ are mostly kitchen timers, song players, and light switches. No one is a "power user" constantly installing skills and using it for anything which increases the product team's engagement… Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here. JJ :xubuntu: @jlj@fosstodon.org 48 minutes ago [-] I'm definitely not a power user, but I sort of thought of CGP Grey as one, back in the early days of Hello Internet: the way he talked about the haptic feedback on the first iterations of the Apple Watch intrigued me.I'm a small town boy, and still find myself a bit intimidated by places like London. Being able to navigate while not looking like a target, on my phone, is great for my peace of mind.That's a use case for any number of wearables, of course, but wrist taps work well.
