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Apple Watch Series 7
- rootusrootus 5y agoUnderwhelming. I guess I keep my Series 4 another year.
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- gmwahl 5y agoFor me, there's enough from the Series 4 to 7 to make it worth upgrading.
- droopyEyelids 5y agoIt sounds like you two may place different value on some aspect of these devices
- smoldesu 5y agoApparently, the Series 3 is so similar that Apple decided to keep selling it another year.
- gnicholas 5y agoActually, I think the reason they're still selling the S3 is because it is quite different visually. If you don't mind having a watch that has a much smaller screen (which affects usability and isn't as 'prestigious' among Those Who Care) then you can get an Apple Watch for a price point that rivals Fitbit etc. Note: I am not one of Those Who Care — I still rock my Pebble Time Steel!
- Hamuko 5y agoWas the Series 3 the one where you have to perform pagan rituals in order to update the OS?
- smoldesu 5y agoNo, this model specifically requires two rain dances and a dream catcher. Close though!
- minimaxir 5y agoSupposedly watchOS 8 changes the upgrade mechanism such that it does not require pagan rituals. Although you need to get a pagan ritual to get it initially onto a Series 3.
- hutattedonmyarm 5y agoIt is. However the LTE models (and I think the ones they’re selling now) have more storage space, and iOS 8 also allows updating with less free space as well. Still, the S3 is completely outdated now
- rootusrootus 5y agoWhat's the feature that makes it most compelling for you? Screen size? I'll grant that going from 3 to 4 was a pretty big screen bump -- maybe this will be similar, in which case it could pique my attention. The always-on display is appealing, I've been looking forward to getting that ever since the Series 5 was released. But it won't be enough by itself to get me to put down the cash. I was hoping for thinner, and sorta hoping to see a design update along the lines of the iPhone 12/13.
- r00fus 5y agoI was about to say same, but I think one of my family would like a watch and my series4 makes a great handmedown.
- deegles 5y agoStill waiting for the blood glucose monitoring. I wonder what tech remains to be developed.
- Nathanael_M 5y agoIs there a way to non-penetratively monitor blood glucose?
- Tagbert 5y agoI have heard that there are such systems, probably using optical analysis of tissues, but what I heard was that they were not reliable enough for any medical use. More for dietary monitoring.
- hanche 5y agoIt’s a hard problem. Here’s a wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noninvasive_glucose_monitor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noninvasive_glucose_monitor
- tlubinski 5y agowe are working on it (www.diamontech.de) but our device has still the size of a shoebox. I don't think there is a device in a smaller form factor out there that can measure glucose non-invasively (at least with a decent accuracy).
- kumarvvr 5y agoLooks like a bare minimum update. I honestly don't know what else can be added to it.
- minimaxir 5y agoThe big screen + keyboard might be the headline feature, and as silly as it sounds it may be enough.
- tshaddox 5y agoWhy is that silly? The screen size increase is significant, and it’s hard to imagine a more noticeable or useful improvement to a smart watch.
- BitAstronaut 5y ago>it’s hard to imagine a more noticeable or useful improvement to a smart watch. It'll be fun to look back on this comment in three years.
- midev 5y ago> It'll be fun to look back on this comment in three years. Despite over a decade of smartphones, screen size and resolution is often touted as the number one or number two feature. Screen size, quality, and ease of use for watches will still be one of the biggest factors in three years.
- tshaddox 5y agoI mean in the context of a yearly update, of course. I don’t mean that over a long period of time we shouldn’t expect much more significant changes to smart watches.
- BitAstronaut 5y agoApologies, I thought you were stating in general.
- minimaxir 5y agoIt was rumored the Series 7 had production issues; the "later this fall" basically confirms it. The complete lack of tech specs is weird despite that though.
- theshrike79 5y agoApple hasn't flaunted the tech specs of Watches ever. Usually we find out the specs when iFixit cracks one open.
- judge2020 5y agohttps://support.apple.com/kb/SP826?locale=en_US https://support.apple.com/kb/SP826?locale=en_US
- theshrike79 5y agoNo mentions of memory, CPU architecture or clock speed in there. Mostly just external measurements and features.
- mdasen 5y agoI feel like Apple often talks about the processor. The Apple Watch 6 had the S6 processor that they boasted about.
