New Apple Watch

[Anonymous]

Apple is rolling out three new apple watches in the next week. I am looking at the SE. I am currently very devoted to my Fitbit but I just bought a Lululemon mirror and don't want to wear their heart rate monitor. I love my Fitbit Bingo and Workweek hustle groups, as well as getting a sleep score and the battery life. But it is not good at tracking my runs - it is off by an entire street, basically a zigzag, and my pace is marked as all over the place. I wish I could see more stats on my Fitbit while I run, but it only shows time, distance and you have to scroll through pace, clock, steps, heart rate etc. it's really annoying and not as helpful as I hoped. It looks like the Apple Watch has closer to 5 stats shown when running. The new watch is $250 and doesn't require a $10/month subscription like Fitbit does.

Thoughts?

[Anonymous]

I recently got one and use it to track pace, distance, heart rate, calories burned while I exercise. I love it and closing my rings really motivates me to get moving every day. But I’m competitive even with myself.

I’ve had a few days in the 4 months I’ve been using it where the gps has gone wacky and flings me blocks over, but that’s really only been like 3 times and I run every day.

I also like that it announces my distance and time for that mile as I’m running so I can adjust my pace. After I finish I can look in the fitness app on my phone and it shows me the splits, my heart rate across the whole run as well as the average, my route, etc.

[Anonymous]

The Apple Watch has been very disappointing.

I recently had open heart surgery. I wore the Apple Watch in Cardio Rehab where I am hooked up to medical grade monitors while I do my workouts. The Apple Watch was incorrect with heart rate and ECG. There were a few times where the watch indicated that I was in AFIB and I wasn’t. I do have arrhythmias such as PVCs but they are benign. AFIB is serious.
I decided to take the time to open a case with Apple and sent them all the documentation to support my findings and they came back with, A version of we don’t care.