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Accidental Tech Podcast

452: It’s Totally Leashed

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 107 minutes

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0:00.0

So, Casey, how'd you do on the watch ordering or not ordering? Did you manage to resist ordering a watch?

0:07.6

Right. So we should start with follow-up. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. No, I'm kidding. No, I honestly did not order a watch. I really, truly did not. It is very much on-brand for me to have ordered a watch, but I did not.

0:19.5

And, you know, it's sitting here now, I'm not feeling enough FOMO yet, which is a very unusual

0:26.8

occurrence for me.

0:28.1

I'm sure the FOMO will come, a title, but I don't, sitting here now, I'm okay.

0:35.2

And I was actually talking to my friend Stee about this.

0:39.9

And he was saying that he's looking for... I love the idea of you having, like, therapy to cope with your phomo.

0:44.1

Well, no, I was talking to him because I wasn't sure if he and his wife had ordered watches or not.

0:49.3

And so I was talking to him about what his plans were.

0:53.3

And he had said, you know, I don't really like any of the colors of the aluminum that much.

0:58.8

And that's kind of put me at this impasse where I don't really know what to do.

1:03.0

And I was thinking about it.

1:04.8

And again, I haven't done like deep research on the color profiles or anything like that on on these new watches particularly the

1:11.4

aluminum but well you couldn't until ordering that's true there was no there were no pages up

1:16.8

that would tell you what combinations there were how much they would cause like there was nothing

1:21.2

yeah it was so weird the way they did it it was it seems like a really fairly bungled rollout

1:26.7

but nevertheless um um, I,

1:28.5

I, I am not overwhelmed in, in, in a bad sense, you know, I'm not really overwhelmed by any

1:33.6

of these colors. And I'm not a fancy lad that wants one of the fancy watches. I'm not saying

1:38.6

that's wrong for anyone else. It's just not for me. So because of that, I just, and there was nothing compelling that I felt like I needed

1:44.9

to have. So no, I didn't order a watch yet. I am not closing the door on it happening sometime

1:50.6

between now and the next watch, but sitting here now, I have no plans to order one. But you're

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