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> With the watch, it feels the same, but about health. Knowing how much I walked around each day, how well I slept, what my heart rate was, etc. makes it a lot easier to understand what’s going on with my body and be more proactive about it.

Fitbit does the exact same thing and has for years!

> Eventually the glasses can capture a visual record of whatever you saw, the AirPods potentially can capture whatever you heard,

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10494231/The-p...

But this is Apple, so of course we're not up in arms about it.

I'm really sick of the praise this company gets while it continues to strong arm citizens into locked-down computing devices. Your pocket computers can't run binaries as freely as American speech, and pretty soon your Macs won't be able to either. They've neutered the web browser and forced everyone under their thumb.

Apple is setting itself up in front of every transnational activity its users perform. They're already a tax on everyone else trying to breathe air in the system, but just wait. Apple wants more of the pie and isn't going to stop.

Apple isn't good. The DOJ needs to force them to open their platform or split them up.

And of course I'm going to be downvoted.

This is true, I don't understand the appeal when Fitbit has done the same thing for years. Also, who wears a watch to bed? I'd hate it on my wrist.

I find the Apple Watch MOST useful in bed. We don't have a clock in the bedroom (like to keep it pitch black), so it's nice to know what time it is.

My wife is a super light sleeper, and I get up first, and the watch gives me a perfectly silent alarm.

I have 4 kids, and the watch makes the perfect flashlight for when you have to get up at 3am and check on someone. It's nice and dim, instantly available, and you still have two free hands (although they messed this up a bit with the sleep mode in the most recent version).

None of that functionality is specific to an "Apple Watch" though.

It's fascinating, and somewhat exasperating, to see how well their brand marketing works. They've managed to take over the word Watch-with-a-capital.

Not specific to Apple, as always.

But implemented with care, as always.

You can switch between a white light and red light. The light automatically dims if you look at the watch and brightens when you aim it away. You can turn off the light by putting your palm on the display.

This is called User eXperience, which is what Apple excels at. Other companies quite often have the exact same features before Apple does - on paper - but the implementation is haphazard at best.

I wear a watch to bed, but then again, I did even before watches got clever. These days, I like it for the sleep tracking and knowing I can get alerted or have my alarm go off without waking my spouse.

You can run anything you want on your fitbit?

Yes.

https://dev.fitbit.com/

https://gallery.fitbit.com/apps

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