I really don't see this as a serious concern. I think Apple has a strong market share and it will continue to increase barring some kind of big Apple screw up.
I don't wear my AW to bed, I put it on the charger for convenience. Considering all that it does, it is amazing that it is as small as it is. I do not consider to have 'poor' battery life. I put it on at 6am and take it off at 10 or 11. Never had battery run done during use.Two things I really wanted to buy from Apple but didn't:
Apple Watch: poor battery life. Now I'm wearing a sport band which only needs to be charged twice a month
Homepod: poor connectivity.
Maybe it's because I'm not trying to lose weight, but that really is pretty useless to me.Because BPM is one of the most important elements to calculate calorie burn (together with accelerometers etc.), and is important to calculate the differential between BMR and active state. In addition to some element (exercise selection, input of body weight etc.) the calculation is more precise.
lolTo each their own, but I rather charge my watch every night with my iPhone, rather than getting to the middle of the month and having to charge it all day because I forgot to charge it. Until we get to year long battery life, once per day works for me.
I never take off my band, so that it also tracks my sleep quality and can wake me up in the morning silently.I don't wear my AW to bed, I put it on the charger for convenience. Considering all that it does, it is amazing that it is as small as it is. I do not consider to have 'poor' battery life. I put it on at 6am and take it off at 10 or 11. Never had battery run done during use.
My HomePod connects all the time. Yours may not be receiving a strong enough signal, remember, wireless signals diminish with the square of the distance.
DUH. Obviously, you are dead. Or maybe undead, although that’s pretty rare… have you accepted a ring of power from someone sketchy, recently?Never had this problem with one notable exception: sometimes when I run, the first 5 minutes have no BPM... can't figure out why.
nope - because you're used to a phone being tethered to a daily charging cable. Not a watch.And the daily charging on your iPhone doesn't?
Really. I never saw that touted anywhere. My Series 2 has no trouble lasting 23+ hours on a full charge, but it doesn't reach full charge in sub-one hour charge times. So if I charge it during the day instead of overnight, I end up forgetting about it. My dream scenario would be a watch that could charge while I showered and lasted until that same time next day.I have a series 4, and I'm easily getting 23hr/1hr life. My wife's series 5 with the always-on display struggles a bit to make it all day.
I'd actually like the opposite. I keep all the health monitoring stuff disabled on mine. I use it for all the notifications, quick replies, easy timers, setting reminders (though that stopped working over a year ago), and recording outside walks/jogs (the time, pace, and course stuff, not heartbeats and whatever else the skinside sensor does).Also seems like they could skip some of the "smart" features, focus on a purely health tracking device and get a 5 day battery life. Why not make that option Apple?
The newest Mi Band 6 plus has an edge-to-edge screen (without notch🙃), support notifications, NFC tags, instants pay, smart home integration (MiHome), speech assistant, find your phones. 2 weeks battery life. only charges you 40 bucks.Take into account this category includes $50 sports bands, like the Mi Band and the AmazFit Band, so, take “marketshare” by units sold with a grain of salt.
The newest Mi Band 6 plus has an edge-to-edge screen (without notch🙃), support notifications, NFC tags, instants pay, smart home integration (MiHome), speech assistant, find your phones. 2 weeks battery life. only charges you 40 bucks.
It is a qualified competitor, as far as the trend is not to wear an AppleWatch *plus* a MiBand
I got a Series 5 and turned the "always on" part of the display off in favor of longer battery life.Think the difference is the "always on display" difference between WATCH 4 vs WATCH 5 than the differences between WATCH 5 and WATCH 6.
The thing I’ve done with the Watch charger is to get a USB-C version, then I only bring one of my 20W USB-C bricks and can charge my iPhone (12 Pro Max), iPad Pro and my Watch. The watch takes the least amount of time, so it’s easy to charge it first thing in the morning, which is what I typically do even when I’m home. My 5 lasts me about 30 hours normally, but I don’t use the always-on feature, so that helps extend its usable time.nope - because you're used to a phone being tethered to a daily charging cable. Not a watch.
Maybe I'm old school but I like a watch that sits quietly on the wrist needing minimal interaction. But I also like the health tracking benefits of wearing a modern device 24x7. Conflicted, I know.
I also dont like being able to go on a long weekend without needing yet another charging cable to keep track of. If they made the watch and iPhone compatible with the same charger, it might change things. Also seems like they could skip some of the "smart" features, focus on a purely health tracking device and get a 5 day battery life. Why not make that option Apple?
Six years after releasing the Apple Watch, it’s still not clear who is going to represent genuine competition for Apple in the wearables space. Apple’s success in wearables is finally being noticed by others, as seen by the growing number of companies selling products for the body (Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, Garmin, and the list goes on). However, none are in as strong of a position as Apple was in a few years ago, let alone today. Apple’s wearables lead stands to grow further once the company enters face wearables. The next few years will likely dictate the power structure in wearables for the next 10 to 20 years. When it comes to competitors figuring out a way to slow Apple in wearables, it’s now or never.
yeah, I should probably try this. Or just charge it at night and skip sleep tracking. I’ve walked out of the house in the A.M. too many times w/o the watch because i forgot it on the charger.The thing I’ve done with the Watch charger is to get a USB-C version, then I only bring one of my 20W USB-C bricks and can charge my iPhone (12 Pro Max), iPad Pro and my Watch.
Kinetic or solar charging would be cool. Doesnt seem to make that much of a difference on the Garmin w/ solar but an extra day would be worth it. Currently I can get ~36 hrs on my AW6 with AoD and lots of notifications / iPhone mirroring off. Not bad, but not enough for a camping weekend.Smart features are the things that set the Watch apart from the competition - no way they’re going to give things up to get to a 5 day battery life. Chances are much greater that they’ll improve the efficiency of the chips used, the screen, battery, etc. in order to get to maybe 48 hour battery life. There just isn’t a great reason to push to more than that, given most people are accepting of charging their phones every night, so doing the same with a Watch isn’t a big ask.
If anything, I would love to see Apple create a hybrid mechanical (automatic) Watch that provides some battery charging ability to extend the usage time. But that’s just because I love my Seiko Automatic watch, specifically because of its ability to go for weeks at a time before needing to be ”charged” (spun or worn).
That’s pretty awesome. Both points are good use cases.I don’t carry my iPhone everywhere! Answering and making phone calls and notifications for email and iMessage make my Apple Watch indespensible! And the fitness apps work! I’ve lost 45 lbs since I got my aw5! Don’t think a fitness band can top it!
A sport band is not even remotely the same as an Apple Watch other than it has a band.Two things I really wanted to buy from Apple but didn't:
Apple Watch: poor battery life. Now I'm wearing a sport band which only needs to be charged twice a month
Homepod: poor connectivity.
You always make the same nonsensical statement. With Apple having less than 30% market share and that includes a huge number of Air Pods, of course there is a smartwatch market.I wouldn’t call the rest competitors, any more than I consider a fire tablet an iPad competitor. Apple probably faces more ”competition” from older generations of their products than anywhere else in the market.
In the end, there is no smartwatch market, only an apple watch market.
It's a sentiment echoed by a number of analysts as well.You always make the same nonsensical statement. With Apple having less than 30% market share and that includes a huge number of Air Pods, of course there is a smartwatch market.
The smaller the device, the more integration matters, and nobody does it better than Apple.This is one of those pieces of news that is shocking but not surprising; Samsung developed Tizen at the height of their tussle with Google over both smartphones (Tizen was originally meant to be a phone OS) and wearables. It turns out, though, that there isn’t much to tussle over when it comes to smartwatches, which is, for all intents and purposes, the Apple Watch market.