A few years ago the company I worked for sent me an e-mail to let me know that for my years of service and good behavior, I had a bunch of points I could use to buy something from an internal rewards website. I selected the Fitbit Charge. I liked it. It was nice getting notifications of messages and phone calls on my wrist and the pedometer made me think I was doing healthy things, but it had a flaw. If the battery charge ever went to zero, it died, hard and could not be recharged. They replaced the first one I killed that way under warranty, but I accidentally did the same thing to the replacement. Two years ago I bought a replacement in the form of a Pebble 2. I loved it, but the company went out of business less than a month after I bought it and despite being advertised as waterproof up to forty feet, it died the very first time I went swimming with it this past October. For Christmas my wife bought me an Apple Watch Series 4.