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Apple has sold more Watches than iPods. Remember iPods??!? The Watch is a huge hit and tons of people find daily charging to be a perfectly acceptable price of entry.
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Which features specifically? There are a lot of features that are built in to Garmin devices so they generally have less need of additional apps. But there is a rich ecosystem of apps as well. https://apps.garmin.com/
The apps I use aren't available on Garmin, like Overcast for podcasts. I haven’t found an email client, which I use every morning, and I doubt any of the available options would sync properly with my email services. I rely on OmniFocus for GTD, but it isn’t supported by Garmin; at best, you can get to-do notifications sent to the watch, which isn’t what I need. Zoom doesn't seem to be supported either, and I occasion…
https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=IPD6X8JSLBAUQOXvz7zBO6
You have a valid point on the other missing apps.
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The apps I use aren't available on Garmin, like Overcast for podcasts. I haven’t found an email client, which I use every morning, and I doubt any of the available options would sync properly with my email services. I rely on OmniFocus for GTD, but it isn’t supported by Garmin; at best, you can get to-do notifications sent to the watch, which isn’t what I need. Zoom doesn't seem to be supported either, and I occasion…
There are a variety of podcast apps available for Garmin, both built in and on the app store. It also has strength training animations. https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=IPD6X8JSLBAUQOXvz7zBO6 You have a valid point on the other missing apps.
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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…
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Not to mention the Chinese smart watches. I have an Amazfit Bip that will go 60+ days between charges, no problem. https://i.imgur.com/4HT2Q6G.jpeg
How often do you track exercise with it? That watch looks like it doesn't actually run anything on it except a heart rate monitor and is just a passive bluetooth enabled notification display so that would definitely explain the difference in power usage.
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 kee…
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Not to mention the Chinese smart watches. I have an Amazfit Bip that will go 60+ days between charges, no problem. https://i.imgur.com/4HT2Q6G.jpeg
> Amazfit Bip I thought you had typoed but no, that's really what it's called.
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every single Apple feature or change creates this kind of weird negative-metric-reinforcement no matter the product whenever the number slides backwards or keeps parity Battery doesn't last long? Well, let's forget that the entire market has trended towards catering to a customer desire for long-life batteries -- it's a feature to help coordinate 'charging habits'!... whatever that is. Less keyboard space and battery…
The entire market has trended towards catering to a customer desire for lighter and thinner devices.
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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.
> Can’t imagine having another device to charge daily. This is precisely why I stopped using my Garmin. I did really like it and used it when I was running daily. But when I went on long hikes (8+ miles), I often ran out of battery. The watch charged very fast, but I got sick of having to remember to charge it daily if I wanted to track an activity. I now wear my Fossil ('dumb'?) watch daily. After maybe five years,…
Though there's some options that will drastically improve battery life (I think measuring Blood oxygen is a good battery life killer IIRC)