RIP my Series 1 Apple Watch (I think)

[MitchWagner]

I lasted less than 36 hours.

After my Apple Watch Series 1 stopped functioning Monday, I wanted to hold out before replacing it. I lasted less than 36 hours

I missed being able to get notifications with a silent phone, and the silent alarms that wake me up and remind me when it’s time to take my pills and such. I like to be able to see those notifications with a turn of my wrist. I also missed the dead-simple Workouts app—the gamification features of the Workouts app get all the publicity, but I hate all that stuff. I’ve found–and love–that you can easily turn all that stuff OFF, and have the simplest, least-noisy workout-tracking app I’ve been abl…