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I hate to say it, but having an Apple Watch is a little bit like it was having a cell phone for the first time. It unloads a lot of mental tasks, and quickly fe

I hate to say it, but having an Apple Watch is a little bit like it was having a cell phone for the first time. It unloads a lot of mental tasks, and quickly feels essential. With the cell phone, I didn’t have to remember peoples phone numbers anymore, and I could call or be called from anywhere. Eventually texting became a thing, but at first it was just that freedom to make much looser plans and adjust them on the fly, which was really difficult before cell phones. With the watch, it feels the same, but about health. Knowing how much I walked around each day, how well I slept, what my heart rate was, etc. makes it a lot easier to understand what’s going on with my body and be more proactive about it. It’s also becoming a replacement for the cell phone. I usually still keep my phone with me because I want the camera, but I increasingly don’t take my phone with me when I want peace and quiet. I know that if a family member urgently needed to reach me they could get through to my watch. Meanwhile the watch does not distract me from what’s going on in real life around me. I suspect that if they do pull off the glasses, this is going to be the trifecta. Eventually the glasses can capture a visual record of whatever you saw, the AirPods potentially can capture whatever you heard, and the watch is capturing what’s going on with your body. It’s sort of a kindler, gentler Cybernetic future than I think earlier eras anticipated.

somewhereoutth 6y ago
For a moment there I thought you were about to say 'now I can see the time just by looking!'
- crossroadsguy 6y ago
  That's the typical "Apple User" for you and the typical Apple product announcement.
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echelon 6y ago
> With the watch, it feels the same, but about health. Knowing how much I walked around each day, how well I slept, what my heart rate was, etc. makes it a lot easier to understand what’s going on with my body and be more proactive about it. Fitbit does the exact same thing and has for years! > Eventually the glasses can capture a visual record of whatever you saw, the AirPods potentially can capture whatever you heard, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10494231/The-places-where-Google-Glass-is-banned.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10494231/The-p... But this is Apple, so of course we're not up in arms about it. I'm really sick of the praise this company gets while it continues to strong arm citizens into locked-down computing devices. Your pocket computers can't run binaries as freely as American speech, and pretty soon your Macs won't be able to either. They've neutered the web browser and forced everyone under their thumb. Apple is setting itself up in front of every transnational activity its users perform. They're already a tax on everyone else trying to breathe air in the system, but just wait. Apple wants more of the pie and isn't going to stop. Apple isn't good. The DOJ needs to force them to open their platform or split them up. And of course I'm going to be downvoted.
- cercatrova 6y ago
  This is true, I don't understand the appeal when Fitbit has done the same thing for years. Also, who wears a watch to bed? I'd hate it on my wrist.
  - dudleypippin 6y ago
    I wear a watch to bed, but then again, I did even before watches got clever. These days, I like it for the sleep tracking and knowing I can get alerted or have my alarm go off without waking my spouse.
  - D13Fd 6y ago
    I find the Apple Watch MOST useful in bed. We don't have a clock in the bedroom (like to keep it pitch black), so it's nice to know what time it is. My wife is a super light sleeper, and I get up first, and the watch gives me a perfectly silent alarm. I have 4 kids, and the watch makes the perfect flashlight for when you have to get up at 3am and check on someone. It's nice and dim, instantly available, and you still have two free hands (although they messed this up a bit with the sleep mode in the most recent version).
amelius 6y ago
> With the watch, it feels the same, but about health. Knowing how much I walked around each day, how well I slept, what my heart rate was, etc. makes it a lot easier to understand what’s going on with my body and be more proactive about it. I'm interested in a device that can measure respiratory rate, but so far Apple only offers a breathing app that does nothing more than just tell the user how to breathe, i.e. without any feedback based on actual respiration. https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/breathe-apd371dfe3d7/watchos https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/breathe-apd371dfe3d7/w... https://9to5mac.com/2020/01/06/apple-watch-breathe-misconceptions-memes/ https://9to5mac.com/2020/01/06/apple-watch-breathe-misconcep...
- Fezzik 6y ago
  This is extremely difficult because you need something around your lungs/diaphragm or mouth/nose to accurately measure your breathing rate. Even with precise readings of your pulse, blood pressure, etc... you can’t even remotely calculate your breathing rate.
  - samatman 6y ago
    AirPods could do it. AirPods could accurately take your temperature as well. I'm hoping this will happen. I don't wear my AirPods continually, unlike my watch; but I do wear them daily, and pretty consistently while exercising.
    - wlesieutre 6y ago
