Laughable Apple watch ads: Urban millenial D.B's that only ever see LARGE buttons on the watch

|I notice they're doing everything they can to avoid that fact the SCREEN
size makes it useless for just about anything except reading the time.

You'll be sorry when you die from not knowing
your current pulse rate.

On 27/05/2015 13:46, Mayayana wrote:
|I notice they're doing everything they can to avoid that fact the SCREEN
size makes it useless for just about anything except reading the time.

You'll be sorry when you die from not knowing
your current pulse rate.


Most folk would be able to predict their pulse rate at that point
without the aid of an expensive digigadget. :-)

Mayayana wrote:
|I notice they're doing everything they can to avoid that fact the SCREEN
size makes it useless for just about anything except reading the time.

You'll be sorry when you die from not knowing
your current pulse rate.




Put your batteryless finger on your pulse at a wrist.

Mort Linder

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In article , Mort wrote:

Put your batteryless finger on your pulse at a wrist.

and then pull out a notebook to write it down.

are you going to do that every few minutes while exercising, then later
enter it into a spreadsheet to see how much you're exercising?

thought not.

nospam wrote:
In article , Mort wrote:

Put your batteryless finger on your pulse at a wrist.

and then pull out a notebook to write it down.

are you going to do that every few minutes while exercising, then later
enter it into a spreadsheet to see how much you're exercising?

thought not.



Ludicrous is the nicest response that I can come up with. Why in the
world would any healthy person want to make a spread sheet with average
pulse rates? If there is a problem, then get a real portable recording
cardiac monitor.

Mort Linder

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In article , Mort wrote:

Put your batteryless finger on your pulse at a wrist.

and then pull out a notebook to write it down.

are you going to do that every few minutes while exercising, then later
enter it into a spreadsheet to see how much you're exercising?

thought not.

Ludicrous is the nicest response that I can come up with. Why in the
world would any healthy person want to make a spread sheet with average
pulse rates?

many reasons, including tracking fitness progress as well as estimating
calorie burn.

looking to the future, additional sensors could monitor other vitals,
such as blood sugar. currently that requires a finger prick but there
is a lot of research into non-invasive methods. for someone with
diabetes, tracking blood sugar levels on a continuous basis could be a
life saver if it alerts them of something abnormal immediately rather
than when they notice they're about to pass out.

If there is a problem, then get a real portable recording
cardiac monitor.

it's to help *avoid* problems, not remedy them.

nospam wrote:
looking to the future, additional sensors could monitor other vitals,
such as blood sugar. currently that requires a finger prick but there
is a lot of research into non-invasive methods. for someone with
diabetes, tracking blood sugar levels on a continuous basis could be a
life saver if it alerts them of something abnormal immediately rather
than when they notice they're about to pass out.

I published a world first about continuously monitoring blood sugar in
1960, then further on as well. Current methods measure sugar in the
tissues, not in the blood, and they are most definitely not the same.
There are currently available tissue glucose monitors, with and without
an insulin pump. How in the world do you think that an Apple watch can
do that?

Mort Linder

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Mort:
Ludicrous is the nicest response that I can come up with. Why in the
world would any healthy person want to make a spread sheet with average
pulse rates?

Are you the World Arbiter for What People Should Want?

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Davoud wrote:
Are you the World Arbiter for What People Should Want?

Are you the sole dictator of what appears on this newsgroup site? Are
you afraid of differences of opinions, especially from someone with
knowledge of the problem in question?

Lighten up. Get a life.

Mort Linder

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In article , Mort wrote:

Mort:
Put your batteryless finger on your pulse at a wrist.

nospam:
and then pull out a notebook to write it down.

are you going to do that every few minutes while exercising, then
later enter it into a spreadsheet to see how much you're
exercising?

thought not.

Ludicrous is the nicest response that I can come up with. Why in the
world would any healthy person want to make a spread sheet with
average pulse rates?

A lot of fitness-savvy people and athletes do on a regular basis.

If there is a problem, then get a real portable recording cardiac
monitor.

No need for there to be a problem. Some people buy pulse monitors when they work
out. The Apple Watch has one built in. Some buy step counters for their jogs and
walks, the iPhone and Apple Watch has it built in.

Since 2007, our phones have included more and more gadgets as "built in"
features.

Back in 2006 I went on a road trip with my wife. With me was my Nokia N95 for
making calls, my iPod for listening to music, my camera for taking photos, my
Playstation Portable for playing games, my TomTom GPS for navigation and even a
Nokia N800 for surfing the web.

Since 2007, these things have gradually been replaced by the iPhone in itself. It
does all of that and much much more.

So, no, you don't "need" an iPhone to take photos on your vacation or an Apple
Watch to monitor your pulse rate when exercising, but these are now features that
are built in, and if you *have* either gadget, you don't really need a dedicated
one for the task any longer. Less clutter, yay.



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