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Comment by izacus

6 days ago

It's interesting how they still can't get into the same order of magnitude with Garmin then.

I suspect it’s because the processor is a lot heavier-duty.

Right now, it seems like overkill, but not sure what all the health and fitness stuff requires.

  • As an Apple Watch user for over 7 years, I find this focus on heavy app to be completely stupid. The "smart" part of the watch is mostly useless, I've learned to use it the least possible. It is just rarely worth it to fiddle with such a restricted interface when you have the phone nearby the vast majority of the time.

    The health stuff is really the killer app and they should have pivoted to low power high efficiency use case a long time ago. It doesn't make sense to charge the watch everyday for the little utility it provides.