- runawaybottle 5y agoThe watch was never really useful enough. We are plateauing on wearable and mobile device tech atm, and we pretty much need to put all hands on deck to make AR happen.
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- BitAstronaut 5y agoI purchased mine for fitness tracking but the feature I ended up liking the most is the Apple Maps integration.
- toxik 5y agoHuh. Somebody actually likes this? I find it super distracting when I’m driving. But I have a phone mount so I can see the directions ahead of time.
- BitAstronaut 5y agoI guess I find it easier to keep my eyes on the road and just go by the vibration than looking at my screen.
- cgy1 5y agoFor me, I love it. It's even more useful when using Apple Maps' directions for walking and not having to pull the phone out of my pocket.
- nickthegreek 5y agoYou can turn off turn notifications in the watch settings if its distracting. I find that I never look at the car screen and I miss turns and I have the gps audio muted to not interrupt my podcasts. The watch vibrating on upcoming turns is super useful to me.
- ipsi 5y agoIt's super-handy, but I don't own a car (and try to rent cars with CarPlay when I do drive), so I only ever use it when walking. And there it's really nice to be able to pull up my watch, double-check the street name - because Siri will have butchered it - and so on, without having to take my phone out of my pocket.
- haney 5y agoI keep hoping they're going to announce battery life that lasts longer than a day, not this time...
- gnicholas 5y agoYep, I'm hanging onto my Pebble until that happens. The battery life is deteriorating, but I can still get 5 days out of it if I put it in airplane mode overnight.
- theshrike79 5y agoNot going to happen. The only upgrade that makes sense is 7 days. 2-3 day battery life means that people will forget to charge, because there is no routine. And then they run out of battery and blame Apple for shitty battery life. 45 minutes from 0 to 80% isn't that much. You won't be ending many days at 0% and don't need a 100% every day.
- Hamuko 5y ago2-3 day battery life makes sense with sleep tracking, since you can sleep a couple of nights with it before you have to charge it.
- mwint 5y agoI sleep with my watch; my routine has become “charge it while showering”. The ten minutes or so a day is usually plenty to keep up with my usage. Series 6 40mm GPS only.
- bradlys 5y agoIs the reason for an underwhelming update related to supply chain issues? It seems like such a lackluster update compared to all the rumors.
- SV_BubbleTime 5y agoIt can't help. I'm looking at -no joke- 100 week lead times on an ARM cortex m4 we have in an existing product.
- ctoth 5y agoPractically, does this mean that cheap consumer electronics junk (think Bluetooth speakers, or streaming sticks, or cheap Chromebooks) will become scarce soon?
- SV_BubbleTime 5y agoIDK! I wish I had some better idea because there is money to be made at least in options I think. On one hand, I hope that cheap landfill-express electronics take a hit. On the other hand, I’m well aware they will manage somehow and it’s the good stuff that will be hard to find/make. For one thing I am certain, we absolutely have not seen the height of the supply shortage bullwhip. It’s going to get worse.
- natebleker 5y agoI'm seeing the > 52 weeks for every microcontroller I'm using in designs including old 8051's and MSP430's.
- tunesmith 5y agoI was wondering the same - another article claimed they were aiming for the ability to measure blood pressure, but were having trouble with it. I can't imagine how that works, it'd literally squeeze my wrist?
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- msie 5y agoI stopped using an Apple Watch after my Series 1 broke. I bought a cheap Casio watch: - display always on - at least 5 years battery life (edit: 10 years!) - no accidental switching of watch faces - no PTSD from notifications I look at that watch with joy everyday.
- Daniel_sk 5y agoMost basic Casio watches last at least 10 years on one battery.
- msie 5y agoEven better!
- kumarvvr 5y agoPTSD from notifications hit hard. I thought a phone was addictive, but at-least you could put it in your pocket / bag / car and keep a distance. A watch is like that tightly hugging tail-wagging dog. "Look at me, look at me, look at me !"
- toxik 5y agoSo why don’t you disable the notifications you don’t like?
- kumarvvr 5y agoI don't know how to answer to these points, especially in tech debates. "Why don't you put your phone in flight mode?" "Why don't you turn off the internet" "Why don't you just turn off your PC and go to sleep" The questions are easy. The actions are too damn hard to pull off.
