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Question for the audience: If I'm not a hypochondriac, why would I want an apple watch?
by butlike 1y ago
Question for the audience: If I'm not a hypochondriac, why would I want an apple watch?
- netule 1y agoIf you’re really into fitness and/or min-maxing your own stats. Honestly, it can create a bit of an obsessive loop once you get deep into it.
- misiti3780 1y agoWhoop is more accurate though.
- aliljet 1y agoIs it? Across what metric?
- cenamus 1y agoAnd most likely still junk
- hombre_fatal 1y agoNo, the Apple Watch is basically best of breed in terms of sleep and heart rate accuracy. The Whoop is like 90% accurate compared to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SzUDTBK-i0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SzUDTBK-i0 It's just trade-offs: if you're using the Whoop, you don't want a screen and you like two weeks battery life.
- arresin 1y agoThere’s a study that pitted different devices against each other. The whoop was more accurate. At least a few years ago it was
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- dyauspitr 1y agoNot really. Also if I’m going to wear something on my wrist all day I want it to do more than just record some stats.
- misiti3780 1y agoi wear both.
- lm28469 1y ago> min-maxing your own stats So many people fall in this category, but a lot of them seem to min-max their gear more than anything. I know casual runners with $400 carbon plate performance shoes, I run with them, in my $7 decathlon shoes, unless you're paid to run or aim for a record I really don't see the point, especially since these thing barely last a few month of serious running. Same for hikers with $3k of ultralight gear, they spend more time reading reviews and flexing their 0.1g hacks than actually hiking. There is a huge overlap between tech nerds and "gear hobbyists", I assume because they have too much money for their own good.
- ninininino 1y agoIf you're a serious runner/swimmer/cyclist/surfer who likes to track workouts and already invested in the Apple ecosystem for messaging/music/etc and like the idea of leaving your phone at home.
- abraxas 1y agoIt's not very good for tracking swimming stats. Honestly, I'm still looking for something that will track laps accurately and without a ton of fuss.
- thinkharderdev 1y agoYeah, back when I used to swim a lot I could never find anything that was any good at tracking swim distance either in a pool or open water.
- abraxas 1y agoI just got a pair of swim goggles with a tracker. About to test them at the pool. I don't have high hopes for them but at least they were purpose built with swimmers in mind.
- ninininino 1y agoIt'll track heartrate, duration of workout, and a loose notion of distance at least.
- joachim4 1y agoIt might be because it is one of the few trackers that can track laps in pools less than 14 meters. Most of the others watches don't allow that, which might be due to a difference in sensors and the way the tracking is done.
- tw600040 1y agoI once thought I wouldn't need a mobile phone and that landlines were sufficient.
- infecto 1y agoData can show a lot about your health. Anecdotally I find the sleep disturbances (apnea) monitoring to work for me. The trends are a pretty nice, will track general changes in health on the data it monitors. They now can capture high BP to some degree of accuracy. It’s not for everyone but for me it’s one of the more useful devices in my life. Depends where you are at in life but I found as I have gotten older that some of the data points are helpful to track to see how my body is aging and when/what to adjust.
- afavour 1y agoOP said not a hypochondriac
- infecto 1y agoIf you have nothing to add why even respond. I am sharing my anecdote of why I think it’s useful. If you don’t have anything to contribute go buzz off weirdo. It’s not that hard.
- Brendinooo 1y agoWhat about the comment you replied to makes you say "hypochondriac"? Weird thing to say imo
- Detrytus 1y agoI use it mostly because Apple Pay is so convenient, no need to carry a wallet
- seemaze 1y agoBut the battery life on my wallet is phenomenal!
- lostlogin 1y agoMy non-e-bike has 7 batteries. 2x in the shifters 2x in the derailleurs Radar/rear light Front light Computer When I get in there the usually shiite people carry (phone, EarPods etc). What a time to be alive.
- dzhiurgis 1y agoI haven't carried one for a decade. No car keys or house keys, all in my phone. Never had an issue. Life is a bliss.
- dyauspitr 1y agoI wish I could use it without having to use iCloud.
- hhhhjjj 1y agoI bought one for my grandma for fall detection. She lives alone.
- abraxas 1y agoI ask the same question. I see people around me who own these spiral into obsessive tracking of arbitrary health related metrics without any purpose other than to make themselves worried sick (pun intended) about the reported numbers.
