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Accidental Tech Podcast

118: A Fistful of Apple Watches

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 β€’ 2.5K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 22 May 2015

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

So I hear you really like new max these days, huh? So we have some follow up

0:05.2

Yeah, nice track, easy

0:08.2

John, what did you tell us about marathon running?

0:10.6

Well last show we talked about

0:13.0

what

0:14.5

What you might want out of the watch if you're using it to do not just fitness tracking in terms of how much am I moving kind of fitness but

0:22.6

More serious how far have I run where have I run and we mentioned a GPS

0:28.2

Being superior like a dedicated was dedicated big of the GPS things

0:31.7

Being superior to just a watch because the watch doesn't have any GPS Aaron wrote in to say that

0:37.1

His experience with the Apple watch as a runner are not great even when the phone is with him says the the

0:43.6

Quality of Apple watches ability to track depends on how you hold your phone if you hold your phone in your hand or wear it on your arm

0:48.8

It does a very good job if you wear it on your waist then under measures you run by about 5%

0:53.0

Which of course is terrible if you're a serious runner and you want to know exactly how far you ran

0:58.3

So

1:00.3

He goes on to say that

1:02.3

It was it he and his wife yes that we really like the extra abilities to watch give us we can control our songs and podcasts

1:08.4

Received and send childcare related messages without fear dropping our phone in the cement and there's a grocery store on their route

1:13.6

They get that takes apple pay so they can use their watch to pay for things there

1:16.9

As a result, you know, so they're annoyed by the watches inability to accurately track their runs

1:22.1

Because they don't like to wear their their phone on their arm or hold it in their hand

1:26.4

But they do like all his other abilities so right now they're running with two watches the apple watch on one hand and the Garmin GPS thing on the other

1:33.4

And he says you can't wear them on the same wrist because they literally press each other's buttons

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