- toxik 5y agoTurning off notifications is a set and forget thing. It’s a setting. It’s not a habit, not a technique, not a vague concept. It is a literal toggle switch.
- appletech7778 5y agoI was really hoping for a cgm, this would be game changing for type 1 diabetics, tech is ready or near ready. What can one do to advocate for this? It was rumoured, guess they don't have a vote system (accepting the flaws with such)
- snarf21 5y agoWhat is your source for the tech being "ready"? I'm sure they are trying but it is extremely difficult. Also, CGM will require FDA approval. You can't make a mistake or people die. If your measured pulse or respiratory rate is wrong, it is nbd. If your steps are wrong, who cares. Glucose is different. We are just now getting to CGMs that don't require frequent recalibration.
- appletech7778 5y agoWhy will people die, it isn't an automatic insulin pump, surely the same issues exist in pricks and existing cgm tech at existing reliability levels. I'm mobile at the moment but they was an article about only one company would provide the cgm tech and apple had invested, there some reason too the analyst suspect cgm - I've made it sound quite flimsy but it wasn't (or at least didn't sound so) will find and report back. Perhaps same with pricking, if it doesn't correlate with how you're feeling test again, cgm can provide a guide and if in doubt prick. I still think at 99% confidence it would be game changing
- snarf21 5y agoOf course it would be game changing if it got to 99+% but I don't think we are there yet. If people don't take any other testing supplies and the watch isn't accurate, they they could go hypo easily especially during exercise and not try to remedy it until too late. If a single person dies trusting the watch's cgm it will be unlike any other testing device failing.
- laacz 5y agoWhat warrants such geoblocking for Apple Fitness+? Content does not seem to be very specific or have overly difficult copyright rules.
- gleenn 5y agoMaybe more relatively to the languages they have available? Also, licensing video content also tends to be per country.
- philliphaydon 5y agoDon't think it's to do with Language. Malaysia is on the list for the next lot of countries, but not Singapore.
- theCodeStig 5y agoSingapore is (primarily) an English speaking country.
- leodriesch 5y agoThey will release it to a lot more countries and have subtitles in 6 different languages, audio english only. So I'm not sure if the language barrier is the difficulty.
- jagged-chisel 5y agoCultural differences in sensitivity to the appearance (clothing, gender, race, etc) of those appearing on screen seems to me a plausible explanation.
- pilsetnieks 5y agoThey're adding Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE but not, for example, Sweden, Norway or Denmark. I don't see anything plausible in that. That's not even to mention features like ECG that are certified EU-wide, yet only available in half of the EU countries, 4 years after launch. These country limitations are truly mind-boggling. It's as if they put a map on a dartboard when making these decisions.
- tsywke44 5y agoare smart watches worth it? I’d be using the fitness, health, and sleep functionality. Love ”passive” features where it just works in the background with zero input and collects statistics, such as step tracking.
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- emsy 5y agoI’d recommend to get a fitness watch then. The Apple Watch is so much more, but for fitness enthusiasts the battery life is probably more important than the smart features (which fitness watches mostly lack).
- TrueGeek 5y agoI didn't think so but I had to borrow my wife's for a week to do some testing on a mobile app. I really enjoyed it and ended up keeping it. The ability to start Spotify without taking my phone out of my pocket, open the garage door as I approach the house on my bike, see text messages and know I can ignore them, etc.... It really makes me use my phone less. It was a Series 3 and eventually died. I plan on getting this new Series 7 once it's available to purchase.
- dangoor 5y agoI really like the Apple Watch. Beyond the fitness/health functionality, I love the on-wrist notifications (which I've tuned to only include the things I want there), and I also really like using Apple Maps for directions and having the watch guide me. Stuff like having my groceries and todos on my wrist are handy, as is being able to see my next-up meeting.
- swalsh 5y agoI've found the sleep function super valuable, it let's my quantify how small changes can affect me sleep. The smart alarm is also useful (wakes you up while you are in a light sleep cycle as opposed to deeper sleep). As a runner, i've found the heart rate data useful for gaining insights.
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- gamesbrainiac 5y agoVery underwhelming release.
- gamesbrainiac 5y agoVery underwhelming release for Apple Watch.
