What? As someone who relies on heart rate monitoring for autoregulation in the gym, I can tell you it works and works well. When my heart rate is allowed to drop between sets, I can lift heavier and pursue my progressive overload properly, but when my watch is glitching, my lifts are never up-to-par.

Now, can the technology be improved. Absolutely, let’s start with addressing the racial biases in the optical sensors, but to call it a gimmick is someone with a preconception attempting to spread misinformation. Whether in bad faith or inadvertently, only you know.

It’s like cooking a steak. Yes, most people get it right and don’t poison themselves, but some people have thermometers and make sure their steak is cooked to perfection.

I’m the same. I take working out pretty seriously, so I like to see when I’m getting enough sleep for proper recovery or why when I wake up I feel like my legs are proper heavy. The watch has been a great help for me.

I think this comes back to the whole, not everything is for everyone thing. For me, it just gives insight into how my sleep went and motivates me to try and stay asleep a little longer, as I have issues staying asleep. But I can definitely see how it could adversely affect others.

Why does it look like WhatsApp from ten years ago though? 😅

Fennec is a third party fork.

I would recommend sticking to F-Droid. At least they check the APKs.

To be honest, I’m yet to see them and my house has 6 Pro, 7 Pro XL, 8 Pro, 9 Pro XL and 10 Pro XL. I’m assuming the issues are regional.

From the future?

There’s nothing there to justify doubling the price in my opinion. Which is funny as I was considering buying premium as a form of donation.

I got it super early too and had no issues either

Why are they doing this?

Go away!

Didn’t they do the same with One Plus a couple years back?

Didn’t fold’s suck at first too?

Thanks for the info BTW. I hadn’t followed the development, so the insight is appreciated.

Isn’t that exactly what the article is? Rather than slash profits a little until prices return to normal, they’re trying to justify lowering specs while acting like the victims.

You’re the MVP! I’m sorry, but how fucking cool was that?!

I can’t recall who it was, either LG or Samsung, but I remember a device that had a screen that pulled/rolled out to become tablet size. I so wanted them to iterate on that idea.

I actually like the form factor of the folds. I want them to get better.

Catfriend was actively openly looking for a replacement for ages and couldn’t find one. No one was stepping up. When she eventually found someone, suddenly everyone wants to have a say. What was she supposed to do, put her life and mental health on hold until the community that wasn’t helping maintain the project, vetted the replacement she found? I don’t know how people can’t see that their expectations are out of whack here. As I said before, if any one of the people who are whipping up the storm had stepped up to takeover, there’d somewhat of point to this, but that’s not happening. It’s just pitchforks for the sake of pitchforks.