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It'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 suunt
by RamblingCTO 2mo ago
It'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.
- notsmarthuh 2mo ago[flagged]
- 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.
- notsmarthuh 2mo ago[flagged]
- 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.
- notsmarthuh 2mo ago[flagged]
- 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.