Not all notifications need replying to, and it’s sometimes nice to have them be glanceable. I don’t use a smartwatch per say, the battery life on them suck, but my Garmin watch still has some of the same general functionality along with the fitness stuff I mostly have it for. Plus underrated feature for me is using it to ring my phone when I can’t find it ha

Sure, but it is still somewhat similar to cable within any particular service. You’re paying increasingly higher prices, to subsidize the costs of shows/movies that you’ll never watch. So you have to pay for all of Netflix just to watch the handful of things you want. Also, chances are (for many people) that you may want to watch the new show on HBO Max, and an exclusive movie to Disney+, and maybe apple+ has a great new original show, etc… Many have multiple services, so sooner or later, it looks more and more like it did before, because ultimately it’s the same or similar companies as before.

TIL that looking at ads, even without money leaving my bank account, isn’t free. These marketing people are wizards /s