      Apple has a related patent from back in 2009. Physical size seems problematic for AirPods when you could use that space for more battery, but I could see this showing up in Power Beats Pro in the not too distant future. https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2009/04/apple-reveals-advanced-sports-monitoring-and-head-gesturing-systems.html https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2009/04/apple-r... > The sensor can also be other than (or in addition to) an activity sensor, such as a psychological or biometric sensors which could measure temperature, heartbeat, etc. of a user of the monitoring system. Since sensors can be positioned proximate to the head or ear of the user, useful psychological or biometric data can be acquired. The sensor can also be other than (or in addition to) an activity sensor, such as a global positioning system (GPS) receiver or a proximity sensor.
6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago
All I need is the spotify watch app streaming test to roll out to everyone, then I really wont need my phone much. (and better texting)
dwighttk 6y ago
You had me up until that last paragraph. Thankfully battery tech for that doesn’t seem to be here yet.
mustacheemperor 6y ago
>Eventually the glasses can capture a visual record of whatever you saw, the AirPods potentially can capture what you heard I expect the glasses might have built in audio capture, potentially even playback, themselves and if executed properly will be at least as successful as you predict. I think the current use and popularity of live-streaming and social video apps points to what an impact the ability to live stream to record a complete capture of your first-person experience will have. It’s also going to have immense utility from a practical standpoint, being able to functionally capture any experience for later reference or processing. The utility of live streaming through first person devices is already proven out with remote assistance tech.
M5x7wI3CmbEem10 6y ago
not concerned about EMF/RF exposure? on its own, a device does little. but with all the electronics we’re surrounded by (phone, watch, airpods, laptop, etc), it may have a cumulative effect.
- canofbars 6y ago
  Not at all. We have been carrying phones in our pockets and next to our heads for decades now. If something really was wrong we would know about it.
  - tpetry 6y ago
    There is going a lot on with us. Cancer rates in young adults are increasing and many more health problems. I do t want to say its because of smartphones! Something is happening and nobody is quite sure whats the reason. To say nothing is wrong with it because we dont know of any side effect is absolutely wrong.
    - tn890 6y ago
      You got any sources to back these claims up?
      - tpetry 6y ago
        https://www.aacr.org/blog/2020/06/26/aacr-virtual-annual-meeting-ii-why-are-cancer-rates-increasing-among-young-adults/ https://www.aacr.org/blog/2020/06/26/aacr-virtual-annual-mee...
xkcd-sucks 6y ago
> Knowing how much I walked around each day, how well I slept, what my heart rate was, etc. Doesn't your body already have built in sensors to provide this information?
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- Mandelmus 6y ago
  It does, but we’re increasingly so busy, distracted, and “up in our heads” all day that the time and energy required for that kind of mindfulness becomes unaffordable to many people “having to function” day-to-day. The way we structure modern society and work life is antithetical to both mental and physical health (“sitting is the new smoking”). They say “what gets measured gets managed”, and if your internal biological sensors don’t get used enough because your attention is busy processing other, seemingly more urgent, instructions all day, the watch can help take on some of those tasks and theow in an interrupt to “take a break, go move” every once in a while.
- asutekku 6y ago
  So you would think, but with apple watch I’ve realized that some days I feel like I’ve walked a lot, it’s actually much less than i had thought.
baby 6y ago
> With the watch, it feels the same, but about health. Knowing how much I walked around each day, how well I slept, what my heart rate was, etc. makes it a lot easier to understand what’s going on with my body and be more proactive about it. meh, I had exactly the same with the withings, which is a normal watch but with captors, and it's a gimmick. I have an Apple watch now, and I don't use it all the time (it's truly a hassle to recharge it all the time), but it manages to integrate really well with everything and always surprises me in how useful it is. Today I was at the doctor with Kaiser and they texted me when they were ready to take me with the floor and room number I had to go to, I quickly saw the notification on my watch and went there. Being able to take calls when I just can't reach my phone is amazing also. When I watch a movie or listen to music I can quickly decrease/increase the sound. I can use it as a remote for keynote. I'm still discovering things every week. If only they could make it so that it would last longer than 1 day.
- wlesieutre 6y ago
  Some other favorite uses in no particular order: TOTP codes (Authy, Duo, 1Password), habit tracking and reminders (Streaks), QR codes that scan as my contact info or to easily join my WiFi network (Visual Codes), record voice memos that sync to my other devices when I want to just make a quick note, check things off my to-do list (Things, Reminders), run shortcuts for Hue lighting scenes. New capabilities for shortcuts recently too, you can make a shortcut to toggle some watch settings (like always-on display) and run it from a complication on a watch face. And you can change watch faces automatically by time of day using automations on your phone, if you want something like a watch face with weather forecast and next calendar event for when you’re getting ready in the morning, then something else for when you’re out of the house. I’m already not a big phone person (2016 SE) and my favorite thing after the health features is all the times I don’t have to pull my phone out to do something.
