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AppleExposed said:

wonkothesane said:

„even the Watch is limited by iPhone ownership“. I understand. Only 728 million* to sell. What a pity  

*https://www.statista.com/statistics/755625/iphones-in-use-in-us-china-and-rest-of-the-world/

Apple reported 900 million in use but I guess some people could own 2?

Four in my 'at-home' family (mom, dad, two kids). Two more in out-of-state universities, but still dependents. I bought 'em all so I guess you could say I have six iPhones. And watches. And laptops. Damn, it's a good thing Apple started paying dividends on their stock I started buying in 1981 (although I just reinvest). BTW, those early shares have split 2:1 three times and 7:1 once.  😜

AppleExposed said:

When Apple can improve the battery vastly, we will see this addition. 

Did you read the comments before writing? Third party apps are already available and being widely used without significantly impacting battery life. Apple will do even better. 

I use AutoSleep (which requires wearing the watch all night) and haven't had any problem keeping the watch charged. I've gotten into a routine of putting the Apple Watch on the nightstand charger when I get home from work and it's fully charged well before I retire for the night and put the watch back on. When I get up in the morning, I stick it on the bathroom charger (I have a second charger in the bathroom) while I'm showering and shaving and getting dressed. It's fully topped off again and ready for a day of use. 

The one thing I will mention, if you're a light sleeper, is make yourself a custom face which is dark and shows nothing but the digital time in a large font size. That'll reduce your overnight battery draw. My nighttime face is black with red digital time to preserve night vision and no complications running. The AutoSleep app runs in the background and draws very little battery current. It literally takes about three seconds to change nighttime face back to one of the daytime faces I've set up. 

Apple shouldn't have any problem tracking sleep patterns without excessive battery draw despite having to wear the device all night. I think they spec out the full charge time at 2 1/2 hours. I never go to 0% so it doesn't even take that long to charge. 

I have a neighbor who kept getting periodic "Inconclusive" results from the first day the Series 4 EKG app was available. But he didn't pay much attention to it figuring he didn't want to 'bother' his Doc until his next annual physical about mid-year. He'd had an EKG during his last physical and there were no alerts. 

So his wife was holiday shopping on a Sunday in early December and he came over to my house to watch football. And as luck would have it, we started comparing those traces on our Apple Watches during halftime. His definitely didn't look like mine. 

A little internet search, since neither of us knew what we were looking at, turned up the following site:

https://www.practicalclinicalskills.com/sinus-rhythm

https://www.practicalclinicalskills.com/ekg-reference-type/1/Normal-Sinus-Rhythm

So then we knew what a "normal" sinus rhythm trace should look like and mine did, repeatable for 30 seconds.

OTOH, his didn't. 

Next entry I found on the site was this page:

https://www.practicalclinicalskills.com/ekg-reference-area?Position=Sinus-Origin

Top trace was a repeat of the "Normal Sinus Rhythm" trace.

But the next one down was a Sinoatrial Block trace:

https://www.practicalclinicalskills.com/ekg-reference-type/7/Sinoatrial-Block

And that long interval in the middle caught my attention immediately, it was on my neighbor's stored "Inconclusive" traces. 

So then we looked up Sinoatrial Block on Wiki and my neighbor decided he'd 'bother' his family Doc after all. And that led to a cardiologist appointment which resulted in a couple periods of wearing a Holter Monitor (portable cardiac monitor) some medicine and more frequent heart monitoring with treadmill stress tests. 

So I guess you could say that Apple Watch was responsible for ultimately persuading him to seek medical attention. If Apple is really sure their one-lead device is a worthy initial diagnostic tool, maybe they should do more to convince watch wearers to 'bother' their family practitioners. It was actually the traces from this website linked above that convinced my neighbor. Maybe Apple should do more to explain what the EKG trace is all about and post examples of abnormal traces. This website has some 40 examples which would probably be excessive for Apple but a common half-dozen or so might be helpful. In this case, it was the very first one we looked at and was instantly obvious. 

racerhomie3 said:

Even on 3G most iPhone & Android applications run fine. 

You must have a high threshold for slow internet speed on your mobile devices. Or plenty of free time on your hands.

I see a huge difference between 3G and LTE and don't even bother to surf on a mobile device if in an area where I can't connect via LTE.