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- It's surprising that in 2026 they still haven't figured out how to remove the bezels. They are smaller than they used to be, but On something as compact a watch, all screen estate counts.by thomasahle
- Huh, this "Readiness" innovation seems really similar to the "HybridCharge" my Amazfit watch has had for a couple of years (but obviously at literally 10x the price, but you do whatever you want with your money, chaps...)by verytrivial
- When are they going to detect blood sugar?by bilsbie
- When the patent trolls die down and accuracy improves.by michelb
- So apparently Siri AI is not coming to my part of the world anytime soon because of EU law. With that, I see no reason at all to upgrade from my Ultra 1, as not much else has improved in any meaningful way in 3 years. Don't get me wrong, I love my Ultra 1. But I had hoped for more innovation in three generations of it.by mwidell
- Not because of eu law. Because Apple wants an exception to the rules.by noja
- [Dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49631121 - this one seems to have more lively discussionby danek_szy
- "A batter you can't outrun" actually the gen 1 Pebble from literally 2013 still runs circles around this thing.
- I recently got their new gen Pebble Time 2 and this thing lasts about a month on a single charge!by rwz
- The only thing keeping on a Garmin is that my OG AW Ultra probably won't last a mountain 50 miler (I've used it for easier 50 mile races). If it truly lasts anywhere near 45 hours, even my old, slow ass could knock out 100 miles in that time.
Plus satellite comms on the AW (which I'd have to spend money to upgrade the 965 to get that feature). I just might pick one up next week.
by mikestew - Had this thought during the presentation. How is the “rewind” feature legal? Don’t a lot of states have laws against making secret recordings?by ryanschaefer
- Recordings, yes, but this is transcription.by rootusrootus
- I guess it was already technically possible with phones though, or hidden tape recorders for something more old-school. Not sure on the legality.by Insanity
- There was an app that hit it’s peak during covid: Clubhouse.
Many powerful and interesting people were having powerful and presumably private conversations in rooms because they say people walk in and out and legally CH could not record without consent. But what they could do was “collect metadata”. Emotional and tonal analysis is metadata. So is time, date, location, username (each user had their own mic stream), email, etc. Transcription is also metadata.
Essentially the tech has left the laws in the dust as you could now reasonably and legally record enough metadata to accurately resynthesize a recording.
by joshspankit - It doesn't save a recording of someone speaking; it's 15 seconds of a transcription.by alwillis
- You've always been allowed to transcribe (ie, write) out a conversation. Recording is a different thing. A person can always claim, easily and believably, that the transcription is made up. It's just text.
- The 4th generation heart rate sensor is quite interesting -- Apple Watch used to sample every ~5 minutes, and now it's every 5 seconds (basically continuous). I think that'll enable a lot of interesting health & wellness use cases.by brandonb
- Too bad Apple reserved the [training] Readiness feature only for the Ultra 4 - I'm pretty sure Ultra 3 and probably below are just as well equipped to provide such insight...by danek_szy
- It's interesting because during workouts, the heart rate sensor samples every 5 seconds but besides that, it was either every 2 or 5 minutes. I'm guessing the battery drain is too much to have it sample every 5 seconds all the time!by skadamat
- Dear Apple,
I want to send you my money, but your expensive watch I want to buy is f**ing massive and my wrist is normally sized. I don't really understand why this is still an issue since it's been 4 years.
Thanks,
- Guy with slightly below average wrist circumference (40th %ile)
by smeeth - I’m probably 60% and would feel ridiculous wearing one.by tiahura
- An "Ultra Mini" with a proper lap button would open my wallet very quickly.by alistairSH
- The first thing they mention is the "great" battery life and it is still only just over 2 days, great.
- Meanwhile, 2-3 weeks on my Pebble Time 2by glaslong
- Why do you need it to last longer than ~20 hours?by avalys
- My Garmin Venu 4 has 10+ days.by jawilson2
- I bought an Apple Watch recently so I can enter my workplace without much hassle (first world problems). Highly disappointing watch coming from a no-name Amazfit brand. I like my step counter, I don't care whether it's slightly off, I want to see it on my watch face - you'd safely assume it was possible, but no! So now I have to go through multiple menus and swipes to see it and it doesn't even show right away (takes several seconds at times). Don't get me started with the joke that is the battery life.
Apple Watch is probably Apple's shittiest product today.
by psygn89 - Yup. This tells me the AWU is not the adventure watch for me. I love my Apple Watch (8? I think?) and I love my Garmin Instinct Solar with 40d battery life. One of these is for daily wear as a communicator; the other is for weeks in the mountains or offshore.by brians
- I desperately wish apple would release a viable competitor to the garmin fenix line but they can't with that battery life. Garmin UX and software overall is such dogshit, and to have Apple UX with garmin raw performance (battery life, GPS tracking accuracy, activity modes) would be perfect. Apple could never though because the fenix was designed from the ground up as an embedded device microcontroller, whereas apple watch is a general purpose computer with a GPU.by carabiner
- Hyperbole is Apple’s favorite communication style, but at this point it’s so overused that it’s just a meaningless meme. Apple’s wearable competitors blow the Apple Watch’s battery life out of the water and it’s not even close. Hyperbole is all Apple has in this race.