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/Dr_Sirius_Amory1 Sep 07 '22 edited Sep 07 '22

So here’s the deal. Those who say Garmin so much better, they mean battery and that’s about it (for most part). I have AW and a Garmin 920 for tri training. Pure sport use and training, Garmin hands down. The rest of the day, Apple. Garmin can’t show me my front door when doorbell rings. AW gives me super quick access to notifications from many apps with a few swipes. Garmin I’d be mashing that side button all day. Ultra is definitely aiming at Garmin crowd but they’re well aware they’re way behind to take everyone. If you’re doing multi day hunting or hiking, use your Garmin. Other reason Garmin lasts so damn long is it isn’t powering a touch screen with ton of sensors. Trade offs. For the weekend warrior or triathlete or marathoner who until now had to either own two watches or go all in on Garmin and lose functionality, Ultra brings those folks squarely into Apple arena and keeps them put.

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u/MadMennonite Sep 08 '22

Your vintage 920 aside, recovery metrics on newer watches will be skewed if you rely on Garmin Connect as your source of truth (which if you use those recovery metrics, is clutch). Trueup is the secret sauce to allow you to swap watches and keep all your daily data together. That’s one of many things that has kept me from being a full or part time AW user. Garmin Connect only writes to Apple Health, takes nothing back to it. They don’t want you to mix environments. The Ultra is a larger step closer to pulling me in to being an Apple Watch user full time, but my 945 is still chugging away pretty well, and I can spend 10 hours outside for an ultramarathon (with no special battery saving features) and not worry about having to charge my watch for several days still. One of these days I’ll be ready to get back to an AW, but it’s still not time yet.