Exactly. My Series 6 44mm watch is tiny compared to most "real" fitness watches I see. I still prefer it to Garmin models I've tried in the past, but this "Pro" model clearly has those targets in mind.This is a competitor to the Garmin Enduro 2. The people who want these don't give a flying hoot that it looks big on their wrists. They want the functions. The battery lasts for days while the features go continuously not just periodically and it has solar charging. Serious athletes use Garmin. Long distance racers use Garmin. This must burn Apple's butt. So now they are going for it.
Letās face it, when the Apple Watch was first launched in 2015, the possibilities seemed endless and exciting.
Seven yearsā later, other than cellular untethering, thereās been very little significant innovation. Incremental dripfeeds at best.
They canāt decide if this is meant to be a fashion item, fitness tracker, or health monitor. And this larger ārugged Proā is no different.
Jack of all trades, master of none.
Who cares about what jobs would have wanted? Heās not here. Time has changed since he was in chargeJobs would have flipped out at them adding an extra button to the Apple Watch. I can see Ive not being happy at this and the recent parting of ways with Love From and Apple might be him distancing himself from what looks like the fall of product design within Apple and the rise of product marketing. Which effectively makes Apple no different from anyone else. Shame...
Thereās no āmillions/billions dollarsā invested in R&D. What was the last thing? Oh yes, SpO2, buy in a dirt cheap sensor, shove it somewhere in the internals, rig it up with existing software and run a batch of sensitivity/calibration tests. Need FDA certification? Forget it, what a pain that was for the 1-lead ECG.Incremental dripfeeds at best š but I still wonder why waste millions/billions dollars for the research and development just for tiny change.
You think theyāll eke out a 500% increase in battery life? šMassive difference
I just hope battery life is 2-4 days. My series 7 is lucky to last 16 hours