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Apple Collected Over 18,000 Hours of Health and Fitness Data for Apple Watch
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10,000 is a large sample size. Are you thinking about random samples needed to establish trends in larger groups? If so, you're barking up the wrong tree.
Apple is gathering the data needed to calibrate the Apple Watch across a wide variety of exercises, environments, and bodies. The part of the video I saw they were gathering data on calories burned. They don't need large random samples.
They'd need to get the Watch sensor readings vs. actual calories burned and adjust (or even help create) their exercise models based on that. 10,000 would cover a lot of cases if you were systematic (and Apple certainly looks systematic there.)
Significantly larger sensors on the apple watch. The Fitbit band and all others are tiny LEDs that often fail to penetrate arm hair
Please tell me you're joking? PLEASE. TELL ME. YOU'RE JOKING.
Apple thoroughly tested all for all those Bluetooth, wireless and USB3, battery logic board and display issues right.
Come on get a hold of your self. This is ridiculous at best and shameless denial at worst.
All major manufacturers have test regimes. You think they tested as deeply or gleaned as much data as Ford did with something even as mundane as an F150?
You've seen engines run to destruction on a test bed right?
Sigh.......some one always gotta bring up Samsung.
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Why?
All those panels and memory bought FROM THEM BY APPLE would have been quite stringently researched and tested for ages to reach the point they're at with technology or d'you think they just got lucky?
There is some really senseless bashing of Samsung going on here.
But they don't do that for iPhone, iPad, MAC OS, IOS, etc
Wish they spent that much attention on IOS.
This is why IOS and MAC OS suffer. All these people focussed on this nonsense. Get back to work and fix what's broke.
Lol, this is Macrumors. I would be surprised if somebody didn't bash Samsung, Google or any of the other Android manufacturers.
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But only health data between the hours of 9am and 5pm, the rest of the time the phone has to be charged lol
Battery life + apple = biggest tech joke ever
Battery life + apple = biggest tech joke ever
Haha, that's what I thought. Seriously, the Apple Watch looks to me just like a glorified Jawbone. People who are really into fitness don't need that stuff. And it's still hamstrung by the need of an iPhone in range. My Polar is enough for me, and it doesn't need to be charged every frickin' day.
Sad that Nightline, which used to be a real news show back in the day, can just be bought like this, if it is as you say.
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My iPhone 4 never had a issue because I used a case and didn't hold it all weird.
All the same, your point about this being PR is fair.
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I don't think this is fair. Apple does frequent updates for bug fixes and security. My issue is with iOS 8 and letting Jony Ive redesign everything to look pretty. They spent who knows how many hours to add useless animations, remove drop shadows, and bloat up everything. Meanwhile, Jony's iPhone designs have been about as bland as they could possible make them...well, not quite as horrendous as the Apple watch, but still pablum designed by committee.
I will admit, to me this really just says:
Our device cannot accurately monitor anything, like the proper medical expensive equipment here can.
So, we are collecting data, so that when our device reads something (all that it can, given it's just a cheap consumer device with a monitoring device that costs a few dollars)
We can then use this poor data, and try and match it up with this accurate data and give you some rough idea on the watch.
Oh, and "please note any health data displayed by the watch is to be used as a guide only"
Our device cannot accurately monitor anything, like the proper medical expensive equipment here can.
So, we are collecting data, so that when our device reads something (all that it can, given it's just a cheap consumer device with a monitoring device that costs a few dollars)
We can then use this poor data, and try and match it up with this accurate data and give you some rough idea on the watch.
Oh, and "please note any health data displayed by the watch is to be used as a guide only"
FINALLY someone saying it how it is on one of these forums! This blind devotion for the Apple juggernaut has created a personality cult for the brand. I would call myself an Apple fan, but some people go way beyond that, to excusing the company for its misgivings, whilst bashing other companies for their equivalents. The day people stop criticising is the day Apple stops making good products.
Some criticism of Apple is ridiculous as well, though
Well, as guinea pig #46,701 in the Stanford "My Heart" ResearchKit study (iPhone 6, Apple Watch), I'd say that in the first week we have added to the numbers just a bit.
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But only health data between the hours of 9am and 5pm, the rest of the time the phone has to be charged lol
Battery life + apple = biggest tech joke ever
If your phone takes 16 hours to charge, you do have a problem. Or a vivid imagination.
telemetry?
It would actually be really cool, if someone ties in a consumer purchasable, and user applicable telemetry vest for a really accurate cardio picture.
It would actually be really cool, if someone ties in a consumer purchasable, and user applicable telemetry vest for a really accurate cardio picture.
Heartrate in itself is not a good indication of anything. It's subject to so many variables and is rarely used by professional sports persons.
Cyclists wouldn't go near heart rate and often don't record it in training. They'll use a power meter for watts along with cadence & lactate testing.
Runners won't use it much either. They'll also use lactate testing within number or strides and distance and time.
Why would nornal persons want heart rate is beyond me. It really doesn't mean much at all as an isolated metric.
Please tell me you're joking? PLEASE. TELL ME. YOU'RE JOKING.
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Come on get a hold of your self. This is ridiculous at best and shameless denial at worst.
All major manufacturers have test regimes. You think they tested as deeply or gleaned as much data as Ford did with something even as mundane as an F150?
Did you buy yourself S9110 from Samsung? Did you buy the first galaxy gear? Those are perfect examples of failed products not because of the individual hardware, but the combination of hardware and interface wasn't tested for it's purpose. Have you tried one of there smart TVs? TV is great, the smart features are horrible..... So not shameless, a valid criticism from a consumer. And I think Samsung phones are amazing phone hardware, thank the gods that they use Andriod as there OS. Because you know, there phones were amazing and amazing and market leaders.. like there SGH-i607 BlackJack (windows phone), Instinct (some crap OS), Omnia (windows)
Please.. from your expert opinion, describe your experience with these products....... and how the user experience was considered...
I"m the first one to bash apple when they deserve, but one thing I give them merit for is in general (there are always exceptions), they have taken the time to try and get the product mostly right with a solid interface. Maybe that is why they are the most valued company in the world...
While I have thousands of dollars of samsung products, all I get is a jumble of features with no worry about interface and execution. So after a plethora of Samsung products, I am not joking and speak from experience, I am disappointed that they rush to market and advertise features that haven't been well thought out. In this news/propaganda video, it does highlight that apple took the time to really test out what was useful. They wanted to go into a new field, got a data set, and took the time to release a product that does on the outset seem that is is better thought out then other smartwatches on the market. I'll have to wait to try it, but I don't see it flopping like the S9110 or the first galaxies.
So I expect you to start flaming again with more insults at whatever elementary schoolyard you learned them from.
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Calibration is an important aspect of developing any measuring system. 18000 hours is a very large sample for a system that really isn't all that important. A heart monitoring system in a hospital is important. A fitness gadget is not.
For the normal consumer who knows little to nothing about health.
Saying you can record/show and offer details based upon heart rate is probably the easiest, and simplest thing for a general consumer to understand.
Or be "sold on" as a feature. Everything else it probably too vague and would need too much explanation. Just saying monitoring your heart rate is a basic, simple thing to understand.
Irrespective of what use it actually is, other than telling you, you are still alive!