Idk, if you check the profiles of the people posting, these would be pretty expensive shills. I genuinely think it's just happy customers.
replyAnd to pile on, I switched to Garmin a few years ago after a pixel watch and a galaxy watch, and it's night and day. Battery life, and it's built to actually work offline well (global maps, and all of the tracking).
No chance those are organic?
replyIf you are in the market for a multi hundred dollar watch, you must have considered the Garmin and Apple offering for non-time features. Surely some of those people are happy to share their decision.
Paying a few hundred dollars for a watch is cheap, compared to the prices for mid/high-end mechanical watches.
replyStarting price alone doesn't give you the full picture.
replyAfter five years, Apple Watches are out of support, so even if they work their value goes to $0. The battery is gone by that time, new OSes don't support them, and their only destination is a landfill.
Mechanical watches can last decades, and hold some resell value at any age.
What features is Garmin missing, though? It seems to have most of the stuff you get with an Apple watch and IMHO the Apple watch is objectively exceptionally ugly compared to almost all smartwatches except the more garish "sports" themed ones.
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