I understand that Apple Watch does many things in the background. But when you’re comparing something like an Apple Watch vs Garmin Epix.

If they’re both turned on for hiking they are in theory using the same processing power, measurements. Apple Watch isn’t doing anything different. So why is it so poor? What else is it doing…

  • desh_@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Adding to the above, that 1 gigabyte of RAM requires bit of battery power as well, compared to the kilobytes or megabytes in Garmins.

    • techtom10@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Interesting point. I wonder why Apple doesn’t throttle their processor to improve battery life when doing things such as workout.

      • techbear72@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Because you’re an edge case that they don’t care about. For almost everyone else (as you can tell from this thread) the battery life on the Apple Watch is just fine - we just don’t care about having it last a week - and so they’ve no incentive to make it last a week.

        I’d love it to be thinner, I’d love it to have an under-display camera for FaceTime, I’d love it to be cheaper, I’d love it to be faster, and yes, I’d love more battery but really I go to bed and have 60% left most every day and it’s fully charged when I get up so I just don’t care about the battery in my day to day life.

        • techtom10@alien.topOPBEnglish
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          1 year ago

          It’s not about about the watch running weeks. It’s about being able to use it to workout without burning through loads of the battery in single day.

          You have the Ultra where as many on this forum have the standard version. Apple Watch Ultra battery life is what the standard Apple Watch should be.