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After using my IPad's software quality, the killer lineup for Apple Arcade, and being impressed with Apple's commitment to privacy: As a long time Apple hater, they are doing a great job of convincing me to spend the money on their products. ( MacBook Pro is still overpriced and kinda sad tho )
It peaked in 2015, and it was a truly beautiful machine.
Curious - does Apple Watch call 911 if you flop onto bed and start napping away?
It also considers your cardiac rhythm so I would think they trained their model to consider it.
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I think you are missing the point here completely and utterly. Compared to what the Apple Watch can do (as mention on the post and several comments) the garmin watch may be the real toy here.
That's hardly true, the two devices have very different purposes. I couldn't run an ultramarathon (or even a shorter trail race) in an apple watch. That's before we even start talking about features. The battery would die long before I finish. The FR945 that was released this year has far more features than the apple watch (including the emergency features). Even comparing the Apple Watch 4 to my FR935 (released in 2…
I had the Apple Watch track me during my hour long bike tours, GPS and heart rate sensor on and all, without any problems and with battery left to spare at the end of the day.
Seven to eight hours is probably the critical mark, but anything below that is no problem at all.
Well, crap. I have been avoiding smart watches like the plague but this plus the ECG may put me over the edge. My family has a history of heart disease, I commute by bike every day, and I have a young child who I want to see grow up. One of my friends was recently killed in a motorcycle crash. A passerby found them in the morning in some bushes near the side of the road. We don't know what time the crash occurred, or…
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That's hardly true, the two devices have very different purposes. I couldn't run an ultramarathon (or even a shorter trail race) in an apple watch. That's before we even start talking about features. The battery would die long before I finish. The FR945 that was released this year has far more features than the apple watch (including the emergency features). Even comparing the Apple Watch 4 to my FR935 (released in 2…
Why couldn’t you? I had the Apple Watch track me during my hour long bike tours, GPS and heart rate sensor on and all, without any problems and with battery left to spare at the end of the day. Seven to eight hours is probably the critical mark, but anything below that is no problem at all.
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There was a legendary cardiologist at my medical school who predicted his own demise, took a Holter monitor home with him one night, wired himself up, went to sleep, never woke up, and left his colleagues with the 12-lead trace of his death.
I find this confusing. If he was so sure of his imminent death why not do the same thing in a hospital room where you had a chance of survival. Unless he had this sense multiple times and was finally right this time...
Thinking of deaths of people I've known; dying at home in bed seems preferable to most.
"Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande is an excellent book on this subject.
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> and it not really being designed for overnight wear (as I understand it) really hold it back. I have a first generation Apple Watch. This is one of the things that annoyed me after buying it: you aint sleeping with it on if you want it to running the next morning. I'm hopeful that batteries will get better and better, and eventually we'll be able to sleep with the watch on and have it track sleeping patterns, etc.
fwiw i have a series 4 and i sleep in it every night. much better battery life than the first gen
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I've been thinking of switching from an old Pebble to a Garmin because it has a daylight visible screen. Do they also have a system to text in case of emergency like the Apple watch?
were pebbles not daylight visible?
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A 12-lead ECG report/graph/whatever it's called. 12 wires collecting data (versus eg the Apple Watch implementation which is equivalent to a 1-lead ECG)
I wouldn't be to sure the Apple watch is even comparable to 1-lead ECG, simply due to the difference of how ECG is attached to you and how the Apple watch is. Through this doesn't mean the Apple watch can't be a useful addition, just don't rely on it.