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The 2023 Apple Watch Series 9: What to Expect From Apple This Fall

JM said:
Yes a full sound Siri on the watch speaker:

“Stop eating right now, tubby. You are on a dark path toward morbid obesity and type two diabetes.”

Oh, phew, thank you Siri.

*chucks the oreos out the door onto the backyard lawn, and eats a raw pepper.*
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But it was a diet coke!

But the broken cookies don't count!

But bannannas are fruit and fruit is healthy right?
 
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Abazigal said:
I feel it's more that Apple makes a better smartwatch for people who exercise but don't need all the functionality of a Garmin watch. Like you said, Garmin occupies a niche market for hardcore fitness enthusiasts. That is its strength (it doesn't seem like Apple will be able to attack this niche market anytime soon), it is also Garmin's weakness (because they will have a harder time trying to appeal to people outside of this niche segment).

For example, Garmin watches may sport longer battery life, but it sure seems like the supposed lack of battery life hasn't impact sales of the Apple Watch one bit. If anything, it seems like Apple is comfortable maintaining an 18-hour battery life threshold for the watch and channel excess juice into other features such as AoD and extra sensors. This tells you that battery life by itself is not a sufficient selling point for your product (ask Fitbit how that turned out).

This is admittedly cheating, but the Apple Watch integrates with Lumihealth, a collaboration between Apple and my country's health authority which lets me earn points and rewards when I hit certain fitness milestones. It's this gamification aspect that gives me that little added push to go jogging as often as my schedule will allow.

How It Works

Learn how you can track your daily progress with LumiHealth.
www.lumihealth.sg

The Apple Watch has a wider variety of watch faces (even if you can't submit third party faces). So I can have Siri watch face active during the day while I am at work, then switch to a modular watch face when I want to exercise after work. It's more versatile that way.

What will happen, I suspect, is that as the Ultra Apple Watch goes on to gain additional fitness-tracking features, it will slowly but surely steal existing Garmin watch users who were already on the fringe.
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I think we are in agreement.

I love my Apple Watch for everything smart it is.

What it still doesn’t do which is my original issue is hardcore metric tracking which many athletes look for.

After a bike ride I want to see my average power or what was my cadence on this hill. None of these basic functions are available.

Yes the Apple Watch does so many things but I want it to be the best sports watch. It’s not there and it’s not even close.
 
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JSRinUK said:
I’m in the same boat. I have a series 4 and have yet to see a compelling reason to replace it.

The only thing tempting me right now is the all-day battery life on the Ultra but, since I don’t run any more, that’s not sufficiently tempting enough to justify the price at the moment.
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Yeah the Ultra has tempted me too. I mean who wouldn’t want the new version of something when it’s called Ultra. Hehe.

But I do just fine on my old Series 4 battery that I hit on launch day.

It’s a bit like the performance bumps on new iPhones. I get all excited then realize I’ll likely never use all that power. The Ultra is impressive for some users. For me I think the coolness would wear off after a week.
 
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I’d like an Ultra for people with small wrist AND more serious metrics and features for sport usage, i.e. offline maps and external sensors compatibility
 
So the series 9 will be iterative and no ultra upgrade likely. Can't decide whether to wait for 9 or go for the ultra now
 
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TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️ said:
Agreed! Also hoping Apple adds Human Temperature App (such as, heart rate or blood oxygen app) to the WatchOS. I hate the fact I have to rely on my iPhone’s health app to obtain data.
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Maybe this is something for you. There are free apps like wristTemperature in the App Store. They show the data from the Health App direct on the Apple Watch.
 
I’m really getting bored charging my AW7 every night. I’m waiting for a generation that has at least double the battery life but I’m not crazy enough to buy the Ultra, the price here is almost 1000€.
 
I was hoping for non-invasive BGL monitoring on Watch 9 but I guess that’s a pipe dream. Apart from that my Watch 5 does everything I need it to, guess I’ll have a new battery instead.
 
fatTribble said:
I really do want to upgrade my Series 4. The always on display released a few years ago was tempting but not really a big improvement over the 4. So alas, I keep waiting on some sort of notable upgrade. It looks like the 9 still may not have it. I keep hoping for a nice display, sensor or processor bump. Luckily my 4 is doing great!
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Last year I finally upgraded my S4 to the Ultra and couldn’t be happier. I have a better battery, bigger screen, WatchOS features and some health sensors that I didn’t have with the S4.
 
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Never had an Apple Watch so I am buying one this year. Very frustrated that the Apple Watch Series 9 does not come in Black (Midnight doesn't equal Black). Any suggestions?
 
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