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Post by sorenjan »

hcurtiss wrote: post #228
sorenjan wrote: post #40

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I own an Android wear watch, and I use it for three things: GPS and music while running without my phone, shopping list while buying groceries, and checking notifications when I have my phone in my pocket. When I first got it I thought it was really cool with a small computer on my wrist and tried to think of all sorts of things to do with it, but the truth is that your phone is better at almost everything. The only…

Which watch? And what app are you using to sync music to it?

Sony Smartwatch 3, and I use Google music to save a playlist offline. Subscription based streaming music is practical until it's not, and for some reason Spotify doesn't allow you to save music offline on Android wear. MP3 was so much easier when it came to portability.

I wouldn't recommend the Smartwatch 3 though. It's a pretty good watch, one of the first with GPS, WiFi and NFC (still unused), but it won't get Wear 2.0 and the GPS ranges from pretty bad to unusable. The GPS antenna can't handle when your arm gets wet, like when you sweat, so after about 20 minutes of running the GPS connection deteriorates significantly unless you have a sweatband under it.

Hopefully Garmin will launch a watch with Spotify support in the future.

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Post by bosie »

zimpenfish wrote: post #309
S_A_P wrote: post #43

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I always thought the apple watch was frivolous. Then I got one as a gift and cant imagine not having one. The ability to see whether or not a text/call is important without having to pull my phone out of my pocket is a killer feature for me. I always felt that it was rude to do that and this prevents me from having to. The fitness tracker is also really fun to use, and imo more accurate than the fit bit I had.

I miss the one-minute averages, API, and battery life of the Fitbit but since they have appalling build quality, terrible firmwares, and refuse to integrate with Health, I swapped to a(n?) Watch. Now my life is dominated by closing those damned circles.

"One-minute averages": I thought Fitbits provide a data point/recording for every second?

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Post by S_A_P »

jedberg wrote: post #194
kobeya wrote: post #189

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Not everyone is in a position to ignore their notifications. Would you rather they pull out their phone?

As someone who was on call for 20 years straight, I'm well aware of that. :) And yes, I would rather they pull out their phone than stare at their wrist every 10 seconds. I don't have a problem with someone looking at their notifications, I'm just pointing out that people think they're being sneaky with the watch when they really aren't.

I get your point and I am well aware of the rudeness of looking at your clock during a conversation and how rude that is. However, I am not someone who is constantly getting notifications, and my phone is kept in my front pocket and is generally a pain to stand up and pull out of said pocket. Knowing I dont have to do that and can at least see who is contacting me from my wrist is a minor, yet still net benefit to my life. I am a big fan of everyone taking stock of how their phone habits are affecting their social and professional lives. I personally hate the phone pose where everyone is on autopilot while staring at their phone. I think this is a way to kind of back away from that and maybe avoid the temptation to be stimulated 100% of the time.

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Post by randycupertino »

zimpenfish wrote: post #310
randycupertino wrote: post #285

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imo the only thing Fitbit does better than apple watch is the sleep tracking.

I'm finding that Autosleep does a pretty good job of that - gets my sleep patterns right about 95% of the time without any help. Pretty much matches what I get from SleepCycle on the phone. http://autosleep.tantsissa.com/

Do you have to turn it on and off? I tried one apple watch sleep app and you had to set it before you fell asleep and turn it off when you woke up- I never remembered.

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Post by vidyesh »

xwvvvvwx wrote: post #121

Made me giggle that the ad for this is some surfer being totally in the middle of an amazing moment and then getting distracted by a phone call. I really like my apple watch, but this really isn't selling it...

People are so uptight now a days, just ignore the call no big deal.

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Post by zimpenfish »

randycupertino wrote: post #334
zimpenfish wrote: post #310

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I'm finding that Autosleep does a pretty good job of that - gets my sleep patterns right about 95% of the time without any help. Pretty much matches what I get from SleepCycle on the phone. http://autosleep.tantsissa.com/

Do you have to turn it on and off? I tried one apple watch sleep app and you had to set it before you fell asleep and turn it off when you woke up- I never remembered.