  - baby 6y ago
    You can use authy as well? Does it sync w your phone? Streaks is an app? (Edit: 5$, hope it’s worth it :D)
innagadadavida 6y ago
Siri can work a lot better: - You can’t even activate do not disturb using Siri. - “theatre mode” take you to web search results. - doing some of these actions simply crashes it.
ButWhatFor 6y ago
Thank you for this... I still can’t convince myself to get one. The health aspect I wonder if it really actually makes things easier to improve yourself... or is it just tracking new things for you that keep you accountable to yourself? I guess they both work... maybe I’m old fashioned but my wife loves it and I can’t figure out why it’s so great to know how many steps (roughly) you walked every day...
- wpm 6y ago
  Apple’s return policies are pretty generous, there’s no harm in getting one and trying it out for a couple weeks.
- paxswill 6y ago
  A while back I went to the hospital because of a potentially nasty infection. The doctor was pretty surprised and excited when I opened up the Health app with temperature logs (from a smart thermometer), but they were even more intrigued by the consistently elevated heart rate (from my watch) that had started a few days before the fever. I believe it helped guide the treatment, but I can’t be entirely sure. For more general health/fitness, the rings can be motivating in a bit of a gamification way. The easier availability of stats from workouts also points out things for me to improve on, or to make changes during the activity. For example, it’s easier for me to see if my pace is slipping while I’m hiking and pick it up, or notice if I’m pushing harder than I should and slow it down so I have the energy for the end (the watch can also be really helpful with navigating as well).
  - glutinouspigeon 6y ago
    I think health features like this will become pretty commonplace in the future and more doctors/nurses will utilize it. In Formula 1 racing they've been integrating sensors and transmitters for vital stats into the drivers' gloves. This allows the medical team to see what's going on as they're driving out to the crash. I believe they keep the gloves on if possible during patient transport so they can continue monitoring. I imagine being able to provide a doctor with historical data on your vitals can be extremely beneficial. Taking your vitals while you're sitting in a clinic doesn't give the full picture. What does your heart rate mean at that time if they don't know what's normal for you? What if your temp is not high enough to be considered a fever, but it's elevated 3+ degrees higher than typical for you? Of course the accuracy of the sensor could be called into question, but if it's precise enough you can still use it to analyze trends and anomalies.
imheretolearn 6y ago
>> I walked around each day, how well I slept, what my heart rate was, etc. makes it a lot easier to understand what’s going on with my body and be more proactive about it. It would be great if it was accurate. How accurate is this data?
- tomnipotent 6y ago
  Doesn't need to be accurate, just consistent in its inaccuracies over time. It's about changing behavior, not diagnosis.
- justusthane 6y ago
  I have an Apple Watch and iPhone and use all the health tracking stuff. I’m a little bit suspicious of the accuracy of sleep tracking, but so far I haven’t had any experiences to suggest that it’s not reasonably accurate. And there’s no reason to believe that heart rate and step counting isn’t extremely accurate—seems fairly trivial to measure.
- gumby 6y ago
  Being consistent is almost as good — essentially as good in fact. I have a glucose meter that’s quite wrong, but the shape of its curve isn’t bad (the error isn’t linear, but is consistent— around 100 it measures about 82; at 150 it measures 130) but now I’m used to it it tells me what I need to know. And the strips are cheap. I don’t need the watch to tell me if my heart rate is too high but it’s useful if it tells me my heart rate was about the same the whole run.
cblconfederate 6y ago
how long have you had it?
gerash 6y ago
I used smart watches (not apple watch) for a week and can't get over recharging them every night and went straight back to my solar G-Shock. Step counting is what my phone does too and I really don't need too much accuracy for that. Glancing at notifications would be nice in a busy work environment between meetings but at home, it makes not much sense to me. The rest (hand washing reminder, breathing reminder, etc.) are all gimmicks IMO. So I am yet to see the utility of smart watches in their current form. Smart glasses on the other hand have way more potential
- andreilys 6y ago
  Apple Watch also has Apple Pay, call, text, directions, music, podcasts, etc. More and more I’m leaving my phone at home and opting to go solo watch. This has done wonders in breaking my habit of always reaching for my phone to fill in every empty space in the day.
762236 6y ago
You don't need a watch for health data. It can be dedicated to health, like my Whoop strap that costs me $30/month. The Apple Watch isn't serious enough about health for my use cases.
citiguy 6y ago
I have a 3. I got it in January and I'm still on the fence about it. It's okay, but not awesome, and sometimes darn irritating. I guess there's some merit as a cellphone replacement but I find the screen too small for that and Siri is just so-so.

