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Is apple watch worth it for tracking running/activities? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by Apprehensive_Ad4717@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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I'd like a smart watch that tracks running, biking, and swimming distances and heart rate data. I'm already team iphone, so would apple watch be worth it for these purposes?

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[–] red_vette@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The accuracy varies a lot from my experience. Both my buddy and I do a lot of mountain biking together. Separately he runs and while I mostly walk. We have both found that they can be off by 10-20% compared to our Garmin bike trackers on the trails and comparing our distances side by side. We have also both found them to be off by 10% or so with walking/running. This has been an open discussion since the Series 2 days and we have both upgraded regularly hoping the better processors would fix the issues. He even got an Ultra last year and it hasn't proven to be much better.

[–] WhoWho22222@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah. I only have two Apple watches to compare to and I tend to walk the same path over and over. They are always within a couple hundredths of a mile of each other. But I have a hiking buddy who has a new Venu 3 and sometimes they can be more off, like as much as a tenth of a mile.

For reference, I just hike and walk and the areas that I do this in are pretty flat and tree free.