We’re all looking forward to the Apple Watch, but there’s one thing I’m definitely not looking forward to: the ability to answer phone calls on my wrist. And this clever video shows exactly why.
The NSFW video below, by New York-based YouTube comedy team Rated WTF, is already pretty hysterical, just for showing Siri getting pissed off when her owner starts listening to his Apple Watch instead of her. But for me, the real laugh-out-loud moments happen around 34 seconds in, when the puzzled owner of an Apple Watch struggles in absolute bewilderment to figure out what device he should answer an incoming phone call on: the Apple Watch or his iPhone.
With OS X Yosemite, Apple introduced Continuity, a new feature that allows you to answer incoming iPhone calls on your iPad or Mac. It’s great tech, but to be honest, I sort of hate it, because it confuses me: Instead of one device ringing, all of a sudden I’ve got my iPhone, iPad mini, iPad Air, MacBook Air and iMac ringing. I’m not looking forward to my Apple Watch joining this shrill, shrieking cacophony, to say the least.
In fact, why is Apple even allowing this functionality? The Apple Watch should let you decline calls on your wrist, but not accept them. Because let’s be honest. If you answer a phone call through your Apple Watch without headphones in at all, that makes you a jackass, like the guy on the bus or subway who insists on conducting his phone calls on speakerphone.
Is wrist-talking the next scourge facing mankind in the wearable age? Kill me now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pJg0jhuSgs&t
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
46 responses to “Hysterical video shows why phone calls on the Apple Watch are going to be a nightmare”
Not funny and the swearing Might have been funny when i was 16. I guess im too old to see the humor.
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what it is about…—>
It has something to do with Apple, therefore it’s awesome.
the swearing was gratuitous and that is why it wasn’t funny…..
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chad…..this whole iSwatch debacle is going to be very sad…i agree… and lot’s of inappropriate language to follow…
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nah , it’s just ignorant …
I think you need to look up the meaning of ‘hilarious’ in the dictionary.
I must have missed the funny.
You can;t see how answering a speakerphone call while you’re driving or something might be the littlest bit useful?
You know you can disable Continuity right?
Wait…..is Siri on the Apple Watch too???
People need to think before they act. … First things first, the Apple Watch is not a phone. … It is not a watch either. … We, the general public, do not yet know what it is. … We did not know what computers, iPods, iPhones, or even automobiles were good for until enough of us had one of our own to play with. So all this waste of writing time, editorial time, endless web words, good reviews, bad reviews, hack jobs, are mindless masturbations by people who do not know anything about what they are talking about.
You’re right we don’t exactly how it’s going to be but we have a pretty good idea… I mean Android Wear can do just about everything Apple announced.
You mean like you? The Apple Watch is definitely part watch. Any moron can see that.
ad hominem
Dastardly calming.
I can write random words too. Try making sense next time.
It’s a joke, chill out, way too intense and judgy.
Not funny. A waste of time, for the writer, producer, videographer, and for the readers.
Zzzzz…..
So they use a black voice to berate Siri by repeatedly calling her a bitch. That must be cute for the teenagers this video’s sense of humor is appealing to.
Thanks for sharing this problematic video!
Funny and a l’il bit racist? It isn’t the technology that is the asshole, it is the asshole you uses the technology in a way that proves that he/she is. Courtesy is dying and faster every day. Not the machines fault
Racist because the black guy isn’t shown in the best light? If it was a white guy I’m sure we’d hear the blacks were excluded lol
When was I supposed to laugh exactly???
Aahhh I see, that’s the a$$h01e that I’ve unsubscribed from YouTube. That little whiny boring piece of …. you know what. It cannot stop whining…
I think “hysterical” isn’t really the word for this … how is it confusing to have continuity? You answer one and the rest stop ringing shortly thereafter. It’d be nice if they stopped instantly and if it worked correctly and instantly each time, but I don’t understand what’s so difficult about hitting “accept”.
Hysterical???? Did Webster Dictionary change the meaning????
Don’t care a bit about answering a call from the watch. I just want to look at the watch when I receive notifications & calls to see if I want to bother getting the phone out.
I was hoping for something clever, this is just a sad attempt.
yes let the “Apple Watch is going to fail BS begin”……the Watch will cause sterility, cancer, diabetes, cancer etc etc …..Appppple is doomed…..
Right……………………..Just wait until all the Watches sell out in about an hour on April 10, 2015 in the pre-order phase…..then the rest can STFU!!!
You should label pieces like this with profanity as NSFW so I will know never to click on it. Pathetic.
Yeah, that was pretty over the top. Offensive, homophobic, and more! This is a new low for this site.
The video was made by “Rated WTF”. The NSFW should be self-explanatory.
How did this garbage get approved for publication? Especially without a NSFW tag? Leander, you seriously need to consider apologizing (on behalf of Brownlee, since it seems futile to expect any such thing from him). This crossed a line.
The use of “hysterical” is part of the whole click-baityness experience, which is always unsatisfying. This wasn’t really funny, mainly because not funny.
That is horrible – funny nope
I didn’t finish the video, so that’s 30 seconds of my life I won’t get back.
Not funny, offensive low-class vulgar language, trying (badly) to make a point with shock value and failing miserably. This is not appropriate content for CoM.
This is terrible, I think you need to start filtering on CoM, this was a waste of time for both the creator and your audience.
Appaulling!
It’s not up to apple to make sure you don’t act like a jackass on the subway. I for one am not ready for apple to withhold the answer feature and let the fandroids laugh about how it “doesn’t even answer calls” regardless if I use it.
Incredibly stupid, offensive, vulgar (for absolutely no reason), and simply not funny. I expected more from Cult of Mac, and am disappointed that this was featured here – much less, that someone wasted their time to create it. I want 2 minutes of my life back.
“I’m so highbrow I don’t see the humor.”
Well I thought it was funny. :P