> Apple Watch was, for my purposes, inferior to the Peak in several ways... it had no HR monitor... Every single model of Apple Watch since launch has shipped

> Apple Watch was, for my purposes, inferior to the Peak in several ways... it had no HR monitor... Every single model of Apple Watch since launch has shipped with the same optical HR measurement system (IIRC teardowns of gen 2 confirm this), working on largely the same principle as the optical system on the Peak watch.