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Apple Watch and Bluetooth headphones works nicely. Also does distance tracking etc.

rock_hard 6y ago
Doesn’t work so well for water sports though :( I use mine for kitesurfing...gotta order a couple more to have spares now
- ricw 6y ago
  It does. Water sports are supported since last years watch 5 release.
josho 6y ago
And trades out a $100 device for what $1000 worth of gadgets?
- brantonb 6y ago
  Apple Watch SE: $279 AirPods: $159 Total: $438 I’m sure there are cheaper headphone options available. You might already own some, even.
- freehunter 6y ago
  The Apple Watch Series 3 costs the same as an iPod Nano when it was new. They're literally directly comparable in price.
- tokamak-teapot 6y ago
  My iPod nano died a long while back. I bought a watch series 3 from Apple because I didn’t need the features of the newer models. I kept my wired Sennheiser running headphones and bought a Bluetooth adapter with inbuilt battery that clips to their headband. Considering how much these gadgets are helping me with health and fitness I’d say they are a bargain.
FreakyT 6y ago
Exactly! If you have your own local songs, you can easily load playlists/albums/etc onto an Apple Watch just like you could with an iPod. I've found it's really useful for listening to music while focusing on a task.
- ericlewis 6y ago
  if you have a cellular watch then you can just stream from Apple Music!
  - qubex 6y ago
    That “complicate everything” attitude involving several extra items of hardware (Apple Watch, AirPods, and of course an iPhone to configure the watch) and at least a couple services (phone provider, Apple Music or Spotify) is frankly distressing. I have all of the above (iPhone 11 Pro, Apple Watch 6, AirPods Pro) and yet I still rely on my colour-coded last-generation iPod Shuffles when I want to just pop in a pair of earphones and have some favourite tunes that suit whatever mood I’m in (or want to put myself into). Why on earth should one have to spend so much money to achieve the same result (and forgo the elegance of simplicity in the process)?
    - learc83 6y ago
      You can buy a cheap MP3 player for $5 as long as you don’t mind loading it up manually.
    - mikestew 6y ago
      To each their own way to solve the problem, but I do not consider a handful of color-coded Shuffles to be less complicated than playlists on a single device. Especially when one goes to grab that black Emo Shuffle only to find that you forgot to charge it. How apropos.
lsllc 6y ago
I don't know about you, but my AirPods have been a total nightmare. Routinely won't wake up, routinely don't charge; often when I go for a run one of them is dead or at 10% charge. I now have a routine where I insert/remove/insert/remove/insert/remove and watch the led to make sure it blinks -- it makes it better, but it's not foolproof. And don't get me started on the iWatch, it crashes at the same point on my run about 50% of the time. Now when I say same point, I mean same geographical location. Doesn't matter if I run directly there (it's about 1 mile from home), or if I do a 5 mile loop first. Always roughly the same place (within 200 yards). I should go and look up the coordinates, maybe there's something odd about the numbers. Anyway, switched back to iPhone, wired earphones and armband holder -- much better (and now I can take pictures of the woods when I see something interesting!).
- xnyan 6y ago
  I don't know if this applies to you, but I've purchased multiple pairs of airpods and airpods pro (only ever lost one bud) and I've gotten 1 very professional counterfeit (sold at a major US retailer, looked perfect) and one bad set from the factory. Both had the problems you are mentioning - terrible battery life, terrible pairing and connection. I was able to return both of them (convincing the retailer that I had not swapped out a counterfeit set of airpods and was trying to return them was tricky), no problems anymore.
  - lsllc 6y ago
    Mine were a gift, so I don't know where they came from. You might be on to something, thanks!

Doesn’t work so well for water sports though :( I use mine for kitesurfing...gotta order a couple more to have spares now

ricw 6y ago
It does. Water sports are supported since last years watch 5 release.

josho 6y ago

And trades out a $100 device for what $1000 worth of gadgets?

brantonb 6y ago
Apple Watch SE: $279 AirPods: $159 Total: $438 I’m sure there are cheaper headphone options available. You might already own some, even.
freehunter 6y ago
The Apple Watch Series 3 costs the same as an iPod Nano when it was new. They're literally directly comparable in price.
tokamak-teapot 6y ago
My iPod nano died a long while back. I bought a watch series 3 from Apple because I didn’t need the features of the newer models. I kept my wired Sennheiser running headphones and bought a Bluetooth adapter with inbuilt battery that clips to their headband. Considering how much these gadgets are helping me with health and fitness I’d say they are a bargain.

FreakyT 6y ago

Exactly! If you have your own local songs, you can easily load playlists/albums/etc onto an Apple Watch just like you could with an iPod. I've found it's really useful for listening to music while focusing on a task.

ericlewis 6y ago
if you have a cellular watch then you can just stream from Apple Music!
- qubex 6y ago
  That “complicate everything” attitude involving several extra items of hardware (Apple Watch, AirPods, and of course an iPhone to configure the watch) and at least a couple services (phone provider, Apple Music or Spotify) is frankly distressing. I have all of the above (iPhone 11 Pro, Apple Watch 6, AirPods Pro) and yet I still rely on my colour-coded last-generation iPod Shuffles when I want to just pop in a pair of earphones and have some favourite tunes that suit whatever mood I’m in (or want to put myself into). Why on earth should one have to spend so much money to achieve the same result (and forgo the elegance of simplicity in the process)?
  - learc83 6y ago
    You can buy a cheap MP3 player for $5 as long as you don’t mind loading it up manually.
  - mikestew 6y ago
    To each their own way to solve the problem, but I do not consider a handful of color-coded Shuffles to be less complicated than playlists on a single device. Especially when one goes to grab that black Emo Shuffle only to find that you forgot to charge it. How apropos.

lsllc 6y ago

I don't know about you, but my AirPods have been a total nightmare. Routinely won't wake up, routinely don't charge; often when I go for a run one of them is dead or at 10% charge. I now have a routine where I insert/remove/insert/remove/insert/remove and watch the led to make sure it blinks -- it makes it better, but it's not foolproof. And don't get me started on the iWatch, it crashes at the same point on my run about 50% of the time. Now when I say same point, I mean same geographical location. Doesn't matter if I run directly there (it's about 1 mile from home), or if I do a 5 mile loop first. Always roughly the same place (within 200 yards). I should go and look up the coordinates, maybe there's something odd about the numbers. Anyway, switched back to iPhone, wired earphones and armband holder -- much better (and now I can take pictures of the woods when I see something interesting!).

xnyan 6y ago
I don't know if this applies to you, but I've purchased multiple pairs of airpods and airpods pro (only ever lost one bud) and I've gotten 1 very professional counterfeit (sold at a major US retailer, looked perfect) and one bad set from the factory. Both had the problems you are mentioning - terrible battery life, terrible pairing and connection. I was able to return both of them (convincing the retailer that I had not swapped out a counterfeit set of airpods and was trying to return them was tricky), no problems anymore.
- lsllc 6y ago
  Mine were a gift, so I don't know where they came from. You might be on to something, thanks!