bradford_kirby

Why are we praising Garmin. You cannot use sensors to replicate the counting of reps, on successive movements using multiple modalities, indoors without constant attention to both the physical watch and the data entry it requires. That’s heavy lifting the watch would be better to avoid. It’s why people use a logbook. Paper and pen. Sure they put a barometer in the watch so it “knows” when ur stepping but it’s not possible to be accurate to the size of step or your execution of Said step. Which is what’s actually meaningful information. 

Its a gimmick. And garmin is wise to find one because no one wants a 600$ Fitness watch the size of a clock. The Fenix is great but no one wants one. 

1) Download “Strong”
2) pay the premium for its features
3) do your cardio.
4) Stop worrying about your steps,
5) program ur reps BEFORE u get to the gym - it’s quick and smarter than a sensor
6) while at the gym let the program u wrote in ur phone run the show vis a vie the watch and it’s simple UI
7) leave the Phone in your locker and lift with the watch signed into the same WiFi as the phone to negate the need for Series 3 LTE andbu get all texts and data flow the same freed from the phone 
8) lift hands free
9) play Legend of Zelda on the switch while running because you can 

justme12 said:

Hey Jony - you should have said no to the camera bump and the notch. Steve not only would have said no - he would have laughed that you thought they were design options. 

He wasn’t Jesus don’t be a tool 

Good enough reason for me

seanismorris said:

sog35 said:

Apple once again proving all the haters wrong.

Where are all the clowns who said the Watch was a flop?

All those haters are either ignorant, dumb, or lack vision.

Well it is still fat & ugly... and still can’t make phone calls.

The Watch will remain a niche product.  Strapping an IPhone to your arm seems more practical, unless you have money to burn.

IOS11 is great (by the way) navigation works well, it’s noticeably faster, and I think battery life has improved.

I bet your more fat and more ugly - but seriously the bs about searching your iphones music library for ur fave glen Miller orchestra standard or saved talk/am radio podcasts from the watch is r.e.t.a.r.d.e.d.

make a playlist, sync, run, cure ur own obesity 

bigmushroom said:

I am not sure Motorola was such a bad deal for Google:

- They sold Motorola to Lenovo for 2.9 billion (as the article correctly reports).
- They also sold the cable modem and set-top box business to Arris for 2.35 billion in 2012.
- Motorola had 3 billion in cash.

So once you factor everything out (plus some tax assets apparently), it appears they lost not more than 3.5 billion on the deal. A nice article is here:

http://bgr.com/2014/02/13/google-motorola-sale-interview-lenovo/

So one view is that they paid about 3.5 billion for Motorola patents - which is less than Apple and Microsoft paid when they teamed up to buy Nortel patents for 4.5 billion.

But more importantly, Motorola was about to sue other Android manufacturers (Samsung, HTC). Google appeared to buy Motorola to end that threat because Android was not yet the dominant alternative to iOS. If Motorola would have sued everyone else, it could have disrupted the whole eco-system.

So I don't think Google regrets buying Motorola - it might have been a defensive move (getting more patents, prevent a patent war with other Android OEMs) but it wasn't hugely expensive in the end.

Interesting ideas but they don’t think that far ahead and theres little to no historical proof that there ever capable of doing that. They will ditch this when the Pixel falters... wait is it even a thing yet? No. No it’s not. Almost no one has a Pixel and so long as it’s tethered to Verizon that cannot change.  

They lurch reflexively from idea to idea with very little care to whether there’s long term value or reason to their choices. 

Youtube and ads aside... what do they do?

they aren’t even Android... Android is nothing more than the phones Apple didn’t sell and the crap that turns them on and off...