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I'm a diver, not technical but I've done deep and nitrox. The cost of the subscription seems insane. If you plan to do more than 20 dives in your lifetime, buy
by bombolo 4y ago
I'm a diver, not technical but I've done deep and nitrox.
The cost of the subscription seems insane. If you plan to do more than 20 dives in your lifetime, buying a dive computer seems way more convenient than this.
The free plan is completely useless for scuba diving.
- Tepix 4y agoAmen. I might be interested in getting the Apple Watch Ultra (mainly for diving) but not if it involves a subscription.
- davedx 4y agoPlease explain how $80/year is insane?
- CaptainZapp 4y agoLeaving aside the price of the watch I can get a dive computer for 200$ +. That's for me to own never having to pay a subscription fee.
- ethbr0 4y agoApparently a decent starter dive computer runs $300-400. $400 = $80 * 5 And with the dedicated option you have a purpose built device and something you can resell.
- CaptainZapp 4y agoDepending on what you're looking for you can get a perfectly suitable dive computer for 200$. If you need an example: Look at the Cressi Goa. But there are other examples in this price range.
- mcphage 4y agoWhy would you pay for a subscription in months you're not going diving? You don't need to sign up for the yearly subscription if you only do it a few times a year. Just pay for those days or months.
- LtWorf 4y agoYou need to factor in the time it takes to unsubscribe and re-subscribe.
- Karunamon 4y agoMinutes or less on Apple since they give you a dashboard with all your subscriptions and canceling or restarting is extremely simple
- ethbr0 4y agoIf Apple's value proposition is 'Just manually unsubscribe + resubscribe' then they have a problem.
- Karunamon 4y agoIn a conversation based in good faith and not tired nitpicking most people would understand that it being simple to cancel a subscription when you're not using some thing and then easy to restart when you want to use it again would be a positive…
- LtWorf 4y agoNot so simple… if you forgot to do it at home you certainly can't do it on a dive, given that those often happen from boats, far from cell signal.
- moistly 4y agoYah, and if you forgot your pressure regulator, you’re right f*d as well, qu’elle surprise. You present a fatuous argument.
- LtWorf 4y agoBut you can put the regulator in the bag and keep it there for free. You need to do the subscription just before or you end up paying more. It's a thing that has to be done last minute… so it's way easier that it gets forgotten.
- matthewmacleod 4y agoYes, I’m sure there’s a massive resale market for five year old used dive computers.
- bombcar 4y agoThat’s about the rent/buy ratio for anything - it usually costs about X days of rental of electronics to buy it outright, where X is between 10 and 40 or so.
- CaptainZapp 4y agoEspecially since you get a reasonable good dive computer for $200 nowadays. No bells and whistles, mind you. But everything you really need as an (even ambitioned) diver.
- jitl 4y agoI take at most 3 trips a year max to dive, usually dive ~5 days per trip, and 2 dives per day. I have maybe 150-200 dives total. If each trip is in a different month, it will cost me $30 a year at the maximum. For $300, I can use this app for 10 years worth of diving and roughly 300 more dives. Compare the total package to a Garmin or Suunto sport watch that also does diving and all the other smartwatch things. Those units cost $900-$1500; the Apple Watch with 10 years of casual scuba is $1100. I’ll happily wear the Apple Watch every day, versus a stand-alone computer or a Suunto that I’d only wear for specific activities. My cost per day is like 30¢. Doesn’t seem so bad.
- bombolo 4y agoWell you can get a solid gold scuba computer for 5 million $ However if we are doing meaningful comparisons, you can get a suunto for ~300€, and you will probably have to change the battery one or two times in 10 years.
- bombcar 4y agoSolid gold would be an effective diving weight at least.