Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Apple Watch Series 10

apple.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

121–130 of 475 posts

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

#121

Post by tpurves »

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.

Yes! Agonizing that 10 years in and the battery still can't get you through more than one day. My pebble from 2013 was a much more practical and useable device than any Apple watch I've owned over the last decade.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

#122

Post by zoul »

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.

Got Garmin Fenix, use mainly for the sports features. Lasts a week on a single charge including several activities with GPS usage. Can’t imagine having another device to charge daily.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

#123

Post by danudey »

Nextgrid wrote: post #113
mgrandl wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How old are the kids? My wife can’t find well fitting watch bands for the smallest Apple Watch due to here thin wrists. Can’t imagine finding some for a kid.

You can find handmade Apple Watch bracelets on Etsy. Alongside a lot of dropshipped crap ones from Aliexpress - but the point is it seems like third parties are able to make bracelets that replicate the mechanical “interface” for the bracelets, so you should be able to find any size you want.

You can also get adapters that allow you to connect any standard watch band you can find at a store to an Apple Watch.

Example: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07YTN8VY4/

Probably makes it even easier to find watch bands that work/fit kids/that they like.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

#124

Post by avidphantasm »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #118
nextos wrote: post #32

I really wish they made it independent of the iPhone. I think for people that only use smartphones occasionally, it'd be ideal to have just a watch and a desktop/laptop. It'd also be a great move by Apple towards reducing distractions of its users. Watches can be much less intrusive than phones.

> I think for people that only use smartphones occasionally, it'd be ideal to have just a watch and a desktop/laptop. Apple doesn't want to build a world in which people occasionally use smartphones. They're an iPhone company. They're building things to make iPhone's more valuable and to keep / strengthen their lead / profit engine.

Would love to see anti-trust enforcement to force Apple to allow pairing with iPad or Mac. There is no good reason to limit to iPhone.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

#125

Post by dr_kiszonka »

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.

I don't understand features like sleep apnea monitoring on a device with an "all-day, 18-hour battery life," unless they're expecting people to get one watch for the day and another one for the night.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

#126

Post by lainga »

7e wrote: post #94
crooked-v wrote: post #78

Calling an 18-hour battery life 'all day' still feels like at best borderline fraud to me.

In the arctic summer, days can be longer than 18 hours. Or if you don't sleep, I guess. Excepting those cases 18 hours seems all day to me.

I think it just throws me off due to cultural differences. Most homes and offices in my country have electric lighting, which means we can end up living and working outside of daylight hours, especially on Fridays. I have on numerous occasions asked people how their day was, and they tell me about things that happened while the sun was not up.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

#127

Post by hombre_fatal »

1123581321 wrote: post #19
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.

That sounds like a peculiar issue, so maybe it'll be bug-fixed in the new iOS. They don't announce small fixes.

It's a common issue with all health wearables because they don't have sufficient data.

When your heart rate and respiration rate are at sleep level because you just slept for four hours, but you woke up and now you're waiting to go back to sleep, there isn't much that a wrist strap can do to disambiguate.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

#128

Post by wilsonnb3 »

HaZeust wrote: post #120
wilsonnb3 wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can but in practice this doesn't end up working well. By the time your airpod is out of your pocket, out of the case, in your ear, and connected to your watch, the call has stopped ringing. If you are only worried about placing calls and not receiving them, it works better but you still have to contend with bluetooth, which is less than 100% reliable, being an essential component of your setup.

>"You can but in practice this doesn't end up working well. By the time your airpod is out of your pocket, out of the case, in your ear, and connected to your watch, the call has stopped ringing." How is the form factor of this any different than when you connect AirPods to take a call on your iPhone? This exact order of premeditation prior to the action of taking a call is already commonplace if for the iPhone - why…

Well the difference is that I can hold my iPhone up to my ear to take a call in public, whereas the only options with the watch are airpods or speakerphone.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

#129

Post by mulderc »

dr_kiszonka wrote: post #125
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.

I don't understand features like sleep apnea monitoring on a device with an "all-day, 18-hour battery life," unless they're expecting people to get one watch for the day and another one for the night.

I wear my Apple Watch all the time, even when I'm sleeping. I pretty much just charge it when I'm in the shower or getting ready in the morning. It charges super fast, and I've found that having a regular charging routine is actually better for these gadgets.

Funny enough, watches with longer battery life can mess up your charging habits. I had this problem with my old Pebble watch. Yeah, the battery lasted longer, but I'd forget to charge it and end up with a dead watch more often than I do with my Apple Watch.

Now, I just pop it on the charger every morning, and I'm good to go. No more worrying about it dying on me out of nowhere.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

#130

Post by spike021 »

crooked-v wrote: post #78

Calling an 18-hour battery life 'all day' still feels like at best borderline fraud to me.

Depends on your definition of 'all day'. I wear mine from about 7 or 8am until about midnight and it just about lasts that entire time. It's a series 6 so not the newest either.

I guess if you want to wear it to sleep it just means taking it off sooner to charge. Personally I hate wearing it to sleep, it feels very uncomfortable and bulky for that.

Post reply on HN