- disneygibson 5y agoIs it just me or is the writing on this page distractingly bad? Who approved this paragraph? You don’t need to raise your wrist or touch the screen to see the time or other information and complications on your watch face, because the display is always on. And now it’s 70% brighter indoors when your wrist is down.
- mttjj 5y agoWhat’s wrong with it?
- disneygibson 5y agoIt’s poorly written and a borderline run-on sentence. It sounds like it was written by a non-native speaker of English.
- jaywalk 5y agoIt's weird how they only show the colors for the aluminum version. They announced the colors for stainless steel and titanium as well, but they're nowhere to be found on Apple's website.
- catchmeifyoucan 5y agoI'm very skeptical of Apple's Water friendly claims. I bought a series 4, and took it once in the ocean. The water seal will fail after a year or so, and out of warranty. I have a watch sitting on my shelf, and digital crown no longer works. Was very upset. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/swimming-killed-my-series-4-watch.2163474/ https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/swimming-killed-my-seri...
- sweetheart 5y agoFWIW, I've swum and surfed with my 5 and 6 for countless hours with no problems what so ever. And Im awful at surfing so the watch has taken an absolute _beating_.
- apples_oranges 5y agoI never use that crown.. at least I never rotate it. They could get rid of it without any functionality loss, no?
- SalimoS 5y agoIt depends, I only use it to increase/decrease the music volume of the iPhone but can’t live without it
- ako 5y agoThat’s why I use a cheaper sportwatch: it’s too expensive for “extreme” situations. Lost one while windsurfing, it’s at the bottom of the ocean. Fortunately the price wasn’t too bad, 140 euros, so less painful to replace. I won’t consider an Apple Watch until price comes below 150.
- SalimoS 5y agoThat’s weird, my series 4 that I bought on October 18’, use it every day (except in the shower) and of curse when I swim (we have a sea not an ocean but it’s the same) and I never had/have an issue
- r0m4n0 5y agoAll anecdotal but I regularly swim laps (a few times a week), shower, and free dive with my Series 4. Just last week jumped off a 30 foot cliff and the clasp came loose, it literally flew off my wrist and sunk to the bottom of the ocean. A friend helped me retrieve it, maybe 30-40 feet down. Perfect working order as of today! I once did get some sand in the crown and needed to wash it out thoroughly but no other hardware problems in the 3 years I've owned it.
- gokhan 5y agoWhat's the alternative for Android? After broken straps and finally a dead screen with my Fitbit Versa, I don't want to buy another Fitbit again. How about Garmin? Any other?
- swalsh 5y agoI recently purchased a Galaxy Watch 4. It is similarly specced as the apple watch, but it has quirks. It uses the new Wear OS, which is great, but compared to what i've seen from the Apple Watch, i'm not sure it's in the same league software wise. The Apple Watch just seem superior in software and hardware quality.
- drewr 5y agoLove my Garmin Instinct. It's just enough of a GPS smartwatch. Super durable, waterproof, great battery life, modest price.
- sz4kerto 5y agoMy 3.5 year old Garmin can easily track activity for 18 hours with normal GPS mode (high accuracy) and probably much longer with power saving (less frequent data recording). I don't think it's a great smartwatch, but I don't know because the last thing I need in my life is a device on my wrist with push notifications.
- pilsetnieks 5y agoIf there's one problem I have with Garmin, it's that I open the watch page on their website and I'm presented with a wall of products (I counted 27 different watches.) In addition to that what should be just a different app is a distinct product. If I'm a swimmer who also plays golf, I need two watches. If I also run, I need another. If I also want a smart watch that looks good, I need a fourth. That part Apple does get right.
- vinay427 5y ago> That part Apple does get right. In the sense that they don't bother, by those standards. AFAIK Apple's watch that does everything is virtually comparable to the "watch that looks good" in its running analytics, cycling features, swimming connectivity, etc. Put another way, the mid-tier and above running-focused Garmin devices (can't speak for the other sports) should not be considered to be in the same class as an Apple watch for running.
- symlinkk 5y agoI still don’t see the value of these beyond workout tracking
- hirvi74 5y agoI like mine for sleep monitoring and heart rate monitoring, but that's my main usage. My watch did save me when my phone fell down an elevator shaft. I didn't have a phone for about 4 days, so I was able to use my watch to make phone calls with Apple to get a replacement.
