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The Apple Watch is definitely fashion accessory first and fitness device second. I can't use it running in the colder seasons - a sweaty sleeve triggers the la
by alistairSH 2mo ago
The Apple Watch is definitely fashion accessory first and fitness device second.
I can't use it running in the colder seasons - a sweaty sleeve triggers the lap count (tap the screen - no ability to reassign to a button). It's one of the most annoying and fixable (if they cared) issues on an Apple device I've encountered. Not even the ultra-premium, ulta-outdoorsy Ultra version lets you map "lap count" to the extra button!!!
- RamblingCTO 2mo agoIt's just both (or more for the casual jogger than serious ultra runner for example). If you need a proper, dedicated sports device get a coros, garmin or suunto. Apple Watch is more leaning towards day to day, while these things are for sports and just for sports. But suck at day to day stuff if you want the fancy apple watch things. Pick your poison.
- robot_jesus 2mo agoPretty much. I have an Apple Watch, my wife has a Garmin. I’m jealous of the advanced metrics and data she has on all of our workouts and the accuracy. And that battery life. She’s jealous of all the slick bells and whistles (unlocking my laptop automatically, deep app ecosystem, managing grocery lists etc). Neither is perfect but both have their uses. You have to pick a side (or spend twice as much and pick both sides ;-)).
- ghaff 2mo agoThe battery life negative on the Apple Watch is the big thing. I have an Ultra that is a bit better but I don't wear it say-to-day because the charging routine is a bit of a pain.
- stevesimmons 2mo agowhy do you want your watch to manage a grocery list? seriously
- bcraven 2mo agoI can see it being useful to have a list on my wrist whilst going round a supermarket.
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- Larrikin 2mo agoYea this sucks the moment you are shopping for anyone besides yourself. You can split up the items in the grocery store and be done way faster. Even alone, the person at home can add some last minute items. Just use something self hosted like Mealie. I'll be shopping for what I want to make and then see something is on sale and can easily look up a recipe to add to the list as well.
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- deinonychus 2mo agomaybe try your own memory, so you don't lose every scrap of data about yourself to the Book Goblins in the process.
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- deinonychus 2mo agoi find it very convenient being able to, at any point in the day whether my hands are messy or my phone or a piece of paper are far from me, simply raise my wrist and say "add greek yogurt to my grocery list"
- dyauspitr 2mo agoWhat metrics does garmin provide that the Apple Watch doesn’t
- zitrusfrucht 2mo agoMostly things like recovery time recommendations, body battery, training status, some scores, stuff like that.
- dyauspitr 2mo agoThere are tons of secondary apps that provide all of those things. Fundamentally the Garmin records less baseline parameters than the Apple Watch does for instance it does not do blood oxygen level monitoring, so whatever stats it’s providing are just software algorithms.
- RamblingCTO 2mo agohonestly, if you're asking that question you don't need a garmin/coros. I'm a long distance trail runner, so I appreciate things like a cleaner heart rate (strap), hill climb alerts (length + degree), food alerts, loading a map (mandatory for races to have the route as GPX on my watch). Also stuff like training readiness, recovery etc. Stuff like that. If you're a recreational jogger, you don't need a specialized watch imho.
- zitrusfrucht 2mo agoTo my knowledge, Apple Health is the only health/fitness data storage with end to end encrypted data, which is one of my main reasons to stay out of other fitness eco systems even if their hardware is way better.
- samuell 2mo agoGarmin lets you connect your device as an USB storage device and manage everything manually though. I do this to completely skip online uploading, and am keeping track of stats using a mashup of bash scripts and cli tools.
- al_borland 2mo agoI feel like there has to be a middle ground between giving everything to an untrusted cloud and manually downloading raw data and building home grown tools to try and process and make sense of it. As a user, I don't want either of those extremes.
- zitrusfrucht 2mo agoThere is https://gadgetbridge.org https://gadgetbridge.org, which seems like a cool project but I never used it since it is Android only and don't know how good the support actually is.
- zitrusfrucht 2mo agoThat sounds good and I will look into it.
- chedabob 2mo agoI use the water lock which is a bit annoying when I need to actually swipe on the screen.
- alistairSH 2mo agoYeah, if you don't need to track laps at all, that works. But if I'm doing an interval set on the road in January, it's a terrible UX.
- PaulHoule 2mo agoUnlike a Garmin Watch it will actually take a charge.
- ctkhn 2mo agoDoes your garmin watch not charge? If you call them and are nice they'll probably give you a heavily discounted replacement. Mine died on me randomly and they gave me a new 900 series forerunner for $125
- PaulHoule 2mo agoIt charges if and only when it wants to. And I've been a Garmin enthusiast for a while and been through a few devices already though I am getting sick of the charging unreliability. Like if I am really careful I can plug my watch into the computer and it might start charging in a few minutes. Or like last night I made two tries and neither of them worked. I want to be able to plug it in to charge and completely take it for granted that I will come back later and it will be charged. I might wind up attempting to charge the watch for four whole hours in a day as it is now. Personally I am very traumatized by USB connections that don't work and when I hear the sound of a USB device dropping out on my Windows computer I feel like a veteran who thinks a misfiring car is a gunshot. I want a charging connector which is 100% reliable and I want Garmin to pay me $10,000 if I ever hear that sound because of their poorly designed connector. So I want a replacement watch that charges reliably, I don't want a cheap newer watch that has the same improperly designed connector. Next week I am going to be off grid at an event where I'm expected to have a reliable watch and hoping I can charge it successfully off a power bank at least once.
- mohaine 2mo agoAgreed. I’m on my 4th Garmin and the charging cable last about a year or two at most. That said, for me it has always just been the cable and the watch is self last forever. All 4 of my old Garmin’s still work if I get them out of a drawer and charge them up. Now I just small USBC -> Garmin adapter's that normally get lost before they wear out. I would love a standards based wireless option here.
- quickthrowman 2mo ago> The Apple Watch is definitely fashion accessory first and fitness device second. Are Apple Watches really fashion accessories? I think a $30 Casio F91W looks better than an Apple Watch, most purpose-built watches do. I might be biased since I am afflicted with an interest in wristwatches, ahem, timepieces.
- freetime2 2mo agoI don’t know anything about fashion. I suppose it’s possible that with the right wristband, matching outfit, and on the correct occasion - it could be a fashion statement, I don’t know. But I’ve just always worn watches anyway for telling time, have an affinity for gadgets, and consider the Apple Watch as just a more capable wrist watch. I’m sure the way I wear it - with an extremely worn out and faded “trail loop” band - is extremely unfashionable. But I still like it.