I love it when people on here call it a niche product or something similar.
I wasn't sure about getting one initially but I absolutely love mine. Apple Pay with an Apple Watch is so convenient.
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Apple Watch Was Number One Smart Watch in Q2 2019 With an Estimated 5.7M Units Shipped
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I love it when people on here call it a niche product or something similar.
I wasn't sure about getting one initially but I absolutely love mine. Apple Pay with an Apple Watch is so convenient.
I've never seen an iWatch, but I've seen quite a lot of people wearing Apple Watches. There are many millions out there, not 7. You say it would be actually useful if it was round, but you admit rectangular is more functional? I'm not sure if you know how the words useful and functional relate to each other. "No one cares about health" sounds a lot like you projecting your opinion on everyone else - clearly, quite a lot of people care about health. I haven't heard Apple shoving health in your face or shaming you. If you feel threatened by seeing an ad somewhere, that's on you.
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Oooh, please tell us, what do the adults use?
pretty happy with the 4, would like them to make it more efficient to last more than 24 hour without charge, some apps do lag here and there, but other then that no complains.
Sigh. You've been a forum member long enough to know that shipped and sold in the context it's being used, mean the exact same thing. Shipped means everything since that's when the vast majority of Apple's products are considered sold to their customers - retailers who sell their products to consumers. The only way to possibly gauge sold to consumer is to get numbers from retailers where most of the product is sold.
More importantly, these are only estimates from a market research firm. None of it means anything.
Yeah, I want to get an Apple Watch, but the thing I need out of a smartwatch more than anything else is sleep tracking and that's hard to do when you're expected to charge it at night. The day Apple gets to 2+ days on a charge, I'll be in line for one of them. Until then, I've got to find a more suitable device.
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Garmins or Apple Watch?
Yeah, the Garmins are ugly as are many of the Fitbits, but I've never been part of the GAF club.
Me neither. The iWatch fundraising campaign failed and OMG Electronics never made any.
On the other hand, unsurprising from these data, I see Apple Watches everywhere.
How do they define "smart watch"?
It that a device that cost over $200 or allows apps or is larger than 30mm?
I'm really pleased with my Samsung Galaxy Fit and it even has a clock.
Walmart has a good price and battery life is great.
I just looked it up and it's a nice device. Very slim and trim. But from what I saw the Apple Watch has much more in the way of features that suit me. Alerts for one. I don't have to take out my phone when I get a text or email.
The Samsung Galaxy Fit tracks sleep. I wear it while sleeping. Only need to charged every 6-8 days. Less than $90 at Walmart. Samsung health app is pretty good too with all kinds of information and trends.
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Notifications appear on the Fit with text, calls appear as well with the ability to hang up an incoming call from my iPhone.
Thanks for the rec. I'll have to give that a consideration if the Apple Watch still doesn't have acceptable battery life when my FitBit Blaze kicks the bucket.
Two more MR “members” I get to ignore because they don’t contribute anything intelligent. You guys are making this too easy. The best part is that I won’t see their response!
Not a hater...but the Apple Watch just has no compelling reason for me right now:
I love:
I think in the near future we will have something we can wrap around our wrist and monitor (accurately) over a dozen health features and be able to a)transmit that easily to our doctor and b)be able to easily and quickly download the data and summary/pretty pie charts/history for me and my doctor (and an EMT if I'm being carted away in an ambulance and they want to know what my body was doing the previous 20 hours) to make informed decisions.
- $400+
- Tied to my iPhone
- Poor battery life
I love:
- Cool watch faces
- text alerts and missed calls
- nice looking watch (but even that depends on what you pay for)
- Current and likely upcoming health detection features
I think in the near future we will have something we can wrap around our wrist and monitor (accurately) over a dozen health features and be able to a)transmit that easily to our doctor and b)be able to easily and quickly download the data and summary/pretty pie charts/history for me and my doctor (and an EMT if I'm being carted away in an ambulance and they want to know what my body was doing the previous 20 hours) to make informed decisions.
I see Apple Watches them all the time. And no, round display is not more useful. Old watches were round because they had gears. Square display is far more functional and quite honestly, a nice change from round watches.
Yes, there are too many fat people in the US. But there are also millions and millions of very health conscious citizens.
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It will happen as soon as the Apple Card is not iPhone dependent.
Which makes zero sense, when you consider that the purpose of the Apple Card is to juice the usage of Apple Pay and the revenue which Apple collects from it.
I sleep track everyday with my watch. I just pop it into the charger for an hour or so while I shower etc. The battery charges very quickly and battery life is good enough to last me 24h even without a full charge. If the only reason you’re holding off from getting it is because of sleep tracking, I’d say go for it.
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According to Tim Cook. I don’t trust a word he says. Fact is, Apple doesn’t quote real numbers with the iWatch. Because, as I predicted back in 2014, the iWatch is a failure very much like 2013 Mac Pro, iMac Pro, 12-inch MacBook, MacBook Pro with Butterfly keyboard/Touch Bar, iPod (do NOT argue with me on this, the iPod is no longer sold and is canceled, I am right, YOU ARE WRONG), the G4 Cube, Hockey Puck Mouse, HomePod, and AirPods (they look like goddamn Q-tips sticking out of your ear, you look ridiculous, have some dignity). That’s my opinion, of course. But I think I have very good reasons to be skeptical of how successful the iWatch is, because, to me, it’s a gimmick. It’s UGLY first of all. Battery life sucks. It’s EXPENSIVE. It FAILED as a fashion product and then had to be positioned as a “healthstyle” device. News flash, no one cares about health, and frankly, health is not a priority in life. How about POWERFUL GPUs, Apple? How about upgradeable RAM, Apple? Forget this health nonsense. And it’ll be obsolete in a couple of years. I see through Tim Cook’s crap. The iWatch is another $1000 Apple device users are forced to upgrade along with a $1500 iPhone. That’s $2500 every year an Apple user has to pony up yearly to keep up with the latest and greatest.
Suddenly now there’s an goddamn Apple credit card. Hmm. Yeah, that’s not a coincidence.
I turn my watch off when I sleep and I can go over two days without having to charge it. It also charges so fast like you said.
I thought it was going to take off. And it did. And now that the internals are speedy Apple stops making the ceramic version damn it.
I wear my Apple Watch Series 4 to bed every night. Its battery lasts 2 days for me, easy. I wore it all weekend to a wedding a few weeks ago and forgot my charger. Used it for directions to and from the venue (3 hours each way) and it still had power when I got home.
I don't know how long ago you heard battery life on the Apple Watch was poor, but you have old information.