I didn’t and I won’t.
I’ve never replaced a watch (smart or otherwise) in less than 5 years.
Wat.
The only good planned obsolescence is the people uniting in an effort to make all these tech billionaires obsolete.
I might be lucky, my Gen 1 Pebble still works (though I have not tested how long the battery lasts in use, I only know it stayed on for under a week idle).
My £30 Xiaomi MiBand used to last 12-14 days between charges and is now circa 7 data after 3.5 years of daily use. Let’s see how it fares hitting 5 years but this is the cheap option I went for and didn’t expect repairability. Spending more I’d expect more
I think the part that rubs me the wrong way is that this reads to me as a clear admission of “we didn’t consider repairability or longevity and we don’t care”.
I mean, for a phone yeah, but a small, relatively cheap waterproof device with a battery under a watt will probably start having issues at 5 years, more likely much before that. Waterproofing something that small will probably not be easy after replacing the battery, so while you probably will be able to eventually, it probably will be a little more fragile afterwards. I’ve got a fitbit, and I’ve seen the videos of replacing the 0.25 watt battery, would for sure doubt it’s water resistance afterwards, probably easier to replace.
