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I'm most annoyed that they've locked competent GPS tracking behind a $799 price tag. It's the one reason why I didn't get an Apple Watch originally. It was consistently less reliable and inaccurate in weird ways than similarly priced Garmin and others.
"along with recreational scuba diving to 40 meters with the new Oceanic+ app."
I was looking at $1,000 Garmin watches and was really not excited at buying one.
How many people will ever use any of those features? 0.01% of the watch owners? Fail.
How many people will ever use any of those features? 0.01% of the watch owners? Fail.
How many people use 8TB of SSD storage? Fail.
I'm most annoyed that they've locked competent GPS tracking behind a $799 price tag. It's the one reason why I didn't get an Apple Watch originally. It was consistently less reliable and inaccurate in weird ways than similarly priced Garmin and others.
Significantly so, especially when paired with a phone (which users already own).
I'm most annoyed that they've locked competent GPS tracking behind a $799 price tag. It's the one reason why I didn't get an Apple Watch originally. It was consistently less reliable and inaccurate in weird ways than similarly priced Garmin and others.
This is a review of an Apple 5, and it's within a few % points of a Garmin
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/11/apple-watch-series-5-spo...
It actually looks exactly like these ads.
I'm most annoyed that they've locked competent GPS tracking behind a $799 price tag. It's the one reason why I didn't get an Apple Watch originally. It was consistently less reliable and inaccurate in weird ways than similarly priced Garmin and others.
Apple Watch is significantly more accurate than a Garmin or other handheld 'portable' GPS unit. Significantly so, especially when paired with a phone (which users already own).
(Some do, but many of us specifically leave the phone at home, and run with our apple watches to save having a big clonkly phone)
How many people will ever use any of those features? 0.01% of the watch owners? Fail.