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Apple Introduces Apple Watch Ultra

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Re: Apple Introduces Apple Watch Ultra

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Post by arberx »

Apple is missing the mark in this segment.

Their competitors: Garmin, coros all offer weeks of battery life with tradeoffs people in this segment happily make.

I get 20 days of battery life on my coros pace 2. Charging a apple watch every night or two would not be acceptable.

Re: Apple Introduces Apple Watch Ultra

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Post by digdugdirk »

peppertree wrote: post #8
nhance wrote: post #2

As an avid ultrarunner, this is the first apple watch I'd ever consider. We aren't part of the apple ecosystem and I'm a bit resistant to join, so I am really excited to see the garmin or samsung equivalent to this

It cracks me up when people say Apple is evil go with Samsung. Samsung heir literally went to jail for bribing the Korean president, and that was just tip of the iceberg.

I don't see this as an "Apple is evil" comment. There are plenty of people who use Windows/Linux + Android for their computing environment, and for those people, jumping into the Apple ecosystem is an infeasible time/money/productivity commitment.

Re: Apple Introduces Apple Watch Ultra

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

cmcmcm wrote: post #10

Still no Apple Watch for ladies... They're all enormous!

Size is probably driven by the size of the electronics, size of batteries, and size of screen. You could probably get a usable system on a smaller screen, but the rest of it, I suspect, is already up against the limits of what we can manufacture today.

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Post by highwaylights »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #13
88840-8855 wrote: post #9

How many people will ever use any of those features? 0.01% of the watch owners? Fail.

It's not about using the futures - it's about imagining a life in which you use those features.

onlyrealcuzzo gets it.

The pitch is basically:

Buy Apple products. You might not be a pro photographer, but you could be an Instagram legend. You will be an Instagram legend. Think of the likes. THINK OF THE FAME. How could it not happen with a device of this quality? Look at the photos. Look how gorgeous they are!

Just drop $10k on an Apple load-out and don't think too much about it. It's not like it matters. You'll make it back in no time, superstar. You're not like the rest of these norms. You're special. You're one of us. You're one of the crazy ones.

Welcome to your new, better, diamond-cut chamfered-edged life.

Re: Apple Introduces Apple Watch Ultra

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Post by chrisBob »

As a casual runner that does some track workouts, the extra button is my favorite feature of this new watch. The built in stopwatch app with screen buttons is miserable for timing workouts.

Now I just need to wait a few years for the extra button to trickle down to something that my family agrees is in budget.

Re: Apple Introduces Apple Watch Ultra

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Post by entropie »

drewg123 wrote: post #16

How can they call 36 hours of battery life "long"? The $799 version Garmin Fenix 7 solar (which they seem to be targeting) has an 18-22 days of battery life.

I guess the display and colors are way better on the apple watch.

Retina display with 2k nits. I guess it looks awesome.

I prefer my garmin too. I charge it like two times a month and my gps fixes very fast and is very accurate

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