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Re: Apple Event 2020

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Post by nlarew »

ilikehurdles wrote: post #4

Cool, a blood oxygen sensor. What a revolutionary new sensor that Garmin watches have had for only 3 years now.

"Some other company that wanted to differentiate from our market-leading product developed a useful feature before we prioritized it so better never add it to our product because they did it first. No user wants a feature that they could find in another product!"

Re: Apple Event 2020

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Post by WorldPeas »

spike021 wrote: post #5
ilikehurdles wrote: post #4

Cool, a blood oxygen sensor. What a revolutionary new sensor that Garmin watches have had for only 3 years now.

I hope for the day there's no more "they were doing this X time ago!" comparisons.

why? because they make a company that falsely claim they're innovating look bad?

Re: Apple Event 2020

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Post by krrishd »

Not to be too cynical, but is this Apple watch "solo loop" coming in a bunch of fixed sizes a means by which they reduce/minimize the ability to buy/sell used Apple Watches?

Or at their scale does it not really make a difference?

EDIT: nvm lol, forgot that you can just swap out the loops still

Re: Apple Event 2020

#17

Post by mercer »

extremeMath wrote: post #12
mercer wrote: post #2

Say what you will about the Apple spaceship campus, that was a pretty photogenic appearance it made.

Something unrelated to product quality and entirely appearance in an Apple thread, color me surprised.

A snarky comment regurgitating tired old tropes, color me surprised.

Re: Apple Event 2020

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Post by GiorgioG »

Apple Watch Series 6...totally uninspired update. I was hoping we might get a glucose monitor/sensor, instead we get a blood oxygen sensor.

Apple's just coasting at this point. I was considering getting the iPhone 12, but at this point I'm expecting a similar dud launch next month from Apple, so I'd rather give my money to Nvidia for an RTX 3080.

Stop mailing it in Apple.

Re: Apple Event 2020

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Post by netcraft »

skunkworker wrote: post #9

I'm curious how they can get an accurate blood oxygen reading while not having a sensor on the bottom of the wrist. If I recall correctly a finger pulse oximeter requires a sensor below the finger which records the absorption of infrared light.

I believe they must be doing something slightly different than a normal plus oximeter because of that - and also it takes 15 seconds to get a reading.
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