somewhereoutth 6y ago

For a moment there I thought you were about to say 'now I can see the time just by looking!'

crossroadsguy 6y ago
That's the typical "Apple User" for you and the typical Apple product announcement.
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echelon 6y ago

> With the watch, it feels the same, but about health. Knowing how much I walked around each day, how well I slept, what my heart rate was, etc. makes it a lot easier to understand what’s going on with my body and be more proactive about it. Fitbit does the exact same thing and has for years! > Eventually the glasses can capture a visual record of whatever you saw, the AirPods potentially can capture whatever you heard, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10494231/The-places-where-Google-Glass-is-banned.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10494231/The-p... But this is Apple, so of course we're not up in arms about it. I'm really sick of the praise this company gets while it continues to strong arm citizens into locked-down computing devices. Your pocket computers can't run binaries as freely as American speech, and pretty soon your Macs won't be able to either. They've neutered the web browser and forced everyone under their thumb. Apple is setting itself up in front of every transnational activity its users perform. They're already a tax on everyone else trying to breathe air in the system, but just wait. Apple wants more of the pie and isn't going to stop. Apple isn't good. The DOJ needs to force them to open their platform or split them up. And of course I'm going to be downvoted.

cercatrova 6y ago
This is true, I don't understand the appeal when Fitbit has done the same thing for years. Also, who wears a watch to bed? I'd hate it on my wrist.
- dudleypippin 6y ago
  I wear a watch to bed, but then again, I did even before watches got clever. These days, I like it for the sleep tracking and knowing I can get alerted or have my alarm go off without waking my spouse.
- D13Fd 6y ago
  I find the Apple Watch MOST useful in bed. We don't have a clock in the bedroom (like to keep it pitch black), so it's nice to know what time it is. My wife is a super light sleeper, and I get up first, and the watch gives me a perfectly silent alarm. I have 4 kids, and the watch makes the perfect flashlight for when you have to get up at 3am and check on someone. It's nice and dim, instantly available, and you still have two free hands (although they messed this up a bit with the sleep mode in the most recent version).

amelius 6y ago

> With the watch, it feels the same, but about health. Knowing how much I walked around each day, how well I slept, what my heart rate was, etc. makes it a lot easier to understand what’s going on with my body and be more proactive about it. I'm interested in a device that can measure respiratory rate, but so far Apple only offers a breathing app that does nothing more than just tell the user how to breathe, i.e. without any feedback based on actual respiration. https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/breathe-apd371dfe3d7/watchos https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/breathe-apd371dfe3d7/w... https://9to5mac.com/2020/01/06/apple-watch-breathe-misconceptions-memes/ https://9to5mac.com/2020/01/06/apple-watch-breathe-misconcep...

Fezzik 6y ago
This is extremely difficult because you need something around your lungs/diaphragm or mouth/nose to accurately measure your breathing rate. Even with precise readings of your pulse, blood pressure, etc... you can’t even remotely calculate your breathing rate.
- samatman 6y ago
  AirPods could do it. AirPods could accurately take your temperature as well. I'm hoping this will happen. I don't wear my AirPods continually, unlike my watch; but I do wear them daily, and pretty consistently while exercising.
  - wlesieutre 6y ago
    Apple has a related patent from back in 2009. Physical size seems problematic for AirPods when you could use that space for more battery, but I could see this showing up in Power Beats Pro in the not too distant future. https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2009/04/apple-reveals-advanced-sports-monitoring-and-head-gesturing-systems.html https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2009/04/apple-r... > The sensor can also be other than (or in addition to) an activity sensor, such as a psychological or biometric sensors which could measure temperature, heartbeat, etc. of a user of the monitoring system. Since sensors can be positioned proximate to the head or ear of the user, useful psychological or biometric data can be acquired. The sensor can also be other than (or in addition to) an activity sensor, such as a global positioning system (GPS) receiver or a proximity sensor.

