A good reason to buy Google's Pixel Watch

[thewayne]

No, that's not the phrase. What is it? NOT. A good reason NOT to buy Google's Pixel Watch.

The reason? THEY CANNOT BE REPAIRED. There is no repair parts channel. If you bust the glass crystal, and the entire front of the watch is a single piece, you're screwed. No replacement is possible, toss it. It is ewaste. Replace it.

And are you likely to buy another Google-branded product to replace it with? Methinks not.

Google just announced that they're going to provide replacement parts for their tablets to iFixit, which is terrific. Apparently the watch channel isn't going to get the same treatment.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/11-months-after-launch-googles-pixel-watch-still-has-no-path-to-repair/


I had to have my Apple Watch replaced under warranty, the ECG sensor failed. Conveniently I was in Phoenix at the time: I took it to a UPS Store, provided them the RMA number, and a few days later a new one was at my home. No charge to me.

Comments

[disneydream06]

I am really glad I an old fashioned watch. LOL.......
Hugs, Jon

[dewline]

*winces*

[thewayne]

I'm better about not damaging my watches these days, but accidents do happen.  I would be extremely leery of a watch where the entire front is one continuous glass piece.  That's just begging for it to be broken.  But then to find out there's no replacement available?  Man, I wonder if you could work up a class action lawsuit?  I think that now, in California, you could!

[warriorsavant]

I think last watch I owned, I had to wind it.

[thewayne]

It just occurred to me that I haven't worn my dad's self-winding watch recently, I need to dig that out to give it a power-up.  It's a Seiko Kinetic, has a little flywheel mechanism and a very interesting capacitor.

[silveradept]

Very glad not to have fallen into that particular situation. Of course, I probably was never going to spend the money on a Pixel watch, or a WearOS one, or any other such thing, since they seem to think that smart watches should cost about the same as smartphones.