Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Apple Watch Sales Remain Steady After 15 Months Despite Lack of Next-Generation Model
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
I lost my iphone 6 last night after a late night walk in woods nearby.
I used "find iPhone" on rMBP "iCloud" to locate approximate area in woods. Got up early and my apple watch picked up on the iPhone - then I "pinged it".
Brilliant.
Very relieved - the apple watch and find iPhone saved the day.
I used "find iPhone" on rMBP "iCloud" to locate approximate area in woods. Got up early and my apple watch picked up on the iPhone - then I "pinged it".
Brilliant.
Very relieved - the apple watch and find iPhone saved the day.
I think there is an equally large market of people waiting on AW2 with improved specs and slimmer design, hopefully not at the cost of battery life. My better half loves his though, best XMass gift I have given him.
I workout. I just don't need some device to tell me that i ran. I know this on my own. Route recording? How is that benefiting your health?
johnnyturbouk
macrumors 68000
Easy now, do you not understand Ive's paradigm that slimness and style trumps functionality and performance for all igadgets.
Tracking outside/physical activity more accurately without a phone. I know you can train the Apple Watch to estimate distance well without also having your iPhone but it works best on a pre-set route. A built-in GPS would allow you to run/bike/hike wherever and have the distance and path tracked accurately.
Cause the basics of training, if you take it seriously is time v distance.
You will find come the Olympic , distance and time a major factors to winning gold.
good quality fitness apps require your distance as a variable . The more accurate the better.
I'd like it to make it easy for me to go without my phone all the time. I hate being attached to my iPhone 24/7. it's just sitting there in my pocket all the time making it look like I'm happy to see people.
So you don't workout. Glad we made that known.
Route recording benefits you by telling you the distance you travelled, the speed you travelled, peaks and lulls in speed, heart rate analysis to help you through certain segments of your path to assist you in correcting them so you can go further, go faster, and do so while remaining healthier -- running just to run without any understanding of what your body is going through can have the opposite results, strain on the heart and muscles. The analysis also delves deeper, using altitude measurements to help show you where things went wrong, where things went right and how to correct things or avoid them.
Some apps have users that drop routes in, and it's an open challenge on their times - running or biking. A great way to learn new routes or offer you new challenges beyond your once-around-the-block routines. Some offer challenges and goals just to log a certain amount of miles or hours in a time frame. Some, like Strava, track your form -- a lot of data is stuff this very watch can pull all by itself... if it only had GPS.
Some people like competitions... some people like being offered challenges.
Still you don't need any sort of tracking for that. This is just OCD about record keeping and lets leave olympic in a separate box shall we. I run every other day and never same path twice without any watches.
So if apple sold 10.35 million units in the 2016, how many units were sold in the 8 months of 2015.
Also anyone know the approximate number of iPhone 5 or later in operation?
Also anyone know the approximate number of iPhone 5 or later in operation?
Sounds more like you don't know any serious runners or bikers.
GPS equipped wrist fitness devices have been a viable market for years, reaching over $2.6 billion in yearly revenue by 2014.
Much of that GPS wrist band revenue is predicted to move over to GPS equipped smartwatches, which have even more functionality.
You're too cool for school. I got that much.
These devices that do this sell in the millions. "Yuge" numbers. People are getting instant feedback on things that they'd normally only get once a year at a physical - if they even go to the doctor - probably something else you're too cool for.
In summary: tens of millions of people are using these things that are assisting them in making a greater effort to be fit and healthy... And you're arguing about it. What's that say about you?
In which case, how do you know how far you have run, and if you are improving ?
Are you arguing against GPS in sports or just the Apple Watch?
Im into rugby , have a read of this http://www.sporttechie.com/2014/05/19/how-gps-technology-is-changing-rugby/
GPS is becoming very important in sport , amateur or professional. The concept is quite simple
I like having the data (I'm a scientist, which has something to do with it too). With GPS I know where and how far I ran (I live near woods with a number of trails and don't always run the same route), how fast I was at different segments of a run, and so forth. It is really helpful when I want to run, bike, or walk a particular distance - I can just go and not have to plan route before. This makes things more interesting. Maybe it's just my short attention span.
From your other comments I can tell you don't see the need. That's fine. I use GPS tracking (and heart rate, sleep tracking, etc.) to improve my health activities. I have a large database with much of my health-related data (exercise, sleep, weight, calorie expenditure, heart rates, estimated VO2 Max...) in it for the past year (and counting). Is it necessary? No. It is useful and interesting to me? Yes. Is broader collection and analysis of these data going to be useful from a public health standpoint? Yes, within the next decade. Am I a data geek? Yes.