6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago

All I need is the spotify watch app streaming test to roll out to everyone, then I really wont need my phone much. (and better texting)

dwighttk 6y ago

You had me up until that last paragraph. Thankfully battery tech for that doesn’t seem to be here yet.

mustacheemperor 6y ago

>Eventually the glasses can capture a visual record of whatever you saw, the AirPods potentially can capture what you heard I expect the glasses might have built in audio capture, potentially even playback, themselves and if executed properly will be at least as successful as you predict. I think the current use and popularity of live-streaming and social video apps points to what an impact the ability to live stream to record a complete capture of your first-person experience will have. It’s also going to have immense utility from a practical standpoint, being able to functionally capture any experience for later reference or processing. The utility of live streaming through first person devices is already proven out with remote assistance tech.

M5x7wI3CmbEem10 6y ago

not concerned about EMF/RF exposure? on its own, a device does little. but with all the electronics we’re surrounded by (phone, watch, airpods, laptop, etc), it may have a cumulative effect.

canofbars 6y ago
Not at all. We have been carrying phones in our pockets and next to our heads for decades now. If something really was wrong we would know about it.
- tpetry 6y ago
  There is going a lot on with us. Cancer rates in young adults are increasing and many more health problems. I do t want to say its because of smartphones! Something is happening and nobody is quite sure whats the reason. To say nothing is wrong with it because we dont know of any side effect is absolutely wrong.
  - tn890 6y ago
    You got any sources to back these claims up?
    - tpetry 6y ago
      https://www.aacr.org/blog/2020/06/26/aacr-virtual-annual-meeting-ii-why-are-cancer-rates-increasing-among-young-adults/ https://www.aacr.org/blog/2020/06/26/aacr-virtual-annual-mee...

xkcd-sucks 6y ago

> Knowing how much I walked around each day, how well I slept, what my heart rate was, etc. Doesn't your body already have built in sensors to provide this information?

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Mandelmus 6y ago
It does, but we’re increasingly so busy, distracted, and “up in our heads” all day that the time and energy required for that kind of mindfulness becomes unaffordable to many people “having to function” day-to-day. The way we structure modern society and work life is antithetical to both mental and physical health (“sitting is the new smoking”). They say “what gets measured gets managed”, and if your internal biological sensors don’t get used enough because your attention is busy processing other, seemingly more urgent, instructions all day, the watch can help take on some of those tasks and theow in an interrupt to “take a break, go move” every once in a while.
asutekku 6y ago
So you would think, but with apple watch I’ve realized that some days I feel like I’ve walked a lot, it’s actually much less than i had thought.

baby 6y ago

> With the watch, it feels the same, but about health. Knowing how much I walked around each day, how well I slept, what my heart rate was, etc. makes it a lot easier to understand what’s going on with my body and be more proactive about it. meh, I had exactly the same with the withings, which is a normal watch but with captors, and it's a gimmick. I have an Apple watch now, and I don't use it all the time (it's truly a hassle to recharge it all the time), but it manages to integrate really well with everything and always surprises me in how useful it is. Today I was at the doctor with Kaiser and they texted me when they were ready to take me with the floor and room number I had to go to, I quickly saw the notification on my watch and went there. Being able to take calls when I just can't reach my phone is amazing also. When I watch a movie or listen to music I can quickly decrease/increase the sound. I can use it as a remote for keynote. I'm still discovering things every week. If only they could make it so that it would last longer than 1 day.

wlesieutre 6y ago
Some other favorite uses in no particular order: TOTP codes (Authy, Duo, 1Password), habit tracking and reminders (Streaks), QR codes that scan as my contact info or to easily join my WiFi network (Visual Codes), record voice memos that sync to my other devices when I want to just make a quick note, check things off my to-do list (Things, Reminders), run shortcuts for Hue lighting scenes. New capabilities for shortcuts recently too, you can make a shortcut to toggle some watch settings (like always-on display) and run it from a complication on a watch face. And you can change watch faces automatically by time of day using automations on your phone, if you want something like a watch face with weather forecast and next calendar event for when you’re getting ready in the morning, then something else for when you’re out of the house. I’m already not a big phone person (2016 SE) and my favorite thing after the health features is all the times I don’t have to pull my phone out to do something.
- baby 6y ago
  You can use authy as well? Does it sync w your phone? Streaks is an app? (Edit: 5$, hope it’s worth it :D)

innagadadavida 6y ago

Siri can work a lot better: - You can’t even activate do not disturb using Siri. - “theatre mode” take you to web search results. - doing some of these actions simply crashes it.

