No one is more surprised than me– mostly because no one but me cares– to discover that Apple’s big nerd prom today has probably sold me a Pebble Steel.  I love my Pebble– it is, hands down, my favorite piece of technology since my first cell phone– but I was fully expecting to trade it in for Apple’s smart watch when they finally got around to introducing one, mostly on account of I’m wearing what looks like a piece of cheap plastic on my wrist.  I didn’t want an iWatch because of the functionality; I wanted one because it would look more like a watch a grown-up should be wearing.

Reactions are unsurprisingly mixed, but I love the look of the thing, and I love the word “fluoroelastomer,” but I don’t love the fact that they didn’t mention battery life other than, apparently, claiming that you’d charge it “every night.”  I have gotten used to wearing a watch to bed because my watch is also my alarm clock.  I don’t ever want to be awakened by a sound again, folks; that’s how much better a wrist vibration is as an alarm clock.  It’s wonderful.  And if the Apple Watch doesn’t have at a minimum four or five days in between charges (which is about what I get with the Pebble) I don’t want it.  I won’t spend $350 (minimum!) on a watch that I can’t use as an alarm clock.  That’s half the reason I have a smart watch.

Now, the iPhone 6, on the other hand, is an auto-buy.  My phone is reaching the end of its useful life (I’m having to have to have a charging cord with me at all times) and plus I’ve long since accepted the fact that I’m the guy who gets a new phone almost every year anyway.  So there is no if dimension to the upgrade, only when.  And I could go into the details of the when except I’m pretty sure this post is already nerdy enough.  Needless to say it involves deciding whether I’m less pissed at Sprint for having shitty service or Verizon for generically being assholes.  I’m tilting toward going back to Verizon except that involves porting my number over in time to still preorder the phone, which is, uh, kinda complicated, blah blah blah nerdwank nerdwank.

What did normal people think about today?