i'm like 10 years late to this party but just got an apple watch, been having issues with things on phone and watch interfering. e.g., if Siri is on in both then when i say Siri sometimes one responds and the other; also, notifications get messed up between phone and watch, sometimes goes on one, sometimes on both, etc.; not sure what the best mental model is for using this all properly

@pg the Apple Watch is such a great idea but poor execution. Siri is useless. Notifications are ok but you have to disable most of them otherwise it gets annoying. Find my phone and 2FA are the most useful feature. Also receiving calls when phone is lost. Oh also making the screen all white when you need a light is helpful if you don’t have your phone.

@andresmh are there good android watches that work with iOS decently well?

@andresmh @pg i have been using a garmin smartwatch for my entire iphone life and have no complaints about their integration

@andresmh @pg (i also briefly tried an apple watch and hated it)

@chrisamaphone @pg I’m still sticking around with the Apple Watch. When I worked at MSR I learned it’s always best to embrace whatever ecosystem I’m in 🤷. If I had an Android phone I would switch to an Android Watch.

@andresmh @chrisamaphone oh interesting, i will read more about the garmin

@andresmh @chrisamaphone Andrés you're still on a zune watch with your zune?

@pg the mental model btw is the same if you have a phone in your hand but your laptop in the other room is open to a messages conversation, your phone may not get a notification for it, but also a siri initiated timer on your phone may not be reflected on your laptop when you return to it. the watch is just the next Frontmost Device as far as i can tell.

@pg @chrisamaphone haha I did love the aesthetics of windows phone OS. Metro design was perfect on the phone.

@nsfmc yeah i want to know what gets 'bubbled up' and what gets eaten at every level

@pg i’m playing a video game right now where it has a record of the last six notifications you received in the pause menu and i have to imagine this was just somebody’s personal crusade that manifested in a star wars game of all places

@pg @andresmh not an android watch but I am a big fan of the Withings watches which work mostly great with iOS. But they’re watch-first watches that have smart features (step-counting, heart monitoring, notifications, etc), but calling it a smartwatch depends where you set the goalposts. The downside is that sometimes (but not always) you have to manually start the iOS app when you start a workout. That’s because Apple has to Apple.

@nsfmc force bubble