I get you don’t like Apple Watches, but you only damage your case by making utterly farcical statements like that.
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Well, bands aside, other smartwatches are simply not going to be able to get the same degree of integration with your iphone. Blame Apple all you want for not opening up more functionality to third part watch makers, but that’s the reality facing consumers today.
So the question isn’t which has more functionality, but which has more functionality for an iphone user, because people get a smartphone first, then consider which wearable to complement it. Not the other way around.
And yes, the reality is that Apple owns the best customers thanks to the iphone, and it is these people who gladly pay a premium for apple watches and multiple watch bands. Which other wearables manufacturer is able to build up the formidable watch band market that Apple has?
Battery life lasts all day, so it’s not a dealbreaker for someone who charges it daily alongside his iphone.
So here’s what I am currently doing with my Apple Watch.
Siri, Apple Pay, notifications, use shortcuts to manage music playback, siri watch face to view my daily calendar, view my passwords (1password widget), check my bus arrival timings (a bus app).
So yeah, the Apple Watch is the most useful wearable for an iphone user. I don’t think that’s a controversial statement at all.
Samsung watch has everything AW does plus blood pressure monitor and it can assess body composition using a process called bioelectric impedance analysis (BIA). These are the features that AW is expected to get in the next few years.
How do you get blood pressure on your Samsung health app and do it on watch pro 5?
How do you get blood pressure on your Samsung health app and do it on watch pro 5?
I'll stick with my trust old sphygmomanometer. At least it doesn't have to be calibrated every 4 weeks.
Well, Samsung phones have more features than iPhones and so do their watches. So, the feature gap between these pairs of devices is even bigger than just between the watches. It sounds like buying an iPhone was your first mistake which you aggravated by then buying an AW. That's what they call throwing good money after bad.
Popularity arguments of which smart watch is better is never going to have a mutual agreement with others on the Internet. It’s how it is.
I prefer to work off realistic data (Not flow chart projections that can and will change), that I use in what I see in actual person. And being that I am very much involved into ‘tech’, I do pay attention to what consumers are carrying with them, wearables and what phones they use, etc.
And I can tell you living in a populated city, (one of the largest in the U.S), I’ve rarely, almost never, come across somebody wearing a Samsung watch. It’s always the Apple Watch or Fitbit. The last time I probably somebody wearing anything Samsung on the wrist, was like two years ago in a Verizon store.
The iPhone is so popular, it makes it nearly impossible to want to have another option other than the Apple Watch. So that’s one reason why it’s dominant and then when you add in Apples marketing, [which is virtually everywhere for the Apple Watch], you can’t miss it. Plus, Apple really broadened the scope when they introduced the cheaper version of the Apple Watch years back.
Where I think Samsung fails, is poor marketing, their kiosk stores are poorly misplaced and are not used resourcefully, and their watches just look comically large in person, where as the Apple Watch, has a much sleeker appeal.
I prefer to work off realistic data (Not flow chart projections that can and will change), that I use in what I see in actual person. And being that I am very much involved into ‘tech’, I do pay attention to what consumers are carrying with them, wearables and what phones they use, etc.
And I can tell you living in a populated city, (one of the largest in the U.S), I’ve rarely, almost never, come across somebody wearing a Samsung watch. It’s always the Apple Watch or Fitbit. The last time I probably somebody wearing anything Samsung on the wrist, was like two years ago in a Verizon store.
The iPhone is so popular, it makes it nearly impossible to want to have another option other than the Apple Watch. So that’s one reason why it’s dominant and then when you add in Apples marketing, [which is virtually everywhere for the Apple Watch], you can’t miss it. Plus, Apple really broadened the scope when they introduced the cheaper version of the Apple Watch years back.
Where I think Samsung fails, is poor marketing, their kiosk stores are poorly misplaced and are not used resourcefully, and their watches just look comically large in person, where as the Apple Watch, has a much sleeker appeal.
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This post is about GW2. The latest model is GW4. That said, personally I find most of smart watch features to be redundant. The phones can do most of it much better. HR monitoring is an exception and that’s the only thing I use a smart watch for (and only during exercise).How do you get blood pressure on your Samsung health app and do it on watch pro 5?
How do you get blood pressure on your Samsung health app and do it on watch pro 5?us.community.samsung.com
I'll stick with my trust old sphygmomanometer. At least it doesn't have to be calibrated every 4 weeks.
Trust me - going-all in on the Apple ecosystem was probably the best tech-related decision I made back in 2011, it’s worked great for my teaching career, I haven’t looked back since, and you can’t pay me enough to switch.
And I guess that’s the differences between an iphone user and an android phone user. I simply don’t think about the competition at all. It doesn’t matter how many additional features you can list about the latest Samsung phone on paper. I literally don’t care.
Conversely, it just feels to me (often) like samsung fans can’t sleep at night if they don’t go a day without trying to lord their device’s supposed superiority over the iphone.
And that, IMO, is just sad.