Congratulations on your weight loss! Well, done.I actually sent a letter Tim Cook's email saying how much Apple Health and the Fitness app have helped me. Since August 2017 I've dropped 265+ pounds, from 444 to my last weigh in at 181. Hoping another 15 or so pounds. I've been perfect on my rings going over 1 year now. These challenges always manage to get me going.
Is it just me, or is earning those badges extremely addictive?
I love them and I agreed it is super addictive. Unfortunately some badges are not available outside of the US and I don’t really want to change the region in Settings.
I actually got robbed of my distance walk/run on Intl. Women’s Day a few weeks back. I’m loyal to Nike run club and completed the run there — didn’t want to use the stock workout app. This has to be an issue for other people too. I know folks are loyal to the Under Armour app or Runtastic and wouldn’t want to log a workout anywhere else but miss out on these achievements. Guess it’s a good problem to have.
Respectfully, you're wasting your time.All those complaining about not really needing a watch don't really understand the audience.
Gonna stick my neck out and say... no.Anyone else excited for that Giraffe badge?
I like the badges but they already did Earth Day and it’s not much of a fitness day. There are lots of holidays with better fitness correlation that they could use to add some variety.
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438 day streak and getting close to 1000. The gamification totally has me!
If you consider disagreement "insult," then I think the problem lies more with you.It's possible to respond "nah, it's not my cup of tea", "the Apple Watch is too expensive", or "I don't need this".
It's not necessary to insult people in the process.
Thanks for your feedback.Are you always like this? Even in real life?
Respectfully, you're wasting your time.
While you are completely correct in what you wrote -- those unable to envision that others have different use-cases and preferences will remain unable to see outside their own box.
I guess you answered my question.If you consider disagreement "insult," then I think the problem lies more with you.
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Thanks for your feedback.
All those complaining about not really needing a watch don't really understand the audience. This isn't for those who are out there kicking butt every day with exercise, watch or no watch. Those people don't need motivation, they're born with it. It's also not aimed at the couch potato crowd who are quite happy to ignore stuff like this, watch or no watch.
The Apple Watch is for those in the middle who know they ought to be more active, but have a hard time finding the motivation. You may look down on us weak willed people and that's fine. What matters is Apple has gotten an entire segment of the population up and off their butts. It may not motivate you or you may not need the motivation. So what? That doesn't dismiss the wonderful work Apple is doing here.
FYI, I work at a health insurance company. If pay for your own healthcare, this is something you ought to be very happy about. When your risk pool suddenly becomes healthier, costs drop for everyone (though sadly I can't promise that every health insurance company passes those savings on to the customer). That's sort of how insurance works. And yes, I've seen my company drop rates on groups, so it actually does happen in real life.
I've been around here long enough to know that most of the people won't even read it in the first place. So if they even read my reply, it wasn't a waste of my time and I thank them for at least reading it. They can agree or disagree. It really doesn't matter to me. When you read a post like saintstryfe's earlier in this thread, it doesn't really matter what we think. They've lost more than half their body weight and credit the Apple Watch for helping with that. That's incredible. Someone laughing at people for being motivated by virtual medals kinda pales in comparison. Real life success story (stories as I've heard other success stories over in the watch forums) beats contrary opinion every day of the week.
Probably not when you consider that more active people use and consume less resources that generate CO2. But I agree that Apple should also support a "put down your phone" day or something to encourage more balanced use of screen activity.I’m not actually upset but if you think about it this challenge will increase CO2 emissions on earth day.
I didn't know that. Are the challenge difficulties directly related to your daily calorie settings?You must not pay attention to your special monthly challenges or complete them regularly? If you do, they increase in difficulty, quite substantially if you normally clear your rings daily...but judging by your comment I guess you aren’t being challenged and set the bar low for yourself?
Come chat with us over in the Apple Watch sub forum!
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/april-challenge-killer-or-not-to-bad.2175952/