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In a conversation with my parents (who both have an apple watch) we realized they will likely be the first generation to navigate aging with a consistent and extensive history of health data from these devices. I’m curious what benefits and challenges that will bring.

Does anyone know if wearable BP monitoring can actually be accurate? I have a relative who is unwell and this could be useful for them but, equally, would be very unhelpful with inaccurate data.

Are there better alternatives?

I wish they'd put an actual flashlight in it, easily the thing I use most on my Garmin.

> Emergency SOS via satellite,…, 42-hour battery life

So if I am in a critical situation in the mountains, with only 8h battery left, I hope rescue teams will find me in that 8h window.

My Garmin will give me a week at least, and in low power mode two to three weeks?

The way Apple is iterating slower and slower on all product lines is kinda sad. It's not like there's a shortage of things to do - it just feels like they got in the habit of small increments to cut costs everywhere (keep the design exactly the same to reuse the same machines, minor software tweaks, etc). The updates are so minor, they don't even bother to put on a show (like this one - a major product, launched as a release note).

I guess even that saves some money too...

ON battery life, I would love some kind of dumb phone/ ultra low power mode that we can set when we just want watch mode at certain times and nothing else. I imagine that would give us a week of battery.

Why can't Apple, of all manufacturers, produce a watch that can last longer on a charge than one or two days?

Garmins easily last a week.

I'll buy "smart" watch once it lasts a year on a single charge.

> while keeping the messages end-to-end encrypted

I just want you all to think back just 10 years ago, when your average consumer neither knew what that meant, nor cared about it. How far we've com.

Purely subjective, but way too big. They look ridiculous on anyone smaller than 6’5 275.

Question for the audience: If I'm not a hypochondriac, why would I want an apple watch?

Very cool. My only issue is spending so much on a watch that doesn't have a replaceable battery making it useless after a few years.