swat671

That's awesome! I really hope that by making it possible to make one IoT "thing" compatible with all three big players, it will HOPEFULLY lead to more, better devices. I hope it will also lead the 3 companies (A, A, G- Apple, Amazon, Google) to step up their game, so to speak, to implement more features on their end. Like Apple adding more options to HomeKit. I also hope that more networking companies get on board as well. I just got some new Linksys WiFi 6 mesh routers for my parents' house last year. Linksys added HomeKit Router support to some of their mesh nodes, but not all of them. I wonder why not? It would make it SO much easier for my parents to control them with Siri. "Hey, Siri, turn on the guest wifi." "Hey Siri, it's dinner, pause network access", etc. Also make it easier for my parents to see stuff on the AppleTV, if they decide to start getting some smart devices like lights/switches, thermostats, or controller for the sprinklers, etc. Another thing I'd like Linksys to implement is support for more options for the USB port on the routers. They are VERY limited in the options. It's hard drives only, and only drives supporting NTFS and FAT. Not very useful for Macs, or for networks that want large drives for, say, NAS. It would be great if they could add better NAS/Sharing options- like not just on the network, but being able to access the HDD over the internet. Maybe being able to use the Files App on the iPhone/iPad to be able to access the NAS, so that I can unload a lot of the photos and 4k video that's clogging up my iPhones storage. But, that's obviously not the point of this specific article. 

ihatescreennames said:

acejax805 said:

That's a big gaffe on Apple's fitness side. Engineers and designers should understand that circuit training, CrossFit, and other very popular workout programs integrate more than one type of workout within a workout. 

Is this another example of Apple kicking the can down the road with incremental updates or an honest miss on the part of engineers and designers?

I agree with you on the point of different types of workouts occurring during the same workout. I think that is a separate issue, though.

GymKit is a way for an Apple Watch and a piece of exercise equipment to share data. For instance, if I run on a GymKit treadmill the treadmill will share the distance I traveled with the watch, which will yield more accurate results than the watch estimating the distance. Getting off the treadmill to do a different workout should end that session, since the info sharing between the watch and the treadmill would now be irrelevant.

Peloton using GymKit for Apple Watch users to do an exercise that wasn’t cycling wouldn’t make much sense.

Well, if you're at the gym running on the treadmill, after you get off, you're not done, you're not leaving the gym. You go on to say, lifting weights. It's still the same workout. You should have the ability to tell the watch "ok, I'm done on the treadmill, now switch to strength training." That CAN'T be that hard to do. 

StrangeDays said:

I am lol’ing at the “Apple screwed up again!” crowd, who think it’s the Watch’s fault that a user stopped doing a cycle workout and switched to strength training along w/ their video workout, and expect the Watch to magically know that and switch you from a Cycling workout to Strength Training. That...doesn’t make sense. 

The Watch offers multi-activity workouts, has since 2017. 


Would it be cool if the Watch could switch auto-magically along w/ video workouts from Peleton in 2021? Uh, sure. Is it a gaffe that it doesn’t? No, no it isn’t.

You should be able to switch workouts "midstream" without having to stop and start a new workout. That is a mistake.

I just hope that they add the ability to update its' firmware to be able to fix bugs like what was discovered in August. 

I wonder why they need THREE RC’s...? The entire reason you have a release candidate is because you think there are no more issues and the software is ready for release. The fact there were so many bugs that you needed 2 more RC’s makes me a tad bit nervous.