ButWhatFor 6y ago

Thank you for this... I still can’t convince myself to get one. The health aspect I wonder if it really actually makes things easier to improve yourself... or is it just tracking new things for you that keep you accountable to yourself? I guess they both work... maybe I’m old fashioned but my wife loves it and I can’t figure out why it’s so great to know how many steps (roughly) you walked every day...

wpm 6y ago
Apple’s return policies are pretty generous, there’s no harm in getting one and trying it out for a couple weeks.
paxswill 6y ago
A while back I went to the hospital because of a potentially nasty infection. The doctor was pretty surprised and excited when I opened up the Health app with temperature logs (from a smart thermometer), but they were even more intrigued by the consistently elevated heart rate (from my watch) that had started a few days before the fever. I believe it helped guide the treatment, but I can’t be entirely sure. For more general health/fitness, the rings can be motivating in a bit of a gamification way. The easier availability of stats from workouts also points out things for me to improve on, or to make changes during the activity. For example, it’s easier for me to see if my pace is slipping while I’m hiking and pick it up, or notice if I’m pushing harder than I should and slow it down so I have the energy for the end (the watch can also be really helpful with navigating as well).
- glutinouspigeon 6y ago
  I think health features like this will become pretty commonplace in the future and more doctors/nurses will utilize it. In Formula 1 racing they've been integrating sensors and transmitters for vital stats into the drivers' gloves. This allows the medical team to see what's going on as they're driving out to the crash. I believe they keep the gloves on if possible during patient transport so they can continue monitoring. I imagine being able to provide a doctor with historical data on your vitals can be extremely beneficial. Taking your vitals while you're sitting in a clinic doesn't give the full picture. What does your heart rate mean at that time if they don't know what's normal for you? What if your temp is not high enough to be considered a fever, but it's elevated 3+ degrees higher than typical for you? Of course the accuracy of the sensor could be called into question, but if it's precise enough you can still use it to analyze trends and anomalies.

imheretolearn 6y ago

>> I walked around each day, how well I slept, what my heart rate was, etc. makes it a lot easier to understand what’s going on with my body and be more proactive about it. It would be great if it was accurate. How accurate is this data?

tomnipotent 6y ago
Doesn't need to be accurate, just consistent in its inaccuracies over time. It's about changing behavior, not diagnosis.
justusthane 6y ago
I have an Apple Watch and iPhone and use all the health tracking stuff. I’m a little bit suspicious of the accuracy of sleep tracking, but so far I haven’t had any experiences to suggest that it’s not reasonably accurate. And there’s no reason to believe that heart rate and step counting isn’t extremely accurate—seems fairly trivial to measure.
gumby 6y ago
Being consistent is almost as good — essentially as good in fact. I have a glucose meter that’s quite wrong, but the shape of its curve isn’t bad (the error isn’t linear, but is consistent— around 100 it measures about 82; at 150 it measures 130) but now I’m used to it it tells me what I need to know. And the strips are cheap. I don’t need the watch to tell me if my heart rate is too high but it’s useful if it tells me my heart rate was about the same the whole run.

cblconfederate 6y ago

how long have you had it?

gerash 6y ago

I used smart watches (not apple watch) for a week and can't get over recharging them every night and went straight back to my solar G-Shock. Step counting is what my phone does too and I really don't need too much accuracy for that. Glancing at notifications would be nice in a busy work environment between meetings but at home, it makes not much sense to me. The rest (hand washing reminder, breathing reminder, etc.) are all gimmicks IMO. So I am yet to see the utility of smart watches in their current form. Smart glasses on the other hand have way more potential

andreilys 6y ago
Apple Watch also has Apple Pay, call, text, directions, music, podcasts, etc. More and more I’m leaving my phone at home and opting to go solo watch. This has done wonders in breaking my habit of always reaching for my phone to fill in every empty space in the day.

762236 6y ago

You don't need a watch for health data. It can be dedicated to health, like my Whoop strap that costs me $30/month. The Apple Watch isn't serious enough about health for my use cases.

citiguy 6y ago

I have a 3. I got it in January and I'm still on the fence about it. It's okay, but not awesome, and sometimes darn irritating. I guess there's some merit as a cellphone replacement but I find the screen too small for that and Siri is just so-so.