You don't mean the midnight ocean one that's listed on Apple's website?
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Apple Announces Oceanic+ App Now Available for Apple Watch Ultra
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I absolutely refuse to buy into this subscription garbage. Sounds like a good app, too bad.
The Chinese are currently reverse engineering the Ultra bands. In about two weeks, you will have every band you've ever desired on Amazon for under $10.
The Cressi Leonardo computer costs $230 at Amazon. Claiming it's a $130 computer seems dishonest. We should be comparing prices in the same currency.
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No thanks, I’ll stick with much more accurate dive computers which perform gas analysis. My life depends on it.
How does your dive computer analyze gas? I've honestly never heard of such a device. Does it connect to your tank and relay the composition to a display? Why would this need monitoring? Does the composition of the gas in your tank change from minute to minute? Mine doesn't.
Not really though. I bought my air integrated dive watch for 200 bucks off eBay and it had barely been used. Diving doesn’t have to be expensive. Especially if you are just doing recreational dives.
Tell us you know nothing about recreational diving....😂
What would be Oceanic’s inclination to develop this app if they aren’t going to get compensated for it?
I’m not a big fan of subscriptions on everything as I probably pay about $350/month with subs including YouTubeTV and so on.
For an avid diver that will get use out of this, it’s basically like 8 Nitrox steel 100 fills. Paying the $79.99 should not be an issue at all.
For the casual diver that logs fewer than 10 dives a year, you would probably pay the $9.99/month price for the months that you spend diving which for a casual diver, would more than likely be a few summer months.
Beyond that, if you’re super frugal you can use the AW Ultra Depth Gauge, an SPG, dive tables, and the watch to plan and execute your dives.
The Oceanic+ app is really a “luxury addition” to the AW Ultra which when revealed at the AWU unveiling was fully disclosed to be a subscription service, so all the whining about it should have been over by now.
I have the option of wearing what‘s on the left or right on my wrist. I choose left, but will still clip my ScubPro G2 with tank transmitter onto my bcd for backup.
I’m not a big fan of subscriptions on everything as I probably pay about $350/month with subs including YouTubeTV and so on.
For an avid diver that will get use out of this, it’s basically like 8 Nitrox steel 100 fills. Paying the $79.99 should not be an issue at all.
For the casual diver that logs fewer than 10 dives a year, you would probably pay the $9.99/month price for the months that you spend diving which for a casual diver, would more than likely be a few summer months.
Beyond that, if you’re super frugal you can use the AW Ultra Depth Gauge, an SPG, dive tables, and the watch to plan and execute your dives.
The Oceanic+ app is really a “luxury addition” to the AW Ultra which when revealed at the AWU unveiling was fully disclosed to be a subscription service, so all the whining about it should have been over by now.
I have the option of wearing what‘s on the left or right on my wrist. I choose left, but will still clip my ScubPro G2 with tank transmitter onto my bcd for backup.
Good timing! I will be using this as my backup computer when I go to Cozumel in two weeks. Right now, it is a backup to the Descent MK2i, which I had gotten because of the surface GPS. But I may sell it and replace my main computer with a Perdix or something similar.
Maybe it’s not an affordability issue… instead some people still prefer to own the things they buy instead of simply renting them. Each to their own but that’s why I support apps like affinity designer and won’t buy a bmw with subscription heated seats.
Nah the midnight one is much darker, almost black. The one in the image of the article was more of a sea blue and beautiful.You don't mean the midnight ocean one that's listed on Apple's website?
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That's the blue I asked about in this thread twice, I want to find it! It doesn't seem to exist yet.
thats not what he said, he said the watch cost is overall insignificant compared to the other costs if you dive regularly 130ft (Id add 90ft too)
Not to mention renting boats, tank rentals and fills, etc. a nice large color screen, this watch kills. Really if you want to complain about $30 savings to get a monochrome single-purpose dive watch over this go ahead.
I compare with the same currency PLN recalculated for readers convenience to USD. Dive computer cost here less than dive strap for Apple Watch.
What depths do you routinely dive in, for how long, how often, and where?
From that, I suspect you have data that reveals how many times an Apple watch has saved someone's life. Perhaps you can present it here?
Looks like the most useful functions do. Then again if you don’t dive a lot, might be worth it to just pay for one month at a time.
I think this is one of those rare occasions where a subscription model can make sense - for recreational divers who maybe only dive during one or two holidays a year. Why pay full whack for a feature you won't use for most of the year when you can virtually PAYG? These types of diver will likely be renting equipment when they dive for the very same reason, so why not just 'rent' the app when they need it?
My dive computer does exactly that. There is a transponder unit (about the size of a car key fob) which screws into one of the regulator ports. This unit contains a battery of it's own, it's completely sealed for depth, and is paired to my dive computer wirelessly.
Each breath that I take causes fluctuations in the available gas pressure. The transponder sends these fluctuations to my computer which measures their duration and pressure difference. Combined with the computers own pressure meter and therefore depth measurement, it knows exactly what I'm breathing, with each breath. It can compute the gas saturation of my tissues, or at least give a very good estimation. Far better than dive tables.
This information is used to warn me about all sort of important things, and it's extremely important for safe diving.
Apple Watch Ultra, at the moment, cannot pair to a wireless transponder so it cannot do any of these important and useful things. That's not to say that isn't useful, but I would not use it as a primary dive computer until it can do gas analysis, and it can be serviced and pressure tested after that service by a service centre.