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Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by difosfor »

adastra22 wrote: post #213
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.

The Watch’s operation is independent of the iPhone, especially if you get one with LTE. You need an iPhone for setup, but that’s it.

It's not, many applications don't really work without your iPhone connected via Bluetooth even if your watch can make it's own internet connection. It basically seems like Apple and app developers are not considering people using their watch without their IPhone present as well.

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Post by Bluescreenbuddy »

tpurves wrote: post #121
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.

"My pebble from 2013 was a much more practical and useable device than any Apple watch I've owned over the last decade."

You're full of shit. I've owned a Pebble and now own an apple watch and the Pebble doesn't even come close to the features.

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Post by vegardx »

aspenmayer wrote: post #183
vegardx wrote: post #175

I'm mostly happy with my Apple Watch, but you better hope that it doesn't calibrate itself poorly. There's no way to force it to recalibrate and it persists through full reset and even full replacement of the Apple Watch itself. I've more or less given up trying to fix it. So according to Apple I've been standing upright all waking hours for the last 3-4 years. I've heard similar issues for people using crutches. The…

https://support.apple.com/en-us/105048 > Reset your calibration data > Here's how to reset your calibration data: > On your iPhone, open the Watch app. > Tap the My Watch tab, then tap Privacy > Reset Fitness Calibration Data.

I'm going to chalk this up to the decline in Google search to save my embarrassment, because that was very straight forward, and I don't understand how I didn't find that. Admittedly, it's a couple of years since I looked and it could be a new feature.

Funnily enough one of the demonstrated use-cases of Apple Intelligence was looking up information like this.

Re: Apple Watch Series 10

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Post by aspenmayer »

vegardx wrote: post #413
aspenmayer wrote: post #183

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https://support.apple.com/en-us/105048 > Reset your calibration data > Here's how to reset your calibration data: > On your iPhone, open the Watch app. > Tap the My Watch tab, then tap Privacy > Reset Fitness Calibration Data.

I'm going to chalk this up to the decline in Google search to save my embarrassment, because that was very straight forward, and I don't understand how I didn't find that. Admittedly, it's a couple of years since I looked and it could be a new feature. Funnily enough one of the demonstrated use-cases of Apple Intelligence was looking up information like this.

Check this other support page too, as you may need to enable wrist detection to resolve some of the other issues you described.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/105002

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Post by shlant »

sureIy wrote: post #378
serf wrote: post #288

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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…

Every tool has a correct way to be used. You can’t tell me I shouldn’t slide my electric toothbrush from side to side “because of market forces”. Battery technology just isn’t there. Bigger battery means heavier device. Duracell made a smartphone with a huge-ass multiday battery… that the market did not ask for. It has to be a compromise unfortunately. As for the Touch Bar I don’t really understand the hate for it. T…

> As for the Touch Bar I don’t really understand the hate for it

You don't understand why people wouldn't like something that takes away what they used regularly (function keys) and gave them something that necessitated looking away from their screen in order to even use and provided extremely limited use cases?

Seems pretty easy to understand

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Post by hombre_fatal »

alternatex wrote: post #397
hombre_fatal wrote: post #287

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One feature is heart rate and sleep tracking accuracy. The Quantified Scientist on Youtube has ever-updated charts in pretty much any of his videos that investigate the accuracy of a given health tracker wearable. You can find updated data in newer videos, but here's his video on the Apple Watch Series 9: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4igZ3DEhrk4 Check out the chapter titles with "Comparison w/ other watches" to se…

Kind of grasping at straws to require 99.99% accuracy. At that point a Polar chest strap is better. Olympians use Garmin watches all the time and the heart tracking is pretty great in most of their more expensive watches.

Well, there's also sleep time accuracy and sleep stage accuracy. What about those?

And the whole point is that you don't need to wear a Polar chest strap and a bunch of sleep lab electrodes to get good results. We're talking about something you get to wear on your wrist that takes calls and does all sorts of things.

But the person above asked for a differentiator.

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Post by hombre_fatal »

wiredfool wrote: post #385
hombre_fatal wrote: post #127

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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.

My series 6 consistently said I had 4 minutes more sleep time than in bed time, and neither really noticeably tracked anything. Our a and Fitbit sleep tracking might not be truly accurate, but at least they’re semi plausible.

The series 9 is best in class for sleep accuracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr4p66vSmLY (18:20 mark)

We're now four generations of Apple Watch beyond yours.

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Post by cromka »

pornel wrote: post #407
jlmorton wrote: post #366

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Because they're not even remotely comparable products

Telling time, showing notifications, and tracking sleep is 99% of what I need the Watch to do, and Pebble could do that with a week-long battery life.

They’re still not comparable products, you just use them the same, limited way.

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Post by cromka »

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #368
jlmorton wrote: post #366

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Because they're not even remotely comparable products

They seem like they’re directly the same category of product at a glance.

Yes, and an office PC and a gamer PC are both PCs. Pick and choose another example, using eg. car models.

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Post by indoordin0saur »

kalium-xyz wrote: post #298
serf wrote: post #288

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Worst / funniest case of this (if you have a grim sense of humor) is when early unibody macbook pros would get 70C or so to the touch and physically burn the users to the point of minor scarring. People who’d complain about this would be berated by apple defenders stating that “its not a laptop and apple never called it a laptop. yet at the time a simple search for “laptop site:apple.com” sure seemed to indicate that…

I save a lot of energy in the winter because I can turn down our home heater and the hot laptop keeps my fingers warmed up and typing fast!
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