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Correct. Apple products work well together, but also make it a huge pain in the ass if you don't buy everything from them. The kids have apple products and we c
by nhance 4y ago
Correct. Apple products work well together, but also make it a huge pain in the ass if you don't buy everything from them. The kids have apple products and we can't manage them effectively because we don't have apple devices. This provides a strong disincentive to want to give them any more money.
Samsung was only mentioned because are there any other real competitors to a full smart watch?
Garmin will likely keep me because running gps for 10+ hours at a shot is important.
A full smart watch is far less of a priority.
(On Sunday I ran for roughly 10.5 hours, GPS active the entire time. When I finished, I had 33% of my battery left.)
- mikestew 4y agoGarmin will likely keep me because running gps for 10+ hours at a shot is important. A full smart watch is far less of a priority. If you don't want to dive headlong into Apple's stuff, then a Garmin might very well be all the smart watch you need. It's been quite a few years since I used a Garmin as a full-time smart watch, but you can have notifications and messages (read-only if using an Apple phone) and even contactless payment on a Garmin. If we weren't a knees-deep Apple house, I'd just use my Garmin 945 as my smart watch.
- ghaff 4y agoFor me, the Apple Watch is an Apple product that doesn’t unduly benefit from being all in on the Apple ecosystem but that may be just how I use it (or don’t).
- grayclhn 4y agoSwitching AirPods over from phone to watch and back is pretty nice. That’s the only example I can think of offhand though.
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