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Google is too big and needs to be broken up. We have entire areas like watches and cars where stuff is just laughably ancient or poorly designed. To my knowledge, android auto doesn’t even dynamically scale by screen size, it depends on google and the car maker working together to determine the right size. Cannot control features like AC or heating either.
When you get these mega corps like facebook, google, airlines, train companies, or food/drink companies, they buy up all the competition and then run them into the ground. We are down to like…two very stagnant smartphone OSs now, too.
You have to have regulations against this stuff, or greed takes over until the goverment mandates that stuff like insulin and inhalers are capped at $35/mo so these cunts don’t charge $400 for lifesaving medicine.
Same goes for the housing and rental market. Break up these large companies that buy up all the housing and apartments and slap algorithmic rent and purchasing options on them.
They’ve done it in the past but that was before the legalization of bribery from corporations. Doubt it will happen now. Instead, they prop up and support these companies even if they’re failing.
I love my hybrid, i like having “just a watch” that can show me a notification and the first few words and let me control my music without pulling out my phone, fossil smart watches will be missed
That is essentially all I use my pixel watch for. I don’t reply to texts from it or use apps and shit. It has the time, I can read a quick text if I’m away from the phone, and I can control my media easily. Also heart rate and such for workouts.
I like getting 1-2 months of battery life, afaik the pixel watch doesn’t do more than a day or two
Try Garmin. I can put my watch into expedition mode and get up to 50 days of tracking.
That is definitely an issue, I get about 2 days of power on mine, but I also take it off when I’m home and it sits on its charger
Have you looked at Garmin running watches? That’s what I use, they last over a week on a charge, have basic notification and app functions, and look like a pretty basic watch.
Yeah but they’re like three times the price last I checked.
I refuse to pay more for a smartwatch than a phone.
I had a Garmin hybrid before. Didn’t like the OLED screen at all. Fossil’s e-ink is just so much superior in the sun.
Yeah, that’s my next watch maker when this one becomes completely incapable of function, i like the look of the instinct crossover
That’s why I got a smart band. It tracks all useful metrics like HR, sleep, stress, SPO2 and does limited smartwatch stuff. Plus, it costs much less compared to a smartwatch without needing a ton of battery to boot with.
that’s why i got a huawei band for like 25$
I got a withings for this, though after 2 years it stopped charging, been an expensive paperweight since. It should be fine for you if you treat it like it looks - I tend to be rough with my watches.
Been watchless since, had my eye on fossil but :(
I had gotten myself a hybrid and was disappointed by it pretty quickly. So it doesn’t surprise me that they didn’t sell well.
IMO it didn’t do good in both categories, smart features were lackluster and not well implemented. And the watch part was kinda OK but not good enough. I couldn’t tell the time exactly and the hands had to calibrated often.
Good hearing other feedback, I’m more similar to the other commenter, I wanted a simpler watch that was still smart and love my hybrid and now not sure what I’ll go to if it breaks
I still have the Carlyle. Not a good watch anymore. Looks pretty good though
It’s not completely over if folks help with porting more Fossil models over to Asteroid OS - https://asteroidos.org
It’s a shame as their hybrid smart watch has been my go to for a few years now. Kind of reminds me of my old Pebble with the always on LCD screen. My gf also uses one too. The several days of battery life was another good feature
Pebble was a real one, nothing has matched them since
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