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So expensive watch, with previous generation SoC that is older and worse than competitors, at a price point nearly $100 more than said competitors. Here we go again... This seems like a product explicitly designed to fail.
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You forgot, if you are smart, read the pros and cons of each and make the decision for yourself. Thanks for your review of a product that isn’t even out yet
Please visit https://stadia.google.com for more information on expected lifetime of the product.
A Fitbit is better than this in almost every way. As someone who's been wearing a smart watch of some kind for nearly a decade at this point, there are only really three players in this race: Fitbit, Garmin, and Apple. Everything else on the market is a joke by comparison. That's setting aside the fact that nobody should ever trust a Google product launch of hardware at this point.
I just want an affordable watch with data storage. Anyone know of one?
Wear an analog watch on one wrist, and this on the other? https://www.amazon.com/Possibox-Custom-Wristband-Flash-Print...
So expensive watch, with previous generation SoC that is older and worse than competitors, at a price point nearly $100 more than said competitors. Here we go again... This seems like a product explicitly designed to fail.
I really don't see the need for cutting edge CPU in a watch. Even very old chips should have more than enough power for what you need from even the smartest of watches, refined software and battery optimization are far more important than raw power.
* If you're an athlete, buy a Garmin * If you're in iOS user and want an iPhone on your wrist, get a iWatch * If you like to incinerate cash, buy fireworks... or this watch. The lack of compatible wristbands is enough reason to avoid, let alone the inevitable outcome of you losing access to your investment once Google drops support for bringing a half-baked product to market.
I switched to a garmin watch and battery life is great (a week+, and at least a couple of longer hikes or ski days doesn't kill it when tracking exercise), it's also lasted much better and not broken when I dropped it - I have the sapphire something screen, a harder screen.
The watches have access to the apps you opt into, so there is a security possibility of exposing information. The iwatch made me log in every time, such a pain, because it would ask me to log in multiple times a day. The garmin doesn't have a log in. The garmin forwards every message on my screen from my android to my watch and I can reply, while the apple required me to load an app on the phone or watch, adjust each one. I love the garmin, glad I moved on from the iwatch.
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> As a computer scientist, Alphabet is no longer my first preference to get hired. I am curious. Which companies would be your top preferences?
Honestly, in FAANG category, keeping the bad PR aside, the Facebook engineering team feels much more talented actually. I have a lot of friends in both places, but the type of projects they are churning right now at their open source end is much better than Google AFAIK. NVIDIA is also very creatively handing their sortware engineering. Outside of that category, I feel Huggingface is doing some incredible things to b…
Have the announcement ready for this time next year: "Google kills off Pixel Watch after low consumer demand in favor of FitBit." A word to the wise, don't invest your own time and money into google products unless you want to gamble.
Then they merge the two into "Watch" the new alphabet company.
Not like they didn't do that before with their chat apps.