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I am not an Apple fan in the slightest but the Apple Watch is in like, it's 10th generation? And I never see anyone wear any other type of smartwatch. And for good reason, pretty much everything else is garbage.
Garmin makes good watches, but its for a different market I think.
True, it's a bit of a niche
Is only nice if you also have an iPhone otherwise its basically useless expensive garbage.
Better look at Huawei, Zepp and Garmin if you want cheaper but equally good garbage. Fitbit is also a nice brand.
Garmin makes great watches for fitness tracking. Not so much for general use.
And those Chinesium watches require you to install spyware on your phone before they'll do anything at all.
I used to have a pebble back in the day, and then later a pebble steel. I've not found a modern smartwatch that is as good for my needs (partially because it doesn't look like a smartwatch).
I use a Samsung Galaxy wear, which also looks like a normal watch. I'm sure competing products are used a lot and you just don't notice them because their styling is modelled off of dumb watches.
A new Pebble would be great. Too bad Migikovsky spends his days chasing his tail with iMessage now.