Comment by malfist
3 days ago
Right, and people looking to have a scale that can track their weight over the long term and graph and look at trends is looking for the exact same market product as a workout plan.
It's like walking into the apple store and asking to buy an iphone and some guy coming up to you and telling you what you really need is a copy of the book "How to Win Friends and Influence People"
My impression is that folks that buy smartwatches for workout tracking care about their fitness, and that all the metrics collected (steps taken, heart-rate in-the-zone, etc.) will use those metrics to tune a workout plan.
I was trying to point out that, for those folks, you can skip the middle step and just adopt a real workout plan created by fitness experts, and tested in real classes.
If your point is that there are a bunch of use cases for a fitness tracker/smartwatch that are not that, it's an interesting discussion to have, since my original comment made the assumption that the majority of customers focusing on those features were in fact using them to inform a workout plan/fitness plan (could be limited to diet, which Darebee also tries to address:
It's a really fantastic resource that doesn't ask for anything, so I thought it was worth mentioning in a thread about paying $99/year for Apple Health syncing.