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The biggest thing folks I know like about watches on both the Apple and Android side of thing are notifications. I recently got a fitbit and found I wear it in
by JohnTHaller 9y ago
The biggest thing folks I know like about watches on both the Apple and Android side of thing are notifications. I recently got a fitbit and found I wear it in place of my Android watch now. It's purpose-built for fitness monitoring and does a better job at that than Apple/Android have ever done. And it handles notifications. It lasts days on a battery charge and is lighter weight on my wrist. And it's much much cheaper. Plus, if you ever decide to switch to Android, you can keep using your fitbit.
Yes, things turn by turn walking directions on a smartwatch are kinda neat the first time you try them, but the novelty wears off and glancing at your phone twice on a long walk is no bother. But I stopped using pretty much any watch functionality except notifications within a month.
Side note: I'm not sure how well iOS notifications work on fitbit. Apple is notorious for locking out competitors (even going so far as to prohibit mentions of fitbit hardware integration in app descriptions on the app store) and it wouldn't surprise me if this affects fitbit functionality with iOS phones.
- dionidium 9y ago>"The biggest thing folks I know like about watches on both the Apple and Android side of thing are notifications." I think this is exactly right. Notifications are annoying and the watch reduces the effort required to see and dismiss them. However, I recently solved this problem another way; I turned off notifications (excluding messages and a few other very context-specific apps). This turns out to be the best way to deal with annoying notifications. Just turn them off.
- marksomnian 9y agoSince getting my Fitbit I've taken a middle ground - turn them off on my phone, and let only priority apps to my watch. Things I care about I get on my watch, things I don't can wait.
- tomelders 9y agoIt also makes me look like I'm bored of the people I'm talking to when I keep looking at my watch while they're telling me something.
- dpkonofa 9y agoI highly doubt that. I've had several FitBit devices and the Apple Watch essentially killed all of them. The number of fitness-related things the Apple Watch can track is significantly higher than the FitBit and I can also make calls and do other things on it that I can't do on the FitBit. On top of that, every single one of the 10+ FitBits I had was destroyed within 14 months (2 in as little as 3 months) and, although a few of them were covered and replaced under warranty, none of them, even cumulatively, have lasted as long as my Apple Watch. I bought the Series 0 and got the Series 2 as a gift. I'm definitely buying the Series 3 and have vowed never to buy a FitBit again. I'm actually surprised to hear that your FitBit experience is more positive than either the Apple/Android devices and especially so since every person I personally know with a FitBit has had the same poor quality experience. I know that's anecdotal, but I literally don't know a single person that has had a positive long-term experience with FitBit products.
- Axsuul 9y agoI have had the same experience with my Fitbits. I've owned many different models and they've been replaced many times while still in the warranty period. I have to give it to Fitbit for their excellent customer service but seriously, if I never have to send in my kaputt Fitbit during an RMA process, it's pretty obvious that they must cost peanuts to manufacture.
- randycupertino 9y agoimo the only thing Fitbit does better than apple watch is the sleep tracking.
- zimpenfish 9y agoI'm finding that Autosleep does a pretty good job of that - gets my sleep patterns right about 95% of the time without any help. Pretty much matches what I get from SleepCycle on the phone. http://autosleep.tantsissa.com/ http://autosleep.tantsissa.com/
- randycupertino 9y ago