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It is a failure, still
I have a s2 ceramic amd love it. But only use it while swimming and sometimes für paying.
It’s a useless piece of art to me!
Love the solo loop

Guess in between it’s also being used as the timepiece, right?
 
This estimate is completely wrong. Wearables/Acc/Home grew only 20% for that QTR as reported by Apple. You cannot have Watch sales that high and back into the reported numbers

How do these people have jobs?
About 5 billion in watch sales with total Wearables/Acc/Home sales topping at 7.8 billion. That doesn't look outlandish with no new Home Pod or Apple TV in that quarter.
 
What would you like to see different?
Larger screen.
I suspect a rectangular screen, same height, but twice as wide (and with asymmetric strap anchoring, or maybe two smaller straps at both ends, to make sure the extra width goes up the arm, not over the wrist) would work well.

Yes, it would look unusual and even less like a watch. I don't care! I want it to become the Wrist Computer is was always destined to be, not just a very fancy digital watch.

Not part of the appearance, but I also think that if they changed the screen to support multi-touch (ie two-finger touch) you could do a lot with that. Pinch-to-zoom of course, but also a power-user expanded gesture vocabulary of two-finger taps.

And under-the-screen fingerprint sensor might be convenient.
 
In terms of speed. If I upgrade from a S3 to S6, will the improvement be noticable? I am talking about loading apps and apps loading their content. Seems rediculously slow on the s3
 
Originally had Series 0 - was neat, but functionality due to speed sucked. Jumped to Series 4 years ago and was amazed at the speed increase, this was when it truly became a functional device in my opinion. Just got a series 6 stainless steel and very impressed with overall quality, speed, usefulness, and feel couldn't go back to Alum now. Also, the ability to leave my phone at home with Cell on watch has been a game changer. I didn't think I'd use it that often but have enjoyed the flexibility. Nothing else on the market compares to the capabilities for almost every user.
 
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In terms of speed. If I upgrade from a S3 to S6, will the improvement be noticable? I am talking about loading apps and apps loading their content. Seems rediculously slow on the s3
Yes, should be a huge jump. Daughter has a S3 I have a S6, there was a good jump from 3 to 4, the jump from 3 to 6 is impressive.
 
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I love my series 6...Apple Watch is beyond awesome so much that it’s needed for me to have an iPhone as my daily
 
Wet finger in the air?
They probably back into it with the wearables category total sales and just subtract revenue based on estimates for Airpods. It’s probably not a terrible guess, but it’s still just a guess.
 
I’m sure the numbers are good, but IDC just guesses.
you ain't kidding - one of the guys that used to work there say most of the numbers are made up

Horace Deidu scrutinized their numbers and as expected they are garbage
 
In terms of speed. If I upgrade from a S3 to S6, will the improvement be noticable? I am talking about loading apps and apps loading their content. Seems rediculously slow on the s3
Just moved from an S3 to an SE (which is equivalent to the 5 more or less). Definitely faster in every regard and noticeable.
 
I am happily using my S4 SS, while the wife is using SS S6 and my older daughter is still using my old SS S2. We are very happy with Apple Watch and suckers for stainless steel - once you go stainless steel, you cant go back :) We tend to skip few generations to offset the costs of SS - works just fine for us.
I see what you did there. 😂
 
Mine isn't. I only wear it when working out (which is still a solid one hour a day), otherwise it's permanently in nightstamd mode.

Wow, so you really just bought it as a fitness tracker? Whatever works best for you of course.
 
I have Series 2 and personally I really cant see any functionality or improvment that justifies paying 399$ for a brand new Series 6. Yeah, bigger screen, faster CPU, two additional health sensors but the bottom line is that I want a full week of battery life under very casual use, just checking notifications and recording health data day and night.
Xiaomi's Mi Band does that and lasts about 15 days
 
Wow, so you really just bought it as a fitness tracker?
Pretty much yes. I run (indoor and outdoor) and do yoga, the Apple Watch does a good job tracking both. Combined with the Fitness app or one like Habitify it's easy to track how I'm doing, without any extra effort.

I guess if I were to be very detailed, I also wear it to sleep since the latest OS update, but mostly for the haptic wakeup (I wake up 1-2 hours before my girlfriend, this way the alarm doesn't disturb her). I also take it to holidays, especially if I'm planning to be at the beach / in the ocean a lot.

Otherwise I have an actual timepiece for daily use.
 
I would like to see Apple creating a real ''pro'' version of the watch that offer same functionnality AND accuracy as garmin/polar/suunto.

-Accurate GPS
-Support for accessories
-All the running features from Garmin (pacing, recovery, ...)
-Maybe innovate by adding glucose/sweet monitoring.

I would happily ditch my Garmin (which is the best watch i've ever own) since it's a perfect runner watch but really lack when it come to smartphone integration.

I ditched my Garmin for an AW SE because I'm not running as much as I used to. Now I'm only getting in about 30km a week, and the various conveniences of the AW (LTE, notifications, phone, music, dictation, etc.) outweigh the negatives for me as a casual runner.

Back when I was running much more I would have never gotten rid of my watches from Garmin as they have so many watches that are indeed perfect for more hardcore runners.

If you are more of a casual athlete though, I think the AW is superior because the smartwatch features are just awesome (though I still prefer round watches).
 
So far nobody's mentioned the seemingly low blood oxygen level reading one what looks like the arm of a young person...
 
So far nobody's mentioned the seemingly low blood oxygen level reading one what looks like the arm of a young person...
The Apple watch isn't meant to be used to diagnose any condition and they state that. The o2 level was just implemented and will need to be improved to actually be accurate (possibly constructing straps with a reflective surface on the band opposite of the sensor so the beams can be reflected back to the watch. I read that the reason the watch isn't as accurate is because finger tip sensors clip around the finger so the beam can go through the finger and reflects back to the sensor which gives a much more accurate reading. Using the wrist is problematic considering how thick it is and nothing to reflect the beams back to the watch.. I personally have never had a reading below 98% which is consistent with my finger tip dedicated o2 sensor but, I've also had times when it couldn't get a reading.. I've noticed all the sensors work best if the band isn't too loose
 
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