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Apple Introduces Apple Watch Ultra

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Re: Apple Introduces Apple Watch Ultra

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Post by matthewmacleod »

highwaylights wrote: post #25
onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #13

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It's not about using the futures - it's about imagining a life in which you use those features.

onlyrealcuzzo gets it. The pitch is basically: Buy Apple products. You might not be a pro photographer, but you could be an Instagram legend. You will be an Instagram legend. Think of the likes. THINK OF THE FAME. How could it not happen with a device of this quality? Look at the photos. Look how gorgeous they are! Just drop $10k on an Apple load-out and don't think too much about it. It's not like it matters. You'll…

Or—much more simply—some people use a few of these features occasionally to take nice pictures of things they are doing, track their hikes on the weekend or whatever.

It amazes me to see the extents people will go to in order to pretend they can’t even conceive of simple scenarios.

Re: Apple Introduces Apple Watch Ultra

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Post by lukeinator42 »

drewg123 wrote: post #16

How can they call 36 hours of battery life "long"? The $799 version Garmin Fenix 7 solar (which they seem to be targeting) has an 18-22 days of battery life.

I totally agree with you as well. I currently have a Garmin Fenix 6 pro and it lasts around 14 days. As someone who is into trail running and backpacking, a 36 hour battery life is untenable, and charging it every night seems like a pain.

The irony is that AirPods have a really great battery life (especially the carrying case) despite the small form factor, and are my go-to for long runs.

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Post by snemvalts »

entropie wrote: post #30
drewg123 wrote: post #16

How can they call 36 hours of battery life "long"? The $799 version Garmin Fenix 7 solar (which they seem to be targeting) has an 18-22 days of battery life.

I guess the display and colors are way better on the apple watch. Retina display with 2k nits. I guess it looks awesome. I prefer my garmin too. I charge it like two times a month and my gps fixes very fast and is very accurate

Garmin Epix 2 has an OLED and 6 days of battery, 4x longer, bit smaller case size as well (47 vs 49mm).

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Post by oezi »

drewg123 wrote: post #16

How can they call 36 hours of battery life "long"? The $799 version Garmin Fenix 7 solar (which they seem to be targeting) has an 18-22 days of battery life.

They are targeting enough battery to run a full Ironman or be offline for a weekend (60 hours).

The explorer focus was just wacky.

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Post by evgen »

AdamJacobMuller wrote: post #80
evgen wrote: post #59

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No, nor are there any generic air integrated Bluetooth units available at the moment but I expect that to change quickly. A smart play for Apple as the cost of a low-end rec dive computer makes this almost a no-brainer for anyone already in the Apple ecosystem and adding an air integrated unit makes it an easy sell in that market.

Unlikely they can use bluetooth as the communications methods between the AI pod and the watch are custom and bespoke due to needing to work underwater and be super reliable.

Too bad that this is not a good option. Maybe someone will put a WiFi AP into an air integrated unit to enable connectivity :)

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Post by nickthegreek »

arberx wrote: post #21

Apple is missing the mark in this segment. Their competitors: Garmin, coros all offer weeks of battery life with tradeoffs people in this segment happily make. I get 20 days of battery life on my coros pace 2. Charging a apple watch every night or two would not be acceptable.

I don't think they missed the mark by shear amount of these I see on wrists everywhere i go.

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Post by dwighttk »

tokamak-teapot wrote: post #82
saberience wrote: post #56

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It really annoys me to have to charge my Apple Watch every day, especially because I want/need it for both sleep tracking and exercise tracking. If I use it for sleeping it invariably runs out of bettery during the night, then in the morning when I want to work out I have to charge it before the gym, it's just frustrating. I would LOVE three days of charge.

My tactic is to drop in on the charger before I start getting ready for bed, then put it back on when I’m ready to go to sleep. Because it charges quickly, that’s enough to give me power through the night and the next day. I’d still like a month of battery life though!

I just don’t track sleep… I sleep fine but the couple times I’ve tried sleep tracking it has just made my sleep restless because every time my sleep got shallow I woke up thinking about “I wonder how my sleep tracking is going… man I’m gonna get the best sleep score!”

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Post by KennyBlanken »

Noumenon72 wrote: post #6

"Your watch will help you find your way back to where you started" (Backtrack) is a neat sounding feature. I'll never be lost, because I just dropped a compass point.

It's a standard feature on handheld GPS units dating back to the late 90's, both waypoint and breadcrumbs - and also a commonly available feature on Garmin and other non-Apple devices going back quite a number of years.
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