- threshold 5y agoThis product has a huge flaw. I’m not charging my watch every day. I just won’t. My $13 Casio has been running for 9 years without a charge and hasn’t lost 1 minute. No, Apple, you can’t have $400 for that.
- rootusrootus 5y agoThis gets rehashed every time the topic comes up. It charges fast enough that you can wear it 24/7 and just put it on the charger while you shower. Comparing it to a Casio that doesn't do anything other than tell you the time is pointless.
- threshold 5y agoPointless? That’s what a watch is for. To tell the time. Or were you thinking of composing email on that tiny screen? What exactly else would you do with it?
- yakkityyak 5y agoGPS, fitness tracking, music, calls, text if I'm out on a run (LTE required), 2-factor auth, Apple Pay. It's not a must have, but it has a lot of good uses for me.
- threshold 5y agoMust have! Nobody will ever use those features and besides you need to have a powered iPhone in your pocket for them to work, and the iPhone does all that and more. I’ll tell you what the Apple watch is; a status symbol. So the wealthy can display expendable income in order to attract a mate. Might as well be a gold chain. Sad. Very, very sad.
- Jtsummers 5y ago> Nobody will ever use those features I mean, you're in a discussion with people who do use those features, so this statement has already been falsified.
- Buckworthy 5y agoThey were totally silent on the processor. Did not mention it anywhere. Couldn’t find it on their site. You can’t compare Series 7 watch. Something’s going on.
- valine 5y agoIt wouldn’t be the first time they’ve gone a year without a processor update. The series 5 had no performance gain over the series 4.
- giarc 5y agoRelated to chip shortages?
- nicce 5y agoAt least on Series 6, processor is more than enough. Batterylife improvements with new provessor is another story.
- testmasterflex 5y agoCan someone sell me an Apple Watch? What is a feature you can’t live without?
- strange_quark 5y agoHaving music and podcasts without taking my phone with me to go for runs or bike rides and still having the ability to make a call in case of emergencies.
- dntrkv 5y agoPersonally, the wallet, health tracking, and music w/o phone is enough to justify the purchase for me. Actually, jogging / exercising without my phone is enough to justify the cost.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoNotifications on my wrist let me receive phone calls/alarms without waking up my partner. That is probably my big reason, but since I use it for that, I also use it for run tracking and fitness+ app.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y agoI can detach further from my phone because notifications go to my watch. I hate being tethered to my phone, so that's the killer feature for me. With the cellular model, I leave the house without my phone sometimes, which is nice. When I worked in the office, the phone stayed in my bag most of the day.
- akamaka 5y agoHow realistic is it to go out all day with just the watch, and no phone?
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y agoIt’s hard to give that a fair simple answer. What it doesn’t do great is texting, so your laptop/tablet/phone are still clear better choices there. Maybe the new one is better there with swipe. So if I’m sitting at your laptop and have signal/imessage up, I can lose track of my phone, but that’s kinda cheating. For little outings like the grocery store or gym, you can definitely leave the phone and just dictate what you need to. So for a WFH day with little outings, you can easily just leave your phone on the charger and ignore it all day. But for a full day out and about where you might text a bunch, you’ll drive yourself crazy trying to do it all on the watch. If the new swipe thing changes that, I’ll be very happy, but I’m not betting on it.
- valine 5y agoThose bezels are crazy thin. I can’t think of any other product that has such thin bezels while still being uniform all the way around. Clearly some R&D went into that display.
- post_break 5y agoI like how they copied flick type after booting it off the Apple watch for being a keyboard...
- acrispino 5y agoResponse from Kosta Eleftheriou, founder of FlickType: https://twitter.com/keleftheriou/status/1437845736951992321 https://twitter.com/keleftheriou/status/1437845736951992321
- bdz 5y ago>Apple Watch Series 7 will start at $399 (US) Is this the same price as Series 6, right? Been waiting to buy one and might as well get the new.
- bzudo 5y agoDoes anyone use their Apple Watch for golf? I'm thinking of gettin the 7, but was wondering how good the GPS is that sort of thing.
