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robbcole said:

What's the blue Apple Watch band you featured?

The band in the last photo is merely the silver band reflecting blue light. The blue band featured in the center of the photo with the three watches on the reviewer's wrist is the Nike Sport Band.

I had the Nike Sport Band with my first Apple Watch; I liked it. It was excellent for when I was doing things where I was going to be really sweaty or wet. It was easy to clean—and just as important, easy to dry. I could wear it right into the shower without a second thought, and that helped keep it clean. That Watch and band has been handed down to two other family members who couldn't afford to buy a new Watch and is still going strong—along with that first Watch!

I'm now wearing the Sport Loop, which has certainly proven itself over years of use. My key reason for switching to this band was it was infinitely resizable—the Sport Band used specific holes punched through the band and could be sometimes too tight or too loose, depending on the situation. The downside of the Sport Loop is that it is fabric and therefore doesn't dry off quickly. The fabric holds the moisture for a while and will wick the moisture onto your clothing if you rest your wrist against your shirt or pants, leaving a big wet spot.

LuvMacs said:

The lady is a cardiologist. She did not need an Apple Watch to tell her that she was tachycardic.
Besides, her symptoms (feeling tired, short of breath) , which began 15-weeks earlier, should have prompted her to seek medical attention much earlier.

What the Apple Watch did was to point out her lack of insight into her own health status.

Having just been through this—I just got out of the hospital—you don't actually feel your heart rate is way up there. All you feel is fatigued. Often, people will blame it on they haven't been very active lately and must be getting out of shape. Atrial Fibrillation and Atrial Flutter can come and go—so one moment you feel dragged down, and the next you feel fine. You simply don't notice that your heart is racing like crazy. This is what makes A-Fib and Flutter so dangerous. People don't know there is a problem until it is too late.

You never notice your heartbeat is going crazy. Not even a doctor will notice unless they directly decide to look at their heart rate. The weariness you can feel is too easy to dismiss.

It took my Apple Watch throwing an alert while I was sitting there watching TV to draw my attention to my heart rate. I watched it for about 30 minutes to see if there was any change. When it remained elevated and began climbing, I knew I had to go the hospital to find out what was going on. A few days later, I needed an emergency ablation to stop the high rate. At one point, my heart was beating so much it was causing my body to vibrate! Yet I didn't feel it unless I really focused on it.

Even doctors can miss what is going on in their own body. They are human, too.

Cesar Battistini Maziero said:

If I was a car maker, I would jump to new CarPlay as fast as I could.

I just don't understand why the resistance.

GM is a perfect example of this. They claimed that "Apple was trying to control too much of the car's systems" and recently opted to remove CarPlay from their vehicles. Their solution was to go with Google's system. The very opposite of Apple's CarPlay. Apple's CarPlay anonymizes their users, so no one can see what you are doing or who you are. This is the very information that advertisers want. Google gives them that information (for a fee) so they can monitor what you are doing and sell that information to other companies for profit.

So, what's happening? There have already been several reports by drivers that their Google navigation is suddenly giving them detours from their route. The detours are  not to get you around possible traffic issues, but commercials for vendors trying to get you into their stores. Imagine you are trying to get to an important business meeting on time in another city and suddenly your navigation system tells you to take a detour, only to find yourself turning into the parking lot of Clownburgers.

This puts me  into a serious conundrum because I was planning on buying a Chevy Equinox EV, currently the most affordable, cross-country capable EV. Now, my choices are narrowed down to EVs that cost at least twice as much, but still offer Apple CarPlay. A serious crimp in my financial planning.

GM has been making some good choices moving towards EVs, but dropping CarPlay was absolutely the dumbest, most shortsighted decision above all.