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Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by laweijfmvo »

haswell wrote: post #68
laweijfmvo wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly seems like the main reason to buy an Ultra 2 over a 10 is if you dive, or really, really need the extra battery life.

Some concrete reasons I have for wanting that extra battery life: camping, hiking, and road tripping. I can keep up with charging when I have a predictable schedule. When I don’t, I’m always running out of battery and often in the worst moments, i.e. when I’m just starting a hike.

road tripping: you can charge in the car

camping and hiking: sure, but for overnight trips, i have a battery pack (for my phone) that also has a magnetic watch pad.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by btian »

mlhpdx wrote: post #75

Anyone else wondering where the recycled titanium comes from? > Apple Watch Series 10, made with 100 percent recycled aluminum or 95 percent recycled titanium…

Presumably aerospace & medical devices.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by Eric_WVGG »

I was thinking about shelling a little extra for the enhanced casing this year, because I'm pretty tired of the cheap-looking aluminum…

what's this, polished jet-black aluminum? Dang, I think they might have designed themselves out of some upgraded purchases this year!

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by kstrauser »

laweijfmvo wrote: post #6
microtonal wrote: post #3

I thank Apple for not releasing an Ultra 3. No FOMO this year :).

Honestly seems like the main reason to buy an Ultra 2 over a 10 is if you dive, or really, really need the extra battery life.

I don't really, really need the extra battery life. I treated myself to a Ultra 1 when they came out and now I'd never go back to having to charge my watch daily. Among other things, now I never wonder if it's charged enough before bed to track my sleep. It is. It always is.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by ra7 »

laweijfmvo wrote: post #85
amonon wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the value of something like Athlytic/Whoops against just sticking to a routine?

Routine is Step 1, you're right. But for training, seeing things like HRV, resting heart rate, etc. allow you to optimize your training for the day based on your recovery/sleep.

I used Athlytic for a bit, but didn't find it that useful. Ultimately I figured I could just read HRV and RHR from the Health app to optimize training.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by tiltowait »

Eric_WVGG wrote: post #103

I was thinking about shelling a little extra for the enhanced casing this year, because I'm pretty tired of the cheap-looking aluminum… what's this, polished jet-black aluminum? Dang, I think they might have designed themselves out of some upgraded purchases this year!

The enhanced casing this year is titanium, no?

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

#107

Post by rollcat »

wintermutestwin wrote: post #13

My Series 9 totally fails at sleep detection and regularly claims that I am in "Deep Sleep" while I am lying there trying to get back to sleep. Instead of fixing that, they are adding sleep apnea alerts. I wish there was an alternate ecosystem that was actually competitive with Apple.

S6 user here, yeah sleep tracking can be dodgy. Good to know it's not a device issue. Also the OS keeps getting slightly more buggy/glitchy with every major release. I like it that I sometimes still get a new useful feature (sleep tracking wasn't this good on release) but it kinda sucks that a 4yro device is getting overall worse because of software.

Still agree, wish there was competition worth considering.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by crazygringo »

pazimzadeh wrote: post #98

Weird use of semi-colons in the sub-heading?

I've been noticing that more often recently in text -- using semicolons to separate list items when one or more of the list items has a comma.

I know that's been a technically correct usage of the semicolon for a while now, but I've never actually seen it in mainstream news/marketing until in the past few months.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by tiltowait »

hedgehog wrote: post #100

All that and no improvement to battery life. I've been wearing an Apple Watch for a few years, the data collection is good but the abysmal battery life and associated charge management is a real downer. I'm Apple ecosystem for almost everything but the battery and touch sensitivity issues are enough to get me to do the work to go to a different platform for health data.

At this point, it’s pretty clear Apple targets a specific battery life (18 hours) and builds the techs around that. As a result, I don’t think we will get an improvement in that area anytime soon.

However, it does look like they improved the charging story—something like 80% in 30 minutes? Not bad.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by arthur-st »

braaileb wrote: post #9

Sounds like this isn’t a compelling new release for many of you all but as a person with autism the training load feature is something I missed from Garmin. My interoception isn’t very keen and to have this help me train mindfully is nice, I’ve had a history of either under or over training because I can’t sense how my body is adapting.

This depends on the model, e.g., the non-entry level Forerunner series watches have had training load-related metrics for a while now. That said, Garmin is mainly a cardio watch, and by extension the Apple training load metrics seems to be giving a more presentable UX to the "default"[1] approach to cardio training load.

[1] https://evokeendurance.com/a-new-and-better-look-at-training...

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