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Finally they are focusing on making that thing thinner!! That watch is currently obnoxiously thick and can sometimes get caught on clothes and stuff.
Been hesitant to get due to battery life. My fitbit lasts for days on one charge. Is there ways to configure the watch settings to extend the battery life for more than a day?
Calling an 18-hour battery life 'all day' still feels like at best borderline fraud to me.
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.
Anyone else wondering where the recycled titanium comes from? > Apple Watch Series 10, made with 100 percent recycled aluminum or 95 percent recycled titanium…
Apple seems to get most of their recycled titanium from IperionX:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/iperionx_over-20-years-ago-ap...
IperionX announced they get their recycled source Ti from ELG Utica Alloys:
https://www.aero-mag.com/new-partnership-creates-100-recycle...
From ELG we can read that a source of scrap Ti comes from companies like GE, Boeing, etc:
https://cdn.ymaws.com/titanium.org/resource/resmgr/2010_2014...
But this article from 1990 (may be outdated) states that a misunderstanding of the public is thinking that scrap mostly comes from old devices or planes. But these types of things last long and don't get recycled enough to provide enough volume. This seems to say that the bulk of scrap comes as a byproduct of the smelting process:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11837-018-3278-1
The following article from 2004 however says that recycled Ti comes from 10% old scrap (old recycled parts we normally think of as recycled metal) and 90% "new scrap" which is partly wasted Ti generated when making parts. For example in 2004, the aerospace industry used 12000t of Ti but wasted 10000t of that.
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By performance, is there any stat outside of battery life that really matters here? It is a watch after all
It does bring some feature improvements year over year. Siri works offline on S9 and Ultra 2, the S10 has a neural network to remove background noise if you use it for phone calls.
Looks like nothing has been announced that is groundbreaking here. It seems it was rumoured that the Apple Watch Series 10 would have blood pressure monitoring but instead removed the blood oxygen detection from US models in the fine print: "The ability to measure blood oxygen is no longer available on Apple Watch units sold by Apple in the United States beginning January 18, 2024."
Whoop (another wearable) has been doing closed consumer testing on optical blood pressure. Probably trying to figure it out for the Whoop 5.0, but if it Apple couldn't figure it out this year, I don't think anyone will. Maybe next Christmas.
I just use whoop these days for better accuracy and battery life. Not interested in the complex screens and notifications.
The annual subscription though... $319. That is an absurd amount of money imo
I got a Whoop the other month and really like it. The ulti-day battery life + no screen + low profile gadget are what won me over even though I like Apple Watch's tech.
The way I see the $20/mo subscription is like a gym: if this thing can't even give me $20/mo of value, then it's not doing anything for me.
But it gives me much more than that in value because it has me always going for extra runs, doing extra sets of push-ups and pull-ups at home, and it regularly has me turning down late night snacks / drink to get better sleep. If I had to choose, I'd pick it over my much more expensive gym membership.
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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.
That's fair enough - I wonder if the sales pitch for users already accustomed to taking calls with their AirPods will be a lot more susceptible to being swayed into using the Apple Watch for them instead, then?