- mikestew 5y agoI don't play golf, but I do run a hell of a lot. I also recently have been swapping back and forth between my Garmin Fenix 3 HR (yes, several years old) and my Apple Watch 6 on runs. It would appear that the more recent Apple Watches have upped their GPS game (or maybe its software, dunno). Whereas previously the Garmin would track more accurately in general (say, measured against race mile markers), and certainly more accurately on twisty trails and the like, than my old AW4. But now I'm annoyed by the fact that the Garmin shorts me on distance more than the AW6; looking at tracks, the AW6 hews closer to the actual trail than Garmin does. I believe DC Rainmaker had similar results, or at least confirmed that the AW does better than it used to. Of course, Garmin's more recent watches are probably better now, too. And they have golf functionality. But as it concerns the AW, it would appear to me that it is as good as anything else these days.
- mft_ 5y agoDCRainmaker is pretty good at comparing the various sensors on different sports watches. This is for the series 6 Apple watch: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/09/apple-watch-series-6-first-run-accuracy-spo2-sensor-data.html https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/09/apple-watch-series-6-fir...
- orangepanda 5y agoMaybe they watched StuffMadeHere
- nixpulvis 5y agoThis website is horribly broken. Scrolling down seems to work well-ish, but scrolling back up breaks everything and my eyes are left dazed and confused.
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y agoSo much marketing and yet after scrolling through the whole page, my only reaction is, "meh..." - even though I know all these incremental improvements are great.
- jagger27 5y agoI just wish they could figure out a way to get the sapphire display on the aluminum models. My stainless steel Series 5 doesn’t have a single visible scratch on it and I’ve worn it every single day since launch. My previous aluminum S3 display was horribly scratched in the same timeframe. I guess it’s good in that I don’t want to upgrade because it still looks new.
- diebeforei485 5y agoThat would increase the price [and weight] of the aluminum models, which makes it harder to sell because aluminum is not a premium material that can command a higher price.
- gnicholas 5y agoIt's nice that the watch can tell how fast a tennis serve is, but I don't know anyone who wears a watch on the hand that they hold their racquet in. Also, the watch presumably can't tell how fast the ball is served, which depends on the racquet speed and whether you make good contact with the ball.
- nanidin 5y ago> Also, the watch presumably can't tell how fast the ball is served, which depends on the racquet speed and whether you make good contact with the ball. I think I disagree here. It should be possible to build a model that infers things like racquet speed and where the ball made contact with the racquet based on accelerometer data. At the end of the day you have an arm attached to a racket moving at some speed, that impacts a ball that is relatively not moving. A straightforward model could calculate the lost momentum in the arm + racquet, assume the ball's mass, and work backwards to the ball's velocity from there. I'm assuming there is more ML magic behind Apple's implementation though.
- gnicholas 5y agoTo mix a metaphor, all good serves are the same; all bad serves are bad in their own way. A model might work well for people who generally serve well, or for an individual person who serves badly in a particular way. But how do you make a model that works for many different types of people, and many different types of serves? It would be great to see if the data that the Apple Watch generates is similar to what speed guns show. That would make a great experiment for a high schooler!
- IkmoIkmo 5y agoPretty sure that was SwingVision, an app based on real-time video analysis of your swing, rather than the hardware on your watch. The watch is just a screen to relay feedback to the user. https://swing.tennis/ https://swing.tennis/
- gnicholas 5y agoThat would seem much more plausible! If that's the case, I wasn't the only person who was fooled; Ars Technica is reporting that: > the Series 7 can measure users' tennis serve speed or the distance of a golf drive, and "Hey Siri" prompts can tell users how far they've biked. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/the-apple-watch-gets-a-visual-makeover-with-the-series-7/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/the-apple-watch-gets...
- NoPicklez 5y agoI was really hoping that apple would implement a "stress" or "body battery" type feature like Garmin and Whoop have. Adding more health metrics is cool, but taking those metrics and telling me what they mean is much more informative. As we know the watch OS already calculates the HRV and respiratory rate for us so it would be great if they added a "stress" and/or "recovery" time feature. The watch already records Heart Rate, Heart Rate Variability, Respiratory rate and Resting Heart Rate, which are commonly used in these metrics. Understand that there are third party apps that try to do similar however I think this is an area that Apple is lacking in compared to other smart watches.