But are clocks old school?
Both my kids wear watches and they are GenZ.
Are they pure watches or Apple or multi function devices?
Regular watches. More than half the people i know, hockey team guys, wives, neighbors, all still wear regular watches.
You are making quite the assumption that because you see people with smart phones doing this (or yourself) that "all" people have abandoned the concept of the watch. We actually had this conversation with our hockey team out at the pub a few weeks ago and we looked around the room to take the poll. Well over half of the people we could see were wearing watches (crowd age was low 20s to over 50s).
If anything, i've only known one person that owned an Apple watch, just ONE, in the past 10 years at least.
Without changing settings daily on my phone, how would i get it to function as my overnight clock? Propped up somehow, need to leave the screen on and even then with the background i have, at a quick glance the clock on the opening page isn't immediately easy to read like a LED clock.
Do you change your wake time daily? If so, you adjust your alarm clock daily. Most phones have daily settings that allow you to set an entire week at once.
I don't use the alarm (rarely), certainly not daily. It's not an alarm function i seek.
I don't want to change my phone settings to leave the screen on all night long just to turn over to check the time. The phone presently is set like many others to turn off the screen after 5 minutes for power saving.
People still wear watches to quickly check time. They don't pull out their phones, press the power button...
Absolutely that is how people function. Most newer cellphones just need to be picked up and they display whatever settings you configure on the lock screen. I see an increasing majority switching to smart devices that look like watches but serve many functions
Absolutely that is NOT how people function. You need to be way more observant.
As previously mentioned, look around a mall and see how many people still wear watches. Why?
Because not everyone keeps the phone handy in their hands. It could be in a purse, or a coat pocket. It is less efficient to pull it out, hit the power button just to check time.
I'm in the arenas about 7 times a week with kids and parents. We are always checking time for when the game starts, when the zamboni hits the ice and we have 10 minutes.
People are most definitely not using their smart phones to keep checking that time. By people i mean adults. Most teenagers, and i include myself when i was younger, don't wear watches. It's never been 'cool' to wear a watch.
Clocks and watches are not old school. They are rather hard to replace with smart phones. There's only so much integration and efficiency with tech until you get to the point where you cannot get more 'efficient'.
Sorry, I have to disagree on all those points. While a wall clock in areas is handy, clocks are in almost every device (TV;s appliances, etc). Almost everyone has a cellphone these days and most people are checking them constantly.
Ok so let's take the concept of efficiency. Why have the basic input devices for a computer not changed in over 50 years? Those being a mouse and a keyboard.
Is there some way to make that more efficient without having humans grow smaller hands or extra digits?
Yes BB, there is a limit as to how efficient devices can be made and you hit a wall. Until an entirely new innovation comes about (such as a device which removes any need for keyboards or mice at all), then again, there is a limit.
I once recall seeing the world's smallest cell phone when there was a run up to making smaller, easier, more portable phones. Sure it fits into small space but how functional is it trying to use the thing?
Sure, that has happened for various reasons in numerous markets – think cars, laptops for a few examples. This has nothing to do with alarm clocks though.
You are avoiding the point.
Who would buy the world's smallest cell phone which is almost impossible to use realistically? It only has a must have application for someone into espionage or a very specific purpose. Try and hold that thing to your ear and hear anything useful let alone speak into it when the mic is cm away from your ear but 5 inches away from your mouth.
Ya, i doubt that one was a big seller.
I need a decent clock dammit. And we do listen to radio on the one in the kitchen. Or occasionally kids pipe bluetooth something through it when doing the dishes.
Right, and fair enough. But one other device has changed how the world works – the smart home device. These devices are voice activated and you can set alarms without touch anything – just tell it when you want the alarm (or almost anything else for that matter) and it happens!
Uh ya,
We are never having a Siri or any Google Home pod crap in this house.
Anyone who does use those is an idiot.
You may as well live in a glass house for all to see.
