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Report: Over 100 Million People Globally Now Wear an Apple Watch
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Why do people feel the need to chime in with this sort of nonsense?
You need to use your watch to do the maths for you...it's less than 1.3% have owned a watch...I suspect that the 100M refers to all the watches sold, not all the ones in use today, so in reality probably much less than 1% are using an Apple watch today...as for the other 99% perhaps they have found a cheaper way of telling the time
For myself, an impactful difference in my life over the past year with change in how I've used it. I've had the S3 for three years. When I upgrade, it might better stomach the $600CAD the series 6 starts at here after tax, but the device is now something I never do without.
Before a year ago, I kind of liked using it... The convenience of seeing texts, weather, controlling volume of headphones and song from the watch. All of that is helpful, sure, but that hadn't really come across as a feature I'd really miss without. To answer what changed my preference for it... all comes down to applications connected to other hardware. With use of a continuous glucose meter, reading is sent to my phone via bluetooth every five minutes, conversely that reading is always displayed on my watch face. Trending low or high? Buzz on the wrist notification. Out of range? audible alarm from the watch. For someone trying to stay in between the lines with type 1 diabetes, convenience of seeing that reading readily, and correlating closing an activity ring once each day to more linear sugar levels has made a huge, huge difference in my control. On lab tests? No longer diabetic. Sure, five injections a day, and careful assessment of where I'm at 100 times a day, but the watch in combination of a CGM has been life altering.
Before a year ago, I kind of liked using it... The convenience of seeing texts, weather, controlling volume of headphones and song from the watch. All of that is helpful, sure, but that hadn't really come across as a feature I'd really miss without. To answer what changed my preference for it... all comes down to applications connected to other hardware. With use of a continuous glucose meter, reading is sent to my phone via bluetooth every five minutes, conversely that reading is always displayed on my watch face. Trending low or high? Buzz on the wrist notification. Out of range? audible alarm from the watch. For someone trying to stay in between the lines with type 1 diabetes, convenience of seeing that reading readily, and correlating closing an activity ring once each day to more linear sugar levels has made a huge, huge difference in my control. On lab tests? No longer diabetic. Sure, five injections a day, and careful assessment of where I'm at 100 times a day, but the watch in combination of a CGM has been life altering.
10% of worldwide iPhone users would use the watch? That feels like a wild overestimate. Take out all the people using older iPhones (they are probably not so interested in new/expensive tech), children who got their phone from the parents, etc..
But maybe he has other kind of comparisons to check it against.
But maybe he has other kind of comparisons to check it against.
Same here.
My wife was the first one to get the AW (Series 3). I gave it to her as a present, she wanted me to return it because she thought it was just an expensive toy. I asked her to try it just for a few days and now she can't live without it.
I recently got the SE, at the beginning of January 21. It's just incredible.
- I workout from 6 to 12 times a week, depending on the week, about 1 hour or 90 minutes per workout. The AW allows me to keep track of several metrics, from heart beat to calories, time, goals, etc.
- Very important: The calorie trackers allow me to regulate my food/caloric intake based on the activity level, which is fundamental for recovery, muscle growth, and general health. Due to its precision, I do not really have to estimate how many calories, proteins, carbs, fats I need to sustain my regular life and the exercise.
- I have a sedentary job. The stand reminder is somewhat silly but also very useful, esp. since I use it to remind me to stretch once in a while.
- Social media/news/phone addiction is virtually gone with my AW. I don't receive any notification on my AW with the exception of messages and phone calls. There is no social media or chat app on my AW. This allows me to be fully present and undistracted by leaving the phone in another room without having any fear of missing an important call or text.
- It allows me to evaluate my own hypocrisy thanks to the Remote app. In bullet 3 I talk about the stand notification, well, with the Remote app I can be a couch potato on my sofa and control the TV without even having to turn around to look for the remote. Sometimes total laziness is the best.
- Knowing the weather, time, date etc. in a second is quite nice (I use a face that shows several hours of weather and three apps at the bottom.
- Controlling music from my AW when I am at the gym is much better than doing it from my phone. Minor thing? yes, but in the aggregate it does a lot.
- At the end of the day, "closing the circles" is a nice atomic habit.
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Well, I guess it’s an opinion just like all the other opinions in the discussion...
I actually got rid of my Apple Watch before Christmas, I’d had it for about 9 months. I really just felt it was unnecessary. Yes, it was nice to know how I was improving in terms of exercise but if we were out on a relaxing family walk, I felt the urge to try and hurry everyone along so that I could ‘close my rings’. That didn’t go down too well with my wife and who could blame her. Ultimately, it just got to the point where it really bugged me, constantly going off even when I was in the shower.
I soon realised that I just don’t need that level of involvement in a device. Being connected is an advantage, but it can take over, if you let it.
I can’t imagine that anyone will be too interested, but I’ve gone back to a radio, solar G-Shock for working and I have a couple of dress watches I use if we go out. Going out however, has become a thing that we USED to do...
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention this in my post in this conversation. I am in the same place (sedentary job) and I like the stand part of the Activity ring.
Set the rings to 10 calories, 10 minutes of activity and you will ALWAYS win 😛
In all seriousness, I do see your point. Like any tool, it will work great for some, and it won't work for others.
Why take out older phones? I used two generations of the Watch with my 6s without issue.
