Comment on Apple Watch Shipments’ Continuous Decline

• Reyali@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  that’s more like an added perk from garmin. I’d hardly consider workout plans a core feature of a watch.

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  • oakey66@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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