It has better integration with the iPhone and is fast, fluid and responsive in a way that many rivals simply aren’t. It is extremely comfortable to wear and receives meaningful software and feature updates, and will do for an extended period of time. Third-party app support is pretty healthy.
It is best-in-class for general heath-tracking functionality, makes most of it easy to use and understand. Sleep tracking, though, is too basic compared with the competition and, frankly, I’m not sure it is worth the battery and charging hassle in its current form.
Recently, I've been spending more time exploring the powers of Apple's automation features, and while they truly do enable you to create some marvelous inventions, for every clever creation, there's an equal and opposite amount of frustration at what they can’t quite do yet.
"You just need to keep trying and improving based on feedback. I think the company is looking for images that are not heavily edited. Some of the photos that Apple features may look simple but there's a always meaningful story behind it."
I'm still mostly disappointed with Shortcuts in iOS: too many things need to be aligned just right in order for things to work.
And when things didn't work as expected, I have no idea who to blame. Is it the Shortcuts app, or did I automate wrongly? Is it iOS' limitation in trying to save my privacy or battery life? Is it the third-party apps that I am trying to automate?
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