What I don’t want in an iWatch

The iWatch has caught everyone’s imagination. Mockups, reports from the supply chain, rumours coming from people familiar with the matter all seem to add speculations on what we feature the iWatch might have once released.

In this post I’ll give you three don’t needs of the iWatch I want.

Notifications

I don’t need more notifications than I already get. Whenever I receive either an email or an iMessage, three separate devices show me exactly the same information. That’s enough.

At work, I’ve already disabled all Outlook email notifications. At home, the only notifications I get are from the iPhone. It’s with me all the time anyway, usually in my pocket or on the desk beside my Mac and iPad. Both of these devices now work with all notifications disabled. The reason being, those two devices are reserved for working.

An iWatch that blinks, beeps or vibrates every time someone wants to communicate something is not going to improve my life at all.

Design

I don’t need a device for nerds because I am one of them already. I spend too much money on the latest gadget, online service, books and whatever fulfils my nerdiness (or geekiness?).

Nevertheless, at 50 I just don’t want to look like a character from Star Trek. I simply cannot – and don’t want – to walk in a meeting room with the equivalent of the Casio Databank on my wrist:

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I want something classy, with a leather or metal strap, that goes well with a suit, and with my iPhone. What I dream of is something to be clear:

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Functionalities

I don’t need:

  • A device that needs to be recharged every night
  • Another cable

That means that the iWatch I want, has a battery that can last for at least a full month and being able to recharge wirelessly. Apple being Apple, could actually take the concept of self-winding watches that were so popular back in the seventies/eighties and update the technology for the 21st century. This is crazy I know, but seriously do you really want a Lightning connector on the side of the device?

I simply cannot see such connector on an hypothetical iWatch, as much as this port appears subtle on an iPhone.

As for the actual functionalities, what I really want is something useful for a 50 year old man:

  • Sleep patterns
  • Blood pressure
  • Heartbeat
  • Steps (although I’m already happy with the iPhone 5s motion processor)
  • Time…

I would be perfectly happy if I had to use my iPhone to read these parameters. The iWatch of my dreams would simply tell me the time and date, nothing else.

Writing this post has been a fun game to play and frankly I don’t believe Apple is going to release anything that resembles an elegant Swiss watch, but who knows?

How about your ideas for the perfect iWatch?

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