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoHealth is only a small part of my watch usage. Mostly I use it for paying for things and unlocking things, and for dispatching my kid's screen time requests quickly.
- noncoml 1y agoFor my aging eyes, Apple Watch Ultra is the only watch where I can have time and date and read it comfortably. I used to have a cheap casio that would do the same job, but the digits are getting too small for my eyes. TBH I only use the Apple Watch as a dumb watch. I have disabled all notifications and smart features. Just time and heart-rate when I exercise.
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoFor me its: - Apple Pay (I don't have to take out my phone to pay for things). One really cool feature is that the apple watch maintains your credentials as long as you don't take it off your wrist, so you don't need to unlock anything to pay for something. - Apple Car/Home Key (I don't have to take out my phone to unlock my front door) - notifications on my wrist when my washer machine is done - notifications on my wrist when an unhoused neighbor door checks my car in the middle of the night. - Apple Health: metrics on my daily workout. - Screen time: grant kid 15 minutes of Roblox without taking my phone out of my pocket - Edit: I'm embarrassed to admit that I also use the "find my phone" feature a lot when at home. I don't really need an ultra for any of that, and I don't see a reason to upgrade my 2-3 year old Apple Watch now.
- wenc 1y agoAlso Express Transit. If you live in a city that supports it like NYC or Toronto, just tap your wrist (no unlock) on transit and you’re in.
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoI live in Seattle. Android gets that, but we don't yet, and they keep putting it off. This is basically Seattle's core dysfunction on display (called the "Seattle Process"), and its why our escalators are always broken, our transit projects are a few decades behind schedule, and why ORCA cards can't be loaded into an Apple Wallet yet. When I visit Japan though, Apple watch works fine with SUICA. Unfortunately, in China, AliPay is too complicated to be used on a watch and you have to whip out your phone regardless because of the QR code thing. If China ever upgrades to NFC, it will work fine.
- wenc 1y agoI also live in Seattle, and have to dig my Orca card out of my wallet every time. I can't even tap my wallet because there are multiple NFC cards in there. I tell myself, eh first world problems. But agreed that it's also a Seattle Process problem. For a city with so many tech companies, the city itself isn't very technological.
- closewith 1y agoIn my family, we use them for payments, front door & car keys, and surprisingly often to find phones lost in the house.
- hombre_fatal 1y agoAccountability for your fitness. Did you actually get 7-8 hours? Did you actually get good quality sleep? Did you actually move some target amount every day?
- dzhiurgis 1y agoThe idea of wearing a screen while you sleep is kinda crazy to me in 2025. Society seems trying to de-screen in last decade, but here's a bracelet you wear 24/7. That said I sleep with AirPods and iPhone next to me so who am I to judge.
- dyauspitr 1y agoIt’s not like you can do any browsing on the watch screen. Basically a nonissue.
- thinkharderdev 1y agoI'm not hypochondriac and don't use any of the health monitoring features. What I use it for: * Notifications (imessages mainly, but anything that sends a push notification to your phone can also notify you on your watch) * Quickly responding (thumbs up/down) to messages * Apple Pay * HomeKey (I can unlock all the doors in my house with my watch) * Some apps (like AllTrails) have nice watchOS apps which give you the important info by glancing at your wrist.
- jerlam 1y agoApple is not-bad at proactively notifying you about potential health problems it discovered, instead of you spending time and effort looking at the numbers it records. The watch will tell you if it thinks you have sleep apnea, heart rate irregularities, drops in fitness, out of baseline sleep, dramatic trends in any health statistics, and high blood pressure.
- jakeweary 1y agoThe vast majority of people wearing them are doing so because they think they look cool.
- dyauspitr 1y agoNot even close. It has done so much to gamify working out for me that I’ve been consistently lifting and working out for 5+ years now. The fact that it remembers my best 5k time and notifies me when I’ve beaten it is very motivating.
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- randycupertino 1y agoThe biggest perk of the apple watch for me is to be able to keep my phone in my purse or on my desk and not ever miss calls. Important call from a doc I work with? Easy to see it with haptic and a glance at my wrist and I can step out and take it.
- steveBK123 1y agoDid you ever watch Dick Tracy growing up?