Re:Apple acquires sleep tracking company Beddit
by veidr on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @01:01AM
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I agree; I charge it while I'm in the shower and so does everybody I know who actually uses their Apple watch (which means, about 15% of those people I know who bought one).
The battery (in the second version of the product) now lasts long enough to make that work — except sometimes on the weekend when I might go a day without a shower.
I also want the smart sleep tracking app badly. The reason I bought this crappy watch was solely for the vibration-on-wrist when you have to make a turn when using navigation.
Unfortunately, that iOS feature is horribly broken — it automatically switches to "car mode" when you go faster than a brisk walk, which means it doesn't work for navigating on a bicycle, skateboard, foot scooter, or even just running.
So the device has very little utility for me as it stands — but a sleep-cycle-aware, vibrate-only alarm clock would make it worth the purchase price for me.
And Apple (since I know you clearly must lurk on every hacker news thread waiting for unsolicited advice from strangers on how to fix your lame products): fixing the stupid "automatically switch to car mode" misfeature would also make the watch worth its price to me.
The battery (in the second version of the product) now lasts long enough to make that work — except sometimes on the weekend when I might go a day without a shower.
I also want the smart sleep tracking app badly. The reason I bought this crappy watch was solely for the vibration-on-wrist when you have to make a turn when using navigation.
Unfortunately, that iOS feature is horribly broken — it automatically switches to "car mode" when you go faster than a brisk walk, which means it doesn't work for navigating on a bicycle, skateboard, foot scooter, or even just running.
So the device has very little utility for me as it stands — but a sleep-cycle-aware, vibrate-only alarm clock would make it worth the purchase price for me.
And Apple (since I know you clearly must lurk on every hacker news thread waiting for unsolicited advice from strangers on how to fix your lame products): fixing the stupid "automatically switch to car mode" misfeature would also make the watch worth its price to me.