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*Reads headline*

In a watch like this, fitness tracking features are there just to fill out the feature checklist. I really can’t see anyone who’s serious about fitness wearing one of these to work out.

Question. Is this type of marketing and design for a smart watch a bit sexist? Reminds me of the early days of car ads where they tried to make cars for women and it included features they thought women would like, like purses in the headrests and more mirrors for them to apply makeup. Looking back it those ads many…

I am REALLY looking forward to a comparison between these, the bose sport open earbuds and the upcoming j-labs frames clip on headphones. I have been using plantations back beat fit headphones for years when running and cycling. Hopefully one of these 3 is able to improve on that experience.
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This article TOTALLY called it.
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I wish Apple would improve the rings/awards. Achievements for exercising multiple days in a row are just mindless and don’t actually help anyone. Few people exercise every single day, and I don’t even know if it’s healthy for everyone. I feel like to some degree it can encourage unhealthy behaviors that are more about… Read more

“Meanwhile, for just $50 more, you could get the base models of the Apple Watch Series 6 and Samsung Galaxy Watch 3.” Read more

How do I love this headline more?!

then-Gawker writer Ryan Tate also called Tim Cook the “most powerful gay man in America” when he took over as CEO in 2011. This was years before Cook came out himself via an open letter in 2014. Read more

I 100% agree with you. But soundbars are for people who will never go through the trouble of a HT system. They just want a better sound for their tv. Read more

What are your thoughts on durability/longevity? As you said, you dented it while doing nothing more than plugging in a few cables, and for every comment from someone whose Vizio has been nothing but reliable, there’s a comment from someone whose panel crapped out just after the warranty expired. I’d be worried about… Read more

Also, after you spend hours organizing those files:

The Great Covid Cleanup. I spent two days in LastPass updating passwords on my accounts because I became a thrall to my security dashboard rating. Then I spent another two days excavating and reordering files in my Evernote. My computer got the grand cleanup in the Spring when I was moving Steam out of my system… Read more

Any suggestions for a photo-organizing program for a desktop? Read more

Who’s Albert?

Also I don’t want or need to exercise 7 days a week and it’s annoying to me that you can’t skip that ring.

I am perplexed as to why some write-ups proposed this as a work-appropriate solution. Read more

Garmin has unified their charging cable across their smartwaches a couple years ago. A Forerunner can use a Fenix charger, which can use a VivoActive charger, etc. All the same now.

“there’s not really a good way to know how much battery you’ve got left” Read more