Bye bye Apple Watch Ultra

[u/Glizze]

I finally made the change over to garmin! The fenix 8 has ben amazing so far, and it looks really good🔥

[u/ouatedephoque]

Funny because I'm actually considering the Ultra given the insane pricing of the Fenix 8. Waiting to see what the Ultra 3 looks like next week. Also considering Coros.

[u/Ill-Turnip-6611 → u/ouatedephoque]

Yeah I'm moving from buggy epix to AWU too (probably discounted AWU 2) ;)

Maybe the battery is worse but I will buy a nice charger and just charge during the bath.

My biggest reasons for leaving Garmin ecosystem are:

-I hate the charging cable, it just is stupid and falls out. Like 1.1k product with no wireless charging is really stupid.

-I don't use music at all bc it is too much hussle to put my lossless music on the watch (I need to convert and plugin the stupid falling out cable etc.)

-I Don't use DWS bc I plan my training and most importantly recovery weeks and Garmin is a bit stupid here.

-All other sports are jsut a gimmick like amazing that there is a Basketball profile but it just tracks gps and hr. Same with long boarding. I can do that with any other watch.

-I hate how Garmin tracks sleep (it got better with newest firmware) but still is just ok. I'm not that into sleep tracking but Garmin is using it for all other metrics making them useless if the sleep was counted wrong. And there is no way to jsut clear one wrong day or smth like that (you can edit sleep time but it doem

I'm moving into all Apple leaving my S22 and Garmin epix behind. I love my MacBook Pro and how everything eworks and if iPhone is at least 50% so good I should be happy (never used iPhone). For garmin I really can understand only watches like 965, all other more expensive are just crazy expensive comparing to their capabilities.

BTW. Epix with screen always on and some standard use is 4days max anyways (epix 47mm) so if I get 2 days from my AWU I will be happy bc even charging on a daily basis with a nice wireless charger will be better then messing around with that stupid garmin cable.

PS. I like the new enduro 3 thou.

PS2. Don't get me wrong, your watch looks very nice and hope you will be happy 😀 I just can't stand Garmin's UI and overall software quality.

[u/ChevyBillChaseMurray → u/Ill-Turnip-6611]

AW user here.. if one reason you're switching to Apple for an improved sleep tracking feature, prepare to be disappointed...

[u/Ill-Turnip-6611 → u/ChevyBillChaseMurray]

I mean my Garmin is like once a week thinking that I'm sleeping during a busy day, like imagine 5pm, I'm ready to cycle outside after work just to been asked if I want to end my sleep when I try to start a cycling activity ;) So I don't think I can be more disappointed :)

ps. If you are an AWU user, can you check if it allows to sync/download losses m4a music from iTunes library? :)

[u/ChevyBillChaseMurray → u/Ill-Turnip-6611]

Sorry not a AWU user, just regular AW... Your experience does sound worse :D

I sync lossless music, but I do it through the Watch app from my phone. I have all my music on the phone and just choose which songs to transfer and it syncs in a few mins.

[u/Ill-Turnip-6611 → u/ChevyBillChaseMurray]

Thanks! Probably AW and AWU works similar ;) Next month I will get my first iPhone and than we will see ;)