Focused meaning what. Fitness is part of lifestyle.
There is no hypocrisy as there is no one definition of “hardcore sports thing”.
No, I mean the central thing is being fashionable rather than having some particular purpose, like running or sailing.
I've been accused of comparing only the base apps. And that implicitly the Apple Watch is better because "apps". That makes no sense to me. Of course I compare the base apps because that's what I use, and Garmin's base apps (workout, maps, sleep monitoring, compass etc) are very good and often better compared to Apple's. We can pick one and we can share screenshots here and I will show you that you get more with Garmin.
But if you have some specific app in mind, something that Garmin doesn't do or does it poorly, I'd be curious to know. So far just someone mentioned flight tracking and 2FA use. I agree that I cannot use a Garmin for those purposes however I don't really understand why you're using a watch for those purposes to begin with, and what exactly is meant by for example "flight tracking".
The point of a watch is not to do everything the phone does, no matter how stupid or unwieldy the implementation (e.g. talking into your wrist). But to do what your phone cannot do (wear it while training or sleeping), cannot do easily and comfortably for long periods of time (navigation), or saving time with notification glances.
Yes you can use Siri on an Apple Watch to reply to text messages. What happens when Siri gets it wrong? Since this type of device is too small to meaningfully edit, how much time is lost on the failed scenarios? To me it makes more sense to answer texts in the actual phone, which is a simple and consistent operation, rather than the crapshoot of using a watch.
A couple of people commented on my dissing the Apple's choice of rectangular shape. While they're using mostly round analog watch faces in marketing materials!
To me, rectangular or square watches look odd/unusual and bad, in a Tag Monaco ugly way, and the bigger the watch, the worse a rectangular one looks.
A circle is actually the optimal shape for holding the largest area with the smallest perimeter. A watch is not a general purpose computer monitor worn on the wrist, just a tiny screen that displays info. And a round one will actually get you most screen for the size. The round perimeter makes the buttons easily accessible. Think of two buttons side by side on a flat edge compared to a curved edge - the latter you can more easily press and feel.
The fact that Apple's own marketing material favour the round analog look shows that they chose the wrong shape (because it's cheaper to produce and cheaper to make software for), and then, after making the choice, it shows their utter lack of imagination in designing good watch faces suitable for their poorly chosen screen. I think they'd better go with the Mickey Mouse one, it's clown fiesta anyway.
So yeah, this is a case of having your cake and eating it too; Garmin makes watches that actually look like watches, and in particular they have watches that look like men's watches, with the added bonus of having a highly functional and beautiful shape. Big plus.
