r/apple • u/exjr_ Island Boy • Sep 07 '22

Apple Unveils Apple Watch Ultra With Large-Screen Design for Athletes and Explorers Apple Watch

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/09/07/apple-unveils-apple-watch-pro-athletes/
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u/dnldntr Sep 07 '22 edited Sep 07 '22

People are complaining about the price here. This is not a watch to wear to the office. This is for outdoor activities.

As a professional scuba diver I think this is really huge and a big innovation! The dive computer market is a niche. Usually these computers were of no use outside the water. Garmin entered that market like 2 years ago and started to combine smart watches and dive computers. Now Apple enters that market. Up to now, dive computer were mostly really ugly. Now we divers get a neat Apple Watch. Dive computers can also be quite expensive and you needed to buy at least two gadgets, now you have all-in-one. So as a scuba diver, the price is fair.

I am very surprised but also very happy about the Apple Watch Ultra announcement.

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u/sbeck14 Sep 07 '22

The lack of a tank sensor and 40m depth rating is kinda limiting, I’m tempted to get this but my cheapo Suunto is doing just fine at the moment

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '22

Unfortunately all but three states have sales tax and there’s no way to order online and avoid sales tax unless you live in those states

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u/mcnabb100 Sep 07 '22

I miss the days of no sales tax for online sales. Just that could make buying a phone or camera online much cheaper.