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Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by yreg »

avidphantasm wrote: post #124
onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #118

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> 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.

Ideally you wouldn't need to pair it with anything.

iPhones required a computer with iTunes up until iOS 5.

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Post by m463 »

mulderc wrote: post #129
dr_kiszonka wrote: post #125

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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, b…

I have a garmin watch. Charge it every day while I'm taking a shower and it's always ready.

...but I can miss a day... or 12 days. 13d = full charge

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Post by BugsJustFindMe »

bengale wrote: post #114
BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #31

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Most of my friends with one would rather have longer battery life than have it be slimmer.

That’s the ultra.

Yeah but it's still not enough. Also the ultra is more money than anyone I know is willing to pay for an apple watch.

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Post by BugsJustFindMe »

etrautmann wrote: post #111
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.

The Apple watch ultra, while expensive, at least has 1.5 to 2 day battery life, which has completely eliminated the issue of charging midday that I used to run into if using gps or fitness tracking for more than a few hours.

Yeah but "expensive" is an understatement. It's double the price for barely any functional difference other than battery life.

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Post by shuckles »

WillPostForFood wrote: post #223
dymk wrote: post #167

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You charge it for an hour before you go to bed. 23/24 hours is pretty good.

It gives you no margin - you come home late, you lose the data for the night. It is mental overhead that don't want.

My watch can get a night’s worth of charge in 10 minutes.

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Post by _ph_ »

As I have big wrists and my eyes aren't getting better, I like a larger screen a lot. But for me, the most important update might be, that the screen now updates every second instead of every minute in the "inactive" mode. I do use the seconds display of any watch a lot when timing short things, especially when cooking. Whenever I want to watch the seconds, with my current watch I have to keep shaking my wrist to keep it active. Having a seconds display all the time is the big step to make it a real watch. I hope they also add a digital watch face with seconds display.

I would have like a bit better run time - as the CPU is getting more efficient, I hope Apple is downplaying any enhancements. With my 7 series Apple watch I do still get 24 hours of run time (wearing it at night) after 3 years, so it is just sufficient. But a bit more would add safety margin.

A future Ultra 3 would be tempting with a longer run time and especially the red "night vision" watch face. I would so much like to have it on the plain Apple watch - clearly that is an artificial limitation.

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Post by vineyardlabs »

zoul wrote: post #122
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.

This. I like my apple watch for doing mainly two things; tracking workouts and being a silent alarm clock that lives on my wrist. The Also, it boggles my mind but the alarms/haptics in my S8 seem weirdly unreliable. Like 10% of the time my alarms just decide not to vibrate and I don't wake up. Tons of people have this problem and it seems to have something to do with the cover to mute gesture, but disabling it in settings doesn't fix the issue.

For those two reasons I'm strongly considering ditching my apple watch and grabbing a garmin instead. Just trying to decide if the move outside of the ecosystem is worth it and which model to buy.

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Post by wlesieutre »

wubrr wrote: post #236
wlesieutre wrote: post #232

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Their comment isn't wrong though, I had the same experience with Pebble. It wasn't part of my daily routine, so I would forget to charge it. With my Apple Watch I don't. That being said, the Apple Watch has issues of its own, like sometimes draining substantially faster for (as far as I can tell) absolutely no reason. Rebooting the watch and phone has sorted that out for me, and it's only happened a couple of times,…

> It wasn't part of my daily routine, so I would forget to charge it. So maybe the problem is your daily routine, not the fact that the battery life is objectively better? It's like if you bought a laptop with too little RAM, and you try to explain that its actually an advantage because it forces you to run less applications. It's absurd to the max.

Yes, longer battery life would be better.

But aside from the times when I've had bug-induced battery drain, I never run out of battery and it's not something I worry about. So I also don't really care about the battery life being shorter than my Pebble's was.

Apple could triple the battery life to 3 days, but as you've just pointed out it should still be part of my daily routine to charge it, and if I'm not charging it every day to make sure it's a habit this is a "problem" with my daily routine (your words).

So supposing the battery gets better, and I fix my problematic routine and make sure to charge it every day, now the extra 2 days of battery life are literally pointless. So I can see why Apple has prioritized thinness over a larger battery.

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Post by katbyte »

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.

my 2 year old watch lasts longer the 24h and i simply charge it when i shower.

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Post by detourdog »

mulderc wrote: post #129
dr_kiszonka wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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, b…

We used to wind our watches in the morning. I think that could be Apple’s thinking. Your positive experience with a daily routine reenforces that idea to me.
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