dc3k posted:

sport band is silicone with holes in it. solo loop is braided fabric

Henrik Zetterberg posted:

Sport band had a buckle, while the solo loop is just one piece of stretchy material. The solo loop is way better as long as you get a proper-fitting one. I think the solo loop has a braided material.

Henrik Zetterberg posted:

Sorry, I meant to say there was a solo loop and a braided solo loop. 2 different bands. Braided is hilariously $100.

incoherent posted:

Sorry that i wasn't specifically saying the 1 year old watches were S7. The stainless are still dropping in price, however.

Henrik Zetterberg posted:

Henrik Zetterberg posted:

Tahoe!

Duckman2008 posted:

You don’t want to sleep in a tent attached to the side of a mountain ?

Grim Up North posted:

Reminds me is there a good watch app that tries to wake you during a light sleep phase?

Thirst Mutilator posted:

With regards to sleep, I don't trust any wearable to track anything beyond "when was I asleep" because most research indicates tracking things like REM cycles with a consumer wearables is dicey at best. That said, an app that yells at me for not being asleep enough has been pretty valuable and easily correlated with my condition throughout the day.

I don't really buy into a lot of the readiness scores that it provides, but AutoSleep has been great for automatically tracking when I'm asleep (nap or through the night), especially since with it installed I don't have to schedule or manually toggle Sleep Mode like WatchOS normally requires.

It's also has some alarm settings that aim for "light sleep" though in my experience it only works under ideal circumstances (you aren't drunk or already extremely sleep deprived)

Strong Sauce posted:

I've found reselling my watch pretty easy. Especially when it was last year's model. if you're doing that once a year thing i'm pretty sure Apple does trade-ins as well?

Henrik Zetterberg posted:

I ran a 3:53 marathon in 2021 and my S6 died within 5 mins of crossing the finish line. My longer training runs for it were all pushing it too. The battery is still the weak point of the apple watch, even after it being on the market the better part of a decade.

The Grumbles posted:

I’ve been doing the fitness+ stuff since getting my watch and although the tech is cool and they’re good workouts, most of the instructors are just obnoxious and awful. This is 100% brought to you by the version of Apple that thought installing a U2 album on everyone’s phone would be this radical gift to our collective cultural life.

I tried doing one set to a Rolling Stones soundtrack and the guy kept playing air guitar and telling me how the workout fit the ‘rebellious nature’ of the stones. Another stopped during a daft punk track to tell me that the robot voice singing was not, in fact, the singers natural singing voice, but a voice put through an effect. The ‘rockin out’ workout playlist starts with yellow by Coldplay and ends with Wonderwall.
They’re constantly telling me how I showed up and that’s what counts. I’ve never been to California, let alone the Apple campus, but it’s exactly what I imagine people there to be like.

Eventually choosing a workout is a weird puzzle of the kind of workout you like, with music you don’t hate (but it can’t be music you love because the instructors will ruin it for you), led by the instructor you hate the least.

On the upside, you end up persevering with the full workout because you don’t want to let them win.

xzzy posted:

Bundling the straps and the watches always seemed like a dumb idea to me, the last time I bought a watch the guy had to do the "let me check if we have one of those" even though they had a pile of the bands I wanted available.

Whatever beancounter took us down this road should get demoted.

Vintersorg posted:

Do you know how many people are blown away something like UBlock Origin exists?

rafikki posted:

My 5 can’t go another year, so I bit the bullet on a 9. Somewhat tempted to go into the store and check out the ultra and maybe swap for that in a few weeks.

xzzy posted:

I think the lesson they're teaching is if you want cosmetic damage fixed, you better have an "accident" before taking it in.

Yeah that's an ethics debate in the making but I feel like if you want to get any random issue fixed and you're willing to pay, they should allow it. Especially because trade in value is a real concern and they are pretty punitive about "cosmetic damage" being visible.

Inner Light posted:

Yo watch goons, previously from time to time I enjoyed using the crown to move the size of the numbers on certain faces around. I could do it aimlessly while the watch is showing the face.

Did the newest watch OS remove the functionality of moving the number fonts on certain faces around by moving the crown without clicking it? Such as the faces metropolitan or contour.

Fedule posted:

I'm still incandescent that it takes like eight taps to consume four pieces of current weather data (eg, temps, humidity, wind, UV) when they used to all be on a single scrollable panel together unless you fill an entire face with weather complications (and then they don't work lol). They aren't thinking these things through on the level of how real people use them.

Fedule posted:

I think it'd be pretty neat if Apple would Sherlock Gentler Streak and generally just introduce literally any nuance into their long term fitness tracking. I love Gentler's theory of TRIMP For Normal People, especially now that I am basically through my weight loss stage and into fitness maintenance although I think it should acknowledge kcals measured outside of workouts and that the subscription is a little much for what it actually gives you (which is the shocking ability to see the history of your streak and specific workout length suggestions as opposed to simply working out until the dot moves into the Good Zone and stopping before it hits the Bad Zone). I find Apple's rings kind of psychotic as an attempt to actually guide anyone towards anything that could be called fitness, like, meeting an unchanging arbitrary kcal goal every single day is an approach that serves literally nobody, whether they're a layabout or a literal pro athlete, like, it is astonishing that Apple has all this gear and software and doesn't seem to have any interest in suggesting to someone how much to work out, or at least acknowledging that rest days, injuries, illnesses and holidays exist. What is even with the stand and exercise goals anyway? Stand I at least get as far as posture is concerned but it seems disconnected from the rest of fitness and again the actual metric of clock hours with one continuous minute per day seems to me to be wildly arbitrary. If I were in charge I would close the rings... permanently.

Ogmius815 posted:

I mean, watches get really, REALLY expensive guys.

Endless Mike posted:

Incidentally, I plugged my phone into my car and it gave a big ol alarm bell saying I had water in my USB-C port, so I got to drive in silence.

FuzzySlippers posted:

What's the best app/way to get sleep stats during your current sleep cycle? Like how long have I actually slept the last X hours? The default sleep seems focused on post-sleep analysis, but I've only used it a couple days.

That was basically all I used my old crappy android watch for. As an insomniac it gets hard to figure sometimes how much you've been actually asleep drifting in and out for hours. I could look at the watch sleep tracker and see while I've been in bed for X hours, I've actually had any kind of sleep for Y hours. It wasn't totally accurate, but it gave me a ballpark automatically. On days where I don't have to set an alarm I used the tracker to determine when I can say gently caress it and drag my corpse out of bed rather than tediously continue to try to sleep in a vain attempt to be less tired all day.

LPG Giant posted:

I feel like people should be fine not getting an immediate message back for the hour that you’re working out.

WithoutTheFezOn posted:

What exactly is real-time sleep tracking?

SlowBloke posted:

From a summary check on the product pages, ultra doesn't have a full glass back like a standard watch so you will have to keep the watch clean to avoid rashes if you have sensible skin.

eightysixed posted:

Apple buying Dark Sky was dumb imo

Combat Pretzel posted:

When did the Recent Apps page behavior change, in that it'll only allow you half a second to react before making the last open app active, when entering the app stack from the watch face?

xzzy posted:

That's normal for Apple products though. The pricing tiers are expertly laid out so the next bump up is "not that much more."