Clearly posted by someone who has never in their life had to deal with health problems or a busy schedule that precludes a casual….checks notes ….5 mile walk.

I prefer cardio for my exercise, and as stated I literally cannot do cardio exercise every day. My knees will not take it, period.

It’s not just about being “obsessed” with closing rings. The whole concept of rings is to encourage and remind you to keep a regular exercise and movement routine, and it falls apart when you can’t schedule rest days into the system.

You either need to set the exercise goal so low that it’s rendered perfunctory, or you have to start pretending the days you didn’t exercise actually don’t count and begin ignoring the notifications that remind you you’re falling behind for the day/week(because you actually aren’t). Either way, the system becomes pretty useless very quickly.

That rest days still aren’t accounted for in the rings system after all these years is insane, and has rendered it entirely irrelevant to me as someone whose joints can’t take meaningful exercise every single day(thanks, hypermobility!). It could have been a neat system to help me keep track of my exercise, otherwise.

Damn this sub is weird sometimes.

“Here’s a grayish watch with a grayish band.”

“Neutral colors are for girls!! “

I feel like that’s a different situation, though.

Let’s be very clear: Onstar in 1996 only around 16% of Americans owned a cellphone of any kind. Connectivity of any kind was a high-end luxury product, and it was self-obvious a service like Onstar required some kind of revenue stream to continue functioning.

From there, consumer expectations that this was a paid service were set in stone. So of course no one has really questioned why the service that’s been subscription based before some of the people reading this were even born….is still not free. Apple should never have offered this service for free for so long if they expect to make money off of it.

Not today, when emergency connectivity is largely assumed on devices capable of it. Particularly on smartphones, where it’s actually mandated by law regardless of whether you have an active plan in a ton of western countries.

Combine this with the reality that news travels far faster and easier than in the 90s and early 00s, and that Apple is (so far as any of this mega-companies are) already known for high-quality safety features in their products……it all makes gating the service behind a paywall seem a deeply penny-wise and pound-foolish idea.

It’s anyone’s guess whether a viral story around someone dying after their trial on this ends pops up, and the PR and goodwill from keeping this service free more than likely makes up for the operating costs unless it’s truly an absurd amount of money being lost by the company(in which case I doubt they’d be extending it like this anyway).

It’s a worthwhile loss-leader, imo, in a way Onstar in the late 1990s never possibly could have been.

I wish the number was the opposite. I don’t need the number for hours, I rarely am unsure what hour it is, but my big problem with these sorts of faces is it’s too ambiguous about the minute.

Honestly it’s a pain in the ass to swap bands out for exercise and back again, not to mention I don’t trust the moving parts to stand up to constant swaps over time anyway. Can’t say I blame him for going with his favorite exercise-friendly band and just rocking it the whole time.

Not in OS10 you don’t.

Europeans not being pointlessly snobby about Americans Challenge(IMPOSSIBLE)

This is what drives me nuts about minimalist watch faces. Too much approximation when there isn’t even at least some dots to indicate the hours. I’m sure you get used to it, but still, give me something with the numbers on it!