Comment on Apple Watch Shipments’ Continuous Decline
Reyali@lemm.ee 2 days agoI’m trying to think of what Apple Watch features are paywalled and other than buying apps that aren’t necessary or a part of the core device, I’m not thinking of anything. Are there particular features you’re thinking of?
oakey66@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Comparing to Garmin where I get daily workout recommendations based on your sleep and recovery. From what I’ve seen the workouts are behind the paywall.
Reyali@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Ah, so there is a subscription for guided workout sessions through Apple Fitness. I have that as a part of my subscription and it doesn’t have any kind of recommendation feature though; it’s just a subscription to watch guided workout sessions if you want to go seek them out.
The watch still has all of the health and workout tracking features available without it. Garmin is slated as more of a fitness-based watch so it doesn’t surprise me they might have different features than the Apple Watch does.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
that’s more like an added perk from garmin. I’d hardly consider workout plans a core feature of a watch.
oakey66@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That is absolutely a core feature of Garmin not just a perk. The fact that Apple didn’t include it while doing explicit commercials for biking, running, and swimming was definitely to make it seem like it’s direct competition.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
i mean as a core feature of a watch/smartwatch in general. garmin is going above and beyond compared to the competition, and that’s great. But that doesn’t mean every other smartwatch manufacturer arbitrarily locking traditional watch features behind paywalls.
and yeah apple does fitness themed commercials for apple watch because it does help with fitness a ton out of the box. just not specifically guided workouts.