When the original AW came out, I was hugely skeptical to say the least. I had a Fitbit (the Surge, I think) and I liked it a lot despite it being large and clunky and the OS on the original AW and lack of broader features just didn't appeal to me.
When Apple put out the Series 2 and upgraded Watch OS and made it more of a fitness device, I diched my Surge despite it being only a year old and have never looked back. My S2 was great for 4 years and this was the year I decided to upgrade to the S6 and I'm super happy.
The monthly fitness challenges keep me motivated (I'm a "badge" guy in terms of motivation - I need rewards.) The Fitness+ service has been super during the "work from home" part of COVID here.
And while it's primarily a fitness device to me, I do love being able to dictate texts, check messages, and take phone calls on my Watch. I took a call a few weeks ago on my watch with my wife in the room and she was amazed - she'd never seen that before. The S6 being so much faster than the S2 has helped me broaden it out as an apps device for me as well as a fitness device.
Super happy.
When Apple put out the Series 2 and upgraded Watch OS and made it more of a fitness device, I diched my Surge despite it being only a year old and have never looked back. My S2 was great for 4 years and this was the year I decided to upgrade to the S6 and I'm super happy.
The monthly fitness challenges keep me motivated (I'm a "badge" guy in terms of motivation - I need rewards.) The Fitness+ service has been super during the "work from home" part of COVID here.
And while it's primarily a fitness device to me, I do love being able to dictate texts, check messages, and take phone calls on my Watch. I took a call a few weeks ago on my watch with my wife in the room and she was amazed - she'd never seen that before. The S6 being so much faster than the S2 has helped me broaden it out as an apps device for me as well as a fitness device.
Super happy.
Not hard to understand at all. 44% of the world's population live in poverty on less than $5.50/day. And there are higher levels of poverty representing significant percentages. There are roughly 1 billion iPhones in use in the world. Considering one also needs to own an iPhone for a Watch to make sense, and that many people choose not to wear a watch, or use an Android phone (shocker), or prefer a cheap mechanical watch, I'd say Apple is doing pretty good.
This is coming from someone who used to never wear watches. Ever since I bought my first Apple Watch back when they were released in 2015, a day hasn't gone by that I haven't worn mine.
I love my Apple watch. I'm probably more attached to it than my phone which is why I made it a point to this year start wearing my mechanical watches again. I have a Rolex submariner I haven't worn in 1.5 years. I'm fanatical about closing my rings everyday and monthly challenges. I've decided not to fret them so much and rotate my watches. I almost forgot how nice my mechanicals are.
I got mine when the series 4 came out. SS Gold. It’s nice to have, it’s nice to have your healh, HR, EKG. Also to quickly send off a text when your phone is or next to you is great.
it’s not really necessary but once you stop using it you end up missing it.
it’s not really necessary but once you stop using it you end up missing it.
I think Clint Hurdle wore a mechanical chronograph and an Apple Watch when he managed the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The health features are key for their long term growth which could easily overtake the iPhone eventually. Heart rate/afib etc is nice. O2 is nice too. They are somewhat basic now, but will improve. Probably become something that is monitored nearly continuously. As things like "detecting coronavirus" (or other infection) "up to a week before a test" becomes more reliable, the watch will become indispensable.
With body temp measurements, blood sugar, blood pressure etc combined with the above, the ability to detect slight changes in health days, weeks, months, or even years before you'd have symptoms, a huge percentage of people will want them.
For example, suppose Steve Jobs had one, and his watch "noticed" that his blood sugar had climbed up an average of 10% between Jan 1999 and Dec 1999 and then another 10% between Jan 2000 and June 2000 and notified him. He went to see his doctor in July they discovered his pancreatic cancer 18 months earlier. All you need is a few people like that. (as far as pancreatic cancer goes, check out https://pancan.org). Fall detection of the elderly isn't bad now, but could be better.
There are so many ways that continuous (yet encrypted and privacy protected) health monitoring will improve people's health it is unbelievable. It will be like having a nurse monitoring you 24/7 who can detect innumerable conditions much earlier than they would otherwise be detected, all for $200-$300 every few years when you update your watch.
Health care is a huge part of Apple's future. Music, entertainment etc is important, but as everyone ages, monitoring their health becomes critical.
With body temp measurements, blood sugar, blood pressure etc combined with the above, the ability to detect slight changes in health days, weeks, months, or even years before you'd have symptoms, a huge percentage of people will want them.
For example, suppose Steve Jobs had one, and his watch "noticed" that his blood sugar had climbed up an average of 10% between Jan 1999 and Dec 1999 and then another 10% between Jan 2000 and June 2000 and notified him. He went to see his doctor in July they discovered his pancreatic cancer 18 months earlier. All you need is a few people like that. (as far as pancreatic cancer goes, check out https://pancan.org). Fall detection of the elderly isn't bad now, but could be better.
There are so many ways that continuous (yet encrypted and privacy protected) health monitoring will improve people's health it is unbelievable. It will be like having a nurse monitoring you 24/7 who can detect innumerable conditions much earlier than they would otherwise be detected, all for $200-$300 every few years when you update your watch.
Health care is a huge part of Apple's future. Music, entertainment etc is important, but as everyone ages, monitoring their health becomes critical.
I honestly think the AW is more of a reason to stick with Apple than the iPhone is. Lots of nice android phones can work well and do everything you need them to as Android increasingly closeses the gap to iOS, but there is no close subsititute for how well the AW does its job.
It's saved my life twice. I will always have one.
