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By oneself, perhaps, yes.
My sister in law and her husband both have one and they play it synced up using share play:

My wife and I like very different shows but my friend and I would shareplay board games and stuff.

As someone who was used them too, the Apple Watch can’t even do what a Fitbit armband could 6 years ago.
Would it have killed you to list out the features?
 
My sister in law and her husband both have one and they play it synced up using share play:

My wife and I like very different shows but my friend and I would shareplay board games and stuff.


Would it have killed you to list out the features?
Sure, I give you one. The Fitbit armband can since like a decade, track your sleep automatically. With the Apple Watch you need to actually put a sleep schedule lmao, otherwise it won’t track it. And what happens if you fall asleep outside of the manual schedule? Nothing, it doesn’t compute. That’s costing 10x more by the way.
 
Sure, I give you one. The Fitbit armband can since like a decade, track your sleep automatically. With the Apple Watch you need to actually put a sleep schedule lmao, otherwise it won’t track it. And what happens if you fall asleep outside of the manual schedule? Nothing, it doesn’t compute. That’s costing 10x more by the way.
The biggest difference is that the Apple Watch has an App Store with third party apps. If you want to track your sleep automatically all you have to do is get AutoSleep. I work out 6 days a week and I have yet to find a real serious alternative for an Apple Watch if you want an all rounded tracker. Like a Garmin is great for running, but it’s awful at weightlifting. With the Apple Watch I have a smartwatch that’s decent at pretty much everything. I guess if you only do one type of exercise (or god forbid none, why did you even buy one of these in the first place) I can see how the AW may be seen as lacking. But almost all of its shortcomings are fixed with a few third party apps.

Also just because the Fitbit tells you that it tracked your sleep doesn’t mean that it is more accurate. The reason for the schedule is to ensure accuracy. If you just want it tracked, fine, but I’d rather have it tracked as accurately as possible because otherwise it’s more useless data (than it already was in the first place).
 
Ok ... I'd consider that a pretty serious outlier situation, but fair enough

I don't have a strong desire to sit right next to a spouse, but be in my own "headset synced up with SharePlay".

To each our own I guess.
Oh 100%, although I have sat next to my wife while she watches her shows on the TV and I watch mine on the AVP.

well midnight cables would certainly hide the way the white ones turn green over time lol.
The AVP ones are the fabric weaved ones, if anything they turn gray from dirt lol.

Sure, I give you one. The Fitbit armband can since like a decade, track your sleep automatically. With the Apple Watch you need to actually put a sleep schedule lmao, otherwise it won’t track it. And what happens if you fall asleep outside of the manual schedule? Nothing, it doesn’t compute. That’s costing 10x more by the way.
Yes the Fitbit is better at sleep tracking (thanks in part to the battery life being better), but you don't have to schedule it just tap the sleep focus. The 10x cost difference is nonsense. They are roughly the same price for the watch versions and $100 more expensive than the tracker armband. The Apple watch has one sleep advantage: the ability to track sleep apnea, which is something I have and therefore is super handy to make sure my CPAP is working perfect.
it's a private device. I watch all my tv in my home with it.
Yea I only use mine in my home office you wouldnt want to walk around with it.
 
The first iPhone sucked and so did the first watch and the first iPad. Through proper iteration and improvements they became best in class.
Huh? The first iPhone was revolutionary. It wouldn't have survived and conquered the market if it had "sucked". Did it get better? Yes, for a while. The last great iPhone was the 5. Starting with the 6, the iPhone began a downhill slide that has only accelerated.
 
Lemme guess: the cable will authenticate on-the-fly with your Paypal or Apple Pay account to deliver "premium content at a reasonable price" !?
 
Huh? The first iPhone was revolutionary. It wouldn't have survived and conquered the market if it had "sucked". Did it get better? Yes, for a while. The last great iPhone was the 5. Starting with the 6, the iPhone began a downhill slide that has only accelerated.
Not really. There were better smart phones on the market that had 3G, COPY AND PASTE, ability to load apps. Where Apple won in the end is the polish and overall experience. It had a glass touch screen, it was very intuitive but features wise it was a horrible device and holy hell was it expensive, $599 WITH a 2 year contract (that was also super expensive) via cellular which turned into AT&T.

Ironically my first iPhone was the 6 Plus or max (the biggest one). I am 6'6" with gigantic hands and iphones were always super tiny. Before that I was a Windows Phone guy which was the best OS period but unfortunately Microsoft took way too long to actually make a good phone OS and by the time they did they botched everything as usual.
 
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Not really. There were better smart phones on the market that had 3G, COPY AND PASTE, ability to load apps. Where Apple won in the end is the polish and overall experience. It had a glass touch screen, it was very intuitive but features wise it was a horrible device and holy hell was it expensive, $599 WITH a 2 year contract (that was also super expensive) via cellular which turned into AT&T.

Ironically my first iPhone was the 6 Plus or max (the biggest one). I am 6'6" with gigantic hands and iphones were always super tiny. Before that I was a Windows Phone guy which was the best OS period but unfortunately Microsoft took way too long to actually make a good phone OS and by the time they did they botched everything as usual.
Actually, the original iPhone was only sold WITHOUT a contract (i.e. - no subsidy). Although, since AT&T was the exclusive carrier, it did require users to be on AT&T/Cingular. Jobs talked about that in his launch presentation. His plan was for phones to only be sold without subsidies. Apple later relented on that when people didn't like seeing the full price of a phone up front.
 
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Wait, after switching just about all of their products to USB-C Apple will go back to a proprietary “Lightning 2”? Not happening, IMO.
 
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