Since the middle of September of this year when I gave my Series 4 44mm Apple Watch to my brother, although the first week has been very weird after having it on my wrist for a year and a month straight, it has occurred to me that my life is just the same without an Apple watch, if not even better. I'm not constantly distracted by notifications, my wrist has managed to grow a bit of hair and get a bit tanner in the areas covered by it and for an unknown reason I felt much more free.
Not being able to answer my phone without it being nearby, not being able to know the time at a very quick glance, not being able to ping my phone whenever I can't find it, and that happens much more often than it needs to unfortunately, and finally not being able to do quick things like answering a quick message or responding do different notifications quicker have all gotten me to think that I need one asap. So about two or three weeks in, I manage to find a 44MM Series 5 with a bunch of scratches on it for $175 and I was with a foot out the door if not for my wife who stopped me.
Fast forward to the Thanksgiving weekend when I haven't gotten a lot of stuff, and I see this 44MM Series 5 in beautiful shape for $150, so I didn't think about it twice and went ahead and met up and bought it. It took me about an hour and a half to get the deal done (including 40 min on the road) because the previous owner just "erased it" and not "unpaired it" which meant that it was iCloud locked and after resetting the set-up screen four or five times and trying different things out with the owner nearby, we finally managed to get it on my iCloud, shook hands and headed off.
Three hours later, after a good clean and some good pictures, the $150 was up on Facebook Marketplace for $375 and I was very eager and anxious to get rid of it as fast as possible. It's absolute bonkers. How come a device that used to be part of my daily life for so long (I've had the Series 2 for almost a year and a half) and then the Series 4 for almost the same, feel all of a sudden like a burden? And where did this burning desire to get rid of it asap come from?
To be truthful I already know where I intend to "invest" the profit money for it (Xbox Elite 2 controller) but then I thought even more and I'm not sure I need that one either … so the question is even bigger now. I'm not in need of anything else new, why am I in such a rush to sell it?
My only guess is that I urge to get back to a Apple Watchless lifestyle because with an iPhone and an iPad with me almost constantly, a criminally underused Mac Mini at my desk, I really don't need to feel chocked by tech around me, especially the ones that do not bring as much value into my life as they once did.
Until I manage to sell this Apple Watch, I intend to use it, the first day I took it to work it was just sitting on my desk as for some mystery reason, I just felt repulsed by it and it was like it got constantly in the way, banging into the cart while unloading from shopping, scratching it on the desk at work … it feels like I have never owned and used an Apple Watch before and at the same time with the same design ever since it came out, it feels like a toy, or like a thing that I simply outgrew.
It's sad really, and I'm not ruling out the possibility that with a completely different design and features, I might be totally into Series 8, but for now, the iPhone, iPad, Mac Mini and occasionally MacBook lifestyle is more than enough, and horrifically, more than I can process at the moment.
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