> Charging your wearable device shouldn't require "habits". If they do then the device is defective by design.

Why?

> Competing watches from Garmin don't seem to have this design flaw.

This oversimplifies the issue. The Apple Watch has a much broader range of functionality than Garmin's products, doesn't it?

Does it? Which specific functionality?

Late to the party, but the first thing that comes to my mind is an LTE radio. Yeah, there’s the Garmin 945LTE, but that is probably the worst Garmin purchase I’ve made ($12/month, can’t reply to texts, and it will burn through battery faster than an Apple Watch if it can’t find a cell tower).

> The Apple Watch has a much broader range of functionality than Garmin's products, doesn't it?

Very interesting piece of text. Starts with a big claim about 'much broader range of functionality' (which is completely false btw), and ends with a question mark. The mind of an apple fanboy is a curious thing.

> Starts with a big claim about 'much broader range of functionality' (which is completely false btw), and ends with a question mark.

Most people call this kind of sentence "a question."

An egregiously leading question. You know what you did.

Not to mention the Chinese smart watches. I have an Amazfit Bip that will go 60+ days between charges, no problem.

https://i.imgur.com/4HT2Q6G.jpeg

How often do you track exercise with it? That watch looks like it doesn't actually run anything on it except a heart rate monitor and is just a passive bluetooth enabled notification display so that would definitely explain the difference in power usage.

Yes, for sure it does much less. It just has basic health monitoring, steps, heartbeat, sleep. I have the continuous heartbeat monitoring off, and turn it on for workouts 3-4 times a week. It will show messages, email, or other app notifications. For me that's most of what I want from a smartwatch, and I'm willing to trade the more advanced features for the battery life.

Ok but you can understand why comparing the battery life between these two makes no sense right?

> Amazfit Bip

I thought you had typoed but no, that's really what it's called.

Chinese naming can be pretty interesting. Probably would pay for itself to hire some native English speaking naming consultants. I've got my Bip on a Niziruoup rubber strap..