I want to go on record right now, I am getting an Apple Watch. To be clear, I don’t want to measure how many steps I walk a day on it. Nor do I care about my REM sleep. According to Apple, the Watch “gives you a complete picture of your all-day activity”. Who is so obsessive to break down their entire day into a complete picture of everything you did and stare at your damn watch for the results! “OMG, I ate 37 raisins each with .7 grams of carbs…chart that in my sugar tracker and send me an email now!”

Here’s why I am getting the watch. It’s beautiful. I want to hate it but it looks amazing. To be clear about this, I want to tell everyone I am not getting one because that feels like the right thing to do, but I am so intrigued. I want to start to shift away from Apple’s force field but I am stuck. They are the kings of design…form and function perfectly melded into one.

Maybe it goes back to my man Dick Tracy. When I was a little kid, I watched the Dick Tracy cartoons, I played with the ridiculous free Dick Tracy toy that came in a cereal box and I freaked out over the Dick Tracy watch that my mother bought me. It’s so crazy that the most farfetched concepts are actually coming to life…the Dick Tracy watch lives! I wonder if Dick would use it to figure out his Yoga routine?

Monday, March 16, 2015