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  • Three-fifths of Apple Watch owners plan to upgrade to next model sight unseen

    I'll be buying a Garmin 235 watch where it can track my running for 8 hours straight (handy for ultra marathons) & it'll also be able to give me a week minimum of battery life (doing daily exercises too) with GPS, tracked runs onto Garmin Connect, 24/7 heart rate tracking, sleep tracking, message, email & phone notifications. 
    not quite. with training it's limited to hours. to get the week+ battery life it's limited to tracking steps and sleep, like a Fitbit -- you won't be getting GPS and serious workout tracking.
    thanks for correcting my post it isnt actualy 8 hours continuous exercise tracking with GPS etc, its 11hours (according to Garmin.com).

    My usage each day for apple watch.
    wake up at 6am, watch at 100%, 1.5 hour cycle to work using iphone 6 for GPS, rest of work day HR tracking & 'fitbit functions too', then 1.5 hour cycle back home, then HR tracking till bed, turn off at 10pm where it'l be 10%, or flat!

    On the Garmin i'd do the same:
    wake up, 1.5 hour cycle to work using watch for gps tracking, rest of working day HR tracking & not forgetting its 'fitbit functions too', then 1.5 hour cycle home with GPS, then some more fitbit functions till bed, where it'l monitor my sleep like a fitbit if you want to say. Then repeat for a 2nd day, then perhaps a 3rd day before need a recharge.

    without any gps tracking runs or cycles etc it'l track my HR, sleep for over 7 days. on the apple watch if i didnt do any exercises & let it track only the HR & steps etc (llike a fitbit) i get 1.5 days.

    i'm not denying apple watch isnt great, it has its great bits, but for health tracking until it gets its GPS & becomes free from its iphone its no match for a proper health tracker.  I wished i had realised this last summer before getting caught up in the lovely marketing that apple do & plumping my cash for its first generation watch.

    I certainly will look forward to seeing what future versions bring (internal GPS, webpage showing runs on a map like Garmin connect) but for now my money is going elsewhere. 
    cnocbui