Nope, it's just perfectly automatic.

There is an entirely optional "going to sleep now" toggle you can flick which will give a "time to sleep" measure and marker on the graph.

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Post by gehsty »

aetherson wrote: post #323
gehsty wrote: post #314

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I disagree that just because the phone is more expensive than the ipod it is not cannibalization. The phone literally destroyed the market for the standalone MP3 player, and the price point was doesn't change this. If you listen to the Jobs official autobiography the iPhone resulted from Jobs / Apples concerns that the phone would become good enough for most people as an MP3 player, and thus would 'cannibalize' the i…

Look, I've used the term "cannibalize" in deep in strategy sessions about how much marginal benefit we'll get from a higher-price sku given that a certain number of people will be getting it instead of our lower-priced sku. I'm not going to say it's completely ridiculous to describe that as cannibalization in the right context . But from a high level, nobody in the entire world could be sad if their customers choose…

I'm really not sure what point you are trying to make.

My point is that the iPhone took the iPods market from it. Apple had to release a phone to do this, or someone else would have eventually done it.

They did not do it to 'up sell' people, ie the thought process was never, 'lets sell the iPod for 5 years then hit those suckers with the iPhone and up sell them' it was 'lets make the best music player' then 'soon every ones music will be on their phones, we better make a phone, actually the phones we currently use are terrible, we have this interesting touch screen tech from a tablet we're developing, oh shit we can make an awesome phone...'

I'm not saying Apple are brave, I'm saying they are logical, they will release a product that will take sales from another of their product lines, as if they don't someone else will, and any sale is better than no sale. I think they would do this even if the product that was doing the cannibalization was cheaper, eg the iPad is definitely eating some of the Macs potential sales, and I think Apple are very happy about this.

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Post by zimpenfish »

bosie wrote: post #332
zimpenfish wrote: post #309

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I miss the one-minute averages, API, and battery life of the Fitbit but since they have appalling build quality, terrible firmwares, and refuse to integrate with Health, I swapped to a(n?) Watch. Now my life is dominated by closing those damned circles.

"One-minute averages": I thought Fitbits provide a data point/recording for every second?

The Web API only gives you (when using intraday HR) the option of per-second or per-minute buckets. Since the Charge HR I was using only does 5s samples in normal mode (1s in workout mode), there was no point using the per-second buckets since 80% of it was useless data.

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Post by peterarmstrong »

overcast wrote: post #321
peterarmstrong wrote: post #149

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I've found mine is accurate as long as it is snug. But if it's not snug, it can be way off. Also, when I first tried it I had wrist pain, and learned that I actually was "wearing it wrong". Moving it further up my arm fixed it, and now it's literally my favourite device.

Hrmm. I'll await the in depth reviews. For now, my chest strap will keep monitoring for me.

I'm talking about Series 2. Series 3 isn't available yet. But Series 3 is supposedly same size as Series 2, except the thing that sticks out of the back is "2 sheets of paper thicker", to use Apple's new contribution to the imperial system :)

So my guess is it will be the same: just as good as my Polar chest strap when snug, and off when, well, off.

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Post by dpkonofa »

B1FF_PSUVM wrote: post #301
dpkonofa wrote: post #294

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I've had both generations of Apple Watch and Series 2, to me, is a big improvement over Series 1. Not sure about 0 since I had no reason to get one. I definitely don't think I could stop using it after a few months on the fitness tracking alone. Being able to track my runs and listen to my music without needing my phone is awesome. The notifications are great once you filter out the noise and turn off the ones you do…

> But that's just, like, my opinion, man... "... and anyone who is influenced by it is a dummy." (Speaker's final remark at a meeting, many moons ago.)

umm... what?
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