The only competition even close to Apple is Garmin, but their software is inconsistent and jaggy at times. The key advantage to the Apple Watch, isn't so much what it offers terms of capabilities (Which it does well), but the ease-of-use, band customization and overall fluidity makes it a welcomed transition for those who have never experienced the Apple Watch before.
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The only competition even close to Apple is Garmin, but their software is inconsistent and jaggy at times. The key advantage to the Apple Watch, isn't so much what it offers terms of capabilities (Which it does well), but the ease-of-use, band customization and overall fluidity makes it a welcomed transition for those who have never experienced the Apple Watch before.
When the option for a smartwatch is just so well integrated into the eco system, and not outrageously priced, then why not? The AppleWatch is just a great product.
Nope. My priority is it should have long enough battery to last the day without cutting features. Apple Watch can barely last a day and it doesn't even monitor your activity all the time.
Apple Watch does many things badly instead of doing a few things well. Surprisingly un-Apple design in that way. Truly a Tim product.
BTW here's Apple's own documentation where they admit they can't do continuous heart rate monitoring
Monitor your heart rate with Apple Watch - Apple Support
Learn how Apple Watch measures your heart rate.
I’d actually say that the iPhone is a very dominant smart phone amongst all the competitors, so what’s my point? The natural choice would be the Apple Watch for an iPhone user. We can list all the great features about the Apple Watch, [which has many], but it really comes down being the iPhone sets the precedent for the most obvious choice to be the Apple Watch by default. I’m not knocking the Apple Watch, I’m just simply pointing out that it only makes sense to choose the Apple Watch _if_ you have an iPhone.
Well, your Samsung Galaxy Watch Active is more of a crippled smartwatch. For Apple Watch, third party apps cover just about anything you really want to do with a watch that isn't already there. You cannot say the same for Galaxy Watch app support.
That's simply not true. I use my Apple Watch every single day and I have plenty of battery left over at the end of the day.
Apple Watch does many things badly instead of doing a few things well. Surprisingly un-Apple design in that way. Truly a Tim product.
BTW here's Apple's own documentation where they admit they can't do continuous heart rate monitoring
Monitor your heart rate with Apple Watch - Apple Support
Learn how Apple Watch measures your heart rate.support.apple.com
And here is a support document where you can enable high and low heart rate notifications:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208931
If you want to monitor your heart rate......open the Heart Rate app. Why is this hard?
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So where to start debunking this nonsense.Nope. My priority is it should have long enough battery to last the day without cutting features. Apple Watch can barely last a day and it doesn't even monitor your activity all the time.
Apple Watch does many things badly instead of doing a few things well. Surprisingly un-Apple design in that way. Truly a Tim product.
BTW here's Apple's own documentation where they admit they can't do continuous heart rate monitoring
Monitor your heart rate with Apple Watch - Apple Support
Learn how Apple Watch measures your heart rate.
1. the article you linked to specifically states heart rate is monitored continuously during exercise.
2. Other “smart watches” last longer Than the AW because as you said they are smart watches and not “crippled smartphones”, which are higher up on the totem pole.
3. making a blanket statement without any support is easy, so I’ll rephrase yours.
- Truly a Tim Cook product. Does most things well and a few things could use improvement.
This x1000. Garmin fans always like to compare the limited functions (and long battery life of 1-2 weeks) to the Apple Watch.
Garmin gets long battery life through polling - they get data at fixed time intervals instead of continuously. Apple doesn't do this (polling) so you can’t compare the battery life to a Garmin.
When you use everything at once on a Garmin battery life can go down to as low as 4.5HRS - about what the Apple Watch gets.
But if Garmin did more, had a better screen, would they still be able to get better battery life? Your supposition that Garmin engineers found some magic batteries is a little hard to grasp.
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huh? My Apple Watch Series 3 gets 2 days of battery life. OOHHHH! you mean it depends on how you use any device. Now I get it
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LOL. I get 2 days with my Apple Watch, for my typical use case, which means wearing it 24 hours a day, tracking heart rate, turn by turn directions, Playing music, getting weather, some messages, using the phone, oh. and - telling time. If I measured it doing a whole lot of things I don't do, I bet I would get less thoughNope. My priority is it should have long enough battery to last the day without cutting features. Apple Watch can barely last a day and it doesn't even monitor your activity all the time.
Apple Watch does many things badly instead of doing a few things well. Surprisingly un-Apple design in that way. Truly a Tim product.
BTW here's Apple's own documentation where they admit they can't do continuous heart rate monitoring
Monitor your heart rate with Apple Watch - Apple Support
Learn how Apple Watch measures your heart rate.
As anecdotal as they come. My son, ran in the NYC marathon with his Apple Watch.
Heart rate monitoring is only continuous if you enter a specific exercise routine. Which takes up maybe 1 hour of a day. The rest of the time the Apple Watch cuts back on monitoring otherwise it wouldn't even manage 8 hours of battery life.
A tool that's designed for its limited functions is better than a generic tool shoehorned into its place.
Similar to the Garmin?
Great aphorism, and this might illustrate why Apple wearables are the size of a Fortune 500 company. Somehow, some people believe a tool that Does everything great is better than a tool that does somethings ok.
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Android Wear is dead and Tizen (Samsung) is still missing a lot of Apps.
No wonder the Apple Watch sells far more than any other device.
No wonder the Apple Watch sells far more than any other device.
I don't need 3rd party apps. The only 3rd party content I'd need for a watch is faces, which of course Apple doesn't allow.
Apple Watch apps terrible unoptimised and limited experiences. Exactly the kind of thing Apple users would be criticising if they had an Android logo rather than an Apple one.
Likewise. But now it’s to the point where I don’t even see fitbits hardly anymore. I think the Apple Watch has reached a point where it’s affordable enough even for an older model like the Series 3 to be adopted by a first-time user. Even a Series 2 is still perfectly relevant for notifications/fitness, being they all really do the same thing.
Oh.....but somehow everyone *needs* continuous heart monitoring? I agree Apple should allow third party watch faces. But I wouldn't trade apps for faces.
Well, you are just talking down apps in general because third party support is so lacking on Samsung watches. So you are just as much in lockstep with the Android logo as you claim others are with the Apple logo.
And what apps specifically are you talking about that are so "unoptimized and limited"?
That comparison would work if Apple Watch was the cheapest watch on the market. It isn't and yet it is much more popular.
Best is subjective. That the revenues for apple in the wearables category are as big as a Fortune 500 company isn’t and AW is the most popular watch out there, isn’t up for debate either.
As those who purchase iPhones are often inclined to buy into the Apple ecosystem, a smartwatch (usually AW) is a likely progression. Android users to a greater extent just want a phone.
Garmin put all their efforts in runners and outdoor activities. While important, a niche market. Nike tried the same thing and failed. They were smart and partnered with Apple for the runners market. Thus, Apple plus Nike covers a much wider market. The Apple Watch has a design that fits in a broader fashion genre. Garmin has a big gap to fill.
That analogy best applies to Android as a whole, since the vast majority of devices sold are low-end junk.
