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Why not Apple Watch 8? Surely it’s not a technical reason, more a business one.
by yumraj 2y ago
Why not Apple Watch 8?
Surely it’s not a technical reason, more a business one.
- MBCook 2y agoWhat makes you so sure it’s not technical?
- yumraj 2y agoThere are no new sensors in 9 than in 8. Different processor, battery life, etc sure.. Business reason is clear: they lost the oxygen sensor, so people hesitant to upgrade.
- dangus 2y agoDifferent processor seems like a possible reason if they’re using new instructions. Of course I’m not saying it doesn’t line up nicely with a business reason to incentivize upgrades.
- MichaelZuo 2y agoSomeone else claims the 9 has a better accelerometer… what’s your source that ‘there are no new sensors’?
- MBCook 2y ago> Different processor, battery life, etc sure.. So there’s no way a better processor would be needed to get acceptable all night battery life and that could be the reason? Sounds like you may have nailed exactly why they did it.
- asadm 2y agoatleast due to processing/battery reasons.
- brandonb 2y agoThe Apple Watch 9 and Ultra 2 have a neural engine (GPU), which may be helpful if the sleep apnea detection algorithm uses a neural network. Those models also come with a third-generation heart rate sensor, although that part may not be required if the algorithm truly only relies on accelerometer data.
- ezfe 2y agoThe Series 9 has a better low-power background accelerometer than the Series 8, which is likely the reason.
- Weryj 2y agoBut, both devices have breathing rate detection during sleep. So it's active in both devices over-night.
- can16358p 2y agoApple has their standards high (though I agree they sometimes can't meet it themselves). They wouldn't want their brand to be associated with some half baked feature that either runs very slow, or draws too much power/heats up, or unreliable. So even if another version is technically capable of that feature, if it runs slowly/inefficient, they'd not enable it to protect their brand value which makes sense: as a user if Apple announces a feature, I know it's more "done" compared to the competition like say Samsung/Android etc. and I trust that it's not half baked (which sometimes fails to meet the expectations, but still MUCH better than the competition) The business reasons are just a plus _on top of_ these reasons.
- nerdjon 2y agoIf it was purely a business one, they would not have put it on the Apple Watch 9 which is no longer available. Putting it on the 9 doesn't do anything for sales. There must have been some hardware difference.