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Re: Apple Watch Ultra 4

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As someone who often backpacks off grid, the features listed are pretty interesting. Anyone have any alternative products this competes with? The "adventure" watch is a new thing for me

Not to be too dismissive, but have you heard of Garmin, Suunto, Coros, or Polar? They all have something similar.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 4

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Hyperbole is Apple’s favorite communication style, but at this point it’s so overused that it’s just a meaningless meme. Apple’s wearable competitors blow the Apple Watch’s battery life out of the water and it’s not even close. Hyperbole is all Apple has in this race.

On the flip side, Apple blows them away on feature set, and often on data accuracy. There is give & take, different priorities for different people.

Blows them away? I haven't seen anything that is not just one or two features that other watches don't have. But all the.features require the watch to be on.

Data accuracy most certainly is not in relation to GPS which often cuts distances on the Apple Watch.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 4

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Interesting but the short battery life and 40m (130ft) scuba diving depth limit still make it useless for me.

130ft/40m is standard limit for non-tec diving. Past that depth, you will be using diving computers and not a smartwatch. And the training you receive will help you to understand why.

Who is "you"? I have the training and sometimes go significantly deeper. I use a competing Garmin smartwatch, works great. Do you understand why?

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 4

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Hyperbole is Apple’s favorite communication style, but at this point it’s so overused that it’s just a meaningless meme. Apple’s wearable competitors blow the Apple Watch’s battery life out of the water and it’s not even close. Hyperbole is all Apple has in this race.

On the flip side, Apple blows them away on feature set, and often on data accuracy. There is give & take, different priorities for different people.

I’ve had a previous Apple Watch Ultra, it was nice but after playing with it for a while I used it for notifications and working out. I have a Garmin Epix Pro Gen 2 51mm that will do 31 days of being just a smartwatch and can track my multi day cycling trips. The real killer feature I didn’t know I needed until I had it is a proper led torch on my watch, the light up screen on the Apple Watch doesn’t compare.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 4

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No, I'm not opposed. I got my watch like 2 months ago and haven't really messed with it since. Just baffled that the option doesn't exist. Which app do you use for that and does it affect battery life?

Why so helpless? Maybe try and solve the problem before complaining about it. Pedometer apps that pull from Apple Health and offer Watch face complications are a dime a dozen in the app store.

Users just find it odd that this isn't a built-in optional data field considering that step counting (pedometer) has been one of the most common smartwatch use cases for many years now.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 4

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You just plug in your devices when you go to sleep. I don't get why that is difficult.

That does diminish the sleep tracking benefits. It's still doable, but now it becomes "remember to charge your watch at least an hour before bedtime" which isn't as simple of a routine.

Hmm okay I haven't though about that.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 4

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You just plug in your devices when you go to sleep. I don't get why that is difficult.

That does diminish the sleep tracking benefits. It's still doable, but now it becomes "remember to charge your watch at least an hour before bedtime" which isn't as simple of a routine.

If you’re using the sleep tracking features, the watch will remind you if it thinks it won’t have the juice to get through the night.

15 mins of charging during a shower is usually all I do for my S9

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 4

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An "Ultra Mini" with a proper lap button would open my wallet very quickly.

Same, I’d pay for more physical buttons

I just want the extra (vs non-Ultras) button THAT'S ALREADY THERE to allow mapping to "lap". Blew my mind that wasn't possible when I went to try one at the apple store.

LOL @ downvoting this of all things.

Re: Apple Watch Ultra 4

#100
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The Ultra 2 was sold to me as the watch that can do Siri without network connectivity. That was very useful to me to leave reminders for stuff I think about while on a run without the phone. 3 years later, Apple releases the OS 27 versions and Siri got improved to the point where it can’t work on-device any more on said Ultra 2 So to get the feature back which I paid for and which was specifically used to sell me the…

I seriously am surprised there are no class action suits around the crippling of older devices that is happening these days. Google Home speakers are prime example of that.
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