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What can they add now? Blood pressure would probably be nice, but I imagine it's probably difficult to get accuracy in an apple watch style device.
Galaxy watch 4 and later have it
I hope they add it in the Watch 10 then.
Maybe since 9 is such a small change they have been working on a bigger change for the 10.
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I imagine it will be a better experience, but it's a bit deceptive to talk about it like it's a new feature, when it's really just an improvement of an existing feature. And I wonder if the new OS update will improve the performance of this feature on older AWs.
> And I wonder if the new OS update will improve the performance of this feature on older AWs. Given Apple’s way of adding new features as exclusive to new devices or making some features better in new devices, I believe it’s quite unlikely that older Apple Watches will see any improvement on this gesture.
Mh, seems to be a lack of innovation. Double tap and UWB as the only new sensor features.
You, who gets the new device every year, is not the target market.
People who upgrade from devices that are falling out of OS support are. For them it's 4-6 "lack of innovation" diffs that sum up to a huge chunk of new stuff and improvements across the board.
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What can they add now? Blood pressure would probably be nice, but I imagine it's probably difficult to get accuracy in an apple watch style device.
Galaxy watch 4 and later have it
Mh, seems to be a lack of innovation. Double tap and UWB as the only new sensor features.
What can they add now? Blood pressure would probably be nice, but I imagine it's probably difficult to get accuracy in an apple watch style device.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Galaxy watch 4 and later have it
There are some caveats to the BP measurement on the Galaxy watch, I'm not too surprised Apple isn't quite ready to implement it with similar requirements. They're probably holding out until it can be an "it just works" feature.
I was an early(ish) adopter of smart watches/wearables - think Pebble and LG G Watch era. I walked away from that experience with the perception they exist solely as expensive distraction machines with an extremely short functional life and have been enjoying mechanical watches since.
This tech has me on the verge of trying again. It's seems to be getting pretty close a ubicomp device. There's enough compute onboard to do useful things with the sensors, particularly with the addition of the neural cores. The UWB proximity awareness look interesting too for someone with other apple devices (HomePods etc).
What I'm not familiar with is the current software ecosystem. Are there any core functions or third party apps that make use of this outside of just slinging notifications?
For those using the Apple Watch: would you recommend it? I was an early(ish) adopter of smart watches/wearables - think Pebble and LG G Watch era. I walked away from that experience with the perception they exist solely as expensive distraction machines with an extremely short functional life and have been enjoying mechanical watches since. This tech has me on the verge of trying again. It's seems to be getting prett…
Mine is a series 6 and have at least another year left on it. I may consider buying series 10 if Apple decides to do some substantial changes for the 10th anniversary release.
The gesture thing (double tap?) seemed like an odd announcement, since they pretty much already announced that feature a year ago. They tried to tie this feature to the AW9, as if the new processor made it possible. But it seems basically identical to the accessibility feature they announced last year: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/use-hand-gestures-control-a...
The double pinch recognition (enabled in Accessibility) seems a bit hit or miss on Apple Watch 8. Maybe they improved it a lot more in Apple Watch 9, because in the event they mentioned the use of the gyroscope, accelerometer and heart rate sensor to detect the motion.